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  Harry Connick Jr. Was Too Comfortable at the Winspear Stage on Sunday

  March 9 at 11:59 a.m.

  To hear Harry Connick Jr. tell it, he’s spent much of the last year rescuing Cole Porter from obscurity. “Most people not only don’t know much about him, but don’t know who he was,” Connick Jr. explained not long into his 110-minute performance before a near-capacity audience at Winspear Opera...

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  The Eagles Reckoned With Their Legacy on Saturday Night in Dallas

  March 2 at 10:58 a.m.

  What does it mean to reckon with your legacy? Does confronting a creative achievement — even if it’s the product of decades past, when you were someone else entirely — constitute a form of capitulation, a shrugging acceptance that you’ve peaked and are merely coasting on the fumes of previous...

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  Erykah Badu Celebrated Her Birthday with 4,300 of Her Closest Friends

  February 24 at 4:58 a.m.

  This past Saturday night, Erykah Badu was scheduled to perform as part of her annual birthday celebration. And the legendary singer is usually so legendarily late, that she made a post on social media the day of the show warning those who expected a late entrance that she wouldn't be...

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  Dear Dallas: A Great Band Came to Town, You Missed It and They Felt It

  February 20 at 11:47 a.m.

  Dallas, we have a problem. Portland’s genre-smashing, horn-driven intergalactic glam performance band Lovebomb Go-Go landed at Three Links in Deep Ellum on Wednesday in the middle of a cold, wet February night to give us a nova blast of sound before heading east to New Orleans. You weren’t there. About...

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  Yola Was Simply Flawless at The Kessler on Sunday Night

  February 10 at 12:07 p.m.

  It took all of 40 seconds. The woman born Yolanda Quartey, standing before a sold-out Kessler Theater Sunday night, resplendent in her afro, clad in a black gown and performing under her musical moniker Yola, glided smoothly into the chorus of her song “Lonely the Night.” As she did, the...

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  Miranda Lambert’s Dallas Show Was a Satisfying Overview of Her Remarkable Career

  February 10 at 10:40 a.m.

  “I’m so happy to be home right now, I can’t even stand it!” Miranda Lambert shouted on Saturday night. Whether in a Stockyards honky-tonk, an Arlington football stadium or a Dallas amphitheater, there is always an intense emotional undercurrent to her hometown shows. It’s no mystery as to why: Lambert...