Pegasus News - Dallas/Fort Worth

In this week's Dallas Observer, Robert Wilonsky snagged the cover story, "Deep Sixed," in which he delves even deeper into what's what in Deep Ellum...

"At precisely 2:38 p.m. on December 28, U.S. District Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale officially pronounced Trees dead. With a few dry, muttered words offered after a few moments of silent deliberation, Hale informed the attorney representing the owners of the venerable live-music venue in Deep Ellum that they were to turn over the keys to landlord Morton Rachofsky no later than 3 p.m. on January 2. It was, to put it mildly, an anti-climactic demise for Trees. The place had survived hundreds of rock bands that tried to reduce it to splinters--there was the night Nirvana stopped playing and nearly caused a riot, the night Marilyn Manson chucked a live chicken into the crowd and on and on--yet its eventual demise was delivered by a middle-aged man in a black robe who does his business surrounded by pale blue walls illuminated by fluorescent lights. After 15 years on Elm Street, Trees got the axe...." Read it all

Click here for an audio interview with Robert Wilonsky and Sam Machkovech about Deep Ellum

Speaking of Sam Machkovech, you need to take a look at his weekly column "Is This On". Robert posed the following question in the audio interview above and Sam adds more thoughts...

"In recent conversations with cover feature author and former music editor Robert Wilonsky, he dared me to name five current local bands whose music is as classic and timeless as the bands that reigned during his tenure in Deep Ellum (you can find his list of '90s greats in the feature). It was his way to start the conversation that many other people have had in recent weeks, blaming Deep Ellum's state, among other reasons, on Dallas' lack of good bands..." Read the rest

Michael Chamy writes a great piece on Mwanza Dover...

"Most people have a natural mental membrane that filters their feelings, thoughts, theories and emotions before spewing them out into the world unchecked. Some don't. If Mwanza Dover ever had one, it's long since been overpowered by his boundless passion, restlessness and creativity--not to mention his flair for the dramatic..." Read it all

In usual SaMach form, my good friends in Belafonte got blasted in Sam's review of their debut EP...sigh...

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Cindy now blogs at The Fine Line.