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To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: May 30-June 5

Hey guys, guess what. Scientists recently decided that the world could instantly turn into a solid state at any moment, so before that happens, go catch these 10 must-see concerts in DFW. Scroll down to make your bucket list, then find the link to this terrifying NPR article on page two.

Lauryn Hill's Side of the Story

Lauryn Hill will be gone till October. A week after making headlines for signing a million dollar five-song deal with Sony, she showed up to court on Monday with a check for $970,000. But it wasn't enough to save her from jail time. The five-time Grammy winner and highly esteemed queen of neo-soul w ... More >>

From West to Boston to China: Terrible Things Happen. You Have Two Weeks to Get Over It.

Just so people won't get caught unaware, I want to point out that the town of West has until a week from tomorrow to grieve. That will be two weeks from the time of the industrial accident that blew up their town, took the lives of loved ones and left behind a legacy of bloody suffering and agonizin ... More >>

Earl Sweatshirt is Somehow Underrated: A Review from Coachella

Earl Sweatshirt Coachella April 12, 2013 It was past midnight in Coachella's Gobi Tent when Tyler, the Creator climbed the scaffolding like a gargoyle. He clung to the metal bars above the stage with one arm, ready to pounce on the crowd at any moment. Earl Sweatshirt rapped with a black bucket hat ... More >>

Now Michelle Shocked Is On Yahoo! News, Because That's What Internet Outrage Does

The internet is a perfectly efficient outrage generator. People need things to be super-pissed about, so that they can express their social positions to their friends; they burn through that outrage in an orgy of vague, well-intentioned social media protest; they look for something else to be super- ... More >>

The Biggest Mistake Most Bands Are Making With Facebook

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The 35 Must-See Bands at 35 Denton

So, this is definitely a top-five weekend in North Texas music annually. We're flush with bands this time of year, what with the mid-size tour Mecca four hours south and four days away. But much of what's going on in the Metroplex in the coming weeks owes at least as much of its awesome to our own d ... More >>

This Week's Top Show Announcements: Beyoncé, She & Him, Tim McGraw and More

Beyoncé Saturday, July 6, at American Airlines Center Tickets go on sale Monday for the "Mrs. Carter Show" world tour, with stops in more than forty cities worldwide. The North American dates kickoff in L.A. on June 28. If Queen Bey's Superbowl half-time show this past weekend was any indication of ... More >>

Purity Ring Wants You to Get It

Just don't try to define it.

The Cheesecake Factory Is Officially Trying to Kill You

By now you've surely seen the Tumblr feed This Is Why You're Fat. The blog showcases gastronomic food porn with a propensity for dishes that tend to be high in fat and calories. Deep-fried macaroni and cheese sandwich anyone? See also: -Embracing Gluttony: The Hot Mess at Pecan Lodge -Embracing Gl ... More >>

Jennifer Sprague, DISD's Former Communication Chief, Has Rebranded Herself as "The Strategy Maven"

It seems like only yesterday that erstwhile DISD communications chief Jennifer Sprague blew into town alongside new superintendent Mike Miles. With a $185,000 a year salary, the 31-year-old Sprague's name quickly became a synonym for "overpaid and under-qualified," and after about six less-than-spec ... More >>

Let's Take a Day Away from Anger and Talk about Dogs

Oh, it's the very last day of the year, and I'm just not going to write about that damned fiscal cliff thing because it makes me so angry, and I don't feel like ending the year on that note. I want one day off from angry, if you don't mind. Maybe it will help to start the new year on a less disconso ... More >>

Back to the Future: Jim Sends Greetings from the Bottom of the Cliff in 2112

This is my end-of-the-year lawn, but I'm so grateful to you loyal lawners out there for showing up, I'm going to go you one better. In fact, 100 better. This is "Get Off My Lawn" from the year 2112. So here I am in the year 2112 still cranking out lawns thanks to the last-minute invention of a new ... More >>

