When you were a kid, Mother’s Day was easy. All you had to do was make a potholder or an ashtray in art class and make sure it didn’t fall apart or shatter between taking it home on Friday and presenting it (along with a similarly ill-crafted breakfast in bed)…
Our country’s economy is on the precipice of collapse, and comedian Louis CK isn’t so sure it would be a bad thing if it took the plunge. “When I read things like, ‘The foundations of capitalism are collapsing,’ I think, ‘Maybe we need that,'” he said during a Late Night…
Austinite Chad Hopper may be a respected collage and mixed-media artist, illustrator of the great World Salad comic series and Night Viking member. Most of his work involves the clever reworking of discarded kitsch into gag art and social commentary. But he also glorifies the hated squirrel, that deceptively cute…
We’re all going to die, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So relax. As grim as that sentiment may be, it’s morbidly comforting when everyone around you is frantically forwarding e-mails about the latest swine flu casualty. It’s also the theme of The Paper Chase’s upcoming album, Someday…
The change to BYOB wasn’t enough to save Fort Worth’s Fairmount, sadly, and the South Side’s biggest music venue had to shut its doors after Sunday’s pre-Cinco De Mayo celebration with Star De Azlan. But while the venue may be gone, co-owners Sally Birthisel and J.R. Whitfield will still be…
Some may consider the term silly, but Leann Berry is a proud mixologist. Whatever you call the bartender–right down to “hey, you”–say it to Berry during Salum’s happy hour 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays.She’ll serve margaritas and other tequila cocktails. A rotating selection of mixed drinks–all sans…
Though Old Crow Medicine Show singer Keith Secor doesn’t sound particularly enthusiastic about life on the road in Lance Lester’s preview story, I know quite a few fans who are excited for the chance to see his old-timey string band perform tomorrow night at The Granada Theater. Making the show…
Today is Cinco De Mayo, a big day for Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants. Chances are you can head to your favorite and find some kind of celebration featuring food or drink specials. But to any restaurant trying to top Mattito’s (3011 Routh St.) annual fiesta, all we can say is…
Tomorrow night, Baltimore folk rockers Wye Oak and Cincinnati indie-poppers Pomegranates will join Fort Worth house outfit Shuttle at Lola’s Sixth in Cowtown. Tickets to the Spune Productions show are $8 for everyone–and we do mean everyone, as this is an all-ages show. Everyone, that is, except for one lucky…
NY Pizza3917 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., #103972-298-4700Promised delivery time: 40 minutesActual delivery time: 37 minutesEase of telecommunication: 20No delivery charge: 10Not being Pizza Hut: 10Steaming-hot pizza and cold-enough soda: 10No parmesan or red-pepper packets offered–despite overly generous $5 tip from my wife who, because of her own food-service job [part-time,…
Michelle Carpenter, chef at Zen Sushi (380 W. Seventh St.) in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District, celebrated her 40th birthday by offering a sake deal over the weekend. Unfortunately you missed it. We did, as well. But while that one-weekend only deal may be over, it ushered in the debut…
Oakland experimental collective Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is bringing its intricate, jarring rock and theatrical performance–costumes, staged play readings and all–to the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth tomorrow night. If you don’t go for the music or for the spectacle, you could at least gawk at the band’s bus or buy…
A few years back, when the economy was in better shape, people used to wring their hands about how retailers seemed to start the Christmas shopping season earlier and earlier every year. But have you ever noticed how, aside from the teetotalers and Avi Adelmans of the world, there are…
This week’s featured poster is for Saturday’s 100 Damned Guns, The Atoms and Eastwood show at City Tavern. Three bombs, three bands. Three country-rock and roots bands playing at the one of downtown’s coolest venues Saturday night, to be more precise. I was hesitant to pick this one, but really…
One of the winners just let me know he doesn’t need his pair of tickets after all. That means there’s one pair left. Email me with the subject “Jason Isbell” and it’s yours. Contest over. Congrats to the winner. Poster of the Week will be up shortly…
Call today Giveaway Thursday. Not only does that mean there’s just one day to wait for Hot Fudge Friday, but it also means we’ve got yet more tickets to give away. The Granada Theater has hooked us up with three pairs of tickets to see Jason Isbell and the 400…
Tomorrow night Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin, who sang with late brother Ira as the Louvin Brothers from the 1940s until the band’s 1963 breakup, will perform at Lola’s Stockyards in Fort Worth. Thanks to the fine folks at Spune Productions, we’ve got a pair of tickets to…
Remember the great ska craze of the mid-90s? My memory of that era is a bit cloudy, but from what I recall it was a thankfully short-lived phenomenon in which kids rediscovered English ska punk from the ’80s, which itself was a rediscovery of the original version of ska, a…
By now you’ve probably had it up to here with our coverage of Eleven Hundred Springs. Thanks to fiercely loyal fans, the country band swept nearly every 2008 DOMA category for which it was eligible, even snagging bass player Steven “DJ Burlap” Berg best DJ. If you’re a die-hard fan…
From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow, Nana at the Hilton Anatole will offer its monthly wine and food flight trio, Friday Night Flights. For $20 per head, plus tax and tip, you can sample three of the bar’s fine wines paired with scallop ceviche, drunken goat cheese and grilled…
If you think $60 for a wine-and-cheese tasting is an expensive evening, here’s your alternative: Take that same amount of money, buy a few bottles and serve it to guests. Then, thanks to your stupid choices, they each take one sip and spit it out in disgust. Not only do…
Prisoners can be amazingly crafty. I’ve heard stories from one jailbird relative who rolled apple peels into smokes, lit them with an uncooked spaghetti noodle stuck into an electrical outlet to spark a small flame, then worked out with weights made of waterlogged newspapers. His artwork, though, was limited to…
