!!!6:30 p.m., Main Stage OneIt took all of one song for !!! singer Nic Offer to whip the Main Stage crowd into wild abandon; by the end of opener “AM/FM,” from last year’s Strange Weather, Isn’t It?, Miami Horror was a distant memory. If the band’s hypnotic grooves and electronic…
Miami Horror5:15 p.m., Main Stage OneHe may be a white guy from Melbourne, Australia, but, of all the artists who come to mind when watching Ben Piant perform as Miami Horror, Prince is the foremost among them. On record, songs like “Soft Light” and “Moon Theory” are pure electropop confection,…
While not everyone thinks it’s a tremendously creative idea, Stone Brewing Co. this year has introduced a program called “Odd Beers For Odd Years,” in which the recipes for Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout are tweaked. This year, the brewery is adding the Belgian yeast…
Spring break is supposed to be a break from the rigors of education, but if your kids go to DISD schools, that education probably isn’t too rigorous, mounds of rote homework notwithstanding. And with the budget crisis the district faces, the value of that education looks like it could plummet…
Thursday and Friday are the final days to catch SMU’s spring playwriting festival featuring staged readings. If you sleep on New Visions, New Voices, chances are you’ll get another chance to see the work of participating Meadows theater students, as past NVNV participants have gone on to bigger stages…but you…
Thank God we thought better of the notion of giving up beer for Lent. Not only would “grouchy and mean-spirited” be an understatement in describing what our attitude would be if faced with more than a month without a pint, but we’d miss some great events coming up — not…
Beer is lovely, in many ways because of its very simplicity. In its purest form, it’s just four ingredients. And all you have to do is open a bottle or can and drink it — pouring it into a glass first, if you’re really trying to savor it.So why is…
As far as beer drinking goes, Saint Patrick’s Day is generally known more for quantity than quality. And if it’s not cheap, domestic and dyed green, chances are it’s Guinness, as the historic Dublin brewery makes a huge marketing push each year to capitalize on the holiday.But Thursday, March 17,…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company and Peticolas Brewing Company are both making progress toward opening and making their wares available to the general public, with DEBC completing the hire of Saint Louis’ Andrew Huerter as brewmaster and making inroads with distributor Ben E. Keith, while Michael Peticolas’ one-man operation (using equipment…
Supposedly Prince tribute act 1999 does a fine imitation of His Purpleness, but so far the signs aren’t pointing to a carbon copy of the original. As far as we can tell, the band hasn’t changed names a single time during its existence, unlike the artist formerly known as The…
You’re going to need your palate and your liver to be in tip-top shape for Dallas Beer Week in November. Fortunately, there are plenty of training opportunities coming up — as well as a chance to support state House Bill 602, which would allow craft breweries to charge for brewery…
Congratulations to Justin Bitner, who created the masterpiece Maudite menu you see here. Bitner’s entry to our menu-art contest makes him the winner of a pair of tickets to Wednesday night’s Unibroue beer dinner at the Libertine Bar. Astute drinkers of the Canadian company’s products will recognize references to a…
As tasty as some of the beers created by Quebec brewery Unibroue are, they may be almost as noteworthy for their awesome packaging. Names like Trois Pistoles and Maudite (Québécois for “damned,” a reference to legendary lumberjacks who made a deal with the devil) are complemented by artwork that is…
If you aren’t using this publication as a makeshift blanket, chances are you aren’t too familiar with real hunger. Not the munchies you get after cashing a bowl, but the gnawing at the stomach that comes when you don’t know where your next meal will come from. That’s a very…
In case you’re wondering why Bob Nelson is wearing boxing gloves, sparring headgear and a dazed expression, it’s because his routine includes a long imitation of some punch-drunk palooka’s tips on how to become a professional fighter. That’s just one of many routines poking fun at dumb people that the…
Not every band from Denton can be lumped into the dominant neo-folk, alt-country, punk, experimental and jazz/fusion/jam-band camps. Some of them just want to flat-out rock. Paper Robot falls squarely into the latter camp, though Alex Maples, Brent Nichols and Cody Robinson have spent their share of time in moodier…
You know that awkward feeling you get when a white college bro plays something “funky” on an acoustic guitar, and at first you think they’re joking, but then you start to realize they’re serious about it? That’s how much of Tomorrow’s Ghosts, from Fort Worth’s Luke Wade and No Civilians,…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company looks to be on pace to be the city’s first non-brewpub microbrewery, but it may not be the only one for long. Attorney and homebrewer Michael Peticolas was looking into investing in a new brewery in another city. Yet the more he investigated, the more he…
As usual, Brian Brown over at Plano Craft Beer Examiner has a good round-up of the week’s events for beer lovers. A couple of highlights include tonight’s tap night at Flying Saucer on the Lake featuring Sierra Nevada Oak-Aged Grand Cru, tonight’s Ommegang Brewsday Tuesday at The Common Table and…
Boy, doesn’t this lovely weather just put you in the mood for a crisp, cold spring beer? Well, the temperatures may not quite yet be spring-like, and spring may not officially begin for more than a month, but spring seasonals are already appearing on grocery shelves — just as it…
In 1952, artists including Jackson Pollock and Clifford Still were introduced to American art lovers in the Museum of Modern Art exhibit Fifteen Americans, and this was just one of curator Dorothy Canning Miller’s landmark Americans exhibitions. Taking inspiration from the series of exhibits, the Barry Whistler Gallery presents a…
For $35, you could probably buy your sweetheart an assortment of gourmet chocolate–or about four of those heart-shaped boxes full of wax-flavored disappointment from Russel Stover. Here’s a better gift that you’ll both enjoy: the Beer and Chocolate tasting 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Plano Ginger Man Pub, 7205 Bishop…
