William S. Burroughs

On the Road is Tamed at Last

What You Need to Know From Sundance

The fest's best are the films to watch in the year ahead.

No One-Trick Pony

Over the Weekend: Deb Explores the Dark Corners of The Texas Theatre

​The jaunt to The Texas Theatre is among my favorite through the city. I take a roundabout way down Main Street, through Dealey Plaza to 35. Nothing beats Jefferson Street in this town: All faded jewel tones, party supply stores and beautiful Quinceañera boutiques. It looks frozen in time in ... More >>

Down-Home Goth, Y'all

Deep Ellum Artist Frank Campagna On The Intersection Of Music and Visual Art in Dallas

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages.Frank CampagnaFrank Campagna's first mural, painted at age 16, was a 9-foot-by-12-foot rendering of a clown wearing a police uniform, sporting a badge that said "pig," and all in front of ... More >>

Hunter S. Thompson Lives Thanks to Dallas' Michael Minzer (and Tim Robbins)

Allen Ginsberg and Michael Minzer during recording sessions in 1987​Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer ... More >>

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within: Profile of a Counterculture Saint

He Is Legend

MasterMinds: Matthew Posey, Joel Hester and Karen Blessen Are Winners in Our Inaugural Creativity Awards

Dallas Observer Names Nine Dallas Artists as Finalists in Its First Annual Masterminds Award

Hamburger on New Year's Eve? Neil, That Is.

​Patrick's forthcoming with pictures and words from the downtown blow-em-ups this morning, as Big Bob Jeffress and Mayor Tom held hands and made First Baptist go boom, but first, this just in from the Texas Theatre: Love-him-or-hate-him Neil Hamburger's been booked into the joint for what it's cal ... More >>

Dallas International Film Festival Serves Up a Tasty Helping of Flicks From the Lone Star State

In Oak Cliff, An Effort to Resurrect the Kessler

View Larger MapSome of you may have noticed that yesterday, in the item about Kidd Springs in Oak Cliff, Jeff Liles posted a link to a video you'll find after the jump, along with the rather cryptic note: "Speakin' of the OC, we have this to look forward to next year:" Ah, but what, precisely, is th ... More >>

The Good Barney

The Modern salutes a free-speech icon

Road Trip: On the Set of Local Filmmaker Tom Huckabee's Carried Away

Patrick MichelsFort Worth-based filmmaker Tom Huckabee's first feature was a post-apocalyptic William S. Burroughs adaptation, in which a 19-year-old Bill Paxton gets a brainwashing and a sex change from militant feminists.For his second feature now, 26 years later, Huckabee is tackling slightly mil ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Karen Finley and the Delicate Art of Disgust

In the summer of 1986, the Theatre Gallery was all about confronting the established aesthetic sensibilities of the comfortable arts patron. Basically, we loved to shock the shit out of people. Our venue existed to raise the bar on outrageousness and freedom of expression. Example: One of our ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

In next week's paper, we'll unveil our national package on the best music of the year (the following week, we'll tackle the best in DFWd music). But, as a teaser, here's our paper's contribution to the national package: Noah W. Bailey's picks for the best Americana/folk releases of '08. Picking the ... More >>

Top 5 Songs About Thanksgiving

Cannibal Corpse

Burning the Yule Log

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Drop In

Come in, turn out, drop by for Timothy Leary's art

A Horrible Mind

Unlike John Nash, Spider sees little triumph over schizophrenia

Clem Snide

You Were a Diamond (spinART)

War on War

Almost four decades later, The Fugs' Ed Sanders is still fighting

Something Borrowed

In The Pantalone Follies, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Southern Breezes

Even in death, Terry Southern remains larger than life

Youth in Revolt

Two decades later, Sonic Youth is younger than ever

Grammar School

Nelly sets out from his beloved St. Louis on the road to fame and fortune

Fight Club lite

Shadow Hours isn't quite Fincher, but it's a good try

Naked eye

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Joe Henry

Short takes

Letters

Odd Man Out

Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

Hollywood babble on

Jerry Stahl tells more than you probably want to hear in Permanent Midnight

Out There

Nuclear family

The Terror Couple try to launch a revolution from the 'burbs

Jukin' with the Reverend

The improbable rise of blues rulebreaker Robert Ealey

Roadshows

Ain't life pop?

Grand Street Cryers enter Robinson-Wood's hum-along sweepstakes

Drink up

Trees Lounge raises a toast to the barfly in each of us

Cut to the chase

B

Bitter pills

Stop freaking out-- Tablet's deeper than you think

The baddest seed

Nick Cave digs in and gets his hands bloody

The damage undone

The Geraldine Fibbers write a new chapter about rock and its tragic aftermath

Test Pattern

Events for the week

Sink hole, uh

Austin's great alt-rock hope swings for the empty bleachers