Dinner theater murder mysteries are perfect for those of us who think that theatrical stage works are severely lacking in delicious appetizers and mock audience fatalities. Powerful dramatic scenes dripping with human pathos are all well and good. But throw in a cheese tray and have the dude two rows…
In the early ’70s, crowds flocked to see Enter the Dragon, and all of a sudden, everybody was kung-fu fighting. While Bruce Lee has gone to the great dojo in the sky, one legend lives on: Chuck Norris. More than a faux Texas Ranger, more than an Internet punch line,…
We’ll go ahead and tell you what Women and Horses is all about to spare you from stumbling upon the descriptions of something else altogether were you to Google the play’s title. Sheilah is a rough, tough, bronco-riding badass. With the help of her leathery, weathered guardian Flo and the…
Jeez, what is up with you parents these days? You start prepping your kids for the SAT in preschool. Between soccer, music lessons and specialized summer camps, every minute of the poor tykes’ lives is programmed. Now comes this—an announcement of luge slider class and tryouts in Southlake, for kids…
Sure, you’ve got a great job. Your savings account is looking good. You’re on target for retirement at 60. And Junior’s college fund is well on its way. But what’s the plan for when you’re pushing up daisies? Is everything taken care of? Do you even know how to start…
The difference between creativity and cheating in digital art is a thin one—probably just one pixel wide. At their best, computer-assisted elements of design and shading create other-worldly effects that paints, sculptures and even glass refraction can’t replicate. Of course, at their worst, the effects are a blurry, synthetic cop-out…
Medusa—that’s a heady name for a winery, but gnarly old grape vines do resemble writhing snakes protruding from a stubborn head. Only the vines have not yet turned into stone, surviving 100 years of dry-farming and hand-picking in the California soil. Several private, small-lot Zinfandel vineyards now yield their magic…
Pat Summerall is a legendary broadcaster, the longtime ying to John Madden’s yap. But underneath his cool, soft-spoken exterior lies a troubled, haunted man plagued by alcoholism. Until he disclosed his problems a few years ago, no one would have guessed that he was the one in the booth who…
Did you know a Texas wine had a hand in ending the Cold War? In 1990, then President Bush served Soviet President Gorbachev a 1987 Llano Estacado Chardonnay with shrimp and crabmeat salad at Camp David. Texas is also home to such wines as Cap Rock, Delaney Vineyards and Pheasant…
As culinary crimes go, Sweeney Todd is one of the most delicious. The barber who seeks revenge on the judge who framed him discovers he has a thirst for blood and is soon slicing the upper-crust throats of 19th-century London. He teams up with an enterprising neighbor who has a…
Let’s think of some made-in-heaven pairs: Siegfried and Roy. Willing and able. Bogey and Bacall. PB and J. Starsky and Hutch. Jake and, obviously, the Fatman. Bikers and Badges. Fruit ‘n’ Fibre. T and…Wait. Go back one. Not the cereal, the one before. Bikers and Badges? Where the hell did…
Explore your domestic kink at the Home & Garden Show. You know you are a shelter magazine junkie when Cottage Living is jostling Metropolitan Home for space on your coffee table, when Martha Stewart Living is competing with Architectural Digest in your bathroom and when you go to bookstores looking…
Switching the lights on and off really quickly—this is what most of us call experimenting with light. Starting Friday night, the 6th Annual MindFest returns to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, 1501 Montgomery Street, to expand your definition of light experimentation with “Trip the Light Fantastic!” At…
Hello, Wind? This is Nipples. Come in? This is Nipples to the Wind, do you read me? We have a lot to talk about. First of all, Wind, we dislike it when you blow cold air on us, because it creates a lot of embarrassment. Secondly, Wind, we know you…
So we all know gays and lesbians can’t get married. But hey, who cares if we pay the same taxes as everyone else? Why bother with that “all men are created equal” malarkey? I wasn’t using my inalienable rights anyways. Despite all the obstacles to marriage, there is always the…
Different cultures have different coming-of-age rituals. Some parents send their teens out into the woods to fend for themselves. Others throw the little boogers multi-thousand-dollar parties to which they invite their little booger friends so they can all be on an MTV show about what little boogers they are. I…
The Goss Gallery opened with a bang last year with its inaugural exhibit of David LaChapelle’s hip and surreal photographs. And since then, well, um, hey, remember that LaChapelle exhibit? I’m probably just out of touch with the photographic art world, but I wasn’t jumping up for joy at the…
So you didn’t make it to Sundance this year. You intended to go, but you just couldn’t swing the vacation time, right? Excuses, excuses. Who are you trying to kid—you call yourself a film lover, yet you didn’t even make it to the USA Film Festival, and that was just…
Brad Meltzer’s got a rep as a writer of serious fiction—legal thrillers mostly, but also the new The Book of Fate, which deals with “a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle…ancient Masonic symbols hidden in the street plan of Washington, D.C. and a 200-year-old secret code invented by Thomas Jefferson,” says the…
When Michael Moore ruined American political documentaries with his impetuous voice, ugly beard and embarrassing white lies, the ever-seeking conspiracy theorists and liberal ranters were forced to look elsewhere for their demanding dosage of Republican-bashing. Moore’s abomination of the medium not only stopped people from watching documentaries but stopped people…
Thought Napoleon Dynamite might have been a History Channel documentary about a French emperor who’s into explosives? We all did. It’s not. But, a lot of people think it’s still really good. Some even think it’s worth more than a few viewings, so you should take the opportunity this Friday…
By the time Trust the Man opens this weekend, it will have been nearly a year since it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight. Forget that it’s a year old; this thing tastes a good decade past its expiration…
