Texas state Rep. Jared Patterson of Frisco announced last week that he has filed a bill that aims to establish Austin as “the District of Austin,” thereby retiring the roles of Austin’s mayor and city council. The conservative lawmaker, who also is in favor of banning the use of social…
On Thursday, Grand Prairie police announced the arrest of Colbie Huffman, 22, in relation to the chase that resulted the crash that killed 32-year-old officer Brandon Tsai. Hoffman was driving a vehicle with fake paper tags when Tsai attempted to pull him over.
Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis has responded to a lawsuit filed in October by six current and former employees claiming he sexually harassed them by treating “many female employees as objects that, without their consent, must gratify his sexual impulses and personal vanity.” In an interview with NBC 5,…
When rapper Coolio died on Sept. 28 from a reported cardiac arrest, millions of hip-hop fans mourned his passing.
Retirement isn’t for everyone. Even those who have successfully made the transition from working stiff to creature of leisure can sometimes find themselves with the itch to jump back into action if the opportunity presents itself.
We have to steal a line from The Smiths when Morrissey sings, “Stop me if you think you’ve hear this one before,” before bringing up that the pandemic, despite its many horrors, has shown itself to have been a fruitful time for artists
It’s inevitable and likely to happen to us all, and there’s very little any of us living in North Texas can do about it.
In a few months, the U.S. men’s soccer team will face off against Wales in the FIFA World Cup finals, the biggest sporting event in the world.
In 2004, Steve Earle released The Revolution Starts Now, a fiery, pointed collection of songs aimed directly at the George W. Bush administration
It’s safe to say that the pandemic has been hard on just about everyone, regardless of their line of work. But the sudden way in which COVID-19
On a recent Tuesday afternoon in Irving, it was business as usual inside the lobby of the Omni Las Colinas hotel.
If you can believe, it’s now been 18 years since Natalie Portman’s character, Sam, implored Zach Braff’s Andrew to don a giant set of headphones.
Now that it’s been a couple of years, stories continue to emerge of artists who turned the COVID-19 shutdown months into a fruitful period.
For the most part, there’s a certain protocol when interviewing an artist over the phone. Publicists sometimes connect the interviewing journalist before excusing themselves
It’s predictably unpredictable. Life altering events are rarely planned or considerate of our daily schedules. They’re rather impolite in that way
Given its historic status, it’s fair to say that any concert at Billy Bob’s Texas in the Fort Worth Stockyards is a big show. Each Friday and Saturday night, the massive honky-tonk, pool hall, bull-riding arena hosts the biggest names in country music for over 5,000 fans. If you’re a…
It’s safe to say that any musician working today would be thrilled to be on a first name basis with a Beatle.
Global pop icon Taylor Swift and country rocker Cody Canada may not have many things in common, musically speaking.
Acclaimed American rock band Wilco announced recently it would soon play some concerts to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its storied 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
Things are different for Randy Rogers these days. It’s a Monday morning when we speak, and the popular country bandleader is still feeling the effects of arriving at his Hill Country home late the night before.
Spurred on by the Covid-19 shutdown in 2020, the Fort Worth Opera and the Dallas Opera each went to work on plans to engage with their communities in new ways while providing their performers and longtime fans with ways to experience opera.
It’s hard to fathom, but every so often we get glimpses into the lives of rock stars showing them to be regular, ordinary people, just like all of us non-rock stars.
