South Carolina

Cat Power at South Side Music Hall, 1/25/13: Review, Photos and Setlist

Do you want to know if Chan Marshall imploded last night at South Side Music Hall? The line to get in the place spills out of the long alley in front of the door and into the industrial blacktop that surrounds the complex. The crowd is whoever: pretty people and people who look more like me, peopl ... More >>

A Retro Fire Truck with a 10-Keg Capacity For Your Next Party! For President!

Did you ever think it would be totally awesome to have your very own fire truck and instead holding water, it held beer? And that you could drive your shiny big red truck around town and throw the most amazing parties, cementing the fact that you are the coolest guy or gal ever? Then, at night you'd ... More >>

Carbone's: Jimmy's for the 1 Percent

Highland Park Gets Its Very Own Italian Restaurant and Specialty Shop.

Feds Think Texas's Voter ID Law May Be Racist, So the State Sues to Implement It Right Away

Given Texas's dicey history with electoral rights, the Obama Administration has expressed concern in recent months about the state's new Voter ID law, which requires voters to bring government-issued identification to the polls. So the state, naturally, is suing to put the new and allegedly discrimi ... More >>

Charlie Daniels Says Westboro Baptist Church Is Neither Baptist Nor a Church

​Sometimes, introductions simply aren't necessary. That may be due to the enormity of the subject's status as a legend, or perhaps it can be credited to the fact that the artist doesn't need anyone to handle the talking for him. Both scenarios apply to the one and only Charlie Daniels. In the ... More >>

Campo Opens in Oak Cliff

Rachel Laine​Campo Modern Bistro opened this week at 1115 N. Beckley Ave. in Oak Cliff. Owners Miguel Vicéns and John Paul Valverde of Coevál Studios recruited Matt McCallister, formerly of Stephan Pyles, to run the kitchen. McCallister has been dabbling in many different things lately, in ... More >>

City of Ate is the First Loser in the Association of Food Journalists Awards

Scott was really hoping for first place.​The Association of Food Journalists met in South Carolina over the weekend, presumably engaging in heated debates over critic anonymity and restaurant-review waiting periods and whether a large slab of bacon should be carved into Mount Rushmore. (Of cou ... More >>

Feds, Researchers Raise More Questions About Texas's New Voter ID Law

​The voter ID law passed by Texas lawmakers in May continues its circuit among activists, lawmakers, academics and social commentators as a discriminatory, unjustified and absolutely necessary measure, depending on who's yelling. Words like "voter fraud" on the right and "disenfranchisement" o ... More >>

Perry Sticks By His Guns on Social Security

Are you listening, old people?

Keith Schlabs and Matt Quenette On Ale Week and Meddlesome Moth's First Year

​A peek inside the Meddlesome Moth's formidable walk-in cooler reveals kegs carefully piled on top of each other, carefully placed to maximize efficiency like some oversized game of beer Tetris with as many as 120 kegs at a time in the cooler. Some have been there or strategically placed in variou ... More >>

Texas Rangers Set Opening Day Pitching Staff and Who the Heck is Mason Tobin?

Don't laugh, we'll actually see this jersey on the mound for the Rangers this season​A year ago today we were dissecting the depth of a Texas Rangers' pitching staff anchored by No. 1 and 2 starters named Scott Feldman and Rich Harden. Hopefully that perspective will soften the blow of ... More >>

Former Texas Rangers' Co-Owner Chuck Greenberg Talks

​Talked to former Texas Rangers' CEO and managing general partner Chuck Greenberg yesterday. You know, the guy who helped usher Tom Hicks out of the franchise, who dragged the team out of bankruptcy, who spearheaded the out-bidding of Mark Cuban in court and who hand-picked Nolan Ryan as a ... More >>

Cheerwine Release Incites Show of Regional Soda Love

​Garden & Gun magazine yesterday stirred up the soda world with news that Cheerwine can now be ordered online, a development that should excite the drink's many fans in Dallas. "Every single day we have someone asking about Cheerwine," says Scott Causey, who staffs The Soda Gallery in the Bis ... More >>

Land of Disenchantment: Why the Old Mexico hating, New Mexican?

