Estephanie Aguilar will be spending at least part of this holiday season recovering from spinal surgery at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Of course she’s looking forward to getting home soon, but she and her family found themselves in the right place Monday afternoon for a visit from a…
DayBowBow hosted its Christmassacre/Christmas Spectacular at a pair of Denton venues Saturday night, with Manned Missiles, RTB2 and Spooky Folk first at Rubber Gloves, followed by Damaged Good$ and others at Bee’s Manor. (Check out the “Of the Week”-winning poster too, if you missed it last week.)Our photographer Danny Fulgencio…
Danny Balis and Davey Lane, hosts of The Ticket’s Saturday show The Orphanage, raised cash for the Gladney Center for Adoption Saturday night at their fourth annual Christmas benefit at The Double Wide.Along with performances by Dem Southernfolkz, The Orbans, Sparklepussy Barbie and DJ Slim, the night included a silent…
Dozens of Santas crawled the downtown pubs Saturday night, taking over watering holes from Victory Park through the West End and Main Street and out to Expo Park. Along the way, they staged a pillow fight, sang Christmas carols and hula-hooped on the sidewalks. Most in this year’s Dallas Santa…
Plush hosted its third annual “Nightmare Before Christmas” party Thursday night, and DJ Aiden was on hand to spin for the pre-Christmas party. Jusone King performing live, and the Plush go go dancers helped the crowd stay festive. Check out more photos, by Roderick Pullum, here in our slideshow…
This week Dave gets to know Stephan Pyles all over again, with a visit to Samar, his new Pan-Mediterranean-Indian spot on Ross.For more photos from inside Pyles’ latest endeavor, please consult this week’s Dish slideshow, shot, as ever, by Sara Kerens…
YouTube? Sure, right here. Regular viewers will catch a few familiar faces in this week’s video from El Sibil — folks from The Beaten Sea and The Fox and the Bird are among the DC9 in Space vets who join in the act. They’re all there in support of Jacob…
For the past few weekends, Cathedral Guadalupe’s had this enticing spread by Ross Avenue and Pearl Street, and last Sunday longtime Friend of Unfair Park Justin Terveen was there to catch this shot.Sometimes it’s good to know relief is just footsteps away, but it also makes us wonder: With City…
After hosting dozens of parties around Dallas, Hot Flash celebrated its third anniversary last weekend, with a party at Fallout Lounge with Philadelphia’s Duey FM, Neiliyo, DJ Schwa, DJ Genova Richard Henry and more.You can check out more of the scene in this Night Moves set by Mattie Stafford…
The running of this year’s White Rock Marathon, as in past years, was rich with stories of inspiration, endurance, and, um, weather.But here at Unfair Park we’re much more interested in the real story: the balloon-breasted, the beer-swilling, and the folks dressed like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or pieces of…
Plush’s basement hosted Big J, the old Plush basement regular, for a night of ’80s and ’90s dance tunes, and our nightlife team was there before dropping by Lear Street where the where the “Alice In Whomperland” party took over a South Dallas warehouse. You can check out shots from…
A hip crowd in cold-weather gear packed the warehouse at 511 W. Commerce Street Saturday night for Art Conspiracy 5, the flash-gallery show with paintings and mixed-media pieces made the night before and auctioned off for charity.Since its first run inside the Texas Theater, the yearly art and music happening…
The fifth annual Art Conspiracy drew locals Telegraph Canyon, RTB2, The Crash That Took Me and The Boom Boom Box to the stage in an Oak Cliff warehouse Saturday night, while the just-completed work of 150 Dallas artists was sold for charity in a run of live auctions.Held in a…
In this week’s Observer, Dave’s love letter to Plano Dish review is takes a look at suburban Urban Crust, which he says is aptly named in spirit at least, if not in address.The upscale pizza is just a part of the appeal — the vibe in the dining room and…
M.A.N.D.Y. spun German techno at Excuses Friday night as the dance floor filled up with partiers wearing furry animal faces and light-up octopi on their heads. Saturday night, our nightlife crew caught up with Austin’s Irresponsible Voltron and Dallas and Brooklyn-based Broken Teeth for some drum and bass and Dubstep…
Much ink has been spilled on this blog to relate the significance of Saturday night’s Theatre Gallery reunion show at the Prophet Bar. With Shallow Reign, Decadent Dub Team, The Bat Mastersons, Graceland and more, it was a celebration of Deep Ellum’s heyday in bygone decades, with the artists who…
Saturday night’s Gifts and Garters show at Excuses featured vintage and locally made crafts for wrapping at home, and a handful of burlesque performers who helped with the unwrapping onstage. Hosted by Through the Looking Glass and Bewitching Burlesque, the show included performances from Perle Noire, the Austin-based Jigglewatts, Honey…
This year’s Fair Park Holiday found a wet Sunday night for its free, family-friendly round of ornament decorating, photos with Santa and Christmas tattoos (they’re temporary), plus the new Esplanade Fountain’s big debut as another Sunday night stocking stuffer.The fountain, with a “dancing water” show a la the Bellagio, featured…
Spune Productions, with a little help from DC9 At Night, helped drum up some holiday cheer in Denton at Hailey’s Club Saturday night. A Spune Christmas featured Telegraph Canyon, Doug Burr, Glen Farris, Seryn, and plenty more.We’ve got more shots from the show up in this photo set from Mattie…
With Ocelot and Proper Villains cooped up and spinning in the DJ booth Friday night, the crowd at Glow at the Lizard Lounge showed off their best sweater-tugs, glowstringing and other less conventional moves on the dance floor below.You can check out more of the scene in this Monday morning…
If you’re looking for copies of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue: An American Life, you’ll be out of luck tonight at Legacy Books in Plano — they’re all sold out after the author’s signing session for hundreds of supporters this afternoon. Our photographer Danny Fulgencio compared the scene to a line-up…
Megadeth made its triumphant return to Dallas last night at the Palladium, joined by Machine Head and others around the midway point of its Endgame tour.Plenty more photos from the show are up here in our slideshow from photographer Roger Caldwell…
