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The owner of this hood at the Pistons and Paint car show Nov. 12 loves louvers. Slobberbone headlined the event’s music stage. Photo by David Minton.
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DECEMBER 2011 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4
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Some are activists who spend much of their time picketing for women’s rights, an end to the death penalty or other causes. Some are former ballet dancers, connoisseurs of pop culture, or shy vintage collectors. The women — and men — behind Denton’s burlesque scene have retrofitted the art of striptease, and they’re taking new recruits. Story by Scott McBride
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the alchemist Tipsy Turkey.
no trace of the saccharine, benign stuff that makes up the bulk of praise and worship music
work the room Paschall Bar.
used in contemporary church services. But
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didn’t set out to make one, Random People is
sketchy stuff
an overtly Christian album. More than that, it’s
flavor junkie Interested in having a
an emotional and spiritual fulcrum.
kinder, gentler, animal-free
square alight Changes are afoot for the
Thanksgiving? (No offense, turducken
2011 Holiday Lighting Festival on the
lovers.) Here’s how.
Square. Brave Combo ends its 19-year tenure as the event’s headliner. Who’ll perform at the anticipated event? Members of Midlake,
them. The 23rd annual festival also moves to the first Friday of December.
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telling on Rodney Parker & 50 Peso
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many. So it makes sense when Parker says the recording process was a party.
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Features Editor Lucinda Breeding
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Contributing Writers Rachel Watts, Alyssa Jarrell, Megan Radke, Scott McBride Designers Rachel McReynolds, Lyndsay Knecht On the cover Crystal Pistols and Honey Cocoa Bordeauxx. Photo by David Minton.
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THURSDAY
DECEMBER 2011 MUSIC at Denton venues STAGE & SCREEN
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Caterer (Smoking Popes), 9 p.m. $7-$10. Hailey’s. A Spune Christmas: Seryn, Bethan, Doug Burr, Spooky Folk, the Angelus, Volt Revolt, 7:30 p.m. $7-$10. Dan’s Silverleaf.
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First Tuesday with Mister Joe & Friends, Le Not So Hot Klub de Denton, 8-11 p.m. Free. Banter.
Hanukkah: Dec. 20-28
Denton Holiday Music Spectacular: Paul Slavens, Sarah Jaffe, members of Midlake with Holiday Lighting Orchestra, 8 p.m. Corner of Locust and Oak streets. Brave Combo,10 p.m. Dan’s Silverleaf. Centro-matic, 8 p.m. $10$13. Dada. Baroque Orchestra and Collegium Singers, 8 p.m. $8-$10. Winspear Performance Hall.
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Pat Martino, 7 p.m. $30$40. Dan’s Silverleaf. Final Club, RTB2, Bad Design, Testimonials, Family Fiend, 9 p.m. $5-$7. Hailey’s. Meme Gallery presents Andie Sterling, Elizabeth Hurtado, Hunter Wild; Northern Collaborative Performance, 9 p.m. $1-$3. Rubber Gloves.
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Givers, 6 p.m. $12. The Kessler. Coves, Sundress, Freak the Mighty, 9 p.m. Simone Lounge.
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3-5:30 p.m. Free. Banter. Digitalism, 8 p.m. $15. Granada Theatre. Greezy Wheels, Volt Revolt, 7:30 p.m. $8. Dan’s Silverleaf. Neeks, Sol Tax, Vulgar Fashion, 10 p.m. $5. Dan’s Silverleaf. Ian Moore. 10 p.m. $13-$15. Lola’s.
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p.m. $7-$10. Dan’s Silverleaf.
$18-$30. Dan’s Silverleaf. Cas Haley, 8 p.m. $10-$13. Dada.
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Criers, 9 p.m. Simone Lounge.
The Kessler.
The Forever Fabulous Chickenhawks, 8 p.m. $15. Dan’s Silverleaf.
$12. Dada.
Granada Theatre.
Shiny Around the Edges, Dust Congress, Kampfgrounds, 9 p.m. $5$7. Rubber Gloves.
Willis Christmas, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. $25. The Kessler. Devin the Dude, 8 p.m. $16. Granada Theatre. Diamond Age, Peopleodian, 10:30 p.m. Simone Lounge.
The Kessler. Astronautilus, 8 p.m. $17-$20. Dada. Slobberbone, Spitfire Tumbleweeds, 10 p.m. $20. Dan’s Silverleaf.
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Laying all bare
Paul Slavens. Courtesy photo/Melanie Gomez.
