James Beard Awards for Local Chefs, the Return of Bufalina, Father's Day Dining, and You Won’t Believe the Food Trucks We’ve Recommended

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"...to our city’s newest culinary laureates, as the James Beard Foundation revealed their annual awards for 2022, naming Edgar..."

June 15, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Keeping Austin Beard'

"...Austin Facial Hair Club's motto should be "Keeping Austin Beard" [“Where the Beards Are,” Screens, Aug. 5]. Second was..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Postmarks

Frank's Wild Years

The back roads of Ramsay Midwood

"...A man with a scruffy beard and eyes o' mischief approached Kevin Russell after a..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

ZZ Top

Tracking the beards

"...Ray-Bans, immaculately tailored black suit, and the most famous beard in rock & roll. He waves me over and..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

"Let Dusty Sing One!" ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill (1949-2021) and the Pursuit of the Perfect Note

Legendary Texas bassist died in his sleep Tuesday night

"...according to a statement released Wednesday afternoon by bandmates Frank Beard and Billy F. Gibbons...."

July 29, 2021 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Billy F. Gibbons on the Death of Dusty Hill and the Future of ZZ Top

“Nobody else could sound like The Dust!”

"...album – Hill’s final recordings with Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard, the latter of whom he’d played with since..."

July 30, 2021 Music Post by Tim Stegall

DVDanger: I Am Santa Claus

Director Tommy Avallone finds the men behind the beard

"...year, I mentioned that, like him, I have a beard. His first question: Had I ever thought of being..."

Dec. 6, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ZZ Top’s Pincushion

Flyin’ high and fast at a sold-out Moody Theater

"...churned in full-on tractor mode by John Deere drummer Frank Beard – the one without the beard...."

Oct. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Local Music to Livestream, Download, and Otherwise Enjoy Digitally

What we’re watching and listening to

"...Messrs. Billy Gibbons, 70; Dusty Hill, 70; and Austinite Frank Beard, 70, who's outed as a local tax payer..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ZZ Top Flies High at the Moody

October 10, 2013. 16 photos.

"...Same beard groomer?..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Photo Gallery

Moving Sidewalks

Sun., 11pm, Reverberation stage

"...about a sharp-dressed man), wide-brimmed hat, and flowing, rabbinical beard known the world over grins beneath his Ray-Bans, squeezing..."

April 26, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Party on the Patio

Live review of ZZ Top's 1st Annual La Grange Fest.

"...The burly, bearded singer-songwriter's second song was an impeccably deep-voiced reading of..."

Oct. 24, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Bill Ham Had My Back

ZZ Top’s onetime manager made rock & roll history

"...settle on my long orange couch (left over from Frank Sinatra’s days at Reprise) to launch into all kinds..."

June 24, 2016 Music Post by Bill Bentley

ZZ Top

Live Shots

"...ZZ TopFrank Erwin Center, June 13 When you're ZZ Top, you..."

June 20, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...The victory cheer by a beefy, bearded Bikers 101 crew accompanies the crack of a cue..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Corrosion of Conformity

Roadkill

"...were in Europe with Metallica last year and met Frank Beard in Germany. It was amazing. Then we met..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Music Feature

A Small World After All

"...to do. ZZ's Stops Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard are on the road with their new Rhythmeen..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Column

What We’re Listening to Right Now

DJ Jester & DJ Marz, Willie Nelson on Billy Joe Shaver, Lisa Morales, High Heavens, and ZZ Top

"...weeks of COVID. Witnessing Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard tap blues magma at said 144-year-old honky-tonk thus..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

ZZ Top, Bad Company, and Cheap Trick Stage a Texas Jam

Seventies headliners reanimate the me decade for the ages

"...70 yesterday, and about three yards from beat piston Frank Beard, 70 next month. The former’s distressed, Gulf Coast..."

May 20, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

ZZ Top, Bad Company, and Cheap Trick Roar at Circuit of the Americas

"...Tres Hombres: (l-r) Dusty Hill, Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons..."

May 20, 2019 Photo Gallery

ZZ Top

DVDnds

"...scope the Longhorn brands on both their axes. When Frank Beard hits his oil derrick intro to "Gimme All..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Boxing Lesson

Blues before & after

"...Gibbons' '58 Les Paul riding Dusty Hill's bass and Frank Beard's drums with a vocal tonality to match. Third..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings

Rockpalast, German for DVD gold mine

"...and stouter in a white shirt and black vest. Frank Beard, glimpsed from the back of the drum riser,..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ZZ Top

Backyard, May 15

"...version of "Heard It on the X" found drummer Frank Beard plowing past the intricacies that gave the original..."

May 23, 2008 Music Review by Greg Beets

Ode to a Dallas Doll & the Bearded Ones

Morgan Fairchild & ZZ Top get their props.

"...only thing I remember about her speech was her Frank Beard/ZZ Top revelation, but Joe beat me to blogging..."

March 8, 2008 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

ZZ Top and Morgan Fairchild

"...who ended up in a band called ZZ Top. Frank Beard offered a lame denial, but, hey, every girl's..."

March 7, 2008 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

Hall of Fame Shuffle

Anything goes at the TX Film Hall of Fame Awards... and somebody's already up and gone

"...Soundtrack Award, with Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard in attendance. Other honorees include Mike Judge, Morgan..."

Feb. 27, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Power of Three

With ZZ Top mowing down the Backyard this weekend, the power of three – trios – comes into play

"...buzz-saw guitar with thundering bassist Dusty Hill and lightning-quick Frank Beard on drums, the band may be the most..."

April 13, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Box Sets

"...our songs are about dicks and pussies," observes drummer Frank Beard in the accompanying 86-page "menu." Indeed, they've mined..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Texas Towns & Places

"...5 "La Grange," ZZ Top Songwriters: Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, Dusty Hill Year Released: 1973 Highest Billboard Chart..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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