Links

Music Venues

• The Granada Theater smoke free
• Dallas House of Blues (calendar) smoke free
• Palladium Ballroom (calendar) smoke free
• The AllGood Cafe (calendar) smoke free
• Opening Bell Coffee (formerly Standard & Pour's) (calendar) smoke free
• Bend Studio (calendar) smoke free
• Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse smoke free
• Club Dada (calendar)
• Obzeet (calendar)
• Dan's Silverleaf
• The Cavern (calendar)
• The Curtain Club (calendar)
• The Liquid Lounge (calendar)
• Fusion Cafe
• Dunn Bros Coffee, Addison
• JamBase
• Acoustic Concert Tours
• TITAS
• Nokia
• Poor David's Pub
• Redblood Club
• Hailey's
• The Barley House
• The Green Elephant
• Lakewood Bar & Grill
• Bass Hall
• The Lakewood Theater
• One World Theatre (Austin)
• Pearl at Commerce
• Art & Seek (KERA's art blog with a stupid name)

Bands

Dallas

• Brave Combo (calendar)
• Los Super Vatos (calendar)
• Kristy Kruger (calendar)
• BAGG (calendar), Sol Kitchen (including Gaah(n))
• Lisa Markley
• Inner City All Stars
• The Murgatroyds play surf rock with attitude.
• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
• Opposite Day
• Mo Pair, Grass
• Ghostcar
• Joseph Vincelli (calendar)
• Naked Lunch
• The Mad Scientists
• Andrew Tinker

Non-Dallas

• Djam Karet
• Squonk Opera, and Jana Losey
• Andy Graham was the drummer in a cool L.A. band called Lestat, and still does stuff with Dave Tomkins, their bass player, who was also in The Spinning Plates with Lestat's keyboardist, Gary Simonian.
• Dada is a very cool band from L.A. (calendar)
• Quintology, Charlie Dennard
• Jovino Santos Neto (calendar)
• Greg "Geggy" Kurstin is now part of The Bird and The Bee
• Angie Hart was the singer for Frente!.
• Rebirth Brass Band
• Hermeto Pascoal
• Michael Ray & The Cosmic Krewe
• Kim Manning (YouTube)
• I-Pan (MySpace)

Radio

• KNTU 88.1 FM
• KERA 90.1 FM
• KNON 89.3 FM

Movies

• Inwood & Magnolia Theatres
• Angelika
• Cinemark
• The Internet Movie Database

Misc

• Dallas Museum of Art
• http://www.bluemondayownersclub.com/
• Jaime's Spanish Village Restaurant (Austin) -- check out the Hot Jalapeno Garlic Sauce
• Pre-paid cell phone comparison chart
• http://www.hanzismatter.com/ -- The misuse of Chinese Characters in Western culture
• http://hpalumnipedia.com/
• LUGNET - International LEGO Users Group Network
• Vehicle bolt pattern reference
• Green Mama's Organic Garden Center
• Prius news forum
• Metro Foam Recycling recycles styrofoam
• http://www.hpalumnipedia.com/
• http://www.blackdragonauto.com/ - Parts for Datsun Z cars
• http://www.socalskateshop.com/
• Plano Trail Information and Maps
• Japanese<->English Dictionary - Gateway
• Printable Paper Rulers
• Datsun 720 Pickup forum

Technology

• http://www.43folders.com/
• http://www.sunpipe.com/ makes reflective tubular sunlight pipes

Blogs

• http://robertreich.blogspot.com/
• http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/, http://david-brin.dailykos.com/
• http://thedailywtf.com/
• http://codemines.blogspot.com/
• http://www.schneier.com/blog/
• http://www.dailykos.com/
• http://www.burntorangereport.com/
• http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/collin48hobbit
• http://flowtohealth.blogspot.com/

More Social Networking sites than anyone needs

• http://www.facebook.com/
• http://www.myspace.com/
• http://www.linkedin.com/
• http://my.barackobama.com/
• HMC Alumni

People

• Jennie Hango
• John Stimson
• Matt's wanderings by bicycle
• Matt Morse (Matt's old blog)
• Punzel
• Nicole Gray
• Jeff Allen (blog)
• Martin Bonsangue
• Mark Wilkins
• Art Benjamin
• Fernando's Web Portal

Government & Politics

• City of Richardson
• The Richardson Echo
• http://thomas.loc.gov/ - Legislative information from the Library of Congress
• http://www.vote-smart.org/ - Look up your representatives and lots of other stuff
• http://www.noh8campaign.com/

Live Music Archive Shortcuts

I prefer the "browse by year" mode of the Live Music Archive, but for some reason they've made it a pain to get to that format. So I'm bookmarking the groups I like to check:

• Club d'Elf
• Particle
• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
• Sound Tribe Sector 9
• Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
• Rebirth Brass Band
• Blues Traveler
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Lazlo Hollyfeld
• Disco Biscuits
• Flipoff Pirates
• Lotus