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  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    The Conversation: When is Music Too Negative, Too Hateful? Is There a Line?

    Tyler, The Creator seems like a nice young man.​Just last week, DC9 ran a review for the Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival that took place at the Granada Theater. The show, which featured 10 acts -- from Shabazz Palaces to Preteen Zenith -- was pretty great. But a big hot-button topic surrounded the venue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Five Music Shows We Wish MTV Still Aired

    ​At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake got on the mic and pleaded with MTV to "play more videos!" Timberlake's sentiment was hardly a new one. The station switched from heavily playing music videos to being a reality TV-based network in the early 2000s -- shortly after the old for ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2011

    He's A Comedy King To Us

    ​At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake got on the mic and pleaded with MTV to "play more videos!" Timberlake's sentiment was hardly a new one. The station switched from heavily playing music videos to being a reality TV-based network in the early 2000s -- shortly after the old for ... More >>

  • Film

    January 13, 2011

    The Green Hornet: Seth Rogen Schlubs It Up as a Masked Hero.

    ​At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake got on the mic and pleaded with MTV to "play more videos!" Timberlake's sentiment was hardly a new one. The station switched from heavily playing music videos to being a reality TV-based network in the early 2000s -- shortly after the old for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Unexpected Influences: DJ Sober May Be Known For Hip-Hop, But He Loves Him Some Annie Lennox and They Might Be Giants, Too.

    Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Kelsey FosterDJ Sober​In a city as chock full of DJ talent as Dallas is, there still has yet to emerge any real rock star. And yet, if there were such a figure whose longevity and skill war ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Last Night: Memoryhouse, Twin Sister, SLEEP ∞ OVER at The Loft

    Memoryhouse, Twin Sister, SLEEP ∞ OVERThe LoftAugust 25, 2010 Better than: ironing out the kinks of that new Windows XP installation. Derek O'DonnellMemoryhouse. Expect a full slideshow from last night's show later today.​Each of the two non-Texan touring bands who took the stage last night a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Whitt's End (Fish's Tales?) 7.16.10

    ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End (Fish's Tales?): *A note from Rangers Ballpark: LeBron James fell out of the upper deck while reaching for more attention. *If police have this right, the mayor of Coppell leaves notes scattered a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    What It Was Like: Twelve More Bands To Close Out SXSW 2010 in Style

    Pete FreedmanWashed Out played the Fader Fort on Saturday, backed by Brooklyn's Small Black.​Another year, another grueling sprint to South by Southwest's end--only, this year, well, things seemed a little different than in year's past. Especially on Saturday night.More so than on any previous nig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    James Faust, Who Programmed AFI Dallas, Now More or Less Running the Whole Fest

    Dallas Film SocietyFrom left: James Faust, a Fresh Prince and Michael Cain at Cannes in 2008​A little while ago, the Dallas Film Society -- which operates the Dallas International Film Festival, also known as The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International -- announced some changes at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Echoes and Reverberations: Decadent Dub Team, Fracturing the Mash-Up

    DDTers Jason Wolford, EZ Eddie D and Jeff Liles​ The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that's by design -- the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the ear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Weekend Roundup: Jonas Brothers, Clutch Bananas, The Veronicas, DJ Jazzy Jeff

    Jonas Brothers on Saturday, June 20, at Dallas Cowboys StadiumI heard today that Miley Cyrus and that one JoBro were back together. I wonder if the "dizzy" feeling was love or just a result from spinning the entire length of one of their songs? Either way, can we get an "awwww" for the lovestruck te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Romembering the Tony We Fell in Love With

    Perhaps our expectations toward an undrafted free agent who suddenly has fame, fortune and a hot female are a tad unrealistic? Perhaps.I bet there were times over the last month when you read Tony Romo's "sun'll come out tomorrow" quotes and profanely muttered, "Man, he needs a $%&*$#@ pu ... More >>

