Comedian Steve Byrne must have a lot of fun filling out census forms. Having sprung forth from the union of an Irish father and a Korean mother, he describes himself as a “CaucAsian,” meaning his brand of humor must lie somewhere in the comedy gulf between Margaret Cho and Colin…
Would you rather spend your Tuesday night parked in front of must-see TV or learning something? The Fort Worth Modern Art Museum makes that an easy question to answer, with their regular Tuesday lectures by artists, scholars and critics. This week, it’s Alexandra Munroe, who specializes in Asian Arts at…
I’ve always thought that toy trains were pretty cool, especially considering the fact that Neil Young is into them. There’s just something undeniably charming, unbelievably nerdy and quintessentially American about building a tiny little fantasy town to drive your tiny little fantasy train around in. If Lionel is looking for…
If there’s one person a child, hell, anyone, wouldn’t want to disappoint it’s Mr. Rogers. You wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of what would have to be the most godawful, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking look of disenchantment. An educator, baby-sitter, illusionist and friend on the small screen, Fred Rogers…
If, like me, you have an inexplicable obsession with the colorful and kitschy calaveras of Mexico (you know, the skeleton brides and grooms, the busloads of skeleton passengers and such), you’re in for a treat: Day of the Dead: Migrations in Life will be on display at the Ice House…
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is funnier than its malapropic title—the audience with whom I saw the movie wasn’t laughing so much as howling—and even more difficult to parse. Eyes wide, face fixed in an avid grin, Sacha Baron Cohen’s ersatz Kazakh TV…
Time perhaps scrambling it’s for Alejandro González Iñárritu to stop his narratives. After making an exciting debut in 2000 with Amores Perros—a movie whose gimmicky Tarantino-esque tinkering with structure seemed fresher en Español and grounded in gritty Mexico City location shooting—González Iñárritu apparently decided to devote his feature-film career to…
No secret what Tennessee Williams might have been inhaling as he worked his chubby fingers over the typewriter keys creating The Gnädiges Fräulein. This bizarrely funny absurdist one-act, now on view in a production by WingSpan Theatre Company at the Bath House Cultural Center, burbles with doobie-doobie daffiness—like Waiting for…
Mission: Impossible III: Special Edition (Paramount) On the commentary track, director J.J. Abrams and star Tom Cruise sound like they’ve fallen in love; you might say they complete each other’s sentences, except that’s just Cruise interrupting the Alias creator, who rescued a franchise by streamlining it, lightening it, brightening it,…
Few phenomena are as hugely popular and bitterly mocked as the Dance Dance Revolution series. That’s probably because humanity falls into two camps: fleet-footed whiz kids and rhythm-impaired klutzes. This reviewer falls into the latter category, despite having seen Riverdance an unhealthy number of times. For a game that’s mainly…
Baywatch: Season 1 (First Look) The Benny Hill Collection (Music Video Dist.) CSI: Miami — The Complete Fourth Season (Paramount) Down to the Bone (Hart Sharp) Future-Kill: Limited Collector’s Edition (Subversive) Ghost in the Shell SAC: Complete Collection (Manga) The Ghost Whisperer: The Complete First Season (Paramount) Hardcastle and McCormick:…
Previewing what promises to be a raucous and competitive Dallas Mavericks home opener against the San Antonio Spurs is so easy a caveman could do it. With that in mind, we turned over the assignment to Boro, a Neanderthal we found outside a bar on Lower Greenville. Here’s what he…
Moms have needs and desires, hopes and dreams. Some moms dream of running off with the pool boy. Some moms dream of their children growing up to become doctors, lawyers or pool boys. Still other mothers have that same unhealthy desire for attention and constant validation that draws so many…
I wondered once if I could be a comedian. I was doing the whole theater thing, and a couple of people said I was funny, so I began to ponder. After coming up with one joke in the course of a week, I gave up. This probably had something to…
Before seeing Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, it was hard to imagine that a show about sexual oppression and brutality could be funny. But it is, and no matter how many times you see it, the tears and laughter don’t seem to lessen. Who knows how that bodes for the content…
OUT TAKES Dallas has come a long way from showing episodes of the original British Queer As Folk eight years ago to the savvy showcase of gay- and lesbian-themed films that you may otherwise never get a chance to see. With lots of features for guys and lots of features…
Here’s a random piece of city trivia: The Dallas FrontRunners, the gay social running group, was inspired by the book The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren. I wonder if she’ll join them on her visit to Dallas. Warren signs her new book, Lavender Locker Rooms: 3,000 Years of Great…
Part of what makes Looney Tunes characters live and breathe is their symphonic accompaniment. It’s the muted trumpet that accompanies Daffy Duck’s bewilderment after having his beak blown to the other side of his head or the staccato violins that accent Elmer Fudd’s footsteps as he tiptoes up to a…
For a time in the late ’70s, Forrest Gump just ran. Why? Because he felt like RUNNING. I, myself have a similar philosophy about eating… However, for many children around the world, this isn’t an option–which is why thousands of runners the world over are joining Kenyan world record holder…
Artist Michael Mentler is an instructor at the Society for the Figurative Arts. Sounds like a place where you’d learn the finer points of doing really good-looking long division, right? It’s not. It’s all about learning to draw figures—something the artist does remarkably well. That’s reflected in his recent exhibit,…
Bust out the absinthe and hide your guns, everybody: Vincent Van Gogh is in the house. From now until January 7, the Dallas Museum of Art (or, as I like to call it, Not The Kimbell) is hosting Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat,, the largest collection of Van Gogh works…
If you have ever wondered what it’s like to walk in the company of dinosaurs, you can find out now at the Heard Natural Science Museum. Because of recent advances in science and technology, there will be real, live dinosaurs at the museum’s Dinosaurs Alive! exhibit. Featured dinosaurs include T-Rex,…
