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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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...
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...
You 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...
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...
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...
Out 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...
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...
Just 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...
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...
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...