Good thing the Miracle League of Frisco joined with the 2008 Winter Games of Texas—because it will take a miracle to pull off winter games in this part of the state. Just having snow would be unusual, but only a miracle could create a ski-worthy mountain in time for the…
Kaleidoscopes! Collage boxes! Explosions! Sounds fun, doesn’t it? The participants in A Group Show: Nine Texas Artists at Haley Henman Gallery must think so, because they incorporate those things in their exhibit. An eclectic mix of sculpture, ink, collage and digital technique comprises the show, which includes work by Brad…
When watching Wes Anderson’s 1996 directorial debut, Bottle Rocket, there are several “firsts” that the viewer will notice. Bottle Rocket is a stunning first film for Anderson as well as the local hero power couple, Luke and Owen Wilson. Outside of Boz Scaggs and Steve Miller, the boys are probably…
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…
Don’t get me wrong, I love my grandmother. And yet, I sometimes wish for a little Italian grandma. I imagine her always wearing her hair in a bun. I would call her Nonna and she’d slap my hand with a wooden spoon when I tried to sneak a taste of…
Are you a Jerry Bruckheimer film, or are you a Gus Van Sant film? In the movie version of your fascinating, brilliant self, do you feature Nicolas Cage at the height of his ass-kicking action flick career, or an unknown pair of precocious Bostonians named Matt and Ben? If even…
Travis Stork (of The Bachelor: Paris) decided that the M.D. after his name and his history of public skankitude make him perfectly qualified to write a book teaching women how to be better at being women. 7 p.m. Thursday, see Travis Stork sign his book Don’t Be That Girl at…
Volumes have been written about life’s roads, especially when related to matters of the heart. You can only choose one road at a time and hope that you chose the best one. But what if you could somehow travel those roads the minute you met someone? Life, aging, your partner’s…
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…
Michael Ian Black has fans of all kinds. There are the die-hard obsessive admirers of his early work with sketch comedy juggernaut The State, and casual fans of his Vh-1’s I Love the [decade] commentaries. He is recognized as a lover of Sierra Mist, a celebrity poker enthusiast, and will…
Jimmy Carter is not the sexiest ex-president. He’s quiet, a little mousy and he stays out of the spotlight for the most part. While Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush have stood for every possible photo opportunity in the years since their presidency, Carter has calmly reached out to world…
Babies are the scariest things on Earth. They shoot out of you all bitchy; they’re drunk all the time, pissing and shitting uncontrollably; and they’re totally selfish, greedy and rude. Are you qualified to take care of them? Should you even be allowed access to one of these angry vagina…
The “X factor” is an indescribable, intangible characteristic that makes something stand out. You can’t bottle it, buy it or sell it. You can however, assemble X-tinged components under one roof to give one interpretation of what it might look like. Deep Ellum/Fair Park mainstay 500X Gallery does just that…
The All New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One (Turner) American Carny: True Tales From the Circus Sideshow (Koch Vision) Cary Grant: 4-Disc Collector’s Set (Republic) Casablanca (Warner Bros.) Death Sentence (Fox) Eagle vs. Shark (Miramax) Evil Roy Slade (TMG) Golden Door (Miramax) Happy Tree Friends: Complete Season One…
When I was 12, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway totally screwed me over. After visiting the famed Brickyard and eagerly paying 10 bucks to take “a lap around the track,” I was placed in a golf cart that putted around the asphalt at a not-entirely-death-defying 9 mph. This was not the…
Joshua (Fox) George Ratliff’s movie, a sort of satirical take on Rosemary’s Baby, came and went upon its release; seems no one got the joke about how parents (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga, in this case) are scared shitless of their own children — especially the titular Joshua, played by…
Eleven months after winning the screenplay and audience awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director James C. Strouse’s Grace Is Gone has received a musical makeover care of Clint Eastwood, who reportedly screened the film and thought that it could do with a new original score, which he offered…
Having a child destroys your immunity to horror, real or imagined. Before the blessed event, you could laugh off The Exorcist, The Omen or any of a thousand gory shockers with some wide-eyed tyke as either the prey or the spawn of Beelzebub. Afterward you can’t even see the baby…
The word diva evokes a number of celebrity prima donnas: Jennifer Lopez, Diana Ross, Barbara Streisand, Clay Aiken. It’s not supposed to be an endearing term—it’s a near epithet for a fussy, self-possessed woman whose backstage rider demands room-temperature Evian for her dog and white couches with tuberose Diptyque candles…
Who says that lawyers lack color? It’s certainly not so at Kilgore & Kilgore, which houses an extensive collection of colorful, modern MADI art. Its newest exhibit features works by female masters of the craft. The New Amazons of the Avant-Garde: MADI Women Artists runs through April 4 at the…
Gone are the days of the Von Erichs, Chris Adams, Kamala and other local wrestling legends, but the sport itself is coming back to Dallas. It’s definitely not the Sportatorium, but House of Blues is making a go at hosting professional wrestling—I’m just trying to figure out how they are…
The Texas Fishing, Hunting and Outdoors Show claims to be “THE GREATEST OUTDOORS SHOW IN TEXAS,” which is suspicious because I’m pretty sure “THE GREATEST OUTDOORS SHOW IN TEXAS” includes me, six to eight cans of High Life, a headlamp and 45 minutes of trying to find a tree to…
