Wichita

Prime Prep, Deion Sanders' Suspect Charter School, Might Have America's Best Hoops Team

Watch Emmanual Mudiay on the court and it's not hard to see how the junior point guard came to be ESPN's No. 3 recruit in the country, or why University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari would take such a keen interest. He's big, for one, 6-foot-4 and almost 200 pounds, and he plays with a grace ... More >>

She's a Demon On Wheels

10 of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Justice, Rufus Wainwright, Zammuto and More

JusticeWednesday, October 31, at Palladium Ballroom, $40Justice is sort of a gateway band for many younger electronic music fans. Their concise jams (I'm partial to their high-profile remix of Simian's "We Are Your Friends") make it easy to get on the dancefloor, which is essentially what is expecte ... More >>

The Grape's Brian Luscher to Represent Texas at the 2012 Pasture To Plate

The Grape's owner and undisputed burger master Brian Luscher bid farewell to the Big D on Sunday, his eyes set on Wichita, Kansas. Luscher will represent the Texas Beef Council at the 2012 Kansas Beef Council's Pasture to Plate Tour, where he will tour multiple production lines and farms to learn ab ... More >>

Look At This Poster: Lechuguillas, Terminator 2, Bludded Head, Eccotone and Secret Cakes at Rubber Gloves

A pretty fantastic local lineup tomorrow at Rubber Gloves for all you fans of the heavy stuff, as part of Gutterth's latest live episode. Lechuguillas and Terminator 2 are about to run away on tour together, terrorizing people with low end from Wichita all the way to NYC, so it should be a good send ... More >>

Watch as Jason Roberts Spreads the Gospel of Building a Better Block on the OU Campus

Whilst browsing through the YouTube moments ago I stumbled across the video you see above, which was just posted by the TEDx'ers: Jason Roberts on the OU campus talking, at times breathlessly, about how to build a better block on January 27. It's but the first in a long line of similar presentations ... More >>

The Conversation: Is Playing Other People's Songs Respectable?

Dallas disco cover band Le Freak​A well-timed cover can be just the thing to take a band's live performance from good to great. But if the execution of the song is off, it could blow the whole set. On the flip side, although playing a cover is a risky move, sometimes the rewards can make an artist ... More >>

Fox & The Bird's Road to Tonight's Album Release Show at Sons of Hermann Hall

Sara KerensOn the road with Fox & The Bird...​For the past few weeks, the Family Band-ers in Dallas' Fox & The Bird have been on the road, taking part in their largest tour to date, all of which is meant to promote Floating Feather, the band's long-awaited debut release, which formally com ... More >>

Still On The Line

Knight and Day: Tom Cruise, Please Stop Talking.

Studio Movie Grill vs. Gold Class Cinemas: The Slider Skirmish

Gold Class' sliders.​If we were to mention a duo named Anderson-Ingram from the 1920s it might invoke thoughts of a Scandinavian vaudeville act. You may be more familiar, however, with this team's accomplishments than you might think. It was 1921 when restaurateur Walter Anderson met Billy ... More >>

Do You Like This Gig? Apparently Not, As Greggo Ditches Yet Another Radio Show.

​Last I heard, Greg "The Hammer" Williams was looking for a sidekick for his Wichita Fall-based radio show set for syndication. But since Richie's on vacation, I guess it falls to me to pass along the news forwarded along by one Friend of Unfair Park this morning: The show's "a no-go." That comes ... More >>

Last Night: Buddy Guy at House of Blues

​Buddy GuyHouse of BluesOctober 15, 2009 Better than: hob-nobbing at the foundation room bar upstairs. "Hi, can I ask you a question?" your author said to the sound engineer at the front of the house. "Yes?" "I'm a journalist for the Dallas Observer, here to cover the show. I was wondering if t ... More >>

Stardom Was Never Los Campesinos!’s Intent. But, Hey, You Take It When You Can Get It.

Rules To Eat By

​An American style milkshake in part requires a blend that will stand a spoon but can be sipped from a straw without much trouble. Response to last week's ranking of ten different milkshakes, however, suggests some people really don't consider the difference between a milkshake and stirred up ice ... More >>

Still On The Line

Glen Campbell plays the Nokia

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

A "Retired" Ron Chapman Takes Charge at KTYS and Parties Like It's 1979

Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Day 13, The Short Road Home

Wanna Be The Voice of the AirHogs?

Jimmy Webb

Friday, September 28, at Poor David's Pub

The White Stripes

Icky Thump (Warner Bros. /WEA)

Kidding Around

Summer break fun is everywhere

Homey Steak

Upscale steak houses feel the economic pinch

Steak Wreck

J-E-T...Uh...J-E-...

Power Lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever. Just don't tell him that.

From Auction Block to Chopping Block?

Training Day

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

Tower Toppling? They Say No.

Ms. Beck, If You're Nasty

Want a straight answer from the most promising pop-rock singer in Texas? Good luck.

Common Cold

Harold Ramis' Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper

Pat Metheny

The Way Up (Nonesuch)

Johnny A.

Thursday, December 2

Touchy Subject

Federal judge strikes down Dallas' two-rubs-and-you're-out rule for strip clubs

Where the Boys Are

It's a man's world at Plano-based Rent-A-Center, a lawsuit alleges

Ellum Tremors

America's Pub coming to Big D

Burden of proof

Serial killer Faryion Wardrip would have gotten away with murder if bricklayer-turned-investigator John Little hadn't stolen his coffee cup

Fluff

Kevin Cubed; Happy birthday; Mo' money

In the company of men

In The Big Kahuna,Kevin Spacey gets whatever good lines there are

Low-octane litigation

A conservative court and a hardball corporation have gutted plaintiffs' claims in the Kaufman County pipeline explosion case

Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson

Freedy Johnston

Blue Days, Black Night (Elektra Records)

Hash Over

Fly Boys

Like a gang of punk Peter Pans, suburbia's not-so-lost boys flock to Eisenbergs Skate Park to test their wings

The man who knew too much

Meet Arthur Griesacker--the mysterious fellow who allegedly masterminded the Republic of Texas' funny-money schemes but always seems to escape prosecution

Mr. Mayor, Meet Your Nightmare

Frustrated, fed up, and ready to fight, Laura Miller trades muckraking for a run at City Hall

Transcendental dining

Delight is in the details at Saigon Bistro

Power lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but don't tell him that

The Learning Curve

Earnest eggheads came to Texas with an idea that for-profit schools can save public education. So far, it ain't working.