flickr/adam_jonesAn actual old personDetroit rapper Danny Brown has a new album, called Old. Brown’s occasional boasts about receiving in-show fellatio aside, just about everyone who likes good rap music likes him, and this new work does not disappoint. But the title is really annoying…
Don O. has been playing blues records on 89.3 KNON for thirty years now. He was there when KNON broadcast out of an old house with no air conditioning and he’s never been late for a single airshift (despite 20 miles of traffic each way). He’s since been informally knighted…
Two interesting and ironically paired stories in the daily paper this morning — one about an expensive planned do-over for the failed Victory Park development, a monument to the perils of great-man leadership, the other about a planned museum exhibit honoring J. Erik Jonsson, one of the city’s most notable…
“Let me pour you the good stuff. I like to reward the creative drinkers,” he said as he pulled out a fresh glass. The audience had just poured out of the McDermott Concert Hall in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on the vibrations of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s dynamic…
Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to…
I am a little ill at ease for the moment. I am looking ahead to my manslaughter charges and trying to plan, not that I intend to manslaughter anybody. In the extremely unlikely event I should be charged with causing someone else to slip on a banana peel at the…
Hey, look, all you fellow libtard lifelong Democrats out there, and I am talking to both of you, I want to believe in Wendy Davis as much as you do. Wouldn’t it be wonderful? I’m singin’ it now. But there’s one big wave on this ocean that can still toss…
I realize that the following assertion will likely result in my being doused in hot lard and dusted in the crumbled tortilla chips, but it must be said: Eating Tex-Mex can be a serious drag. Please, Dallas, just put down the pig fat and hear me out. You should know…
Everyone loves doughnuts. Old people love doughnuts. So do kids. Doughnut shops can be found in rural towns and urban neighborhoods across America, rarely with a sign more specific than the word “donut.” (Yes, they spell it wrong.) They transcend race, class and gender. They are the kind of food…
Some people might hold up Josh Homme as a kind of savior of modern rock music, what with his riffs, and his arms (he has nice arms), and things like that. And I suppose that I did too, once. Around the time when Kyuss ended and QOTSA began, when they…
Photo by ZeitfixiererFace-to-face battles may soon be a thing of the past.By Jonah Bromwich You enter the room and they’re already there. Some of the names you recognize: Randa the Rhyma (45 wins), Gig@ntic (48 wins), and Novice Raps (53 wins). You’ve checked the boards obsessively, but you’ve only ever…
This is a conservative town, generally speaking, would you not agree? Dallas may even be a bastion of belief in the private sector and the rights of the individual, not to mention skepticism of government. So I wonder how Dallas will react to the story of its own citizen, Ladar…
It has been long said in these nightlife playgrounds that Thursday is the new Friday; which never made sense to me since Fridays are such an exhausting pain in the ass. Personally, I think Thursday may be the new Saturday? The point is, guys, there sure is a lot to…
On November 5 in the Dallas school board’s District 8 — sort of a big wobbly east, west and northwest Dallas gerrymander — voters will choose between two candidates, both of whom are exactly the kind of people everybody always says we need more of on the school board. Kristi…
Dear Mexican: I’m a Mexican-American Catholic who is really upset about something I saw after Mass last night. As I waited for my son to come out of confirmation class (yes, I had already attended Mass myself), I noticed something really odd. I saw a grocery cart parked by a…
Dallas Morning News City hall reporter Rudy Bush had a good piece in last Sunday’s opinion section about the qualities we need to look for in a new city manager. The only pause I found in reading it was a question I run into whenever I try to talk to…
Dave Little feels your pain, musicians. Getting your music heard and exposed can seem like the most unlikely and uphill of battles in all of the entertainment world. Almost. You think getting your music creations exposed is a bitch? Try comedy on for size. It’s really a mystery that more…
Welcome to Alice Column, in which Alice Laussade writes stories about things on (roughly) the same day of (roughly) every week, making it (roughly) a column. Got an idea for a column? Start your own blog and write it up, you lazy shit. Say what you will about New Big…
On the The Weeknd’s single “Loft Music,” Abel Tesfaye brags that he’ll “put your mind in a dream world.” It’s true, the R&B music of The Weeknd certainly transports you somewhere. But where? To a fantasy world of Tesfaye’s own making, a pleasure-centered nightmare tucked neatly between detestable and irresistible…
In the wee hours of today, maybe a dozen of us media people, half a dozen teachers union officials and another half dozen bitter-enders sat waiting in a semi-darkened auditorium at school headquarters while the school board was in “executive session” — a closed-door meeting in another part of the…
Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to…
If you spend a lot of years as a reporter, you get to know a lot of people, none of them well. It’s all about popping in and out of lives quickly when something makes them newsworthy. Maybe later you wish you knew more. I had that regret this morning…