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e confess. Over here at Little d After Dark, we’ve had trouble getting burlesque. What’s the difference between stripping and burlesque? We’ve asked — going so far as to pose the question on Facebook. Then Denton burlesque dancer Honey Cocoa Bordeauxx put it in simple terms for our cover story by Scott McBride. Burlesque began as a time-killing tease between vaudeville acts. Not too terribly long after ladies eased off a glove, as Bordeauxx puts it: “Stripping killed burlesque.” Taking it all off blasted the mystery of burlesque to bits, and has been going like gangbusters ever since. But burlesque is still women taking their clothes off, isn’t it? Only these women have multicolored hair and piercings where Pamela Anderson has Max Factor caked eight layers thick? Not exactly. Bordeauxx and her fellow dancer Crystal Pistols explained that burlesque reclaims the shaming power of stripper culture, giving the beauty — and the bump and grind — to women who aren’t sporting 24-inch waistlines and specially installed double D’s. The only things a burlesque dancer needs are confidence and a hot glue gun. Then came the photo shoot with Little d After Dark photographer David Minton. At Simone Lounge, Bordeauxx and Pistols vamped for the camera with luxe, sexy results. That’s when it clicked for us (pardon the pun). Burlesque is a public performance of seduction. Rather than the flesh-flashing of stripping (though these gals do strip down to pasties), the gals of burlesque are women in 3-D. An arched eyebrow telegraphs a clever wit. A well-placed feather fan suggests a luxurious sensuality. The tease is all about a relationship between dancer and her audience. Stripping is just about the skin. — Lucinda Breeding
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Playing changes
Sarah Jaffe. Photo by David Minton.
Holiday Lighting Festival to feature Jaffe, Slavens, members of Midlake as headliners
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hanges are afoot for the 2011 Holiday Lighting Festival on the Square. The 23rd annual festival moves to the first Friday of December. “We’ve had so many people tell us they’re going to be able to bring their kids out now that we’ve moved the event to a Friday instead of Thursday,” said Micah Pazoureck, a member of the Holiday Lighting Festival Association. The Denton Community Band starts the festival with a holiday sing-along at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 2. Officials will join a child in lighting the tree, and the festivities start at 6 p.m. The next big change is the music. The festival has ended with a celebrated concert by Denton’s Brave Combo for about 19 years. This year, the association is introducing the “Denton Holiday Musical Spectacular.” Local jazz man Paul Slavens, Denton musician Sarah Jaffe, members of Midlake and other musical guests join an
5:30 p.m. Dec. 2 on the lawn of the Courthouse on the Square. Paul Slavens, members of Midlake and Sarah Jaffe with the Holiday Lighting Orchestra at 8 p.m. dentonholidaylighting.com.
11-piece Holiday Lighting Orchestra, conducted by David Pierce. The concert starts at 8 p.m. “I’m collaborating with each of the artists for a Christmas song of their choice,” Pierce said. We can imagine Slavens outdoing Jimmy Durante on “Frosty the Snowman” and Jaffe melting the crowd with a folksy “Silent Night.” The members of Midlake who perform could make “The Holly and the Ivy” a thing of beauty. The festival is free — and so is the hot wassail. Midlake. Courtesy photo.
LUCINDA BREEDING can be reached at 940-566-6877 or cbreeding@dentonrc.com.
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Clear eyes Big Round Spectacles didn’t meet any ‘Random People’ en route to latest record
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att Terrill insists he didn’t set out to make “an overtly Christian album” when he wrote and recorded the third release by his band, the curiously named Big Round Spectacles. Even so, Random People is an overtly Christian album. It’s just not the kind of Christian album that can make a so-called serious music fan squirm. Songs reflect the deepest cravings and questions a present-day Christian can give voice to. There’s no trace of the saccharine, benign stuff that makes up the bulk of praise and worship music used in contemporary church services. The repeating choruses, the insipid, poppy hooks that can benumb a congre-
gation make nary an appearance on Random People. Even when Terrill opts for the chimey-sounding synth on “Watch My Mouth,” the lyrics and whining harmonica carry it beyond the homogeny of the modern worship center and make it a legit indie song. “Musicians write about their lives, and this is what Matt was thinking about and writing about when we made the record,” said Jon Ladner, Terrill’s longtime friend and the drummer-clarinetist of the band. “Any artist is going to do that. And we’re not going to shy away from sharing what it is we’re thinking and doing.” Random People is a scrapbook of meditations by Terrill, a self-taught pianist who is at once earnest and boyish. “Every one of these songs has some >>
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Home team Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward swing acoustic on ‘Living Room’
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odney Parker & 50 Peso Reward’s storytelling makes the perfect soundtrack for drinking a beer — or many. So it makes sense when Parker says the recording of August’s Live in the Living Room was just that. “We had a house outside of Denton that was on a lot of land. We basically just had a party, invited friends and family, then recorded the album,” Parker said. The band returns to Andy’s, which Parker calls the band’s “home bar,” on Dec. 2. Live in the Living Room departs from the band’s typical live show with entirely acoustic versions of previously recorded material. “We still had the full band, we just had to do a bit of rearranging,” Parker said. Parker says that he and bassist Brooks
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Kendall spent years playing together before the start of the Pesos. The band, whose members all hail from Grapevine, eventually formed out of friendships. Prior to Live, the Pesos released Blow the Soot Out (2004), The Lonesome Dirge (2008) and The Apology: Part 1 (2010). Parker says he and the band will play shows throughout Texas before landing back in the studio in January. MEGAN RADKE is a University of North Texas journalism graduate who’s obsessed with music. She lives in Dallas. Courtesy photo
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basis in my life, in my experiences,” Terrill said. And so they do. “Sycamore Street” reflects on college days when Terrill lived with friends on the downtown street. “Tulsa” reminisces about an ill-fated road trip to Oklahoma. “(There Are No) Random People” is a song that fleshes out a recurring question on the album: While we’re all busy trying to be islands among the masses, are we losing our humanity and our salvation when we push everyone else to the margins of our lives? Terrill and Ladner resist the assumption that strangers are just “random people” through the entire album. Ladner said the album was a chance for a do-over of “Antarctica,” which first appeared on the band’s debut album. On Random People’s version, Terrill sent an e-mail invitation to his friends to show up at his house on a Saturday and be the Big Round Spectacles Choir. “Wasn’t there an actual random person in the choir?” Ladner asked. “Oh, yeah,” Terrill said. “This kid I’m mentoring got really excited about what we were doing and said he was going to go out and get strangers to be in the choir. Random people, you know? He liked that idea.”
camp.com/album/random-people. Buyers can name their own price. Ladner said the young man recruited one person, and they recorded it. While each of the tracks represents anecdotes in Terrill’s life, taken as a whole, the album is an emotional and spiritual fulcrum. The songs are tied together with brief recordings from sermons, conversations, readings and reflections. Some are pearls of wisdom given off the cuff. Others are deep and convicting. “Thematically, the record is about letting go of the past,” Terrill said. “I was at a point in time where things were changing. A lot of it is about Sycamore Street, which is where I lived with a bunch of my friends. I was moving on from that, becoming a teacher. I got married. I had to let go of certain things.” Random People follows Big Round Spectacles’ 2006 debut, Misfortuneless and Leaves, something of a prettier record, with more easy harmonies and a more lyrical piano. Terrill calls them “sad songs written during a couple of dark years.” Random People is more complex, and riskier musically.
Random People finds Terrill, an English teacher in the Keller school district, loosening his grip on idealism. Terrill’s delivery can be tricky — especially in the age of hip-hop, where poetry is both percussion and rhyming verse. His approach to songs first feels like a feint, as if he’s a comedian using music to make a joke — a la Jonathan Coulton. His lyrics are sometimes rhythmic, but mostly conversational. “I used to be a lot more obsessed with making lyrics rhyme,” Terrill said. “I did the whole AB-AB-AB, but I’ve gotten away from that. But even when I’m not rhyming, it slips into a rhythmic structure.” Ladner said the album benefits from improved recording, especially “Sycamore Street,” “Antarctica” and “Watch My Mouth,” all of which were engineered by Geoff Sirkel in Austin. Backwater Opera’s Carlos Canlas played violin, as did Sam Roberts. “It really is lo-fi,” Ladner said. “There isn’t a whole lot of sheen to the record. We like that, because of all the little things you can add.” LUCINDA BREEDING can be reached at 940-566-6877 or cbreeding@dentonrc.com.
Track for track: Random People WATCH MY MOUTH This tune is about Terrill awakening to the world around him. He watches people in deep conversation. “Some people believe/in categories/But I won’t be like that/and so I watch my mouth,” Terrill sings. “I doubt if you even know men make noise and leave/brighter better streets/I won’t be like that/and so I watch my mouth.”
ANTARCTICA (GOSPEL CHOIR) Easily Random People’s standout track. Shades of Thornton Wilder abound in Terrill’s poetry, which details swapping the ignorance of childhood for a grownup sense of wonder. It starts out like a carnival song and swells into a gorgeous gospel choir. “You can be wrong when are sure you were right/And that’s hard” he sings. Then: “When I was a kid I thought the Earth was really big” And finally: “If you think you’re right all of the time/That’s a common misconception/ And if you think the universe couldn’t live without the Earth/Well, that’s a common misconception.”
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tep-touch and step-touch and step-touch and shimmy!”
Beneath construction paper snowflakes suspended from the ceiling, five women and one man in Batman pajama pants flip open red feather fans in unison. They’re not here to learn jazz or modern dance or ballet. It’s Monday night at Denton’s Green Space Arts Collective, housed in a run-down tan adobe building sprouting among the small creaking houses and apartments north of the UNT campus. The class: burlesque aerobics. Six students of varying degrees of ability step and touch and shake their shoulders to the beat of brassy jazz music as Brandy Gilbeaux leads. In addition to basic dance techniques, they’ll learn the right way to handle a feather boa, tease the audience with a wink and a fan, and, of course, take off their clothes. Say “burlesque” and the images that come to mind are from another era: doll-like women coyly batting their eyelashes in flickering black and white, or Bettie Page bangs and ruby lipstick. It’s a curiosity that has no place in a modern world of strip clubs and sex at the click of a mouse. But somehow, this art of striptease has been dug up, dusted off and retrofitted by a new generation of performers. “I think one reason burlesque is popular now is we’ve kind of reached a point where a lot of people feel sexuality is so extreme,” Gilbeaux said. “And burlesque reminds us that sexuality is timeless, and maybe it doesn’t have to be as extreme and you don’t have to be as vulgar.” Burlesque dancers don’t fit the narrow, regimented definition of beauty found in strip clubs. They crave the glamour and glitz of a time when the showgirls were stars, performing bumps and grinds and high kicks punctuated with snorts of saxophone. They aren’t interested in being naked objects before men leering with cash in hand. >> Continued on 12
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Continued from 11>> Like all burlesque performers, Gilbeaux uses a stage name. And like most of them, Honey Cocoa Bordeauxx doesn’t look like a 21st-century stripper. She has the hourglass figure of a ’50s pinup girl. Her 5foot-4 frame is elevated another 4 inches by stiletto heels. In fact, with cat-eye glasses, ’50s-style hair and leopard-print clothes, she looks more like a character from an Elvis Presley movie. Her intersection with burlesque seems almost destined. She gravitated toward it like a compass needle, starting with creative movement when she was 2. By 5 it was ballet, then jazz, tap, modern. Her childhood was spent running through the labyrinth TWU dorms where here mother studied to the campy, flamboyant styles of disco and Motown: KC & the Sunshine Band, Isaac Hayes, “Last Dance” by
Bordeauxx recalls the feeling with breathless wonder:“It just set off all kinds of bells in my head. It just felt right.” Donna Summer. She was serious about disco, “like eight-minute-long-song disco.” Three years ago she was working at JoAnn Fabric & Craft in Denton when a woman came in looking for tassels. “And I was like, ‘Oh, to make like a curtain?’” Bordeauxx says. The woman was had other plans. She was performing in a burlesque show. The tassels were for the costume. Bordeauxx was surprised, but intrigued. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t even know people still did this,’” Bordeauxx says. Now, dozens of shows later, she struggles to remember that first show. It was a Christmas theme with girls popping out of giant gift boxes to campy music. There was something about the flashy costumes, the vintage style and the way burlesque combined humor and sexuality that spoke to her. She knew she wanted to try it. The idea fermented in her mind as she scoured the Internet and watched YouTube videos of old shows to learn more, until nearly a year later when she came across a MySpace page advertising a need for guest performers for the Vixens 12
of Vaudeville Revue, a burlesque troupe in Denton. It was an opportunity she’d been hoping for. She spent a month coming up with a routine and a costume for a show at the Boiler Room. She danced, nervous and exhilarated, before a packed, cheering club to “Minnie the Moocher” — something of a burlesque standard — stripping down to a corset and panties. Although she didn’t have the nerve to take it down to the pasties that night, she knew then and there that she was in love. Bordeauxx recalls the feeling with breathless wonder: “It just set off all kinds of bells in my head. It just felt right.” She’d been initiated into a community of professional and amateur performers that has been discreetly growing behind the scenes in Denton for the past five years or so. Now there are about 30 performers, by Bordeauxx’s reckoning. On any given weekend there’s likely a show at Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair (Denton’s long-running gay bar), Andy’s Bar or Hailey’s Club. It’s a community with a long history the members have studied with a monk’s fervor. They can rattle off a list of revered names, both modern and classic. It sounds like a list of comic book supervillains: Dirty Martini, Pearle Noir, Andrea Von Frankenstein, Divertida Devotchka. Brit Schulte, a 22-year-old UNT student who performs under the name Vinny Velour, wrote a class thesis on the subject last year. She got into burlesque in 2007, starting out as a “panty wrangler” or a “stage kitten” — sort of a stagehand who helps the performers with their costumes and hair. Within a year, she was producing and performing in shows. Schulte fits the stripper image even less than Bordeauxx. She’s a socialist and an activist who spends much of her time picketing for women’s rights, an end to the death penalty or other liberal causes. In a denim jacket and jeans with cherry red hair tucked under a newsboy cap, she looks like she belongs on a labor union propaganda flier. Words spill out of her mouth with serious intensity as she talks about burlesque and its humble beginnings in a male-dominated world of vaudevillian comedy, before it belonged to the women, with the “tease act.” “You see, in the ’20’s and ’30s, the tease was developed because comedy shows would have a lag between acts,” she says. “And the audience would get really rowdy and go, ‘Oh come on. Next act. Next act.’” “Some of those performers’ wives would get out on stage, and they very sensually would take a glove off. Or they’d take their shoes off. Or they’d hike up their skirt,” she says. >>
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Hickory Street Lounge provides a relaxing, smoke-free environment to enjoy classic cocktails served by friendly, experienced and attentive bartenders. We also offer a small, yet delicious menu that includes Peel & Eat Shrimp, Chicken & Green Chili Nachos, Shrimp Ceviche and Goat Cheese with toasted Crostini. Happy Hour is from 11 am to 7 pm, seven days a week.
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enerations of Denton citizens have mingled in bars and socialized in spaces known by names, names that consistently change with the ownership that chooses them. The buildings themselves, though, remain staples of the town’s culture and nightlife. When the Midlake fivesome decided to open a new bar on the floor above Andy’s Bar, they landed on the name Paschall Bar out of respect for its previous owner. The Denton-based, internationally renowned musicians are paying homage to the building’s rich history while modernizing the space as their own hangout. “We had always fantasized about starting something like this,” Midlake drummer McKenzie Smith said. “We’ve been fortunate enough to have enough success to be able to do it now … and it has surpassed what I had hoped.” The story goes that Denton resident B.F. Paschall owned the building at 122 N. Locust St. when it went up in 1877. A fire on the east side of the Square claimed all of the buildings but one — Paschall’s. The owner had enough ingenuity to put salt in the space between the buildings, which may have helped prevent its destruction. December 2011
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With the help of Denton’s Historical Landmark Commission, Midlake member Eric Pulido dug up photos from that era and hung them just outside the entrance to the bar. “We wanted to create a warm atmosphere that people feel comfortable in while conducive to conversation and community,” Pulido said. Opened to the public in mid-October, the bar’s aesthetic fits a midcenturymeets-English-pub style, accented by some of the band’s personal touches, Pulido said. From the charming library to the living room overlooking the Square, the quaint space has flair. The same goes for their drink menu. “It’s a really laid-back place to hang out and talk with friends,” local musician Amanda Newton said. “And the drink selection is really nice. They have drinks that you can’t find at other bars.” A classic cocktail menu of traditional favorites starts at $6.75.
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Continued from 13 >> According to Pulido, the drink ordered most is the Old Fashioned: bourbon mixed with a cherry, an orange slice, and sugar and bitters, topped off with soda water. Classic martinis and some revolving seasonal inventions grace the menu as well. Three beers generally rotate on tap: a lager, an India pale ale and a porter. For the less adventurous, there are domestics
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and high-quality wells starting at $3. Happy hour, from 4 to 8 p.m. each day, offers drink specials with an enchanting view of the downtown Square at sunset, Smith said. Occasionally there’s free food, too. A lot of bars in town are selling to the college crowd, Smith said, but the band wanted to offer something different at Paschall Bar. The guys wanted to bring the same sense of class and aesthetics they saw in European bars while on tour to a Denton bar. “We’ve seen all different demographics come in — young and old, students and professionals,� Pulido said. “It’s great to see all different Dentonites together enjoying the bar.� RACHEL WATTS is a UNT journalism student who lives in Denton. She enjoys participating in the local music scene and co-owns a small independent record label called I Love Math Records.
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Pumpkin pie, left, and green bean casserole. Courtesy photos/Chris Newby
Warm up to vegan comfort food Diversify with seasonal advice from Vegan Freak and the Denton Vegan Cooperative
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hanksgiving passes leaving us too full to function and ready to overindulge on Christmas fanfare. It’s time to sing along to the Christmas classics, look at lights and attend an unending string of holiday parties. The best part about those parties is, of course, the continuation of traditional holiday food. I love that so-deemed “Thanksgiving food” carries over into the rest of our winter celebrations with friends, coworkers and loved ones. And to make your holiday fare even friendlier, why not include a vegan dish or three? Especially if you’re not vegan, and don’t think like one, it can seem like a pretty daunting task to make your favorite foods without tasty animal products like butter and cheese. So you end up making a salad, or pasta, or worse — pasta salad. And that is what your dear, sweet vegan friend is stuck eating — the salad. December 2011
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Now, that just doesn’t seem fair. Here you are, stuffing your face with casserole, turkey, ham, dressing, pie and an ungodly amount of gravy — while they poke at some limp lettuce and a noodle on their plate. So I got some great advice from Pam Carroll on how to make our favorite dishes vegan friendly. Pam has been a true vegan for six years, and a vegetarian for 20. She and her husband, Brendan, have been part of the Denton community since the early ’90s and are working to make Denton a more veganfriendly place. Brendan owns Vegan Freak, where you can purchase hard-to-find vegan products. Pam is part of the Denton Vegan Cooperative, which does specialevents catering and sells vegan food at
The junkie herself, Alyssa Jarrell
To make your holiday fare even friendlier, why not include a vegan dish or three?
