Arts & Culture

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day. I imagine that’s what the employees of the Texas Discovery Gardens will be chanting during Outdoor Fun Day this Saturday. All this precipitation is probably both a blessing and a curse to the horticultural haven. Despite astounding greenery, it wouldn’t be…

Raise the terror attack threat suspicious activity alert monitor bar system color code level to pearly white! Why? Because, Lord willing, the Gospel Comedy Explosion is coming to town! Sister Cantaloupe, Chocolate, Ms. Vickie and other special guests will be holy rolling in on a church bus fully loaded with…

Unicycles and juggling were once the domain of clowns. Now, nerds rule both disciplines. Juggling world records, for example, are tracked by something called the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON). Members include two nerds who call themselves the Bounce Dicks, so named because they hold the world…

If you can quote lines from the movie Office Space, have every episode of The Office taped and can’t get enough of Dilbert and his magically monotonous cubicle, then as the Veggie Tales characters say, “have we got a show for you.” Man vs. Office is another take on the…

I’m not exactly sure how you would go about this, but if you could smuggle a bottle of Crown past the American Airline Center’s crack security team (the ones who broke a $50 compact during a particularly aggressive purse search at a Dixie Chicks show in December, thank you), you…

Many folks give Katharine Hepburn the credit for having the biggest cojones of all the classic actresses, and Joan Crawford definitely was legendarily crazy, but Bette Davis was the queen of them all. She was over the top, more difficult on set than Lindsay Lohan could ever dream of being,…

Jeffery “Mayhem” Thompson was a Renaissance fair enthusiast, a television actor, a radio personality, a musician, a bouncer, a personal bodyguard and the head of security for the band Damageplan. It was the security gig that led him to the fateful night when he, guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and two…

Of all the versions of “Cinderella” handed down by various cultures, why was the United States stuck with the syrupy translation of Frenchman Charles Perrault’s tale? His Cinderella is a sappy little do-gooder who eventually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Better is the Brothers Grimm take, in which the stepsisters end…

“His swollen member throbbing in his Levi’s, John rams Jeanette against the counter like the bull ram he is. Her warm loins tingling, she accepts his moist tongue in her mouth.” Now if that don’t sound like literature to you, why don’t you head back to New York where you…

For too long, museums have separated art from science. But who has not gazed upon the structure of a T-Rex and seen beauty? But for one evening, natural history and the arts will unite in a lecture called Art Treasures of Natural History: Connoisseurship and Preservation. The accompanying exhibit features…

Not that you care about my childhood, but around age 8, I acquired the knack for entertaining Japanese businessmen. Now wait, just let me finish. My dad worked for a Japanese company that, as he explained, “made the parts that connect the parts in a computer.” On occasion, he would…

There’s a YouTube video on Unknown Hinson’s Web site in which the enigmatic pyscho-country guitar badass is being interviewed. Speaking of being onstage, he says, “Just don’t bring none of those drum circle sumbitches–‘scuse me, hippies—up there with me, ’cause I ain’t a-doing none of that jam mess.” It’s reason…

You finally redid the living room. Took forever. New HDTV, awesome couch to replace the hand-me-down from the parents. You even spent a week repainting the walls to bring out the various shades in your West Elm rug. But what to do with the empty space over the couch? That’s…

SPORM! sounds like one of those weird substances kids were supposed to play with in the ’90s. Remember Floam, that beaded foam stuff? And Gak, that gooey green junk that made farting noises when you squeezed it? And Goooze, Smatter, Skweeez and Sqand? But alas, no, SPORM! isn’t a Nickeolodeon…

Usually one goes to a yoga studio to get relaxed, not to get the blues. So, what’s this about blues music in a yoga studio? Bend Studio, known for its unique yoga space by day, performance space by night formula, proves that you don’t have to have the blues to…

We like to eat. Not only do we like to eat, but we like to eat in such a way as to make the body a battleground. We’re talkin’ breakfast tacos and a something-on-a-stick washed down with the first of many large coffees followed with a double-decker sandwich with a…

We’ve yet to see the 2006 Thai film Dynamite Warrior (AKA Kon fai bin), but we think several such warriors might have been active in our neighborhood on the evening of July the 4th, illegal or no. The film, however, follows Jone Bang Fai—a young warrior with a knack for…

When Resident Evil 4 was originally released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2005, the game reinvented a lot of what had grown tiresome about the series. Most obvious were the setting and enemies you faced: Instead of the various building-overrun-by-zombies scenarios that played out in past versions, Resident Evil 4…

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