Last week, a sexist and racist Facebook post circulated the internet. While that’s sadly commonplace, this particular message was directed at none other than the queen of country music, Dolly Parton, which qualifies as treason. Stuart Baker, otherwise known as Unknown Hinson, thought the best use of his time was to...

This week offers up some of the most exciting live music we've seen in a little while. Things sure are different around here, but if you're paying enough attention, you'll still find ways to enjoy good, local music. Catch Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute band Texas Flood for a special show...

A few months ago, Katie Scott was standing outside her shop, The Groovy Coop in Downtown McKinney, when she came across the owner of another building on the square. His tenant, he told her, would soon be moving out. It was a long-standing salsa shop, “a staple,” Scott says, that...

Nick Metzger is a local business owner, a part-time DJ, and a self-described “vintage audio enthusiast.” About eight months ago, he put up an ad describing some items he was looking to buy: “Reel-to-reel players, tapes and other vintage hi-fi gear,” he remembers, though he doesn’t recall whether it was...

For years, Jess Garland has told people that she was "working on it." The longtime Dallas multi-instrumentalist and music teacher has spent most of her career playing in other peoples' bands while quietly working on her own sound. Finally, Garland's first single has arrived. "Glow" is an avant-garde, ethereal pop...

Just how cataclysmic the pandemic has been on the concert industry cannot be overstated. One of many casualties was Fort Worth’s own Fortress Festival, which was scheduled to celebrate its fourth year in late April. The festival is tentatively rescheduled to take place April 24-25, 2021, and cofounders Ramtin Nikzad...

Earlier this year, France, Spain and Italy were praised for their ability to flatten the curve of coronavirus transmissions. Now, each is reporting its highest number of new cases since the spring, with young people shouldering the brunt of the blame, The Daily Mail reported Thursday. Meanwhile, the numbers are...

Marvin Dulaney says he came out of high school as one of the victims of the American education system. "It did not teach me one thing about any African or African-American person who had ever done anything in history," he says. But Dulaney says the miseducation of Americans about the African-American...

Wednesday, CNN reported that authorities charged a white 17-year-old with homicide after he allegedly shot three Black Lives Matter protesters, killing two, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Now, local activists fear that the same could happen closer to home. Every Sunday, a progressive grassroots organization in Gainesville protests for the removal of the town’s...

Tuesday, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission relaxed some restrictions to offer a pathway for the state’s bars to reopen as restaurants amid the pandemic. While some North Texas club owners herald the move as a godsend, others say it isn’t a golden ticket so much as fool’s gold. Under the...