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the Denton Community Market, where this year they’ve introduced us to vegan nachos, barbecue sandwiches and potato salad, biscuits and gravy, and all kinds of baked goods. One of the best things Pam taught me is that vegan should not be equated with health-food fanatic. She and her family like those comfort food favorites just as much as anyone else. From our conversations, I have a feeling anyone would be hard-pressed to get Brendan to eat a quinoa and bulgur salad. Pam celebrates holidays with family and friends who enjoy a wide variety of food. They have meat eaters, vegetarians and vegans all at one table. She is typically in charge of veganfriendly mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and hummus. As a family they kick off their Christmas season by attending the Holiday Lighting Festival, dancing and singing to Brave Combo’s Christmas >>
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Continued from 14 >> carols (you’ll want to check out Page 5 of this month’s Little d After Dark for major news on this year’s lineup.) They also spend Christmas Eve every year with family, eating vegetarian chili, hanging out with friends and finishing up last-minute gift wrapping. Pam frequents local stores such as Vegan Freak, the Cupboard Natural Foods and Cafe, Drug Emporium and Kroger for her vegan ingredients. We’re pretty lucky to have so many places in Denton that carry these ingredients, so they aren’t so hard to find. To make traditional recipes vegan, she uses a margarine called Earth Balance, almond milk as her nondairy milk of choice, and various egg substitutes for different dishes. She says that with these ingredients on hand, you can make just about anything vegan. As a kid she really looked forward to the green bean casserole every year, and when she became a vegan she and Brendan had to figure out how to tweak the recipe so she could still partake. They follow the French’s fried onion recipe with some modifications, such as creamy mushroom soup thickened with cornstarch, and
almond milk instead of whole milk. On top are the French’s fried onions we have all grown up loving. For mashed potatoes she uses Earth Balance in place of butter and adds almond milk in place of whole milk or heavy cream. Pam said she needed a pumpkin pie recipe, so I figured one out. Follow the instructions on the back of the Libby’s 100 Percent Pure Pumpkin can. Substitute 1 cup of soy milk for the evaporated milk. Instead of regular sugar, use the same amount of brown sugar, and add 1/4 cup of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon of molasses. I find you can still make an excellent pie crust using Earth Balance in place of regular butter. Luckily, real cranberry sauce and cranberry relish are already vegan-friendly. Enjoy!
Vegan pumpkin pie 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup cornstarch 1 tablespoon molasses 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 15-ounce can of Libby’s 100 Percent Pure Pumpkin 1 cup soy milk 1 unbaked 9-inch (4-cup volume) deep-dish pie crust vegan whipped cream (optional — yes, it exists) Mix brown sugar, cornstarch, molasses, cinnamon, salt, ginger and cloves in small bowl. Beat egg substitute in large bowl. Stir in pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture. Gradually stir in soy milk. Pour into pie shell. Bake for 15 minutes in oven preheated to 425 degrees. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees; bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack for 2 hours. Serve immediately or refrigerate. Top with whipped cream before serving.
ALYSSA JARRELL is an adventurer in the kitchen who enjoys giving her culinary creations to family and friends. Her website is pinkantlercakes.com.
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Continued from 12>> Over the years the teases got longer and the acts got shorter — and more clothes came off. The “golden age� in the ’50s when the women achieved celebrity for increasingly elaborate performances, showcased by campy set pieces and fans and feather boas. The decadent performances and costumes faded, though. Strippers started getting down to business faster and the shows had a lot less to do with the tease and the seduction and more to do with dancing naked. Something was lost. Or as Bordeauxx puts it, “Stripping killed burlesque.� When burlesque was resurrected sometime in the ’80s, it become a way for women to try their hand at being the sex symbol before a cheering crowd in a way that didn’t feel serious or creepy. There are often more women than men in the audience of a burlesque show and the mood is light and encouraging. Both Schulte and Bordeauxx felt comfortable enough to invite their mothers to shows. Even Schulte’s grandmother has seen her perform. “They’re very supportive. They think it’s fascinating,� she says. “My grandmother saw Lily St. Cyr when she came through in one of the Texas fairs, so I mean she grew up with the golden age of burlesque.� For Schulte, the appeal of burlesque went beyond a love of performing on stage. She saw in burlesque a kind of control, what she describes as “power,� to the performers. She recalls the first show she saw in 2007. “I remember going to that and I was just sold. I was like, ‘I have to understand this. I want to be a part of this,’� she says. “The command of the stage. It was brilliant seeing these women who did not fit the quote-unquote standard of beauty. They were every shape, every size, every color, and they just had this presence that just commanded attention and it was so alluring.� Her first performance was a benefit show, Tassels for TEA Fund, to raise money
