Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Jobing.com Arena

Better Than: Any other act that has played the Super Bowl in this millennium. See more photos from Tom Petty’s concert at Jobing.com Arena in our slideshow. The arena concert is often an impersonal experience. Paying top dollar for a seat with a brilliant view of a jumbotron hardly makes…

This Weekend: That Enthralling Gallop, D.L. Hughley and La Tomatina

Friday, August 15: “That Enthralling Gallop” at The Kitchenette Photography Collective Betsy Schneider’s “France” This week Managing Editor Amy Silverman presented New Times readers with a look at controversial artist Betsy Schneider. Starting tonight, Schneider’s work can be seen in an show called “That Enthralling Gallop” starting tonight at “Kitchenette…

This Weekend: Breaking Dawn, Discount Assassin and Pret-a-Porter

By Jonathan McNamara Friday August 1: Breaking Dawn midnight release party at Changing Hands Bookstore Twilight Series fans are too busy scanning the internet for details about the upcoming book in the series. Harry Potter anyone? If you don’t know about Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Series, get your head out from…

Can’t Miss Show: The Octopus Project

By Steve Jansen The Octopus Project: What dreams are made of I had a strange dream last night. Possibly because I knew I was writing about The Octopus Project today, or I am truly super jacked up to see the Austin-based noise/rock ensemble. Either way, the dream went something like…

This Weekend’s Top Picks: Minibosses, The Dark Knight

By Jonathan McNamara Friday July 18: Minibosses at The Ruby Room If you’ve been perusing Up on the Sun’s podcast entries you already know that the bossest of video game music-based bands will be hitting the Ruby Room tonight. See you there? Saturday July 19: The Dark Knight Has Heath…

Summer of Sound headliner B-Side Players diss locals

By Steve Jansen The B-Side Players apparently aren’t digging some of our local jazz acts. The other night, I ran into Ted Sistrunk, who played bass for two of the four local bands on the New Times Summer of Sound: Jazz bill on Friday, July 11. (I was at The…

Unlimited Enthusiasm 2008 at Modified Arts

By Sarah Ventre Better Than: Any other rainy Sunday afternoon with about 100 underage kids. Ah, summertime! It is a time for remembering one’s youth from endless days of swimming to eating ice-cold watermelon and who can forget summer camp? Certainly not the good folks at Unlimited Enthusiasm, a summer…

Little Pieces at Modified Arts

By Joseph Golfen Better than: a sauna, but not by much. The little, wooden stage at the Modified Arts was sweltering. The air was still and thick with the type of humidity that rolls in with the monsoons every summer. “I know you guys probably get tired of bands coming…