Music Venues
- The Granada Theater ‘‘‘smoke free’’’
- Dallas House of Blues (calendar) ‘‘‘smoke free’’’
- Palladium Ballroom (calendar) ‘‘‘smoke free’’’
- Kessler Theater
- The AllGood Cafe (calendar) ‘‘‘smoke free’’’
- Opening Bell Coffee (formerly Standard & Pour’s) (calendar) ‘‘‘smoke free’’’
- Uncle Calvin’s Coffeehouse ‘‘‘smoke free’’’
- AT&T Performing Arts Center
- McFarlin Auditorium
- Obzeet (calendar)
- Dan’s Silverleaf
- The Curtain Club (calendar)
- The Liquid Lounge (calendar)
- JamBase
- TITAS
- Nokia
- Poor David’s Pub
- Hailey’s
- The Barley House
- Bass Hall
- The Lakewood Theater
- One World Theatre (Austin)
- 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
Movies
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: