Whether you go out with the intention to dance or not, you will inevitably be instructed to do so. C & C Music Factory commands it with incessant insistence. “Everybody dance now!!!” Everybody! Grab a partner. ‘Cause it takes two to make a thing go right. And furthermore, it takes…
I met this guy in Connecticut who told me about traveling to Greenwich—a fancypants seaside town I happened to live in at the time. As we discussed its multitude of upscale eateries, he said, “I went to this place—it was amazing. It’s the International…House of Pancakes?” I laughed and looked…
Most weekends, I leave Dallas in the early hours of the morning heading toward the northern suburbs on the famed U.S. Highway 75. While most drive just slightly over the legal speed limit, there are usually dozens of others who zoom past, weaving through traffic and generally being crazy and…
Kayaking is one of those outdoor sports in which you can become reasonably competent after one session. At the Colony Aquatic Park, you can learn the basics in a three-hour class, including paddling skills and safety tips. They’ll have you paddling down the Colorado in no time. Classes are tailored…
More than 10,000 cold-blooded creatures are heading to North Texas this weekend, which is surprising. I didn’t know the GOP National Convention was coming to Texas, and I thought it wasn’t scheduled to place take until next year. (Thank you. Remember to tip your waiter.) Seriously now…the first North American…
Probably by singing a song that can be commonly heard as a ringtone, somebody is going to win Eagle Idol 3: The Search for a Mean Green Superstar, the University of North Texas’ version of the show American Idol. Judges will weed out the delusional, but the audience will choose…
If you’ve ever been in love, had your heart broken or suffered a major crush on that scruffy Starbucks barista, you’ll relate to at least one of the many stories in the romantic musical comedy Adventures in Love. See it with your valentine this weekend at the Flower Mound Performing…
I have a confession to make. I’ve lived in Dallas on and off for almost 20 years and, though I’ve been going to the State Fair every fall for a few years now, I’ve seen little beyond the midway and the car show. I know I’m a bad person because…
She may be most famous for her stint on The View, but if you went to public school in Texas in the early ’90s you probably remember Lisa Ling as one of the original teen hosts of Channel One News, the 12-minute news program with commercials pumped into schools in…
Let us applaud, on principle, Anthony Minghella’s return to small-scale storytelling. Breaking and Entering marks his first original screenplay since the oddball romcom Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991) and a retreat from the jumbo-sized period pieces of his Miramax-to-the-max phase. Overrated as they are, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley…
Ticket buyers to Factory Girl are in for a drag; not even the drag queens will like it. Cookie-cut from the biopic assembly line, this life and times of Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) is the least fabulous movie imaginable about the most fabulous persona in that most fabulous of scenes,…
If a word of Moonlight and Magnolias, the comedy now on the big stage at Dallas Theater Center, is true, then the movie version of Gone With the Wind could have ended up as The Da Vinci Code of 1939. Ron Hutchinson’s play suggests—no, it insists—that early in production, producer…
The Science of Sleep (Warner Bros.) Feature films are to video directors what sitcoms are to stand-up comedians, and for every David Fincher and Seinfeld, there are dozens of artists who should have stayed in the field they know best. Michel Gondry, who made his name directing fantastic videos for…
Explaining the appeal of the WarioWare series is like trying to describe a fever dream: It doesn’t make sense unless experienced. Nevertheless, here goes: Mario’s bizarro-universe twin, the greedy Wario, has invented over 200 absurd micro-games in a scheme to get rich and corner the videogame market. Quantity is job…
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years of the Master of Suspense (Lions Gate) All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal) Anything but Love: Volume One (Fox) Arabian Nights (Universal) Best Picture: Academy Award Winners Collection (Paramount) Boynton Beach Club (Sony) Charmed: The Complete Seventh Season (Paramount) Cinderella III: A Twist in…
We haven’t noticed Neil Young among the artists in the collection of outlaw country and country-rock concert posters that line the walls of the AllGood Café, providing inspiration and looking down in seeming empathy as hangovers are tended to with spicy comfort food and coffee refills on Sunday (and Thursday,…
It’s really pathetic what passes for “girl power” these days. Like those Cheetah Girls—anybody with a 5-to-11-year-old daughter probably knows what I mean—as if singing and dancing around in silly costumes is somehow empowering. And Barbie? That dip is as dumb as ever. Even a badass like Courtney Love has…
We, members of the NAAGP, hereby protest Casa Mañana’s Children’s Playhouse’s premiere of a new musical, Jack & the Beanstalk, on Friday and encourage all largish people and NBA players to join us for a protest at 7 p.m. outside the theater, 3101 W. Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth. (We’ll…
He was straight O.G., out of Grayson County. He pimped, gambled, dressed like a dandy, sold intoxicants—sometimes illegally—and killed, killed, killed. Turn the clock forward 100 years or so, and Old West gambler and gunslinger Luke Short probably would have won a Grammy for best rap artist. There won’t be…
DJ Aaron Bisman is the CEO of JDub Records—the label responsible for the success of Matisyahu…but we’ll forgive him that. The goal of the 26-year-old and his company to spread Jewish culture through contemporary music genres such as punk, hip-hop, jazz and others while providing positive role models to young…
What can one say about Bob Seger that hasn’t been said 100 times at every auto repair shop and truck stop from Detroit to Toronto? Seger’s music speaks to the common man: It has boosted truck sales and brought tears of nostalgia to the eyes of everyone who’s ever made…
Maybe the wife and I are just devoted Democrats. Maybe we just needed an excuse to get out of town. Whatever the case, we took a pilgrimage to Little Rock last year to visit the William J. Clinton Presidential Center. It’s a lovely, glassy place overlooking the Arkansas River. It…
