According to interviews with the popera (pop + opera) boy band Il Divo, the name means “the male version of the divine.” What can be more divine than four clean-shaven, tanned gentlemen in tastefully disheveled tuxedos? Il Divo is not merely a group of comfortingly feminine but powerfully masculine vocalists…
What’s more inspiring, artistically or otherwise, than running one’s fingertips over the supple curves or taut musculature of…um, er, never mind. Look, all I’m trying to say is that for centuries the human body has motivated and inspired artists in their creative processes. The AlSo Gallery, 1425 Dragon St., honors…
Apparently, the students of the Miles Batt Workshop held in March produced some “wild and wonderful” art. Whether it’s wild because the attendees were eccentric geniuses or because the class was one letter away from being a “butt workshop” remains to be seen. Either way, it should be pretty interesting…
If in 1993 you scoffed at the notion that the lady singing “All I Wanna Do” was any more than a one-hit wonder, you weren’t alone. But here it is 13 years later and Sheryl Crow’s got a bona fide career. Some claim she slept her way up the charts,…
Kidnapping, assault and an avalanche make for one hell of a bachelor party, no doubt, as evidenced in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The musical, based on the short story The Sobbin’ Women, by Stephen Vincent Benét, centers around a group of biblically named mountain men who set out to…
What do you call someone who can’t run or bike? A duathlete. OK, maybe that’s the bitter runner in me talking, but I just wish cyclists, duathletes and triathletes didn’t have to advertise their lifestyle at every opportunity. Between the Cliff Bar decals on the Nissan XTerras and the Verizon…
Richard E. Grant is one of those actors who you may not know by name, but you’d probably recognize him if you saw him. He’s appeared in some memorable pieces of cinema (Gosford Park and The Age of Innocence) and some remarkable pieces of crap (Spice World and Hudson Hawk)…
Some people just aren’t flexible. They have no balance, and they can’t tell their right from their left. The suggestion of trying out yoga just makes them laugh. Now I’m not saying I’m one of those people (I am), but for those special types, the North Richland Hills Recreation Center…
Some people just aren’t flexible. They have no balance, and they can’t tell their right from their left. The suggestion of trying out yoga just makes them laugh. Now I’m not saying I’m one of those people (I am), but for those special types, the North Richland Hills Recreation Center…
Some people just aren’t flexible. They have no balance, and they can’t tell their right from their left. The suggestion of trying out yoga just makes them laugh. Now I’m not saying I’m one of those people (I am), but for those special types, the North Richland Hills Recreation Center…
Tommy Chong will be forever remembered for many things: selling bongs, his role on That ’70s Show and his short stint as C. Thomas Howell’s father-in-law. Mostly, he’ll be known as one half of the legendary 1970s comedy duo Cheech and Chong. Thirty years later, Chong has eighty-sixed Cheech in…
Laydeez, raise the terror alert to red and don your protective gear. Local authorities have identified a serious threat to your panties. Look out for Tom Jones, suspected leader of a known terror cell, the Panty Patrol (no confirmed affiliation with Taylor Hicks’ Soul Patrol, though they have similar M.O.s.)…
These days, any meeting between Judaism, Christianity and Islam is likely to call for full body armor, so it may come as a surprise to some that in the greater world of religion, the three are practically peas in a pod. Moses, Jesus and Muhammad held similar beliefs on a…
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s incomparable leadership during an urban apocalyptic aftermath earned him a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II and the hilariously ironic Ronald Reagan Presidential Freedom Award. But prior to September 11 Giuliani helped to successfully transform the once-seedy Times Square into a family-friendly hub of…
Cars, the latest vehicle to roll off a Pixar assembly line that has thus far yielded nothing but spit-shined classics, answers that age-old question: What would Doc Hollywood have been like had it been populated entirely by cars? If the promise of that particular premise–in which a hotshot (in this…
Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion befits its roots in frosty Minnesota soil through its worldview, Buddhist by way of Scandinavia: Life is about suffering. The wind chill is below zero, and so is your spouse;…
It’s clear by now that British director James Marsh regards America as a vaguely amusing madhouse–a reliably primitive, thoroughly benighted backwater infested with dangerous grotesques. He is, after all, the fellow who gave us the supercilious TV documentary The Burger & The King: The Life & Cuisine of Elvis Presley…
You could call The Illusion a comedy. You could call ipecac an after-dinner liqueur. That doesn’t make those descriptions accurate. The Illusion is Dallas Theater Center artistic director Richard Hamburger’s bitter dose of theatrical medicine after the tasty fun of Hank Williams: Lost Highway, a jukebox musical audiences loved so…
The John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Featuring the most epic pairing of director and actor in Hollywood history, this 10-disc box spews machismo all over. Wayne and Ford defined not only the western and war-movie genres, but also our culture’s image of rugged manhood. Among the highlights is…
Face paint? Check. NoDoz? Check. Deep wellsprings of violent nationalistic pride? No doubt, mate. Yes, it’s time for the World Cup, that quadrennial spectacle that consumes the globe for a month of TV marathons, street parties, and patriotic gestures by men with shaved skulls. That means it’s also time for…
Black Hawk Down: Extended Cut (Sony) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector’s Edition (Fox) Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount) Dumbo: Big Top Edition (Disney) Entourage: The Complete Second Season (HBO) The Fast and the Furious: Franchise Collection (Universal) Firewall (Warner Bros.) Garfield: The Movie — The…
Come midnight, no surprise if you feel a bit “shagged and fagged and fashed,” thinking that bedways is rightways and it’d be bezoomny to not grub some spatchka. O, no, my brothers, ’tis then when you must head you to the sinny to viddy “gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh”—that is…
