I stood next to Bob Wills’ daughter at a SXSW day party once. Of course, I didn’t really know that until they brought her up onstage and said, “Hey everybody, this is Bob Wills’ daughter,” but I still felt a little more Texan after the experience. After all, her dad…
I once saw an episode of MTV Cribs that featured Alanis Morisette hanging out in her Canadian loft, gleefully making a list of things that were ironic to her. The pad had an Asian theme, complete with Buddhas, altars, big temple-style doors and such. She even had a bunch of…
I just might be the laziest birder in Dallas. Sure, I’ve got the field guides, even a couple of feeders. But I just can’t seem to get my ass up and make haste to the great outdoors on the weekends, content instead to sit by my bedroom window in my…
Comedian Bill Burr is known mostly for his work on Chappelle’s Show and the Opie and Anthony Show, where he often serves as a fill-in for kindred spirit Jim Norton. However, we remember him best for the 2006 tirade he unleashed on an unappreciative Camden, New Jersey, audience (most of…
At first I thought for sure that Michael Lee West’s new novel, Mermaids in the Basement, was a 24-years-in-the-making literary adaptation of the screenplay for Splash, which would have been awesome. Then I remembered that Tom Hanks lived in a Manhattan apartment in that movie and probably didn’t have a…
Now that Disney no longer owns them, it’s a lot harder to bag on the Anaheim Ducks these days, especially considering their Stanley Cup win last season. In fact, since they finally won the big one, it’s highly possible you’ll be seeing other professional sports franchises named after children’s films…
Dmitri Shostakovich was not an auto mechanic from Philly, but rather a renowned Russian composer of the 20th century. Like many Russian artists of his time, he had a somewhat tenuous relationship with the government, as evidenced by his Tenth Symphony—released in 1953 after Stalin’s death, it features a violent…
I don’t know about you, but when I pay cover at Rubber Gloves, the Double Wide or the Granada, I would rather not see any of the money going to the Black-Eyed Peas. In a roundabout way, however, this is often exactly what happens. Organizations such as ASCAP (The American…
It boggles my mind that Britney Spears was the most Googled celebrity of 2007, but then again, it could have just been Perez Hilton and that Chris Crocker dude hitting “refresh” for 12 months straight (at least that’s what we’re hoping). Artist Matthew Bourbon is similarly perplexed by the modern…
At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Classic Albums Live will re-create Bob Marley’s Greatest Hits package Legend in its entirety at the House of Blues, 2200 N. Lamar St. Tickets are $15 to $25, not including the $10 to $15 you’ll have to pay to park your car. On the other hand,…
I thought Thomas Allen made furniture, but apparently that’s Ethan Allen, so now I’m a lot more excited about the Thomas Allen exhibit opening Thursday at Light & Sie, 129 Leslie St. Instead of boring furniture, it will feature selections from Allen’s pulpy multimedia universe, including some new animations and…
Dallas painter Jerry Bywaters wrote his father a come-to-Jesus letter in 1928, explaining why he was turning his back on the world of commercial art to work in the outdoors as a studio painter. “I must be out of doors,” he said, and he lived up to that promise till…
If there’s a better place to celebrate your blackness than Plano, we certainly haven’t found it. After all, we’ve never been to Africa or Harlem, the only real competition to speak of. From 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. this Sunday, the Stephanie Ward Gallery, 920 18th St., hosts a Kwanzaa…
I must really be getting old, because I no longer understand MTV. For instance, I’m still not really sure who Nick Cannon and Tila Tequila are and why they are famous. I also don’t watch Wild ‘N Out, which is basically a whole show devoted to improvised insult comedy and…
In the pages that follow, our corporate overlords provide an alternative to gratuitous music writer geekdom and end-of-year lists, but being who we are, we threatened to burn down the building if we didn’t get to make some kind of contribution to the list-making canon. Apparently, they like this building…
Brace yourself—I have a shocking confession to make. You see, I’ve never read a single word written by David Sedaris—and I write for an alt-weekly. I’m sure he’s funny and all, but when everyone I knew was voraciously reading every one of his books a couple years back, I got…
I don’t have kids of my own, but I do like to borrow them from time to time. So when I heard animated songster Gustafer Yellowgold was once again the opener for the Polyphonic Spree’s annual holiday spectacular, I couldn’t resist sitting down with my favorite 5-year-old to watch Gustafer’s…
Steve Nash broke my heart on May 20, 2005, drilling a clutch three at the end of regulation and taking over in OT to down the Mavs in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs. Sure, we beat them in the playoffs the next year, but I was at…
All I really remember about Driving Miss Daisy is the part where Morgan Freeman tells Jessica Tandy he has to go “make water.” Personally, I’d rather watch him in The Shawshank Redemption (and in Tandy’s case I prefer Nobody’s Fool, or hell, even *batteries not included.) But if Alfred Uhry’s…
TBAAL’s (Texas Black Academy of Arts and Letters) 15th Annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert features the choirs of just about every high school in South Dallas and Oak Cliff. Singing teens from Roosevelt, A. Maceo Smith, Madison, South Oak Cliff, Carter and Lincoln will take the stage along with the kids of…
Seattle artist J. Gordon was definitely on the right track when he agreed to exhibit his latest collection, Old Crow, in a bar. With a name like that, where else would you have it? Unfortunately the bar/gallery at the Magnolia Theatre in the West Village, 3699 McKinney Ave., is more…
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