Last time I checked, getting shot in the head could earn you some serious street cred. However, for singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, best known for the 1991 adult contemporary hit “Walking in Memphis” and making babies with 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas, it was simply an opportunity to get back on a…
When it’s festooned with Winnie the Pooh characters, it’s a mobile. When it’s strung with abstract shapes, it’s “kinetic art.” The works of Salvador Presta fall into the latter category (as to whether he likes Pooh, we wouldn’t venture a guess). Presta’s works explore the interaction of space and light…
Never really got the whole “cowboy poetry” thing. Seems like contrived sentimentality, the bane of good poetry, but since this Sunday Fort Worth will mark the National Day of the Cowboy with a tribute that includes the Cowtown Opry cowboy poetry contest, we thought we’d give it a shot. Let’s…
Tim McGraw and his CMA-sore-loser wife bring their bullshit mainstream country treacle back to Dallas for the second installment of their Soul2Soul tour. Faith Hill’s music is so unremarkable that I can’t remember what any of her songs sound like. I recall that her desperation for success led her to…
I’ve attempted to draw the perfect rocket ship since I was around 5 years old. I am incapable of such an achievement. For more decades than I can to admit, this simple achievement has eluded me. And I’m not talking about some crazy-detailed NASA-worthy model, I’m just going for the…
The day George Clooney, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie do dinner theater may be light years away. Heck, it would probably be an alternate universe. So instead we’ll just have to settle for knock-offs thanks to Tim Shane and the Comedy Killers, as they present Celebrity Newly-Deads. Tom Schmooze and…
Remember the days of neighborhood pickup football games? You know, lacing up your sneaks after watching the Cowboys whip the Steelers (or maybe the Bills, depending on how old you are), and your team (named after your street, of course) scoring a game-winning touchdown via the strategy of six lateral…
Well, it looks like Felicity’s higher education from fictional college UNY didn’t do her much good–she ended up as a waitress at a pie diner in Small Town, U.S.A. And forget about choosing between Ben or Noel–Keri Russell’s now married to a controlling bad egg of a husband who won’t…
Since the early ’90s, hundreds of young women have been found dead, raped and tortured in the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua–the Mexican sister city of El Paso. Most of them worked at one of the city’s hundreds of maquiladoras (assembly factories operated by American corporations in search of cheap…
When a photographer shoots a photograph, he has a decision to make. Crop close to show only detail, removing the noise that might surround the subject, or allow other elements to creep into the image. German artist Wolfgang Zurborn accepts this challenge with fervor, choosing to represent all elements that…
Forget Captain Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Chances are in 20 years everyone else will have forgotten it too. But Long John Silver will still be sailing the seven seas long afterward. Treasure Island is one of the most popular and enduring stories in the world. Come…
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell is an appropriate, Bush-approved Afghanistan war hero. In his new book, Lone Survivor, the Texan lashes out at the media and questions engagement rules against killing unarmed civilians. Luttrell regrets his June 2005 decision to spare unarmed Afghani goatherds who stumbled upon his four-man SEAL team,…
During the summer of love, people hung out outside, sang songs and had sex, producing kids with stupid names like “Flowerpuff.” But summer lovin’ is what happened to Sandy and Danny in Grease. This Thursday, combine the two by bringing your significant other to a free outdoor screening of Grease…
Seeking that elusive balance between having fun and staying out of trouble? Nate the Great, Kid Detective and star of the eponymous children’s books and play, proves that it’s possible to solve mysteries, have adventures and still be an all-around good kid. That makes him a great inspiration for young…
In the age of visual communication, photographs are a way of showing a scene to those not close enough to see it for themselves. More than that, though, they are a snapshot of a moment in time, freezing a point in time that might pass too quickly to be seen…
What’s not to like about the combination of 1920s Hollywood and murder? Theatre Three’s opening musical this season features Fatty Arbuckle, the famous director prosecuted for killing a starlet, and Desmond Taylor, a director who was himself murdered. They’re just supporting characters, but it’s not a bad backdrop. Mack and…
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be presented by Casa Mañana at Bass Performance Hall, Fourth and Calhoun streets in Fort Worth. The musical is based on the 1988 film starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine and is the story of two con men (played…
One can raise a hooplah over just about anything, and we’re aware that one person’s hooplah is another person’s snooze fest. But we’re fairly confident that the hooplah over Hooplah, the Webb Gallery’s latest exhibition, is well deserved. Since 1989, this downtown Waxahachie gallery has been an art aficionado’s destination…
Let’s see, you take various assorted techno-geek cannon fodder, give them lots of cool gadgets (possibly a couple of annoying kids too), isolate the entire group in some improbable locale and then have the latest technological marvel go horribly awry as a result of human hubris. Of course, we’re talking…
“Warning, Joe Rogan may be considered offensive to many people.” That’s the first line on the Improv’s web bio for Rogan. Frankly, it’s a bit of an exaggeration. I mean, a million people get offended by women wearing pants–everything’s offensive to someone. Joe Rogan’s simply loud and says “dick” and…
Even though we are at war right now, it probably doesn’t feel like it to your average college type. This was definitely not the case in the late ’60s and early ’70s during Vietnam. It seemed like every college student was either protesting the war or protesting the protesters. One…
My little brother was one of those kids fascinated with geological catastrophes (and Star Trek, but that’s another story), and he had all of those Time-Life books about volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tornadoes and other fire-and-brimstone-type events throughout history. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius was one of his all-time favorite calamities,…