  • Film

    December 11, 2008

    The Day the Plot Stood Still

    Sci-fi remake misses the point, and that's a Klaatu Barada no-no

  • Film

    January 10, 2008

    Hard Knock, Creepy Life in The Orphanage

    Sci-fi remake misses the point, and that's a Klaatu Barada no-no

  • News

    July 5, 2007

    Dollars and No Sense

    You are getting sleepy...and kinda goofy

  • News

    March 8, 2007

    Cool Cotton

    If anything, now is the time to embrace the Cotton Bowl

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    Oscar Oversight

    Never fear, we won't let the Academy Awards ignore sports

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2007

    AFI Fest Releases Lineup of Films and Guest List. Oh, Look: The Guy From Office Space

    Never fear, we won't let the Academy Awards ignore sports

  • News

    December 21, 2006

    We Got Next

    How two brothers, their mom, their friends and a white guy named Cletus hope to win the hip-hop game

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2006

    Steve Blow Is an Idiot

    How two brothers, their mom, their friends and a white guy named Cletus hope to win the hip-hop game

  • Music

    April 20, 2006

    Odds & Ends

    Assuming Josh Venable's recent anti-Observer e-mail to fans was honest, he'll never read this article anyway

  • News

    January 26, 2006

    Persistence is a virtue

    The Women in Black-all three of them-protest the war in Iraq

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2004

    Stand-up Guy

    Bill Bellamy's new fast lane

  • Music

    November 11, 2004

    Method Rocking

    Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2004

    Dukin' It Out

    Tom Wopat puts on the razzle-dazzle

  • Music

    February 27, 2003

    Gossip Folks

    Thanks to The O'Reilly Factor and Pepsi, Ludacris got a bad rap

  • Music

    November 28, 2002

    DJ Rap

    Paul Oakenfold contemplates the needle and the damage done

  • Film

    March 14, 2002

    On With the Show

    De Niro and Murphy play it by the numbers in Showtime, but that's not a bad thing

  • Culture

    January 17, 2002

    Devil's Advocate

    Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

  • Culture

    December 27, 2001

    Sly Foxx

    He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

  • Film

    November 15, 2001

    In the Screening Room

    For the Deep Ellum Film Festival, the third time's the charm

  • Music

    August 2, 2001

    My Name Is

    Who is Jill Scott? Why is anyone still asking that?

  • Culture

    April 5, 2001

    Blowin' Smoke

    Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    Gave the People What They Had

    Sometimes, the best new music is the best old music

  • Film

    September 14, 2000

    Hook, Line, Stinker

    Don't bite, even if Bait does

  • Music

    July 27, 2000

    In sync

    The Dark Side of Oz? Man, that's just the tip of the iceberg

  • Film

    June 29, 2000

    Saving Private Mel

    The Patriot is sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving--and a crowd-pleaser

  • Music

    September 9, 1999

    Summer suns and some aren't

    Going steady with the singles of the summer

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Signing off

    Local talent scout Teresa LaBarbera-Whites discovered singing sensation Jessica Simpson the way she always does: without even trying

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Put your ears on

    Disney hopes its upstart kids radio network will be more than just a Mickey Mouse effort

  • Music

    June 17, 1999

    Candy corn

    Or: What do cake walks, the Backstreet Boys, and Jon Cunningham have in common?

  • Music

    June 3, 1999

    Out There

    Or: What do cake walks, the Backstreet Boys, and Jon Cunningham have in common?

  • Calendar

    May 27, 1999

    Night & Day

    May 27 - June 2, 1999

  • Music

    September 3, 1998

    Souled out

    After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

  • Music

    April 30, 1998

    Risky business

    Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

  • Music

    February 19, 1998

    Dazed, not confused

    How Richard Linklater and the Bad Livers bucked the trend of soundtraxploitation

  • Film

    January 1, 1998

    On the fringes

    Most of the year's best films were from the outside looking in

  • Film

    October 24, 1996

    Fantastic voyage

    Spike Lee's Get on the Bus takes us to amazing places

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