Another Gay Movie Directed by Todd Stephens. Screenplay by Stephens, based on a story by Stephens and Tim Kaltenecker. Starring Michael Carbonaro, Jonah Blechman, Jonathan Chase and Mitch Morris. Opens Friday. A blow-by-blow remake of American Pie, albeit with more gerbil sex play, Todd Stephens’ Another Gay Movie follows four…
Without actress Trista Wyly, the new show at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre would be just another ho-hum, pleasant little trifle. High art isn’t this venue’s specialty. Here it’s low-brow comedy and melodrama most of the year, with the audience invited to toss popcorn at hissing villains and to sing old-timey…
Arrested Development: Season Three (Fox) The final collection of Arrested Development discs feels sadly incomplete: only 13 episodes this time, the result of Fox’s inability to attract viewers to one of TV’s greatest comedies and the network’s unwillingness to give it a full farewell. But none of that diminishes the…
Have you ever looked into onrushing traffic and imagined how much damage you would cause with a simple crank of the steering wheel? If so, FlatOut 2 is the racing game for you. The latest entry in a genre best described as Evel Knievel meets NASCAR, FlatOut 2 lets you…
Akeelah and the Bee (Lions Gate) American Gun (IFC) The Castle of Cagliostro (Manga) Desperate Housewives: Season Two (Buena Vista) Stephen King’s Desperation (Lions Gate) Friends With Money (Sony) Iron Island (Kino) Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Paramount) Lonesome Jim (IFC) Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Warner Bros.)…
For untold numbers of teenage girls circa 1996, Jewel Kilcher was much more than a musician—she was a role model. She taught us to aspire to many, many things, such as living in vans and playing guitars in bathroom stalls. She gave us hope. If the jerk who inspired “You…
Tom Bosley is inarguably best remembered as perennial TV dad Howard Cunningham from Happy Days. Like most young thespians of his era (forging careers before you could shortcut your way to celebrity by eating the most bugs on a reality show or betrothing a pop music starlet), Bosley cut his…
In her poem “Famous,” Naomi Shihab Nye writes: “I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous/Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular/But because it never forgot what it could do.” Incidentally, it’s this knack for finding beauty in the ordinary that makes Nye’s work…
Inspired by her native India, Aditi Samarth’s art employs iconography, batik fabric design and a range of meditative deities to represent time and harmony. We’re glad that she’s the Visiting Scholar in Humanities at Richland College and co-coordinator of an emerging Asian/Middle Eastern American Studies Program—those who create harmony are…
When people think of Dallas, John F. Kennedy and pivotal events in American history, they think of bullets. However, the JFK Museum endeavors to supplement that experience with a more positive one. The SNCC Experience in Dallas features interviews with 1960s civil rights activists Bishop Emeritus Mark Herbener, Ernest McMillan…
Desperados Mexican Restaurant is sponsoring Tacos for Kidds. But not just any kids. Starting Tuesday, and continuing the first Tuesday of each month throughout the year, Desperados will donate 20 percent of the day’s sales to Kidd’s Kids—106.1’s Kidd Kraddick’s charity supporting kids with special medical needs. The money from…
Considering the hazy, light-polluted night skies we get around the metromess area, it may take a little imagination to understand the awe the night sky used to inspire. Stargazing around these parts usually means getting into an exclusive club and having a B-list brush with greatness. Stars of the Pharaohs,…
A teacher living on a meager salary. Nothing new there, right? Terrible crimes happen every day. No shocker there either. Now combine the two. Hollywood would give you Michelle Pfeiffer in a leather jacket or perhaps even a bat-wielding James Belushi riding a motorcycle through a high school. You know,…
Growing up I was obsessed with geology. At first it was simply because dinosaur bones could be found in sedimentary rock, but later I also grew to appreciate the parts of the earth’s surface that weren’t the fossilized remains of living critters. Many afternoons I found myself sifting through drawers…
Candlebox? Wow, who’d have thought those guys were still around? Oh, it’s a reunion tour with all original members. Who were the original members? Weren’t they from Seattle? I thought they were leftover metal burnouts who latched onto the whole grunge thing. The only song I can remember off the…
Who would have thought that the few drops of precipitation we’d see this summer would be enough to rain out Addison’s Fourth of July fireworks festivities? Well, it was and it did. But this isn’t some lame collection of sparklers and flaming pinwheels. The Town of Addison’s Kaboom Town is…
Looking at me, you probably wouldn’t know that I throw it down on the dance floor. My fairly conservative attire, coupled with a less-than-petite build, hides the fact that I was made for Dance Club 21 and Soul Train. Usher who? That’s right. And now would be the time to…
Familial dysfunction, unstable tykes, failing marriages and a parade. You could find those things in just about any Texas town—large or small. You just don’t have to look too hard to find them in Borland, a film named for the town in which it’s set. Directed by Quam Odusi, this…
If the Friday night line-up on BBC America isn’t enough to keep that Anglophilic entertainment streak satisfied (and now that Hell’s Kitchen is over, the delectable Gordon Ramsay isn’t sloppin’ out British slang and cuss words on Monday nights), Theatre Britain offers a solution in the form of its third…
With titles such as The Wedding Diaries, Sinfully Sexy and The Wallflower, author Linda Francis Lee is a one-woman chick-lit factory. Now the former Dallas debutante and former Junior Leaguer tackles The Devil in the Junior League. The devil who wears Prada might meet her match in Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand…
It’s very fitting that the Amon Carter Museum’s new photography exhibit, a collection of rare color photographs taken between 1939 and 1943, is called Bound for Glory. You see, that’s also the title of the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the ramblin’ Dust Bowl singer who gave a voice to millions…
Sixty-one years ago, 35,000 Marines stormed the island of Iwo Jima in one of the most horrific battles of WWII. More than 6,800 men died in five weeks of combat, commemorated by photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his photo of six Marines raising the American flag…
