Will Rogers

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The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Find more of this weekend's best shows in our shiny new concert calendar. Fort Worth Music Festival Will Rogers Memorial, Friday, September 28 and Saturday, September 29 Whether it's the deep soul of Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, the tears-in-my-beer ballads of Hayes Carll, or the smooth ... More >>

Eleven of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Mission of Burma, Willie Nelson, Ben Folds Five, Brutal Juice and More

Mission of Burma Friday, September 14, at Dan's Silverleaf, $13/$16Spune productions' Lance Yocom has been sitting on this show for a while. The Boston punk act, whose reunion has lasted longer than its original run, should make for an interesting show at Dan's. Expect it to be packed and loud.S ... More >>

This Weekend's Best Concerts: KXT's Summer Cut, Meltdown Music Festival, the Avett Brothers, Japanther and More

Summer Cut w/ The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, Fitz & The Tantrums and moreFriday, June 1, at Gexa Energy PavilionHere we are, fully immersed in this year's summer festival season, and we're already peaking. It's going to be hard to outdo The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, and everyone else KXT 91.7-F ... More >>

Nicholas Altobelli: "I Learned How To Play Guitar On Pat Green Albums. Did I Just Lose My Indie Cred?"

If you've been around Deep Ellum for the past six months, you've probably heard about Nicholas Altobelli. This weekend is no different, as he's a part of the first annual Deep Ellum Big Folkin' Festival, along with The O's, Telegraph Canyon and Dovetail. Altobelli shared his first show experiences ... More >>

It Only Took 33 Years For Dallas Filmmakers to Get Due Credit For "Lost" Stones Concert Film

Jagger and Richards in Some Girls Live shot in Fort Worth​A reminder: Tonight and tonight only is that big-screen screening of The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, shot during the band's Will Rogers Auditorium stopover on July 18, 1978, under the moniker the "London Green Shoed Cowboys." ... More >>

One Week From Tuesday, Relive Rolling Stones' July 1978 Show at Will Rogers in Fort Worth

We've been here before: the night the Rolling Stones played Will Rogers Auditorium as the "London Green Shoed Cowboys" in the summer of '78. The boot, known as Handsome Girls, remains one of the finest in my collection; I revisit it regularly, particularly that rendering of "Starfucker." No wonder i ... More >>

Tim Halperin Reaches No. 1 on iTunes, Sly Stone Is Now Homeless and Other News and Notes...

Tim Halperin​Last week we ran a quick item about American Idol contestant, Tim Halperin, and his publicity stunt leading up to the release of his new record, Rise & Fall. He was to sit in a mock jail cell at Plano's Shops At Legacy for 28 hours leading up the expiration of his dreaded American ... More >>

My Morning Jacket and Guns N' Roses Top a Good, Solid List of Show Announcements

My Morning Jacket​On the heels of an incredible performance at Austin City Limits Music Festival last weekend, My Morning Jacket have announced that they'll be taking their show on the road. And, thankfully, since they skipped North Texas on the first leg of their Circuital album tour, they'll be ... More >>

Tony Harper Remembers Seeing KISS. His First Slobberbone Gig Memories Are A Little Hazier.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Tony Harper​Tony Harper has bee ... More >>

For Your Long Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Stones Bring Some Girls to Will Rogers in '78

​Figured we might as well get the usual week-ending rock-and-roll-and ender out of the way sooner than later, though we will return Friday (if not sooner). Besides, I've got cooking prep work to do tonight (this, highly recommended) and could use the company. And this offering, from July '78, also ... More >>

For Your Yom Kippur Listening Pleasure: Jimi! Willie! Fort Worth! (No, Not Together.)

​First off: G'mar chatimah tovah. Now, then.When I posted the link to that Feb. '68 Jimi Hendrix Experience show at the Music Hall at Fair Park a few weeks back, I espied the set list for the next night's follow-up at the Will Rogers Auditorium -- a little different, mostly due to the inclusion of ... More >>

Comedy's Side Dish

Big Top Classic

Bowling for Soup

Empty Bowls fights hunger in Fort Worth

Clown Cars

The Shriners put on a Big Top show

Echoes & Reverberations: Van Halen’s “Almost Infamous”

Roger That

Will Rogers comes back to life in Garland

Vote for Bush's "Hole in the Ground"

Cellar Beware

Pave it to save it?

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

Soup's On

Empty Bowls takes an artful approach

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 12

Under the Big Top

Wish You Were Floyd

Pink Floyd "returns" from Down Under

Into the Folds

The Great Greats

Brand Oriented

Go west for fashion in Fort Worth

Ducats in the Cradle

Prairie Beckons

Crappuccino

Starbucks pitchman Michael Bublé visits Fort Worth

Navel-Gazing

Funny Business

Gym Dandy

Go back to PE with Dodgeball--Round Two

Pimp and Circumstance

Uptown Players score with unhappy hookers in The Life; UTD takes disturbing Vacation

Evel Still Prevails

But his only trick is not dropping the pen

Full Steam Ahead

Ship sinks, cast stays afloat in Titanic, the musical; Quad C steers clear of clichés in Boy Gets Girl

Blink

Storm troupers; Blown away

Letters

Leavin' on a jet plane; Crummy teachers; Learning experience

The show-me slate

DeRogatis' Top 10 Reasons for Living in 1999

Scene, heard

Night & Day

February 18 - 24, 1999

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998

Letters

Events for the week

Events for the week

Roadshows

Events for the week

Dumb and dumber

The Nation of Nitwits rolls along with the Republican Revolution