Husband and wife Robby and Neesha Grubbs may be San Antonians now, but they met when they were living in Deep Ellum 25 years ago. Since 2008, they have made a name for themselves in San Antonio with their company Local Coffee, but they’ve had their eyes on Dallas for…
There’s no shortage of coffee spots in North Texas. With that comes a variety of ways for coffee addicts to get their fix brewed — pour-overs, cold-brew, French press, standard drip. An older brewing method, however, seems to have come and gone in the DFW coffee scene. The siphon method…
Mel Arizpe and Laura Carrizales were three hours from going on stage and performing their final song at the Karaoke World Championships in Helsinki. They were tied for fourth place with another duet, who had just finished an energetic performance in which they were all over the stage. “I told…
Red light illuminated the interior of Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton as El Nuevo Mi Son, a local band, set up on stage. Old friends, fans, bandmates and family members of Joe Cripps, the internationally known percussionist who went missing in 2016, mingled during the hour before the band started…
On most Sunday nights, Paul Slavens is on air hosting “The Paul Slavens Show” on 91.7 KXT. This night he was roaming through the crowd at Dan’s Silverleaf in his “Let the force be with you” shirt, enjoying live music and the company of friends, fans and former bandmates there to…
Some call pepperoni rolls the unofficial state food of West Virginia, where they were first sold by Giuseppe “Joseph” Argiro at Country Club Bakery in 1927 and are still a local staple. However, these doughy delicacies seem to have found a following here in North Texas. Generally, a classic pepperoni…
Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbán sing the song in 1949’s Neptune’s Daughter. In 2010, now-married singer-songwriters Karyna Micaela and Zach Balch stepped on stage together at the now-closed Art Six Coffee House in Denton. Although they were dating other people at the time, the duo decided to collaborate on a…
Twenty-five years ago, Baptist Generals’ Chris Flemmons was recording songs on a four-track tape recorder. Oftentimes, he would end up hating the music six months later, because he was in a hurry to find his style. As a result, a lot got left behind. In the past year, Baptist Generals…
Somewhere out in the dark, vast vacuum of space, two golden phonographic records holding sounds of our civilization plunge farther and farther into the cosmic ocean. They are on board Voyager spacecraft 1 and 2, which were launched in the late-’70s. The records act as time capsules, a message in…
When news broke that an off-duty Dallas police officer shot and killed Botham Jean, an unarmed black man, in his Dallas apartment, Alex Crawford was angry. That was the feeling of many, but Crawford says it affected him on another level because he is a black artist. “Where are we safe at?”…
One day, Ashley Paige Somogyi, a local musician who goes by Somogyi, was walking around the Dallas Arts District with a friend when they found a wine bottle on the ground. Somogyi picked it up and read the word “Yes” on the cork. On one side of the bottle was…
What is there to say about Taylor Swift that hasn’t been said before? She’s the princess of pop, the queen of open letters to streaming services, the goddess of breakup and beef songs. There’s nothing she can’t or won’t do at this point. But even with all she’s accomplished, it…
As he did in his Dallas performance last year, Kurt Vile is likely to peer between the curtains of his long, wavy, brown hair out into a sea of dedicated fans on Friday night. With his band, the Violators, behind him, Vile will hit Canton Hall’s stage in support of…
Lights fading from purple to pink illuminated the walls behind LO and her band at the woman-owned WAAS Gallery in Dallas. A hard-hitting drum track and deep, rumbling lines on the synthesizer accompany her soulful voice. The performance marked the release of LO’s new self-titled EP. Though her parents’ background…
Every Tuesday morning, Steve Jackson gets out of bed and conjures up some clever way of reminding performers of Opening Bell Coffee’s open mic night. “I think my best one was based on the soliloquy from Field of Dreams,” Jackson says. “People will come Ray. They’ll come to Southside on Lamar for…
The Beaujolais and Beyond Wine Festival is now Taste of France, and it happens this weekend in the Design District.
Chalk depictions of Johnny Cash and Anthony Bourdain giving the finger hang on the walls of a new restaurant at The Shops at Willow Bend, where John Tesar recently opened a new location of his award-winning steakhouse, Knife. It would not be complete without the remnants of individuals who encapsulate…
If you have ever awakened with a deep craving for some of the best kolaches and klobasneks in the state, you may have considered taking a long drive to West, Texas’ Czech Stop off Interstate 35. However, there are some not-too-shabby takes on this staple of traditional czech cuisine right…
The ever-trending Asian street food night market is coming to Plano from 5 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27. More than 20 vendors will serve a wide range of more than 100 different Asian dishes for the Dallas Asian Street Food Night Market, held in the Super Fresh Market parking…
Justin Bonard, a Cicerone formerly working at Meddlesome Moth, is opening Ten:One, an intimate cheese shop and beer and wine bar, in Denton.
More than 25,000 people are expected to attend this year’s Western Days Festival, and they will see and hear some big changes. Lewisville’s largest festival of the year, Western Days, will open its gates for live music and western-themed activities at 5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday. Changes to…
During one of Kristianna Davied’s modeling shoots, Davied says a male photographer convinced her to take her top and bra off. Because she wanted to reach her full potential, the photographer was able to manipulate her into thinking she could not do that fully clothed, she says. “A lot of…
