Few face the problem of living up to a famous father’s legacy like Jason Bonham, son of John, revered Led Zeppelin drummer. The younger Bonham, only 14 when his father died, neatly sidestepped the issue by embracing his drummer dad’s fame rather than shunning it. Bonham learned to play the…
At this point in the young NBA season, the Chicago Bulls and your Dallas Mavericks are both promising teams with giant question marks hanging over their heads. The Mavericks have shown moments of brilliance thus far, with impressive defense and actual production in the middle thanks to Tyson Chandler, something…
Once upon a time there was a magical kingdom. Although it was a place full of glitter, gowns and glory, let it be known that this was no ordinary kingdom, but one dominated by cold weather, icy ponds and newly sharpened skates. This kingdom was also, strangely, whole new world…
Art isn’t just two-dimensional anymore, people. There’s more than just paintings and photographs to look at these days. You can also find fine art in places other than galleries and museums. And there’s a big group of artists who want to share this concept with the city. Friday night marks…
Every community movement needs a champion. While a number of bar owners, venue operators, and land owners have worked hard to overcome the challenges facing Deep Ellum over the past several years, few have had the impact that the Kettle Art Gallery has. The collaborative effort between property owner Don…
Our parents used to throw us kids in the backseat with a bunch of comforters and then drive around town so we could check out the Christmas lights and displays. It was awesome, and way cheaper than going to the movies. Watters Creek is turning our ritual into an event,…
Three is a magical number–good stuff always comes in threes (as do celebrity deaths, but that’s beside the point). There’s The Three Musketeers, Three Cups of Tea, the Three Wise Men and, of course, Three’s Company. Being a part of a triumvirate is a magical thing, so perhaps that’s why…
Who did you despise the most growing up in our fabulous education system? The tall, chubby class bully? How about the class tattletale? Well, while you’re out swimming in the success they’ll never have this Christmas, why don’t you take your “I’m gonna give them what I never had” kids…
Most, if not all of us have seen water lily paintings, thanks to Monet. But if you get the impression that there’s more to them than that, you’re right. Rising Gallery’s latest exhibit, Waterfront, puts the famous flora front and center in new ways, like Lisa Distefano’s abstracts of Louisiana…
“Play should make you understand something new,” says a character in Nilaja Sun’s brief, beautiful play, No Child. Good plays can enlighten. Bad plays can, too, even if it’s only teaching you something about remaining politely silent and relatively still in a small, hard seat for a couple of hours…
Other people besides James Franco appear in 127 Hours, but as they’re unimportant, they will not be mentioned in this review. Danny Boyle’s film—based on the story of Aron Ralston, who in 2003 cut off his own arm after being stuck for five days under a rock in a Utah…
In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in a flesh-colored, diaphanous cocktail dress, its halter top and tight bodice giving way to spilling tulle. This is the kind of dress a screen heroine wears when a slow-building love plot is coming to a head; it is the…
Though based on actual 2001 events in Ohio that caused an unmanned freight train laden with toxic waste to go haywire, Unstoppable could just as well be set in the shining sun of Reagan’s 1980s. As the conductor-less locomotive begins gathering speed across rural Pennsylvania, bedecked with autumn leaves, it…
The science of global warming is tough enough to evaluate without the sort of hard-sell Ondi Timoner pushes on behalf of her subject, Bjorn Lomborg. Author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and the movie’s eponymous source book, the Danish adjunct professor of statistics became, over the past decade, a thorn in…
Around a Small Mountain travels with an itinerant one-ring circus of proud artisans, performing to shrinking rural crowds. “We’re the last classics,” announces one. And after a long and stubbornly marginal career heading his creative family, 82-year-old director Jacques Rivette nears closing time with this commedia dell’arte. Leads Sergio Castellitto…
Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan’s prize-winning documentary Last Train Home is an intimate portrait of an unfathomable immensity, focusing on a single family caught up in the world’s largest mass migration. Opening overhead shots show a huge mob waiting in the rain to push their way into China’s Guangzhou railroad station…
Sweden has two Abbas. One is a 172-year-old producer of canned herring. The other is a 38-year-old pop group. While the latter did have to negotiate in the mid-’70s for use of the name Abba from the former, there’s little doubt which Abba is Sweden’s most famous export. The pop…
Alright you effing cock-a-roaches, think back to your favorite Al Pacino movie and picture your favorite scene. Now imagine yourself at the AT&T Performing Arts Center for An Evening with Al Pacino asking the man himself any of the questions you’ve had about performances of his that you love, hate,…
If you give a cat a cupcake, it will probably eat it greedily and then vomit the half-digested remains on your bed about an hour later. That’s our experience, anyhow. The popular kids’ book by Laura Numeroff, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, puts a slightly less realistic spin…
If you’re already into glittery vampires and werewolves who “phase” whenever they please, then you need no convincing to attend the Official Twilight Convention, which rolls into town this Saturday and Sunday at The Westin Park Central, 12720 Merit Drive. It should come as no surprise that this massive gathering…
How can you not love Kevin James and Vince Vaughn? Kevin is always the endearing and portly sidekick (with an asthma problem, if you remember his character in Hitch) and Vince is ever the fast-talking funny man who has cemented “ear muffs!” and “Dorothy Mantooth is a saint!” forever in…
My most lasting memory of a visit to the Musee de Orsay in Paris is of Clesinger’s “Woman Bitten by a Snake.” Her naked body, sculpted straight from the artist’s model, is curvaceous and pockmarked with cellulite. I couldn’t take my eyes from it. The unaltered form shocked me–sadly–as the…
