Just months ago, Pete Freedman wrote about the reopened Vampire Lounge. Co-owners Jimi Fritz and Matt Story were confident the Harry Hines Boulevard club would succeed, despite thin crowd turnouts for national metal acts and the club’s Halloween Bash. Unfortunately, the club never managed to overcome its problematic location to…
Mother’s Day is coming up. Depending on how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies she sent you this year (or whatever other criteria one judges moms by), you could take her to Denny’s or to someplace nice. Can’t make up your mind? Get a live lobster and let her decide…
Tacos Chano’s934 W. Jefferson Blvd.214-948-1846Dude Factor: 6, or “Cheap Floor Tiles” on a scale of 1 (“Montezuma’s Revenge”) to 10 (“Cheap Prescription Meds”)One of my favorite things about visiting Mexico is haggling over the price of souvenirs. There’s nothing like the rush of taking home a belt buckle marked $10…
Tuesday, May 5, marks an important holiday, and we’re not just talking about the commemoration of the Battle of Puebla. That date is also Teacher Appreciation Day. These tireless men and women are shaping the lives of our children, molding the very minds of generation after generation of future leaders–you…
Cowtown-based Rahr & Sons Brewery earned the Clear Channel Outdoor Excellence in Business Award April 22 during the Entrepreneur Expo luncheon at the Fort Worth Convention Center. The award is more than just a pat on the back: the brewery will receive creative consulting and five billboards with 24-weeks of…
Bob Dylan and Friends, which friends include Willie Nelson and, umm, John Mellencamp, will play QuikTrip Field, home of the Grand Prairie Airhogs, August 7, according to the tour schedule on Bob Dylan’s web site and the Airhogs web site. Though the poster above fails to point out the time–or…
To celebrate the arrival of patio weather–that week and a half stretch between cold-windy-rainy season and sweltering hot season–Coast Global Seafood Restaurant (in Plano’s Legacy) will have a patio party on Thursday, April 30, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The party includes door prizes, free appetizers, $3 drinks and…
I was pretty sure this week’s poster pick was from frequent Parade of Flesh designer James Heimer, but thought there was a chance it could have been his brother Sam’s creation. Turns out the siblings collaborated on the flyer, which promotes Friday night’s highly anticipated Man Man, The Boom Boom…
My Bloody Valentine Palladium BallroomApril 22, 2009Update, 4/27/09: Link to bootleg recording of show and set list after the jump.Better than: Standing in the exhaust path of a booster rocket, surviving an earthquake, sharing some communal mass hallucination, or any other comparison my exhausted brain could come up with. Right…
This year, there are two ways you could complete the Tour De France. You could ride a bicycle up and down mountains for three weeks, all the while submitting every bodily excretion to testers who will rigidly ensure you don’t pop a Sudafed or two. Or you could just sit…
The story behind One-Eyed Jacks is nearly as compelling as the actual film, and for a betrayal-and-revenge Western, that’s saying something. The 1961 movie is the lone directorial effort of star Marlon Brando, who either fired Stanley Kubrick or took over after Kubrick quit to make Lolita, take your pick…
“Can you count, suckers?” “Can…you…DIG IT?!!!” “Come out and play-ee-ay!” Even if you haven’t seen the 1979 cult classic The Warriors or played the Rockstar videogame version, you’ve at least heard rehashes of its more quotable lines or seen any of countless tributes or parodies, from hip-hop references (Ol’ Dirty…
One of the interview topics that didn’t make it to the print version of this week’s My Bloody Valentine feature was the volume of the band’s legendarily loud live shows. Kevin Shields has suffered from tinnitus since 1991, but said falling asleep with headphones on while mixing Loveless–not concert noise…
For just $59.95 plus tax and tip, you can tour the Mediterranean–all without making that grueling Trans-Atlantic voyage, packing or taking a week off work. Yep, it’s only a culinary trip, departing at 6:30 p.m. Monday from Sevy’s and–well, what a trip the April Food and Wine Dinner will be:…
State and Allen Lounge does more than serve up some Short Orders-approved brisket chili, pizza and martinis. The Uptown eatery’s staff goes out of its way to protect the planet, too, as they’ll gladly let you know. At least others will. The non-profit Drinking With Benefits (we kinda like the…
Austin Music Hall’s web site listed former Denton outfit Lift To Experience on the bill as an opening act for My Bloody Valentine tomorrow night, but the set will actually feature frontman Josh T. Pearson’s solo project, says a source close to the musician. Though the Palladium Ballroom web site…
With the city’s best bar food (at least according to some) and its impressive selection of import beers, there’s hardly ever a bad night to go to The Libertine. But if you were waiting for an occasion, you could hardly do better than tomorrow night’s five-course beer dinner, with includes…
Good Records doesn’t have the monopoly on big, diverse lineups this weekend. Tonight, there’s a Spune show at Longhorn Saloon over in Funkytown featuring Starlight Mints, Dove Hunter, The Crash That Took Me and Burning Hotels. Tickets are $10–not a bad price at all, but free is always better. And…
In case you were worried about how the nasty weather might affect tomorrow’s Good Records Birthday/Record Store celebration, have no fear. The store has a backup plan in case the rain should continue into tomorrow. If necessary, the acts scheduled for the outdoor stage (already in place) will move to…
As mentioned below, The Second Annual Chefs Roundtable, 4 p.m. Sunday at the Dallas Farmers Market Resource Center (1010 S. Pearl Expressway), will focus on the concept of buying local food. In case you hadn’t been paying attention to restaurant trends, the importance of using fresh, locally produced ingredients has…
Kiran Koshy designed this week’s featured poster. A Google search of the artist’s name tuns up advertising Koshy has worked on for the Richards Group, including this great ad series for Asel Art Supply. The poster, on the same brown-paper background as that Asel campaign, advertises Friday night’s Eastwood, Elkhart…
Dust Congress just announced the details on how the band will follow up 2007’s Egg Tooth EP. In true Denton style, the band will hold a house-party record release barbecue for Regurgitate Sunshine State at Fra House, along with Tre Orsi, The Make Believers and Drink To Victory, on the…