for the Texas Equal Access Fund, an organization that helps low-income women obtain abortions. Burlesque shows in Denton are often tied to a feminist or charitable causes like the TEA Fund, or the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. Mable Peabody’s is a frequent host for the shows that also feature male performers, both in and out of drag, or “boylesque.� “Women, men — agender people as well — coming together to help a cause through their art,� Schulte said. “You see that in all kinds of genres and this one is not exempt.� Like Schulte, Crystal Hansel draws a kind of power from performing burlesque. By day, Hansel, 31, works in a Sally Beauty Supply corporate office. By night, she is Crystal Pistols, a name she says she’s used “since day one, because of my loud mouth, my sassy outgoingness and my boobs.� Her closet is stuffed with vintage clothes, a riot of sequins, feathers and fringe. “You’ve got to be really thrifty if you’re going to keep doing burlesque,� she says. She belts out the gravelly laugh that punctuates most of her sentences. “Although sometimes I will go to Hobby Lobby and spend $60.� Most performers make their own costumes and props; $60 goes a long way. A glue gun and some fringe can transform ordinary underwear from Ross into a showgirl costume. There’s a crowd of about 75 people gathered under the snarl of Christmas lights stretched across the ceiling of Hailey’s Club in downtown Denton. It’s a Wednesday night and there are at least three burlesque shows going on in Denton this week, more than usual — but not by much. Cali Thompson, a 22-year-old UNT student with a swath of ruddy hair covering one eye, is here for the show. It’s her first time. “This is nice,� she says. “The comic relief of burlesque — I like it because it’s not pretentious. I feel like I can talk to any of the performers and have a hilarious conversation.� Tyler Thompson, an agreeable, hirsute >>
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THE ABBEY INN RESTAURANT & PUB 101 W. Hickory St. 940-566-5483. THE ABBEY UNDERGROUND 100 W. Walnut St. 940-565-5478. facebook.com/ theabbeyunderground ANDAMAN THAI RESTAURANT 221 E. Hickory St. 940-591-8790. andamanthai restaurant.com ANDY’S BAR 122 N. Locust St. 940565-5400. reverbnation.com/venue/andysbar BANTER 219 W. Oak St. 940-5651638. dentonbanter.com BETH MARIE’S OLD-FASHIONED ICE CREAM AND SODA FOUNTAIN 117 W. Hickory St. 940-384-1818. (second location at Unicorn Lake, 2900 Wind River Lane) bethmaries.com CASA GALAVIZ 508 S. Elm St. 940-3872675. CELLAR 22 219 E. Hickory St. 940-4350149. thecellar22.com CRAZY HORSE SALOON 508 S. Elm St. 940-591-0586. THE CHESTNUT TREE 107 W. Hickory St. 940-591-9475. chestnuttearoom. com THE CUPBOARD 200 W. Congress St. 940-387-5386. cupboardnaturalfoods.com
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HANNAH’S OFF THE SQUARE 111 W. Mulberry St. 940-566-1110. J&J’S PIZZA 118 W. Oak St. 940-3827769. jandjpizzadenton.com JUPITER HOUSE 106 N. Locust St. 940-387-7100. jupiterhousecoffee.net KEIICHI SUSHI 500 N. Elm St. 940-3827505. THE LABB 218 W. Oak St. 940-2934240. thelabbdenton.com LA MEXICANA 619 S. Locust St. 940483-8019. LOCO CAFE 603 N. Locust St. 940387-1413. locodenton.com THE LOOPHOLE 119 W. Hickory St. 940-565-0770. loopholepub.com LOVE SHACK 115 E. Hickory St. 940442-6834. loveburgershack.com MAD WORLD RECORDS 115 W. Hickory St. 940-591-3001. MI CASITA 110 N. Carroll Blvd. 940-8911932. (Mi Casita Express at 905 W. University Drive) RAMEN REPUBLIC 210 E. Hickory St. 940-387-3757. ramenrepublic.biz RAVELIN BAKERY 416 S. Elm St. 940-382-8561. ROOSTER’S ROADHOUSE 113 Industrial St. 940-382-4227. roosters-roadhouse.com RUBBER GLOVES REHEARSAL
STUDIOS 411 E. Sycamore St. 940-3877781. rubberglovesdentontx.com SIAM OFF THE SQUARE 209 W. Hickory St., Suite 104. 940-382-5118. siamoffthesquare.com SIMONE LOUNGE 222 W. Hickory St., Suite 104. 940-387-7240. facebook.com/ simonelounge SWEETWATER GRILL & TAVERN 115 S. Elm St. 940-484-2888. VERONICA’S CAFE 803 E. McKinney St. 940-565-9809. VIGNE 222 W. Hickory St., Suite 103. 940566-1010. WEINBERGER’S DELI 311 E. Hickory St., Suite 110. 940-566-5900. weinbergers denton.com WINE SQUARED 110 W. Oak St. 940384-9463. winetimeswine.com YOGURT FUSION 209 W. Hickory St. 940-597-6367. yofusion.com ZERA COFFEE CO. 420 E. McKinney St., Suite 106. 940-239-8002.
Greater Denton CAFE DU LUXE 3101 Unicorn Lake Blvd. 940-382-7070. cafeduluxe.com POURHOUSE SPORTS GRILL 3350 Unicorn Lake Blvd. 940-484-7455.
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Around UNT ART SIX COFFEE HOUSE 424 Bryan St. 940-484-2786. facebook.com/art sixcoffeehouse BIG MIKE’S COFFEE HOUSE 1306 W. Hickory St. 940-383-7478. bigmikescoffee shop.com BULGOGI HOUSE 408 North Texas Blvd. 940-382-8060. CENTRAL GRILL 1005 Ave. C. 940-3239464. COOL BEANS 1210 W. Hickory St. 940-382-7025. facebook.com/coolbeans dentontx CUPS AND CREPES 309 Fry St. 940387-1696. EL PARIENTE 2532 Louise St. 940-3801208. FERA’S 1407 W. Oak St. 940-382-9577. FRY STREET PUBLIC HOUSE 125 Ave. A. 940-323-9800. publichousedenton.com FRY STREET TAVERN 121 Ave. A. 940-383-2337. THE GARAGE 113 Ave. A. 940-3830045. thedentongarage.com HOOYA! 1007 Ave. C. 940-381-0272.
