Arrested Development is the sitcom most people point to when trying to name the one outstanding live-action comedy that Fox has aired, but you have to also give props to Christopher Titus’ self-titled show, which ran from 2000 until 2002. You wouldn’t think that a show about a man wrestling…
I don’t heart the valet. I want to take its little silent “t” and knee it in the balls. Why am I supposed to be totally OK with handing my keys over to a stranger and then paying him to hide my car from me? I bet the first guy…
You gotta respect a movie that’s managed to garner the keywords, “action,” “comedy,” “fantasy” and “horror” all in the space of a couple of hours. And Evil Dead 2 really is all those things. As described in the plot outline on IMDb.com, “a young man named Ash takes his girlfriend…
When I was a kid, my family would drive down to Killeen a few times a year to visit my grandparents, and we’d always stop in West, Texas (note the comma), for a kolache or two. West is, after all, the “home of the official kolache of the Texas Legislature,”…
With more than 250 artists and craftsmen displaying and demonstrating their work, ARTFEST 2007 truly lives up to this year’s theme: “Art for Everyone.” What may seem like “just another craft show” (albeit an extremely oversized one) to the untrained eye of the jaded passer-by is actually a treasure trove…
Coolness. Kansas is coming to McKinney’s Myers Park and Event Center—at last, a band from my high school years in the ’70s. I remember the first time I heard “Heat of the Moment,” it was…huh? That was Asia? Right. Anyway, I really dug “Come Sail Aw…” Oh…that was Styx. Um…”More…
Big title for a little gem written and performed by veteran stage and TV actress Ronnie Claire Edwards (The Waltons, Designing Women). In tiny Theatre Too, Edwards welcomes the audience into the prison cell of “Little Egypt,” not the famous belly dancer of the 19th century, but a former “cooch…
Imagine the disaster of a marriage if a grown-up Charlie Brown bedded and wed his nemesis, Lucy van Pelt. She’d constantly call him a “blockhead.” He’d take her abuse and try to change his wimpy ways for the sake of the relationship. That’s pretty much the plot, such as it…
The World O’Crap blog has called conservative commentator and first-time novelist Tamara Wilhite a Michelle Malkin/Ann Coulter wannabe who “doesn’t have the hair or the legs” for the job. Real conservative blogs like Bushcountry.org, on the other hand, love her. Maybe you can decide for yourself by seeing her at…
This is what mojitos were made for. Get out the high-heeled red dancing shoes—the king of rumba is playing at the Meyerson. The hot syncopation of Arturo Sandoval’s Latin jazz is musical café Cubano straight from the soul. In 1961, young Sandoval took up the trumpet in his Cuban village…
Twenty days before his death in 1996, Timothy Leary taped a farewell message disclosing his thoughts on morality. At that point, 30-odd years after his attempts—along with author Ken Kesey and their band of psychedelic sidekicks, the Merry Pranksters—to initiate revolution through the potentially mind-expanding powers of LSD, no one…
Vincent Bugliosi’s name suggests some type of horror movie aesthetic, but that may be because his name already sits atop one of the scariest stories ever: Helter Skelter. He’s the author of this masterpiece and was also the prosecutor of Charles Manson. Bugliosi has recently lent his eye for detail,…
Children might not know it, but they’re all in training to grow up to be special effects dudes (and dudettes). C’mon, the SPFX crew spends the whole day bringing monsters to life, playing with robots, staging battles with action figures and painting faces—the neighborhood playground is practically your internship, kiddos…
Here’s what you need to know about hellogoodbye: Their music has been described as “power pop/synth pop,” they’ve appeared on MTV’s The Real World Austin and in publicity photos they’ve been seen blowing on dandelions, standing in a field with a deer and sitting in a locker room wearing nothing…
People love to hate on the Eagles, but give them some credit: They created an entirely new music genre where rock peters out and where country doesn’t kick in. The Eagles mined this bland space between rock and country for a decade, selling millions of records and leading the way…
In his quest to conquer the Orient in the late 1700s, Napoleon Bonaparte led the French army into Egypt, hoping to wrest its valuable resources from the British and pave the way east. He took with him 160 of France’s most notable scholars, artists and engravers in order to document…
How doth thee love the ladies? You buy them cheap drinks in hopes of getting in their pants. You courteously text-message them a couple days after getting them in the sack…to get that Shiner you accidentally left in the fridge. You do not love the ladies, you poseur! Atone for…
Like most other kids, I got my fill of cartoons every Saturday morning. In hindsight though, my television proclivities leaned toward the sitcom and somewhat frighteningly so. I remember feeling sorry for Edith Bunker because she was so meek. I was disturbed when George Jefferson would walk on British neighbor…
Vincent Bugliosi’s name suggests some type of horror movie aesthetic, but that may be because his name already sits atop one of the scariest stories ever: Helter Skelter. He’s the author of this masterpiece and was also the prosecutor of Charles Manson. Bugliosi has recently lent his eye for detail,…
Do you think we’re never going to survive unless we get a little crazy? Have you been kissed by a rose on the grave? Have you twice impregnated supermodel Heidi Klum? If so, then you’re probably Seal Samuel, survivor of a childhood battle with discoid lupus that left you with…
For the life of me, I will never understand how a person can spend a day in 90-degree heat and then declare that they need a cup of tea. I took my very British mother to the Arboretum last week, and I guarantee that if she’d known they were having…
Have you ever sat around watching Sister Act on a Saturday afternoon and thought to yourself, “Damn, I really wish this were a British comedy starring Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle dressed as zany nuns instead of that annoying Whoopi Goldberg trying to teach nuns how to sing?” After all,…
