So Im just going to assume all of you know about the classic film Jezebel and the Oscar it won Bette Davis (not to mention another that went to supporting actress Fay Bainter). But did you know that Miss Bette took this role because she lost the part of Scarlett…
If musical success was determined by how many superhero movie soundtracks your band has contributed to, Taking Back Sunday would be bigger than both God and the Beatles. The Long Island-based emo outfit appeared on the soundtracks for such cinematic masterworks as Spiderman 2, Fantastic 4 and Electra. And because…
After this many years, it seems silly to describe how GayBINGO Dallas works again. We’ve frequently told you about the only bingo game in town in which a straight line won’t get you anywhere—arrangements vary by game and prizes go all the way up to $500 for playing in the…
Those people at The Lodge don’t know when to quit. Exotic dancers washing cars—that’s all you have to say. The geniuses behind Bikini Carwash Companies I and II knew that. Unaided by cinematic crutches like plot and characters, Kristi Ducati’s enormous knockers draped in suds were enough to guarantee the…
Knowing what you know now, if you’d been alive back in 19th-century Britain, would you have let anything stop you from going to hear Charles Dickens talk about his novels? Or, if you were living in Elizabethan England, would there be any price you wouldn’t pay to hear Shakespeare crack…
When it comes to summertime, the words “unleashed” and “unhinged” don’t sound so good. I immediately think of mangy, dehydrated dogs roaming hot streets. Then my thought process goes something like this: “Unhinged, eh? Off the hinges. Door off hinges, open. Air conditioning is getting out. Too hot outside. Must…
The last time I checked, The Golden Girls’ Betty White wasn’t Italian. The same goes for Family Matters’ Jaleel White, as well as beloved Eagles defensive end Reggie White. Ditto for Jack, Meg, Barry, Vanna, E.B. and Snow. So it’s hard to say exactly which Whites of Italy will be…
In case you didn’t get enough soccer action during the World Cup (yeah, right), one of the most popular soccer teams in Mexico is coming to town Wednesday night to take on our beloved Hoops, which is what FC Dallas calls themselves for some strange reason (their mascot is a…
I’m so addicted to the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch that I often dream of cashing my last Dallas Observer check and hitchhiking to the Pacific Northwest, where I’d roam the docks of Puget Sound looking for work on an Alaska-bound red crab boat. But alas, I have to don a…
As kids, we’d imitate adults, dressing up in our mother’s clothes or playing doctor with the neighbor kid. We’d build forts out of couch cushions and comforters–a sovereign nation within the living room. If we were lucky, we had access to a few tools, some discarded wood and a perfect…
You’ve never seen Shallow Grave? Shame on you. Danny Boyle’s directorial debut is both hysterically funny and psychotically scary at the same time. So what better way to spend a hot summer night than relaxing poolside, drink in hand, at a classic mid-century motor hotel (a la Psycho) watching this…
At first glance, we got really excited, assuming that Alloy would be an exhibition of affordable, trendy clothing from alloy.com that would propel our status from scenester to hipster in no time. But the show is actually a collection of works by several artists showcasing various materials that can be…
Once upon a time there was a story called Jack and the Beanstalk. It was a fairy tale about a tall boy nicknamed “the Beanstalk” and the wise-cracking spokes-mascot for national fast-food chain Jack in the Box. A key scene between Jack, who is trying to find more low-wage workers,…
Art, like pornography, is difficult to define. It can be purely decorative or completely utilitarian, the result of some spontaneous expression or a well-planned and rehearsed performance or ceremony. Art is many things, and we’d like to hope it is in all things, but what it is exactly is difficult…
To appreciate just how clever our Chinese neighbors are, you’d have to look beyond the cheap imports and knock-offs they ship by the container load to the dollar stores. More than 2,000 years ago, when Western civilization was just a glimmer in some Greco-Roman’s eye, the Chinese were dreaming up…
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of felines will be rolling into town this weekend for an International Cat Association show. There’s a crude joke to be made here about a naughty synonym for “cat” and the amount available to be had on the odd Saturday in Arlington, Texas, but this time, I’m…
Flowers: beautiful, delicate embodiments of youth. Some gardeners even consider fragile blooms to be their children. Such flowers are the subject of watercolor artist Soon Y Warren. Now, let’s not get her confused with Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen’s wife who, oddly, at the start of their romance, was also a…
The word “hero” gets tossed around a bit too liberally these days, with fictional superheroes on movie screens and actors and ball players getting too much money and fame. The Dallas Historical Society’s new exhibit, Texas Heroes: Courage, Honor & Dignity, honors real people who actually did something to make…
The name Homer sucks. In the history of the world only two men of any significance have had the misfortune of being named Homer. One is a yellow cartoon idiot and the other posthumously bores English classes throughout the nation with his ridiculously long books. But this weekend the Jubilee…
It was either founding father Benjamin Franklin or WWE megastar Jimmy “Superfly” Snooka who said, “Every single time I smash an opponent’s face into the turnbuckle I get a mean boner.” Actually neither of those guys said that. I just made it up. But both men would probably be appalled…
Comic impressionist Frank Caliendo is best known for his tenure on Fox’s MADtv (I thought that show got canceled, like, five years ago. I was wrong.) and FOX NFL Sunday, where he gets paid the big bucks for making weekly picks and poking fun at Terry Bradshaw for being bald…
As far as I know, FDR: A Comedy New Deal has nothing at all to do with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. So don’t go expecting jokes about polio and the Great Depression (although, seriously, that is some funny stuff). Instead, FDR stands for Fickert, Davis and Rainone—a trio of entertainers who…
