It’s too bad that Ticketmaster has an 8-limit ticket per household if you’re buying tickets to Dane Cook’s upcoming performance at the American Airlines Center. That’s like saying “Jesus is coming to town and passing out kittens and rainbows, but you can’t tell anyone.” This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to…
The flyer for the 2007 Reindeer Romp in Denton says, “Run while we entertain your kids!” Doesn’t say anything about coming back to get the little suckers. Guess you’re off the hook so long as you complete the 4.2-mile run or 2.5-mile walk. Leave the kids to the bounce houses,…
After weeks of painstaking research and late-night expeditions that had turned up next to nothing, I was finally on the verge of a breakthrough. I found myself standing, nearly motionless, in the dark, warm environment that I’d identified as the native habitat of the creature I’d been trying so hard…
Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to be an integral part of important research being done at a site in Tarrant County. It was an ongoing excavation project, already in progress for several years before my team arrived. While much data had already been collected, I recall well the…
An epic journey has been completed. It began with some comic books and a dude that sang kinda like a girl. Now it is finished—with some comic books and a dude that sings kinda like a girl. Put that way, prog rock band Coheed and Cambria’s tetralogy of albums telling…
Anyone following the Dallas Stars lately knows that the things that happen on ice in this town can be more than a little disappointing. If you’re tired of getting the cold shoulder, head not to the American Airlines Center but to ye olde Reunion Arena for Disney On Ice. See…
This week, women will flock to Lower Greenville’s hottest douchebag holding pen, Zubar, and make spectacles of themselves while attempting to get laid over the course of three short hours. Sounds like my average Thursday, but apparently this time it’s special. The bar’s hosting a bachelor auction to benefit the…
Secretly Canadian (and publicly awesome) Norwegian neo-crooner has the innocent face of a boy and the smooth, persuasive voice of, well, Jens Lekman. There’s just nothing else out there quite like his combination of kitsch, sincerity, romance and quirkiness. Whether it’s melancholy piano ballads or meshing dance beats and strings,…
Most rock and roll tries to be a badass thrill ride, every guitar lick fulfilling testosterone-fueled fantasies of living fast and dying young. But if real life were anything like the things that happen on Alice Cooper or Eminem records, we wouldn’t call banging 40 chicks and dumping some haters…
Nine people are gathered in a silent circle in Alyce Payne’s cozy living room in North Richland Hills. Most sit with their fingers intertwined, thumbs and forefingers joined, then looped to make a figure-eight. Two stand and sway occasionally. All eyes are closed but for Payne’s. She stands, rocking back…
Fans of night-crawling creatures rejoice: Dracula is coming to the Irving Arts Center, wherein “good and evil battle for the possession of a young woman’s soul.” It’s too bad that a flesh-nibbling vampire hell-bent on sucking the lifeblood out of the delicate neck of a nubile young maiden isn’t actually…
This weekend’s Bookworm Bash book sale benefits Senior Adult Services, “a nonprofit organization that improves the lives of seniors.” Sweet, right? Except it takes place in Addison, where anyone over the age of 28 gets the early bird special and a discount at the movies—that is, if you manage to…
My prey is just around the corner. I can hear it before I see it. The child’s high-pitched whimpers reach my ears as I crouch behind a fence. The gaping wound in the side of my head is sticky. I am exhausted. But my hunger is not yet sated. I…
Art these days is so ambiguous. Paintings look like a 5-year-old’s scribbles and films lack narrative structure (David Lynch and Matthew Barney, go on a permanent vacation to Antarctica together…without cameras.) What a relief, then, to hear of Edward Albee’s The Play About The Baby at the Bath House Cultural…
You know how sometimes you’re kinda hungry, but it can wait? Like, you know you could get some fast food now, but if you just hang on a minute, a table will open up at Abacus or Chili’s? That’s the kind of attitude that Tarrant County’s hungry folks are going…
Many people believe that hot, sexy, funny people such as those who perform stand-up comedy go home from the club every weekend with a hot new piece of groupie ass. As the saying goes, all rock stars really just want to be comedians, right? Wrong. Because as soon as they…
If you can’t beat ’em, laugh at ’em. That’s how the school bully thinks. Teachers around? Just resort to ridicule and cruel jokes. Which is exactly how the Laugh It Up comedy show benefitting the Children’s Cancer Fund at the Addison Improv is treating cancer. No chemo? Try gut laughs…
Ever since Harry Potter started playing with his wand under the covers in Prisoner of Azkaban, you knew there was something kinda sexy about the boy wizard. Sure, Harry’s “The Boy Who Lived,” but he’s also “The Boy Who Looks Hot In That Awkward Bathtub Scene In Goblet of Fire.”…
I am 10 or 20 or 50 feet underground. It’s hard to tell exactly how far I’ve just climbed down. Once you’ve slithered into a dark, dirty hole with only a headlamp to light the way, everything starts looking more or less the same. My knees are bruised, and my…
From global warming to research on the causes of cancer (everything!), science is a real downer. War, death, pestilence! The sure and quick destruction of all we hold dear! So travel back to a simpler time, when science was about making fun stuff in class with household products. The Arcadia…
The beauty of big-box chain stores such as Target and Wal-Mart, if there is any beauty to speak of, is that customers can at least knock out just about everything on the shopping list at once. Kitty litter, cleaning supplies, condoms. But nobody wants to be the creep loitering in…
Perhaps the only scene more fickle and catty than a seventh-grade class, Hollywood is a dangerous, glamorous place that’s known to chew up and spit out the popular kids with as much abandon as the fringy, nerdy ones. Cases in point: Ingrid Bergman’s banishment in the ’50s for having the…
