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There Will Be Tar Sand

One after the other, Cherokee County Sheriff's deputies wearing straw cowboy hats dragged bearded, zip-cuffed young men toward a waiting van. Strands of snot and spit set flowing by doses of pepper spray dangled from their bowed heads. A company man wearing a hardhat trailed them, recording a video of...
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Gandolfo’s Food Truck Could Use A Bit More Wizardry

Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which one's are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow...
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Four Heavy Local Releases You Should Grab

With the oppressive heat of summer bearing down on us, our thoughts no doubt lead down some darker corridors, as we try to occupy idle hands and restless brains. Here are a few new local releases that lean on the heavy/experimental side, which you should cop posthaste. Bludded Head, Bludded...
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Patience Is A Virtue In Matters Of Pour-Over Coffee

"So you really brew every cup by hand?" I asked the petite barista wrapping up her shift at Mercantile Coffee House. She told me it was the only way they could do it, so I pointed to the two massive drip machines perched on the counter, prompting her honesty. "Gotta...
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Solving the Mystery of Melting Cheeses

My recent investigation into the endless cycle of queso enjoyment promoted a question in the comments. After I described a bubbling plate of molten cheese primi timpano asked: A little surprised at the bubbling cheese as I thought cheese heated to these temperatures would result in broken proteins. Does Velveeta...
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Cozy Hawks Come Alive

Music is like the mob: Just when you think you're out, something pulls you back in. At least that's how it worked for Adam Bertholdi of Denton's Cozy Hawks. Bertholdi, like many musicians, has always pulled double shifts in numerous local bands, sometimes as a guitarist and background vocalist, other...
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If Your Watermelon Seems A Little Boring, Try Salt

My old man taught me a few very important things. He taught me how to swing a hammer and square four pieces of lumber, even if they were a rectangle. He taught me that mayonnaise was the best condiment possible for hamburgers and that it was great to slather in...
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A Little From Our Files

Our sister paper The Village Voice has been around, like, forever and has some deep archives, including this December 28, 1967, review of The Graduate, which is being re-released, opening this week at the Angelika in Dallas. Enjoy.
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The Lurid Pleasure of Killer Joe

At one point in Killer Joe, a hideously funny tabloid noir set on the outskirts of Dallas County, Chris Smith (Emile Hirsch) is let into the family double-wide by a relation whose face has just been pummeled into a Rorschach blot of dried gore. He doesn't stop to ask what...
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Dallas Concert Calendar: New, Improved, Sometimes Tattooed

Timothy NorrisDrum roll, please... Individual results may vary.We've just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Dallas concerts. Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We've also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the right hand...
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How Bleacher Report Rules the World

Last year, sportswriter King Kaufman stepped up to the lectern at a symposium held on the Google campus. In a 14-year haul at Salon.com, Kaufman earned a reputation as one of the best and most cerebral sports journalists on the Internet. But his subject that day was his new job,...
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Violinist Petra Kelly Is Everywhere

Since 2007, violinist Petra Kelly has been adding her strings to outstanding bands like Hares on the Mountain, Spooky Folk, The Fox and the Bird and The Angelus. She moved up to Denton in 2003 from a suburb just outside of Houston to attend the illustrative music school at UNT,...
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Old Records Are Outselling New Ones For the First Time

by Chris Kornelis See also: All of the arguments about digital music, summarized In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence...