Going, Going …
Say what you will about daily papers. They're still daily papers and, as such, offer the kind of critical validation that even your favorite...
BeauSoleil Alligator Purse (YepRoc Records)
By Tom Geddie
BeauSoleil
Alligator Purse
(YepRoc Records)
Pine Leaf Boys
Homage Au Passe
(Lionsgate Music)
Cajun music is spirited, social, soulful stuff filled with fiddles, accordions, washboards, guitars, bass, drums,...
LSD March
Under Milk Wood (Important Records)
By Ken Shimamoto
Formed in 1996 in Himeji, Japan, and named after a song by '70s German psych-rockers Guru Guru, LSD...
Planet Destroyer
"I got hate mail from third graders," said Neil de Grasse Tyson (with no small amount of amusement) recently on The Daily Show. He...
Stir It Up
Barbara Renfro, the 54-year-old executive chef at Arlington's Jamaica Gates restaurant, was born and raised in a suburban section of the Jamaican parish of...
Neighborhood Watch
It was with great wariness that Chow, Baby approached Southern Recipes Grill (2715 N. Collins, Arlington). This pretty stand-alone building is the former home...
Heart of the West
A Bum Steer, a dead moose, a redhead, and a handyman have transformed a moribund stretch of the Stockyards.
By JEFF PRINCE
Local businessmen Holt Hickman,...
Rupert Wates
Dear Life is another of those seriously sincere "arty" albums that respond to the times we live in, perhaps trying to make sense of...
Eye Popper
For Hollywood this year, 3-D filmmaking seems to be the new old wave. At least 12 more 3-D movies are slated to hit our...
KP Duty
Unlike most of the local filmmakers I profile, John Venable is someone I've known for a long time. That's because he's a film critic...
