DENTON -- While some involved with NX35 (North by 35), the four-day indie-rock showcase and "conferette" that began Thursday and runs through Sunday, may have ambitions to be the next SXSW (South by Southwest), it was clear from Friday's keynote "speech" with veteran producer/engineer Steve Albini that such a goal is still a long way off. And that's a good thing.

It'll be a weekend of "Reagan Radio," as 96.7 FM flips from oldies to talk to WBAP.

Every spring, Austin's South by Southwest music fest becomes the place to be for area musicians who want to do more than spin their wheels.

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That sound you hear as you’re whizzing by on I-35 is a musical mecca finding its groove. So pull off, plug in, and rock hard.

The elegant bistro pampers with such dishes as smoked pork porterhouse with creamy poblano grits.

The Tex-Mex fast casual restaurant brings solar panels, naturally raised meat, and three more DFW locations this year.

Bistro Louise has been around since 1996, proffering Mediterranean-swayed American flights -- sometimes with Asian fancy, at other times deploying a Southwestern twang -- as expressed through the culinary wit of famed chef Louise Lamensdorf, a Cowtown icon.

A cool new spot in Keller serves up tasty Texas dishes at reasonable prices. It won't be a Lonesome Lizard for long.

Nobody ever thought of Grapevine Mills as a dining destination.

Event will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Fort Worth Convention Center

St. Patrick's Day parade, events planned in the Stockyards.

Gretchen brings the party to Billy Bob's, Dirk plays ping pong, the zoo's living museum and Beatles tribute act Rain pours down this week.

Opera isn't known for being kid-friendly, but the Fort Worth Opera wants to change that perception.

The event at Log Cabin Village on Saturday will show artisans at work.

South by Southwest kicks off in appropriately 'Kick-Ass' fashion

The movie was shot at a former University of Texas at Arlington frat house on Abram Street near Cooper Street.

The annual charity event relied this year on the considerable charms of Quentin Tarantino and Catherine O'Hara.

AUSTIN -- In 2001, the first Texas Hollywood Film Hall of Fame awards were a scrappy, loose-limbed affair; they are best remembered by those who were there for a bizarre, endlessly rambling speech by Quentin Tarantino. (He was inducting agent Mike Simpson into the Hall of Fame, though he might as well have been inducting aliens from Mars for all the sense he made).

Justified, FX's new crime drama, starts off the way that many other crime dramas have started. Our hero, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) confronts a bad guy, crosses the line, gets in trouble with his superiors and gets a new assignment that he isn't too keen on, in this case getting moved out of sunny Miami (where Givens wears his cowboy hat proudly) back to the coal-mining areas of Kentucky where he grew up.

The movie was shot at a former University of Texas at Arlington frat house on Abram Street near Cooper Street.

The cellist widely considered to be the world's greatest will perform with pianist Kathryn Stott on Tjursday.

Another local talent, Joey Corpening, will open at McDavid Studio on Friday.

He'll play his compositions Thursday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Los Lobos and Leo Kottke will perform at Bass Hall. Also on the performing-arts bill is "Sunday in the Park with George" in Bedford.

David Gray has continued to evolve as one of pop music's most riveting talents.

Palm Beach band Surfer Blood is poised to be one of 2010's breakout acts.

Norah Jones concert set for May. Denton singer Sarah Jaffe is a must-see opening act

Another local talent, Joey Corpening, will open at McDavid Studio on Friday.

Los Lobos and Leo Kottke will perform at Bass Hall. Also on the performing-arts bill is "Sunday in the Park with George" in Bedford.

Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.

The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.

A member of the pop group Girlicious has been charged in California with drug possession with the intent to sell after Glendale police allegedly found a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse.

Miguel Delibes, an acclaimed and prolific novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain and psychological analyses of characters facing turning points, died Friday. He was 89.

The father of "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi (KEHR'-uh dee-oh-GWAHR'-dee), former Republican congressman Joe DioGuardi, is set to announce he is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand.