Tony Bennett

Well, Dallas Has Always Wanted to be Like San Francisco

Dude Food: Roma Express

Roma Express 1601 Main St. 214-747-1236It takes a big pair of pepperonis to make "Best Pizza In Dallas" your motto. But after trying the calzone at Roma Express, I plan a return visit to test that claim. And considering the not very dude friendly stretch of real estate it occupies...I initially plan ... More >>

Dude Food: Farewell 2008

Six weeks of things fried and greasy, slopped in barbecue sauce or glopped from a buffet tub--damn it's been great.Mostly.This year was a short one, considering we started City of Ate less than two months ago. The Dude Food dudes return to action January 6, 2009, diving weekly into the pit of Dallas ... More >>

Idol worship

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

Building to a Crescendo

Dallas Opera was once the toast of the nation. Now it is reaching for that high note again.

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Austin's real lounge lizards

Down south, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Events for the week

Down south, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Hey, Pachuco!

Retro rascality or cultural imperialism?

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Baby, it's them

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

Sunny day

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

Major Mistakes

Signing to a record label can be bad for a band's health. So why do they keep doing it?

Opening the Tap

Knox Street Pub & Grill coming soon

Elvis Costello

North (Deutsche Grammophon)

On Hold Time, M. Ward Further Establishes Himself as a Student of Music

North (Deutsche Grammophon)

Quincy Jones Can't Help But Look Back on His Life and Legacy

North (Deutsche Grammophon)

The Last Castrato

See Frankie Vallie at the Meyerson

It's Tony, Baby

See Frankie Vallie at the Meyerson

Crooned Tunes

See Frankie Vallie at the Meyerson

An Old Flame

Four decades later, a forgotten Dallas jazz label descends from the 90th Floor

Trying Times

Kyoto rises from the wreckage on the shores of Lake Ray Hubbard

Bury Frank Already

Blade's needs an update

Elvis Costello

When I Was Cruel (Island Def Jam)

Shoal Shocked

The Lighthouse doesn't quite work

Gotta Be Me

Through four decades of masterful painting, Wayne Thiebaud remains true to his vision

Beggars' banquet

Dallas' matrons of charity find that ostentation is out and value is in when it comes to raising money

Buzz

Dallas' matrons of charity find that ostentation is out and value is in when it comes to raising money

From hereto eternity

Frank Sinatra isn't dead.He's just an 80-year-old man

Good Godfather! Al Pacino's Bringing a Greatest-Hits One-Man Show to AT&TPAC in November.

​Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-'11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS -- quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the atten ... More >>

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

2010 World Series GAME 1 - Giants 11, Rangers 7: My Top 10 Observer-ations

10. Bigger Giants' ass-kicking: New York 41, Cowboys 35 or San Francisco 11, Rangers 7? The football Giants ran off 31 unanswered Monday night in Arlington. The baseball Giants erased an early two-run hole with eight consecutive runs in the middle innings. Either way, ouch. Dare I say toni ... More >>

Just Like Bogie and Bergman

10. Bigger Giants' ass-kicking: New York 41, Cowboys 35 or San Francisco 11, Rangers 7? The football Giants ran off 31 unanswered Monday night in Arlington. The baseball Giants erased an early two-run hole with eight consecutive runs in the middle innings. Either way, ouch. Dare I say toni ... More >>

Worst Musical Trends of 2011

C'mon, guys​It's been quite a year enduring the Top 40 in "The Problem With....". Looking back at the year and my reviews, I've noticed three things about music that I loathe and think need to change. Too many collaborations (feat. Rihanna, Lil' Wayne, Pitbull, Jay-Z...) The less we talk abou ... More >>