The Top 10 Greatest Undrafted Players in the History of Your Dallas Cowboys

​Former SMU player-turned-Cowboys' stud Bryan McCann got me to thinking. Has an undrafted guy ever made such an immediate impact in Dallas? An interception return of 101 yards one week, followed by a 97-yard punt return the following week is impressive. But he'd better keep it up ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Michelle Shocked at AllGood Café, Jason Isbell at Hailey's, Serena-Maneesh at The Loft and The Independents at the Double Wide

Another Wednesday rolls around, and there are a number of intriguing musical options with it...

Dylan Sneed

Texodus (Self-released)

Giveaway (and a Bonus MP3): Two Pairs of Tickets To See Dylan Sneed Tomorrow Night at The Kessler

Wade GriffithDylan Sneed​Back in 2008, after years of hitting nearly every coffee house in DFW, Dylan Sneed decided to leave the area and venture out on a journey across America. That journey finally led him to South Carolina, where he recorded his new full-length, Texodus, with a hoard of frie ... More >>

Kraft's Regional-Style BBQ Sauces Don't Quite Hit the Bull's-Eye

​Just in time for July Fourth, Bull's-Eye is flexing its regional barbecue know-how with a new quartet of sauces designed to honor the nation's most celebrated smoked pork traditions. The sauces are basically arguments in a bottle: No mass-produced sauce is likely to please purists in Memphis ... More >>

So, Why Do Jews Eat Chinese Food at Christmas?

​My graduate degree, like most, hasn't been good for much. But today -- and, I strongly suspect, today only -- it qualifies me to expertly parse the most attention-getting exchange of the Elana Kagan confirmation hearings. When Lindsay Graham yesterday pressed Elana Kagan to recall where she ... More >>

Rescued From the Pages of History, the '61 Desegregation Doc Dallas at the Crossroads

Someone has posted to YouTube a 1961 film about school desegregation in Dallas called Dallas at the Crossroads. (Parts Two and Three follow after the jump.) I forget what kind of hoops I had to jump through in order to see this thing back in the mid-1980s when I was working on my book, The Accommoda ... More >>

Bowerbirds Fly Higher With Their Latest

Texas Rangers Fans Can Again Dream Of A Merry Baseball, With The Departure Of Owner Tom Hicks

Whitt's End: 10.30.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I take absolutely no very little joy in D Magazine's Inside Corner sports blog going belly up any second now. Evan Grant is a solid baseball Xs and Os writer and I'll follow his work back to Dalla ... More >>

Dem Souhernfolkz's Incredible Message

Smoak ‘Em If You Got ‘Em

Little Stevie Explains Connection Between The Shangri-Las and The Clash

The Best Lawsuit Involving the Dallas Mavericks That'll Never Go to Trial

Mess on Mockingbird

Hear What We Hear

Find the perfect Christmas CD for your favorite guitar-slaying Navajo cousin

Say Amen, Somebody

In Crowns, glory in the gospel of Sunday hats; Handler rattles different religious prey

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Passing the Plate

Proposed new license tags weigh in on the abortion debate

O, Brother, Wherefore Art Thou?

Tim Blake Nelson's new Othello seems to be a man out of time

Tale of the Tapes

With headliners like Mike Judge and an impressive list of films, the Dallas Video Festival once again wins by knockout

Granny get your gun

Dallas' pistol-packing 'Second Amendment Sister'--63-year-old grandma Mary Thompson--takes aim at a million moms

Buzz

Good God, a good grade; Has he even unpacked yet?

Yankees, go home

Hate is such a strong, strong word

Buzz

Enough for a Rangers ticket?
Bush's old-time religion
D goes for M

Plano puzzle

"Texas-French" Joshel has many pieces. Some don't fit

Blues in '97

What's tops in Texas (and elsewhere)

Attacking Macs with chopsticks

Yoshi's brings Japanese sensibilities to an American dining habit

Events for the week

Buzz

Redefining reform

Big business proponents contrive some of the worst bills of the 74th session

Lover men

Three new films offer different takes on the myth of the romantic hero

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Fast Times at UTA

Ryan Amacher says he's leading the University of Texas at Arlington into a glorious future. But his critics fear his passion for pomp and party will run it into the ground.