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Friday, February 8, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, February 7-10

The xx Wednesday, February 13, and Thursday, February 14, at The Granada Theater Achingly hip Londoners the xx have a two-night stay at The Granada this week, meaning twice as many Dallasites will be swept away by songs from their now-ubiquitous debut album and the recently released Coexist. We're k ... More >>

What You Need to Know From Sundance

The fest's best are the films to watch in the year ahead.

Also, He Was In Real Genius

This Is Not a Love Song: Thoughts on Fun Fun Fun Fest 7

Fun Fun Fun Fest Auditorium Shores Friday, November 2-Sunday, November 4 In its seventh year, Fun Fun Fun Fest has settled into a very curious meta place. Standing in a crowd at any one of the four stages, you were often watching a show via someone's iPhone or iPad. That Terrence Malick has been f ... More >>

ACL 2012: Friday's 12 Best and Funniest Moments at Zilker

In the interest of being tidy and not boring you with minute details of the three-day exercise in sweaty and human endurance underway in Zilker Park this weekend, Rocks Off is giving you a break. Our team on the ground at the Austin City Limits Music Festival -- Brittanie Shey, Craig Hlavaty and Mar ... More >>

Meet the Monsters

From Toronto, a glimpse of this year's most bracing films

Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

Today in Headlines I Never Thought I'd Write: Neon Indian Films Scenes For a Terrence Malick Movie at the Fader Fort

Ah, yes. So much synergy happens during SXSW. If you've been on the Austin festival circuit in the last six months or so, you may have noticed Christian Bale at Austin City Limits, where he played bongos with Fleet Foxes, or Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at Fun Fun Fun Fest, which led to a Tumblr dev ... More >>

2012 Oscar Nominations, Complete with Snubs, Surprises, and Mehs

The nominees for the cinematic super bowl, the 2012 Academy Awards, were announced yesterday, and as always there were a few of the year's best pictures and performances that were left warming the bench by the all-powerful Academy. Martin Scorsese's Hugo leads the game with 11 nods, beating out th ... More >>

Play Me Back Home: A Playlist For Rick Perry

​After what literally felt like four years, Rick Perry has finally ended his campaign for President, thrown his support at Newty G., and is returning to Texas. He said it best himself: "I know when it's time to make a strategic retreat." Ah, but he's given us so many amazing moments. Who co ... More >>

Best Films of 2011: Why You've Never Heard of Margaret

And nine more choice flicks.

Descendants Ascends to Top of DFW Crix List

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>

Dawes' Tay Strathairn Lists For Us His All-Time Top Five Favorite Things About Texas

Dawes' Tay Straithairn​What can we say about the practically-impossible-to-dislike Dawes that we haven't said here on DC9 or in the paper version before? No, the band's not exactly new to us around the metroplex. Hell, they were just here last month, playing the Fort Worth Music Festival.Ah, well, ... More >>

Night Three of Austin City Limits '11: If You're Gonna Go Out, You Better Go Out With a Bang.

Pete FreedmanArcade Fire played a familiar set to end Austin City Limits 2011. But it was still thrilling.​ The hot sun from the morning of Day Three at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival persisted well into the afternoon and evening at Zilker Park. But with the festival end looming and pl ... More >>

Day After Emmert's Elected Chair of Dallas County GOP, Georgatos Video Goes Viral

​So, yes, former candidate for Dallas County Judge Wade Emmert is the new head of the Dallas County Republican Party, having been elected by a vote of 140-95 at last night's special election. Upon his victory, Emmert tweeted, "I'm honored to have your trust as the new Dallas Co. GOP Chairman. Now ... More >>

Terrence Malick Shot Tree of Life All Over Texas. Including, Turns Out, in Downtown Dallas.

The view of the Chapel of Thanksgiving that appears, briefly, in the new Tree of Life trailer​Last night, in the comments of the Good Guys-are-gone item, Friend of Unfair Park "Urban Observer" observed: At the 1:39-minute mark of the just-released trailer for writer-director Terrence Malick's looo ... More >>

Princess Kaiulani

The Good Green Stuff

There Will Be Blood Strikes Oil and Then Some

Paul Thomas Anderson creates an epic gusher

The Boys Are Back

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs.

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs.

World Turning

With or without Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham goes his own way

If You Got the Money, I Got the Time

That's a Wrap

Meet the new 800-pound gorilla of Dallas film festivals

Origin of Innocence

The New World boldly reclaims the Pocahontas tale from Disney

Rogues' Gallery

Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

Green Achers

Undertow relishes in the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family

Burr, Not Chilly

With the rich, says Igby, always a little pity

Blown Off

Identity-theft victim gets the cold shoulder

Waiting was the hardest part

Terrence Malick emerges after 20 years with his complex but compelling The Thin Red Line

A slightly dirty dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no one movie really stood out