DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 19: Dustin Cavazos

…and the YouTube.Pete’s got plenty to say about Dustin Cavazos in this week’s paper–so do yourself a favor and check out his take on the Oak Cliff hip-hop artist’s upward trajectory of late. Check out this week’s video from El Sibil, though, to hear it all direct from Cavazos–between cuts…

Actual Photo

Now that we’ve marveled at your lunch plate, laughed at your cat in a pumpkin costume and been rocked by the blurry, blown-out shot of the band you saw last night, one thing’s for certain: The last thing this world needs is another photograph. Now that a snapshot’s as simple…

DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 18: The Orbans

YouTube, and so can we.Can call them country if you really want, but don’t expect The Orbans to agree. The description might have fit better with these guys’ past incarnations–as the Lifters and Thief–but even with a slide guitar and a banjo behind him, frontman Peter Black says no way…

Kill The Cubbies

One of the greatest thrills of interleague play is the chance to relive rare World Series match-ups of long ago: Cardinals-Yankees! Blue Jays-Phillies! Cubs…and the Rangers. OK, no high-stakes rivalry here, but Arlington may be the last place on earth where an honest Cubs fan can talk a little trash…

All In a Day’s Work

Anyone who’s watched Leonardo DiCaprio sketch Kate Winslet naked on a couch or dared to look under their meth-addicted roommate’s trap door knows the artistic highs and lows that can come from an hours-long flurry of single-minded inspiration. Could be art, could be a bicycle tire wrapped in unbent paperclips,…

Remembering the Alamo With Phil Collins

If you ask Phil Collins, Mexican colonel and Battle of the Alamo memoirist José Enrique de la Peña​ has been getting a raw deal in the press. There’s plenty of good history in the officer’s records, Collins told his audience at the Hall of State in Fair Park last night,…