The tune is Jaffe’s cover of the Cold War Kids’ “Louder Than Ever,” and it appears on her CD/DVD release The Way the Sound Leaves A Room (which Hunter Hauk writes about here). The Esquire piece walks through 116 songs you probably didn’t hear, or in Jaffe’s case, probably didn’t hear if you lived any where but in North Texas. Here’s the write up, and you can listen to the song on the artist’s Myspace page.

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His name is Lee Papert, one that should be familiar to Dallas arts and culture watchers as he has spent time as head of the Arts District Friends, director of development for the Dallas Wind Symphony, and serving on the board of the Dallas Architecture Foundation, Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, Booker T Washington High School, and more. He was most recently the Trinity River and Dogwood Canyon Audubon Centers’ director of marketing and development. Here’s the full release and bio.

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Feliz Navidad? More like Fiesta Navidad! The Dallas Symphony Orchestra partners with the Grammy Award-winning Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano for a Mexican/American holiday ensemble on December 6th and we have a pair of tickets to giveaway. Get your Santa hat, or your Sombrero, ready and answer the question in the form below: Which president did founder Nati Cano perform for at the White House? We’ll pick a winner after 3pm.

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America is Nutcracker obsessed. The ballet, composed by one Russian (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) and most famously choreographed by another (George Balanchine) has become an American institution. If you travel to any city in the United States at some time between mid-November and New Years Eve, you will undoubtedly have the opportunity to catch a performance of The Nutcracker. In fact, the New York Times estimated that of all the performances of The Nutcracker that happen around the world each year, ..read more

Everyone loves a villain and The Pocket Sandwich Theatre finally highlights an infamous Christmas crusader in their production Ebenezer Scrooge. With seats that are practically on stage, audience members will be able to experience Dickens like never before. We have a pair of tickets to giveaway for December 8th and 9th, to get your hands on them all you have to do is answer the question in the form below: Where did the origin of Scrooge’s name come from (hint:  ..read more

Thanksgiving week is normally quiet, however, it’s always decent business for dance and DJ events since nobody really wants to do much save for the occasional drink out after the festivities. Or if you’re really lucky, there’s always the possibility of a dance-floor reunion with the should’ve-would’ve-could’ve high school sweetheart on a visit home from your real life elsewhere. Happy Thanksgiving.

THURSDAY

Big Bang (Beauty Bar): Sober recently sent word not only that his Big Bang would not be slowed down by ..read more

If the world has no use for the Muppets, then I have no use for the world.

That may be an overstatement, I’ll grant you, but this latest movie featuring Jim Henson’s masterful puppet creations was more pure fun than anything else I’ve seen at the theater this year. If you don’t feel the same way, I doubt that you and I could forge a lasting friendship.

It pains me to think there are children today unfamiliar with Kermit the Frog, Miss ..read more

There is a wicked wit to the first hour and a half of Lars von Trier’s dour, thudding, often pretentious parable about the end of the world, Melancholia. After an opening montage of stunningly beautiful images that, we learn later, are taken from the film’s concluding moments, we are whisked into perhaps the most disastrous wedding party ever imagined, starring a bride, Justine (Kirsten Dunst), with train-wreck depression. All around her are people behaving badly. There’s the rich, selfish, and ..read more

This year was the year of 3-D at the movies. The renewed technology was applied to most children’s films and blockbusters, trumping up the screen with often needless wizardry. The latest children’s movie to utilize the technology, however, may actually have found both the substance and style to make it work. Martin Scorsese’ new and wonderful Hugo is a lovely child’s fairy tale, brilliant because of its magnificent, magical tone. It is also something of an admonishment to 3-D naysayers. ..read more

There’s a silver lining to Simon Curtis’ sloppy, nostalgic, hopelessly earnest elegy (sort of) to Marilyn Monroe, My Week with Marilyn. Watching Michelle Williams do her very best impersonation of one of the few celebrities who we can truly call “iconic” (with much thanks to Mr. Warhol), we are nothing if reminded what an ineffable, uncategorical vixen Monroe actually was. Beauty doesn’t describe it. Williams has beauty, she also has passable Marilyn features, from the soft, perfect skin to the ..read more