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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 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

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.

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.

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.

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:

Prostate cancer couldn't keep Dennis Hopper away from the Breeders' Cup on Saturday.

Rihanna on Friday described the horror she felt as her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was biting and punching her during a violent argument in February, saying she saw "no soul in his eyes."

Whenever Latin pop sensation Alejandro Sanz writes music, he sets off on a "long mental journey" to find inspiration. But when Alicia Keys surprised the singer at a party in New York by joining him in an impromptu jam session, Sanz knew then that he'd found his muse.