Five Rap Albums That Changed the Game in 2012

Five Rap Albums That Changed the Game in 2012

Before the storm of best of lists start hitting the blogs, I wanted to take a second to put aside the artistic merit aspect of the year in review, and take a look at what happened in the cultural landscape of rap music. Some of these albums were really good, some of them were really not, but all of ... More >>

Ask Fan Landers: Should I Stay in the Closet For the Sake of My Rap Career?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Street Style: Hot Wet Mess Edition

When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. We call it Street Style. On Saturday, September 1 the North Texas State Fair Grounds were crawling with people attending the first-ever Hot Wet Mess music festival (put on by t ... More >>

Checking In with Dallas' Tape Heads

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Some "Classy" Boobs Spiced Up the Morning News' Tumblr Page This Morning (NSFW)

The Dallas Morning News' Tumblr page is "hand-picked from among our most fascinating, interesting news and photography." I'll say. The photo you see here was posted there this morning, twice, along with the original poster's description: "beautiful and classy." The photo was reblogged from a Tumblr ... More >>

The Medium Is the Message: Checking In With Dallas' Tape Heads

As with vinyl culture, cassettes never really went away, they just served certain micro-scenes a bit more efficiently. Nationally, cassette culture has been on an upswing for a few years, as CDs become increasingly inconvenient/obsolete, and the analog heads respond to the digital glut. Tapes used t ... More >>

Rigor Mortis Printing Co. Screenprint Till They Drop

Rigor Mortis Printing Co. Screenprint Till They Drop

Four box fans buzz away inside Napkin Art Studios as Jonathon Kimbrell screenprints a batch of business cards for Rigor Mortis Printing Co., a new venture he launched with Richard Reed in May. The motto etched into the card's skull logo ("Print to the death!") seems fitting for a company operating o ... More >>

On Frank Ocean, Sexuality and The Slow Shift Forward

We are having a conversation about Frank Ocean's sexuality. We are living in a time and space where a talented, mainstream R&B singer admits to same-gendered romance. It's news. Or a Twitter sensation. Or a Tumblr-wave. Or whatever entertainment news is referred to as these days. Late Tuesday even ... More >>

The Rangers Have Lots of Weapons. No, Seriously. Those Are Guns

So. We stumbled on this photo on Tumblr a while ago and had to ask: "Hey Texas Rangers. Why are so many of you holding assault weapons?" Rangers spokesman John Blake sent word from the road a few moments ago: "Several of the Rangers visited the Navy Seals Training Facility today in San Diego." There ... More >>

The Viral Video Conundrum: Riff Raff, Kitty Pryde and Krispy Kreme Walk Into a Bar

When Sean Parker was asked by David Kirkpatrick at a roundtable web summit how and why videos go viral, the Silicon Valley visionary shifted in his seat, nervously adjusting his tortoise shell-framed glasses and skinny tie. The Napster co-founder posited, "Videos go viral because people share them. ... More >>

The Curious Case of Kitty Pryde, Plus Three DFW Rappers You Need To Hear

I spent a lot of time watching the "Okay Cupid" video from Florida rapper Kitty Pryde last night, and wondering if she was serious or if this video was an elaborate set meant to recreate the teenage experience. Maybe it's because I'm older and I don't know when kids are being serious anymore. But .. ... More >>

Guys, Sisters With Voices Has a New Album Out.

SWV. Yes, beloved '90s R&B group Sisters With Voices, perhaps best known for their single "Weak," are set to release a new full-length album, I Missed Us, April 17. They're putting some new energy behind December single "Co-Sign," and I don't mean to be punny when I say I co-sign this single, like a ... More >>

From the Dept. of Awesome: A UT Dallas Researcher Has Designed a Robotic Jellyfish

Before I get to the lame joke that's required by my job description, here's something really cool: Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have designed and built a robotic jellyfish powered by dissolved gasses. No, really, they have. They have video of it swimming in a ... More >>

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 >>

A Dickey Move as She Tells Jenkins, "I Don't Call You a Sock Puppet Like Everyone Else Does"

For those who haven't seen the full exchange between Dallas County Commissioners Maurine Dickey and John Wiley Price and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins over the termination of former Homeland Security director Lisa Chambers, here 'tis courtesy KTVT-Channel 11. Jenkins, for those who missed it, s ... More >>

Looking Back at Some Other Local Music MTV Moments (Not All Involving the Toadies, Swear)

I see our music blog's celebrating MTV's 30th today by ticking off a few Dallas-music-related moments featured on the former music network over the years. I have since reminded our music editor: I'm old. So old I recall off the top of my bald head a few that were left off the list -- like, say, the ... More >>

John Wiley Price: Give the Devil His Due

And don't believe everything you read.

