Woodstock

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

The Relatives Show at the Kessler was a True Religious Experience

You, as a resident of Dallas, should know the story of the Relatives by now. For anyone that doesn't, a quick refresher -- formed in the 1970s and dissolved in 1980, the Relatives, led by the Reverend Gean West, left little evidence of a mesh of gospel and funk that never caught on despite the favor ... More >>

Nothing's So Funny in Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

It's Only Life Sends a Singing November Valentine

Theatre Too romances tunes of John Bucchino; KDT takes dull journey with 26 Miles.

At Long Last, Texas International Pop Festival In Lewisville to Receive a State Historical Marker

The scene in Lewisville during Labor Day weekend 1969​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park are by now well aware of my lifetime obsession with the Texas International Pop Festival, held during Labor Day weekend in 1969 in a Lewisville field. The roster, put together by, among others, Angus Wynne, was l ... More >>

On Saturday's Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park: Things Seemed To Be Going Smoothly...

[Editor's Note: We originally sent city columnist and noted curmudgeon Jim Schutze out to Fair Park on Saturday night on something of a lark. We knew he'd be a fish out of water, sure. But we also knew that, in some ways, covering the event would be right up his alley -- a chance for him to see one ... More >>

Show Announcements: Lauryn Hill, Concerts In The Garden & More!

Lauryn Hill​Ever since Lauryn Hill made a brief disappearance from the public eye in 2000, her career has been patchy at best. Her acoustic record in 2002, MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, was met with mediocre reviews, and the Fugees reunion fared even worse. But, aside from her brilliant output in the Fug ... More >>

With Richie Whitt on his pit crew, Tony Stewart faded fast at Texas Motor Speedway

We're almost sure it was a coincidence.

Warrior Dash to the Kaufman County Courthouse: Hold On to Your Helmets

​[Update at 11:14 a.m.: Cramer sends word that the hearing's still going on and is expected to wrap between noon and 12:30 p.m. He will call afterward with an update, which I will promptly post.]Dallas attorney Michael Cramer is in his car at this very moment, heading toward the Kaufman County Cou ... More >>

Yes, Another Film Festival: The USA Film Festival Releases Line-Up and Schedule

Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda in Neil Jordan's Ondine, which is playing the USA Film Festival April 30​The Dallas International Film Festival wraps up Sunday. But tomorrow morning, tickets for the USA Film Festival will go on sale via Ticketmaster, according to the fest's publicist in the rele ... More >>

With Shifting Attitudes and a Burgeoning Medical Marijuana Movement, the Future Looks Rosy for Legalized Weed

Year in Review: Way Down South With the Best Rap Albums of 2009

Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like Raekwon and Kid Cudi, most of 2009's exciting, innovative rap records came from Southern artists. Sur ... More >>

Border Poet

Magic Under The Wires At QuakeCon, the Biggest, Baddest Bring-Your-Own-Computer Party Around

Alex WolensNot at all like doing it at home.​Check out more shots from QuakeCon in our slide show.​Finding QuakeCon amidst the bustling mini-metropolis of the Gaylord Texan was easy: just follow the kids in flair-laden QC necklaces staggering under the weight of their clunky homemade PCs. It was ... More >>

NASCAR drivers start your engines: It's about the most athletic thing you'll be doing during the Samsung 500.

Echoes and Reverberations: Anthony and Flea's Tube Sock Diaries

When you're 23 years old, it's all about smoking dope out of an empty beer can, having sex in the backseat of your car, and watching Soul Train the next morning with a hammer-to-the-forehead hangover. At least, it would've been for me, if I had actually owned my own automobile. That period of my lif ... More >>

Your Show of Shows

Theater Too stages explosively funny Big Bang; Stage West goes Japanese with a sexy puppet play

Theatrical Version of Neil Young's Greendale Leaves an Unpleasant Aftertaste

Fasten Seatbelts for Driving Miss Daisy, Santaland Diaries

Driving Miss Daisy offers smooth but powerful ride; and fasten your seatbelts, Nye Cooper's back in Sedaris' Santaland Diaries

Open Dialogues

Bleep Bloop

Strong Foundation

Bar of Soap founders celebrate 20th year in Dallas music scene

A Sad Salvation

At SXSW, you couldn't hear the bad news over all that music

Mag Light

Today's music magazines suck up to celebs--and just plain suck

War on War

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

Do Look Back

The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

Back Into Hell

Marilyn Manson on Christianity, Columbine, and the media's evil influence

High Spoons

Bare breasts, a bowl of red, and bad blood among the chili brethren in the Big Bend. Texas doesn't get any better.

The Fox and the Hounded

Or: How The Rondelles deal with being the cutest band on Earth

Buzz

Why wait?; Real world

Getting your Groove on

Greg Harrison's new film lovingly depicts rave culture as a vital tribal ritual

The artist formerly known as print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

For the benefit of Mr. Max

The creator of iconographic '60s art is now an icon himself

Romancing the '60s? Not quite

Another look at that celebrated era of excess

Hash Over

The beat goes on

Sonny Bono got more respect in death than in life

Bewitched, bothered, bewildered

What to make of Erykah Badu's latest album

The rise of Auntie Christ

Exene Cervenkova throws down the gauntlet

Buzz

Mia & Peter & Liza & Mazursky

The USA Film Festival offers an unapologetic orgy of movie delights

Lunar eclipse

The Moon Festival searches for chance's bright light

Little mascara

The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up

The circle unbroken

Doc Watson still likes to pick

Who's that girl?

Surprise! It's Syd Straw.

Buzz

Writer's block

Marshall Crenshaw struggles to recapture his inspiration

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