Shinedown, Palladium Ballroom, Sunday, Oct. 11Shinedown, the band Pete claims he can’t pick out of a lineup, played at the Palladium last night. I’ll admit it: I thought Shinedown’s hit “Second Chance,” otherwise known as that “Hailey’s comet song the EDGE plays over and over again” was Nickelback’s. Oh well…
Thievery CorporationHouse of BluesOctober 5, 2009Better than: Staying at home and watching Mad Men. Fresh off back-to-back appearances at Austin City Limits and Stubbs, Thievery Corporation was still bright-eyed for its third show in as many days late Sunday night at House of Blues in Dallas.Inside, the sweaty and expectant…
The Dodos, House of Blues, Friday, Oct. 2ndThe San Francisco psychedelic folk trio is having a charmed year. They scored a Miller Chill commercial song placement, and in November they’ll head off on a European tour. But they were cool enough to stop at House of Blues in Dallas first…
The Tarahumara, an intensely private people, live deep within the canyons of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico. Not much has changed since the Tarahumara moved to the remote area in the 16th century to escape the Spaniards. One thing that did change disturbed ethnologist Santiago James Barnaby. He…
The town of Thurber has a knack for rising from the ashes. Originally built as a company coal mining town, it became a hub for brick factories in the late 19th century. Thurber peaked at 10,000 residents, claiming to be the largest town between Fort Worth and El Paso. In…
Three hours of nonstop shopping, eating and drinking sounds like a great night out–but add in a trolley shuttle and it’s near perfect. A shopper gets tired hauling around all those bags, you know. Breathe in the rarefied air normally reserved for interior designers tonight at the 11th annual Slocum…
As we predicted, the word “balance” was frequently used to describe what a “great street” could and should be during Tuesday’s presentation to the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committees. The council was left with plenty to ponder as RTKL’s Eric Dohrer more or less told the council that it…
The Dallas City Council will consider raising the fee drivers pay to reclaim towed cars in November, but a proposal to revise and update valet parking regulations remains on the back burner. More about that after the jump.But following a rate increase approved in February for emergency wreckers, the council’s…
Taylor Swift at American Airlines Center on Friday, September 25Taylor Swift and an arena of teenage girls and their secretly eager dads (hey, T-Swift is legal!) sang along to her ballads about boys, broken hearts, white horses and all that schmoopy stuff Friday night at the AAC. OK, maybe she…
Brace yourself–there’s been another British invasion. Norman Foster and his merry band of architects were imported from London to Texas to design the Winspear Opera House at the Dallas Center for Performing Arts. The horseshoe-shaped building anchors a long list of modernist architecture dreamed up over the last four decades…
How many funny people can come from one family? Dane Cook’s family is 0-for-1, but if you’re a Sedaris, there’s more than enough hilarity to go around. Only siblings Amy and David Sedaris could pull off a play about cheese balls, a llama, a Pilgrim-themed restaurant and an Amish-like religious…
Inspiration didn’t grab hold of Czech housewife-turned-artist Anna Zemankova until 1960, when she was 52 years old. Depression drove the self-taught “outsider” artist to create colorful, swirling abstract floral and botanical designs. To Zemankova, her creations weren’t merely drawings; she believed she was “growing flowers that are not grown anywhere…
If you believe Vegas bookies, the Cowboys have a better chance to reach the 2010 Super Bowl than the Carolina Panthers. Neither team has great odds, mind you, because of that guy who plays for the Patriots. But it stands to reason the Cowboys should hand the Panthers their tightly…
Chappelle’s Show alum Bill Burr says reading makes him sleepy, so I can write whatever I want since he probably won’t be reading this anyway. OK, OK, I’ll be nice. Burr’s R-rated stand-up routine–the R stands for rednecks and relationships–runs at the Addison Improv Thursday through Sunday. Maybe he’ll bring…
Julia Child said the only time anyone should ever eat diet food is while waiting for a steak to cook. That philosophy works for the rare woman like Child, who at 6’2 could absorb the extra calories stuffed in French cuisine. She was a giantess, but by no means gentle…
Britney Spears on Friday, September 18, at American Airlines CenterI love the smell of lip-syncing in the morning. Britney was back (bitch?) Friday night for her second appearance in Dallas this year at the AAC. Skip the first 45 seconds–past the video of the creepy guy who looks suspiciously like…
There was a time in America when people didn’t wear flip-flops mostly everywhere. Shoe shiners once crowded city street corners; now they’re relegated to airports and hotels. The golden age of shoe shiners, from the Depression to disco, is documented in Shine, an exhibition of black and white photographs and…
Sweat pours down Marguerite’s sun-baked face. She feels briars scratching through her dusty jeans. The buzzing and biting of mosquitoes is maddening. So is the old fence lining one of the back pastures. It’s broken again. Marguerite stops what she’s doing. Why in the heck am I doing this? she…
Dia de los Toadies at Rough Creek Ranch in Glen Rose Saturday, August 29The Toadies playing “Possum Kingdom” at Possum Kingdom is almost too much for my brain to handle, so it’s probably best the second annual Dia de los Toadies headed away from that lake for this year’s fest…
