Pete Freedman

Secret of the Ooze.

A Dallas Man Wants Your Help In Reuniting Vanilla Ice with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Earlier this month, the Dallas Observer's Mixmaster blog ran ...

Con Artists.

Last Weekend, More Than 150 Area Artists Gathered To Shape The Identity of Art Conspiracy 9. Tomorrow night, more than 150 area artists will gather in the vaca...

All Square.

Let Midlake Show You Around Denton. Back in September and in advance of their just-released Antiphon LP, the Denton-dwelling folk-rock heroes of Midlake, perfo...

Failing Grades.

Once Again, The University of Dallas Gets Named One of America's Ugliest Campuses. At this point, the University of Dallas just has to be used to earning ...

Shades of Green.

Bank of America Plaza's Lights Get Turned Back On Tomorrow. And They Won't Just Be Green. At 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, a ceremony will commence at the Bank...

Bombshell.

Trees Owners Clint and Whitney Barlow Plan To Re-Open The 3,000-Capacity Bomb Factory in Deep Ellum. This past Friday, Clint Barlow and his wife Whitney offici...

Electric Power.

Scenes From Saturday Night's Janelle Monae Show at the House of Blues. I'm not 100 percent sure that Janelle Monae isn't a robot. And, surely, t...

Rise Up.

Scenes from Saturday's Texas Brewvolution at Fair Park. Beer festivals have become rampant as of late, springing up all over the North Texas, which might ...

No Small Deal.

Scenes From Last Night's Sound Select Showcase with Small Black, Burning Hotels and Cutter. By the time doors opened for last night's November Red Bu...

Meet Packed.

The Track Meet Crew's New Compilation Is A Must-Grab. Last Thursday night, during a party thrown in the upstairs portion of Lower Greenville's The Cr...

Pete Freedman

Co-Founder, President, Publisher

Pete is the founder, editor and president of Central Track. He is the former music editor of the Dallas Observer. His work has been published in The Daily Beast, Deadspin, LA Weekly, Village Voice, Spin Magazine, The Miami Herald and The Toronto Star, among other major publications. The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has honored his long-form narrative writing and his blogging efforts alike. In 2009, NBCDFW.com named him one of the 25 Most Interesting People in DFW, a fact he remains all too eager to bring up at dinner parties.