Sore Losers Split: After A Vote, Brown Takes The Band and Blue Is Forced To Go Solo

Blue and Brown, together no more.​ Back in October, Sore Losers was on top of the world. The duo of Vincent Brown and Brandon Blue had capably established themselves as a local force to be reckoned with, a post-Boogie duo worth hyping, a creative source of inventive "New Dallas" hip-hop, a shining ... More >>

Physical CD Sales Still Thrive at Dallas' Big T Bazaar.

Fuck Yeah, Rock GIFs: Reliving Your Favorite Concerts, A Handful Of Images At A Time.

​Pretty much any idea for a Tumblr page is a good one. Case in point: The person who simply posts every Alan Palomo image they can find. But, OK, this one is really is a great one. Called Fuck Yeah Rock GIFs, the site, created by local music fan and photographer Neff Conner, compiles various shots ... More >>

In Case, For Some Reason, You Felt As If Our Coverage Of Alan Palomo Was Lacking...

Among the photos you can find at Fuck Yeah, Alan Palomo!​... then allow us to point you in the direction of this new Tumblr account we just found: Fuck Yeah, Alan Palomo. Yes, it's real. And no, we had nothing to do with it. But, hey, it's a pretty awesome site if you want to see photos of the Neo ... More >>

Presenting: Our New Commenting System, Disqus.

​Ladies and gents, you may have noticed: We have a new commenting system. Sure, we're going to miss the hell out of Captcha's bizarre word combinations, and that hypnotic voice to soothe you with phrases like "booger humans" or "gladly tectonic." Today, we got something we think is more interesti ... More >>

Log In! Disqus Our New Commenting System

​Ladies and gents, you may have noticed we have a new commenting system. Sure, we're going to miss the hell out of Captcha's bizarre word combinations like "booger humans" or "gladly tectonic." Today, we have something we think is more interesting: Disqus commenting. Disqus is the same comment ... More >>

Christmas Comes Early as Unfair Park Comments Enter the Late 20th Century

​I said it was coming, and sure enough, it's here: the new Unfair Park comments courtesy Disqus, which promises "a higher quality of conversations" (we'll see about that). I know, I know -- and just when you'd gotten used to Captcha, which has provided the Friends of Unfair Park with countless sec ... More >>

Log In! Disqus: Our New Commenting System

​Ladies and gents, you may have noticed: We have a new commenting system. Sure, we're going to miss the hell out of Captcha's bizarre word combinations, and that hypnotic voice to soothe you with phrases like "booger humans" or "gladly tectonic." Today, we've got something we think is more intere ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Eisley's Sherri DuPree-Bemis and Say Anything's Max Bemis Offer Up Two Takes on "White Christmas"

​ If this Christmas is anything like last year's holiday season, then we're in store for another white Christmas in North Texas--and Tyler-dwelling Max Bemis (of Say Anything) and his Tyler native wife, Sherri DuPree-Bemis (of Eisley) will get their wish. Yesterday, on DuPree-Bemis' Tumblr page, t ... More >>

The Bread, It's Made of People!

Bread PeopleA local gets bread-ified.​The About page of the Tumblr Bread People reads as follows: "Bread People is a site for looking at pictures of the Bread People." Congratulations, you are now informed. It's simple yes, but oh-so-hilarious if you have a moment for a punny Friday. Make the ... More >>

The Tweet Life Inspires People to Make Friends and Adopt Causes in Person. It Can Also Cause a lot of Trouble, 140 Characters at a Time.