The idiosyncratic singer-songwriter makes his Bass Hall solo debut Saturday.

Brandi Carlile stops by North Texas again in March.

To hear his friends tell it, the late Stephen Bruton was so good at so many different things, it hardly seemed fair.

Carrie Underwood is, creatively speaking, pretty boring.

Weezer, Dolly Parton and Swell Season

Jersey Mike's, begun in 1956 as an independent sub shop on the Jersey Shore, stands a cut above your neighborhood sandwich shop.

Southlake's Baja taco battle is only beginning. The dining guy gets us ready for Thanksgiving.

A Texas transplant checks out the food at Mijo's in Arlington -- and feels right at home.

A night at Smoke starts in chaos, ends in culinary bliss.

Dallas hot spots Local and Abacus receive highest marks in DFW.

Must love pets

A weekend for opera fans

If you've ever wanted to combine a love of aeronautics and music, then you have something in common with the Flying Musicians Association, which is throwing a big bash Saturday to celebrate both.

It's back: the coolest (and coldest) holiday extravaganza we Texans see all year. The Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine brings back its Ice! exhibit for another year, and the fun starts Thursday.

The comedian prepares to be a contender in the late-night talk-show wars.

Dan Cutforth, 'Top Chef’ executive producer

The reviews are so gushy that they’d have to go straight to your head. For the comic actress Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push’ by Sapphire, opening Friday in the Metroplex, has become the classic "big break," that once-in-a-lifetime star turn that changes a career.

Could someone please pull Robert Zemeckis away from his computer?

It is amusing to watch suave leading man George Clooney let his freak flag fly.

The actual great-grandchildren of the original Captain von Trapp will, with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, fill the Bass Hall with song this weekend.

One of singer-songwriter Tom Russell's distinctions has been his creation of character-study cameos that populate many of his folk-country tunes.

Talk about a slam-dunk of musical entertainment for Casa Mañana: "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

"A Lone Star Christmas Carol" opens at Circle Theatre, and more.

Christina Rees' first outing at TCU's Fort Worth Contemporary Arts that the experimentally edgy space is in capable hands.

The Doggfather can be counted on to provide a good time. To sweeten the deal for this particular gig, he's got stoner-rap giants Method Man and Redman in tow.

Born in Houston and catapulted to fame by "American Idol," rocker David Cook takes his cue from late '90s heroes like Live and Our Lady Peace.

Brandi Carlile stops by North Texas again in March.

One of singer-songwriter Tom Russell's distinctions has been his creation of character-study cameos that populate many of his folk-country tunes.

Freaks and sheiks and everybody in between came out for Halloween at the FW music hot spot.

Rocker Peter Wolf says he's looking forward to trying some home-brewed beer and good wine when he arrives in Maine for a gig with the Portland Symphony Orchestra.

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.

First it was books. Now it's DVDs.