Have you ever been to a gig in Deep Ellum on a weeknight that started in the daylight? It’s a very disconcerting experience. The sunlight spilling in through the high windows illuminates even the furthest dusty corner of this venerable venue, simultaneously casting attractive evening shadows and lighting up things…
As I write this, no one in the world knows where Edward Snowden, leaker of all the secrets he could get his grubby hands on, is located. While the irony of the US government having a total lack of information on this subject cannot be lost on anyone, I would…
We’ve all been there. You’re at a seated gig, possibly in a large stadium or auditorium, and the people around you only serve to remind you how much you dislike humanity. With their phones, their talking, and their general disregard for the etiquette of polite society, they are in actual…
Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival w/ Dave Chappelle & Flight of the Conchords! – watch more funny videos Funny Or Die, the internet comedy mega-site founded by Will Ferrell et al. has just announced its first major comedy production, and one of the biggest comedy tours ever to hit the…
So you’ve got some jokes, right? Think you can make people laugh? Then you might find this list we’ve compiled, of the most prominent comedy open mics in D-FW, particularly useful. We’ve also got local comedy guru Dean Lewis to share his thoughts on not only the venue but the…
Really, in terms of appreciating material at live concerts there are two distinct paths – bands you go and see because you like their current stuff, or to hear new things or unashamed nostalgia fests where we all collectively suspend the clear evidence that, well, it ain’t like it used…
The Pixies reunited in 2004 for the sake of nostalgia and money. There can’t be much doubt over this. They never hinted at new music (apart from the bizarre one-off soundtrack single “Bam Thwok”) and unashamedly toured Doolittle to within an inch of its life. This morning, entirely apropos of…
When you go to a concert, which is purportedly a collection of like-minded people on the grounds that you’re all there to see a particular thing you personally enjoy, you have two choices. You can either dress like you think everyone else will, or you can shout “FUCK IT” into…
The producers of the Holy Grail proudly present The Life Of Bri … no, no that’s not right. It says here “FM Smokehouse”. I don’t remember that one being part of the canon, but then I guess no one really watched The Meaning Of Life either, despite that whole song…
I find it entertaining when there’s some ambiguity over a band’s name. CHVRCHES, with that V incongruously placed into the vowel space, is a perfect example. Churches? Cher-ver-ches? It’s a lot more fun for it to be the second one. Of course, as the band themselves reveal two songs in,…
Here’s a fact that drives pageviews and purchases — everyone loves a list. They do. It’s easily digestible, it’s automatically controversial by dint of ordering and omitting things that people concerned enough by the subject to click on the list care deeply about, and it’s endlessly repostable. It’s the entire…
Cristela Alonzo, an alumni of the Dallas comedy scene, recently finished taping her big Comedy Central Half Hour (re-branded from the more famous moniker Comedy Central Presents), which debuts Saturday morning at 12.30 a.m. Tapped by major entertainment website Vulture as one of the top 50 comedians with a chance…
The AR-15 is lighter than I expected. It’s an intimidating chunk of rough-hewn black metal and rubber, but it sits softly in my hands. I bring it to my shoulder and, making sure I’m not pointing it at anyone, I peer down its sights. I’m not sure what to do,…
There is an antidote to the neon and designer sunglasses of America’s big-ticket music festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza. You hear less about these specialty festivals — they know their audiences and pretty much stay within them. The hippies go to Austin Psych Fest; the punks go to Chaos in…
There’s already an Off the Bone. I went there once, back in the mists of time. I remember that the location was worrying, that I had to take holiday allowance from work to be able to order a buttermilk pie in a misunderstanding that ran for several days and that…
It occurs to me this country is quite spaced out. Not in the drugs sense, although God knows that happens too, but in the sense it is really quite large. I mean, have you seen a map? That shit is humongous. Furthermore, there are only so many places poor overworked…
An event yesterday caused my snark-o-meter to explode with such ferocity that it has taken me a full day to recover the ability to write with sarcasm. I spent all of yesterday genuinely wishing people well, and I think at one point I tried to argue that Christina Aguilera’s career…
It’s an average night in Trees. The bar is dark, the lights are half-assed, the drinks are flowing and there’s a reasonable crowd. Rock is playing over the PA, and there’s a low chatter. The only clue that something weirder than the usual fare served up at Trees is going…
For all the pomp, pageantry and excess of the previous day in a field thirty miles from Tulsa, there was a lack of focus. Even though the simple fact that a Guns and Roses gig, with Axl Rose singing some of the most memorable, catchy, and energetic rock songs of…
Even though it may seem to you that the summer has been replaced by a wind tunnel and a hyperactive dry ice machine, you know what’s coming. It’s going to be warmer than the surface of the sun (I am aware of the logical impossibility of this statement), and promoters…
Regular readers may remember that I found it amusing to review cream teas and high teas around Dallas, comparing them to their British counterparts. While many of you didn’t agree that this was in fact amusing, that’s never stopped me before. For the third in a highly infrequent series, I…
Not only are we, like we’re sure you are, genuinely excited about the return of Arrested Development on May 26, we also have absolutely no idea what will happen. The family, those blowhards, could be scattered around the globe, and indeed initial reports suggested that there wouldn’t be a massive…
