Chris Shafer

April 8th is like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, your birthday and first time you had sex all rolled into one, lightly fried and smothered in a tangy tomatillo sauce. That's because April 8th is Rex Manning Day. You don't know who Rex Manning is...

Indie rock darling The National is the subject of a new film, Mistaken for Strangers, which opens this month at the Texas Theatre. It's been called a mockumentary, but after seeing it, that's the last description I'd use...

If you didn't notice, there was a period there when Deep Ellum had a bit of a hard time. Bars closed. Concert venues closed. The tattoo parlors, well, the tattoo parlors seemed oddly unaffected. But you get the idea. General downtrodeness. But now...

Bach's music performed at borderline speed metal pacing with disco beats, check. Tap dancers doing things that would put you into immediate cardiac arrest, check. Side story about Mozart in a comedic love triangle, check. This is The Bach and Wing...