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Killer or Filler?

Killer or Filler?When area musicians talk about drummer Matt Mabe, they do so with a healthy measure of respect for his skills on the skins. Soon, people may express that same reverence for Matt’s younger brother, Danny, who dropped out of college in January to focus on his guitar.
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Skeeving Down Unda

Skeeving Down Unda Just to let you know, this is another column about the White Elephant and Lola’s Saloon . I know I write about both of these bars a lot, and I also know there are p...
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Funkytown and First Friday: Alive

Funkytown and First Friday: Alive From 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Friday at the Where House (2510 Hemphill St. on the South Side), the Funkytown Fall Festival will take place, featuring (in order of appearance...
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Enter: The Orbans

Enter:  The OrbansYou blinked and missed it. OK, call me unreasonable, but a couple of weeks ago, one of the best albums ever produced by a Fort Worth band came out, and no one r...
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A Capital Idea

A Capital Idea Ever been to the Capital Bar ? I mean, you probably have — it’s been open for almost a year, and from what I’ve seen, it gets pretty busy. I’d been there one time...
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Dudek, Dudes

Dudek, Dudes One of my favorite things to do at bars is play stuff on the juke that I think is totally rockin’ but that I’m sure the rest of the world thinks is crap. And th...
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Still Twirling at the Stagecoach

Still Twirling at the StagecoachOut on East Belknap Street, in a stand-alone building covered in Western murals, honkytonk is alive and kickin’. The Stagecoach Ballroom , with a history stretchi...
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Blarney Baloney at Delaney’s

Blarney Baloney at Delaney’s What do you get when you combine baloney Irishness, deep-stained oak, shitty service, and a bar that reeks a little ? If you answered, “The old Bennigan’s downtow...
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Super-Groups Aplenty

Super-Groups AplentyJust a couple of months ago, several –– barely a handful –– of well-known local indie-rock bands broke up, which greatly alarmed the writers at the Star-T and Dall...
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The Blotch Blog



If Tacos Could Talk

If Tacos Could Talk Chow, Baby didn’t really — maybe a little bit, but not really — expect its Taco Bell Cantino Tacos ($1.49 each) lime segments to talk out loud , like on the commerc...
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Funkytown and First Friday: Alive

Funkytown and First Friday: Alive From 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Friday at the Where House (2510 Hemphill St. on the South Side), the Funkytown Fall Festival will take place, featuring (in order of appearance...
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One Sharp Machete

One Sharp Machete Before Machete was a real movie, it was a fake movie. For their 2007 double-bill Grindhouse , Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino had four trailers created for n...
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Clowns and Flags

To the editor: In his article, “Bigots’ Last Stand,” writer E. R. Bills obviously implies that the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism. He groups it with the ...
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