KATZ’S HAMBURGERS 901-A Ave. C. 940-442-6200. LUCKY LOU’S 1207 W. Hickory St. 940484-5550. luckylousdenton.com MR. CHOPSTICKS 1633 Scripture St. 940-382-5437. NARANJA CAFE 906 Ave. C. Suite 100. 940-483-0800. NEW YORK SUB-HUB 906 Ave. C. 940383-3213. RASOI, THE INDIAN KITCHEN 1002 Ave. C. 940-566-6125. dentonindianfood.com RIPROCKS 1211 W. Hickory St. 940-382 3231. ROCKIN’ RODEO 1009 Ave. C. 940565-6611. rockinrodeodenton.com SUKHOTHAI II RESTAURANT 1502 W. Hickory St. 940-382-2888. SUSHI CAFE 1401 W. Oak St. 940-3801030. TJ’S PIZZA WINGS & THINGS 420 S. Carroll Blvd., Suite 102. 940-383-3333. tjspizzadenton.com 299 ORIENTAL EXPRESS 1000 Ave. C. 940-383-2098. JIMMY JOHN’S 107 Ave. A. 940-4845466.
Music here, there and everywhere else The Abbey Underground 100 W. Walnut St. 940-565-5478. Andy’s Bar 122 N. Locust St. 940-565-5400. Art Six Coffee House 424 Bryan St. 940-484-2786. Banter 219 W. Oak St. 940-565-1638. Cafe Du Luxe 3101 Unicorn Lake Blvd. 940-382-7070. Cool Beans 1210 W. Hickory St. 940-382-7025. Crazy Horse Saloon 508 S. Elm St. 940-591-0586. Dan’s Silverleaf 103 Industrial St. 940-320-2000. Frilly’s Seafood Bayou Kitchen 1925 Denison St. 940-2432126.
Fry Street Public House 125 Ave. A. 940-323-9800. Fry Street Tavern 121 Ave. A. 940-383-2337. The Garage 113 Ave. A. 940-383-0045. The Greenhouse 600 N. Locust St. 940-484-1349. Hailey’s Club 122 W. Mulberry St. 940-323-1160. J&J’s Pizza 118 W. Oak St. 940-382-7769. The LABB 218 W. Oak St. 940-293-4240. Love Shack 115 E. Hickory St. 940-442-6834. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair 1125 E. University Drive, Suite 107. 940-566-9910. Mad World Records 115 W. Hickory St. 940-591-3001. Rockin’ Rodeo 1009 Ave. C. 940-565-6611. Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios 411 E. Sycamore St. 940387-7781.
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Simone Lounge 222 W. Hickory St., Suite 104. 940-3877240.
Sweetwater Grill & Tavern 115 S. Elm St. 940-484-2888. UNT College of Music music.unt.edu UNT Dance and Theatre danceandtheatre.unt.edu UNT on the Square untonthesquare.unt.edu Winspear Performance Hall, Murchison Performing Arts Center thempac.com Texas Woman’s University Theatre twu.edu/drama Dada, Dallas dadadallas.com Granada Theater, Dallas granadatheater.com House of Blues, Dallas houseofblues.com/dallas Kessler Theater, Dallas thekessler.org McFarlin Auditorium, Dallas smu.edu/mcfarlin Palladium Ballroom, Dallas thepalladiumballroom.com Billy Bob’s Texas, Fort Worth billybobstexas.com Lola’s, Fort Worth lolasfortworth.com
man with a beard and wearing a paisley dress, is tonight’s emcee. He’s prone to telling groan-inducing feminist jokes between acts: “How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? None; the light bulb needs to change on its own.” After a few opening acts, Crystal Pistols is up. She theatrically gyrates on stage in a long red satin dress and puts a hand to her ear, an invitation to howl that the audience accepts. After a few moves, she steps out of the dress and straddles a chair, her back to the audience, looking over her shoulder mischievously. A chorus of shouts erupts when she pulls one bra strap off her shoulder. From the audience, a woman’s voice shouts: “Take it off, Crystal!” She obliges
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as the audience howls, and seconds later she is off the stage. Later, Hansel makes one last appearance to thank the audience. “Without your hoots and hollers, we would just be dancing like teenagers on our beds,” she says. Later, as she’s mingling at the bar, two women approach her. One is Cali Thompson. She exchanges numbers with Hansel; something about the show has intrigued her. She wants to know more. THOMAS SCOTT McBRIDE is a freelance writer and a journalism student at the University of North Texas. When he’s not writing, McBride receives regular and severe beatings under the despicable guise of “martial arts training.” 19
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