Allan Hayslip

Pothole of the Year.

This Mess In The Middle Of The Street In Front Of Lizard Lounge Deserves A Medal. Every now and then in this thing we call life, we as humans bear witness to b...

Turning A Prophet.

Over 30 Years, Prophet Bar's Seen Its Share Of Ups and Downs. So Did Its Anniversary Weekend. When I was a spoiled college kid in Westchester from 1987 to...

Tickled Pink.

Scenes From Friday's Pink Smoke Album Release Show At Three Links. In 1988, Penelope Spheeris was releasing Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The M...

Blast From The Past.

Scenes From Saturday's Toadies, Brutal Juice and Baboon Show at The Bomb Factory. In case you hadn't heard: Deep Ellum is "back." Or so is currently the sen...

Four Score.

Scenes From Last Night's Gang of Four and Black Dotz Show at Trees. There was a tough question to answer and an easy joke to make heading into last night's Tre...

Bare Necessity.

Scenes From The Seventh Annual Dallas Burlesque Festival. The seventh edition of the Dallas Burlesque Festival felt perhaps a tad edgier than it had in years p...

Allan Hayslip

Dallas-based insomnia enthusiast, Deep Ellum partisan, photographer, writer, & musician with a recent specialty in something he calls Performance Portraiture. Allan cultivates a beard because it's far cheaper that cosmetic chin surgery. An ancient alumnus of Sarah Lawrence College (BA, Liberal Arts), grad-school dropout (RTVF) from the University of North Texas, he’s also an exemplar of the inherent weaknesses of Dallas’ swankiest private secondary schools. Allan aspires to one day monetize his oppositional/defiant disorder.