I admit, this is about as tangential as local music coverage can get, but it's still kinda funny: Last night, in an ABC News story about the issues Twitter and Facebook faced yesterday as a result of cyber attacks that may or may not be related to the ongoing conflict...
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"Everything I write ends up being about loneliness," said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show Bookworm. In that conversation, Wallace was trying to get at the core of his Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a four-part short story he wrote as a...
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Girl Drink Drunk: Capitol Pub
As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September heat, a crowd of people enter the side entrance of the Jewish Community Center in North Dallas. Perhaps the pleasant afternoon weather is bashert, Yiddish for "meant to be," as the local Republican Jewish Coalition,...
Despite the financial restraints stemming from the team's unresolved ownership situation, Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels skillfully inked the most dominant free-agent starter at this week's Winter Meetings in Indianapolis without adding payroll. By dealing starting pitcher Kevin Millwood to the Baltimore Orioles for relievers Chris Ray and Benjamin...
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I've called him Stumbledoofus. I've labeled him Dead Man Coaching. I've questioned his moves, his non-moves, his dumpy demeanor and his illogical explanations for everything in between. But I am not calling for Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips to be fired before sundown. That will happen soon enough: As...
At this late date -- which is to say, two days before the Dallas Cowboys finally play a meaningful game in Arlington -- what's left to say about Jerry Jones's $1.15-billion EnormoDome? Enough, clearly, to fill the top of Page B11 and most of Page B13 in this morning's New...
When Vivian Girls rolls into town this week, the band will be fighting an uphill battle. Sure, many bands that gain instant notoriety in the blogosphere come and go quicker than you can type GorillavsBear. But Brooklyn natives Cassie Ramone, Kickball Katy and Ali Koehler, who come off respectively as...
According to Club Dada co-owner Ben Tapia, last night's visit from the TABC was "just standard protocol," and came as the result of someone "tipping off the TABC," claiming that the long-running club was going to be pouring drinks from unlabeled bottles as the result of financial difficulties, which Tapia...
You know, I had planned to further stoke the vegan-meat eater fires lit by Veggie Guy. But someone posted this question on the blog and it caught my interest.We've all heard it--Dallas has more restaurants per capita than New York, or than all other American cities...there are a few variations...
Every year, vendors on the state fair circuit push the limits of fried excess: chicken fried bacon, deep fried peanut butter cups and, of course, this year's famous fried butter.The farther they push, however, the more we all realize how far out those limits really are. Despite years of experimentation...
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This probably won't shock anyone: I didn't see Central 214 chef Blythe Beck's television debut in The Naughty Kitchen.I did hand the preview copy over to one of our writers, who made it part way through the opening episode before, as this writer put it, "her [Beck's] annoying voice forced...
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Smoke is—and isn't—what you think it is. There's barbecue all right, just as the name implies: brisket, ribs, even pulled pork. Chef Tim Byres spent the better part of this summer on the road in a rebuilt VW bus. He clattered around the Mississippi delta, over the hills of Tennessee...
Fort Worth's Paul Hightower may make his living as a technical writer, copywriter and indexer, but one of the great passions in his life is beer. On his Dallas Craft Beer Examiner blog, he is a relentless and well-informed cheerleader for the best beers available in North Texas, whether they're...
Big Star, one of the most influential, yet unheard, bands in rock history, will play a rare reunion show in Brooklyn on Wednesday, November 18. But the band will do so without one of its three surviving founders. Rather, original bassist Andy Hummel, now living in Weatherford and working as...
When last we saw Reunion Arena, it looked like "a coffee table from 1974." Or, "that carport thingie that's going up in the Arts District." Turns out, it'll stay that way a while longer -- like, oh, till at least January of next year. How come?Under the arena's exterior plaster...
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There's nothing exciting—and certainly nothing glamorous—about the studio in which Midlake recorded its third full-length album, The Courage of Others. Hidden in an office building just a short, two-block walk up North Locust Street from the Courthouse-on-the-Square that serves as Denton's historic center, the studio, from the outside at least,...
Lots happening this weekend--a surprising amount, actually--so let's cut all semantics and jump right into the shows that need to be added to your weekend calendar considerations. First, some reminders of the shows we've already mentioned in this week's coverage.Tonight's especially packed, with the show at The Lounge on Elm...
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation since Tim Burton fashioned Mars Attacks! from a series of bubblegum cards. Tougher, actually: Burton was working with ephemeral, anonymous trash; Jonze is elaborating on a...
Last Friday I was sitting at Cretia's, eating dinner and watching a crew set up for live entertainment. The space is small enough for amplified music to drown nearby conversation. Crank it up, the restaurant could obliterate all form of interaction. One of the guys even suggested moving a dinner...