When Dallas singer-songwriter Kristy Kruger’s older brother died in Iraq in 2006, her response was to hold a benefit concert for her brother’s family. (Darryl Smyers wrote about her experience in “The War At Home.” ) Tonight, on what would have been the 43rd birthday of Dallas soldier Lt. Col…
Saturday night’s Hopelessly Devoted To You II at Kettle Art Gallery proved to be a fun, laid-back evening of free entertainment, food and drink, all aimed at proving Deep Ellum’s cultural significance, past, present and, hopefully, future. Not that anyone on hand at the Deep Ellum Enrichment Project event needed…
Zini’s Pizzeria 4001 Cedar Springs 214- 599-2600 Promised time: 45 to 50 minutes Actual time: 72 minutes The Score Phone friendliness: 20 Nobody got food poisoning: 20 Braving the elements: 20 Food temperature: 6 Incorrect use of ranch dressing: -5 You call that a large?: -5 Specious claims: -5…
This poster, promoting Friday’s Johnny Lloyd Rollins/Bridges and Blinking Lights/RTB2 show at The Double-Wide, looks a lot like is the work of two-time Poster of the Week recipient Dave Perry of Method Entertainment. Which would make sense, as Method’s John Solis is used to be Rollins’ drummer. Somehow the fact…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Confusion…
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends. –Francis Bacon (whose friends may have liked him more if he’d offered beer instead) If you like the nut-to-butt proximity of strangers in lines for Six Flags rides but don’t like roller coasters, I highly recommend Central Market on…
It’s January, which means it’s that time of year again. No, we don’t mean it’s time to honor your New Year’s resolution to have more empathy for your fellow man or to stop putting so much stock in gossip and rumors. It’s time to lay odds on which musicians are…
Since 2005, NX35 events have showcased Denton bands at the massive South by Southwest music festival in Austin. Not this year, though. Chris Flemmons’ brainchild is staying squarely in the 940 this March, with four days of music planned for 12 venues in the four-block area surrounding the Courthouse Square…
Unfair Park just informed readers about a new reason to party: your daughter’s first period! No, seriously. Apparently, advertisements for menarche party planning have been spotted on at least one SUV in town. The idea, according to Menarche Parties ‘R Us, is to “Create a life time of memories for…
Ira Wile of Starhead designed this week’s winner. It promotes Sunday’s show at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton, featuring music from Will Kapinos (whose former band, Jetscreamer, had an album title that gave Starhead its name) and Record Hop singer Ashley Cromeens, along with readings by poets Gigi Foster and Jason…
If you’re going through your New Year’s Eve photos and spot in them a besotted Dirk Nowitzki–or any other Maverick, at that–don’t worry about it. The team doesn’t have Friday off, but it might as well. It’s a home game against a sub-.500 Eastern Conference team saddled with an interim…
This past year put the spotlight on several Dallas-area hip-hop artists, including Lil Wil (of “My Dougie” fame) and rapper/producer brothers Play-N-Skillz (whose production helped propel Lil Wayne’s Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling Tha Carter III). So we figured Wil and Play were as qualified as any Dallas artist was when it came…
Minc Lounge in Exposition Park is following up on its Halloween Kool Herc performance by bringing another old-school hip hop icon to Dallas. KRS-One will perform at minc Thursday, January 22, along with Channel Live, according to Vigilante Music Group’s Greg Barrett. The January 22 show is not the first…
First it was the Hispanics taking all the good bricklayer and busboy jobs. Now the Indians are coming to America and stealing our standup comedy gigs. Is being a standup comic one of those jobs that nobody else will do? Is UTD offering a comedy class? Or are they coming…
In late 2007, a chronically depressed 19-year-old named Robert Hawkins was fired from his job at McDonald’s and separated from his girlfriend. The events proved to be the last straw for the mentally ill young man, who responded by stealing an AK-47 and opening fire in an Omaha mall full…
For those wondering why things got quiet over on Unfair Park for a couple hours Friday afternoon, you can blame a City Of Ate taste test gone horribly wrong. The self-proclaimed World’s First Extreme Relaxation Beverage, Drank is marketed as an “anti-energy drink,” with the tagline “Slow your roll.” Rather…
Hotel guests across the country will see Dallas’ own Erykah Badu named among the artists in USA Today’s critic’s picks for top albums of 2008. Edna Gunderson named New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War as the No. 5 album of the year, describing it as “Gutsy, inventive, deeply felt…
This week’s winner was designed by The Crash That Took Me singer (and newly appointed Exploding Plastic Records head honcho) Dylan Silvers. Along with Silvers’ post-DARYL band, the lineup for Friday’s Christmas Toy Drive at Sons of Hermann Hall lineup features local favorites Centro-matic, Radiant and Little Black Dress along…
If the potential for boredom and awkward conversation make you dread the family togetherness that comes with the holidays, allow me to make a suggestion: Farkle. Basically, Farkle is a game in which you roll six dice and gain points for 1s, 5s and various number combinations. The winner is…
Back when I was a junior-high Bible study regular, the idea of a gay-friendly church holding a winter solstice celebration would have struck me as so inherently blasphemous that I would have completely distanced my right-thinking self from the sodomites and pagans who would attend such an event. Since then,…
Much of 2006 Last Comic Standing winner Josh Blue’s material centers on how funny people with cerebral palsy are. He’d be a tremendous asshole…if he didn’t have it himself. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m not drunk, I’ve got cerebral palsy,'” he says in a routine about cops. “They…
Though they sound nothing alike, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea and the electronic duo Florene probably have the most in common on this bill, a completely and delightfully eclectic hodgepodge even by Denton booking standards. Live improvisation plays heavily into both bands’ performances, so on a given night you never…
