Arts & Culture

5/20 You can go in a car. You can come from afar. You can arrive by train or by private plane. You can hitchhike like a hobo or bounce in on a pogo. It doesn’t matter where you’re at, the time has come to see the Cat. “What Cat is…

5/17 It’s nearly summer in Deep Ellum. The bare midriffs and pierced navels are just beginning to hatch from their shells and peek out into the world. The vomit and urine are starting to bake onto the pavement, the smell fresh and brand-new all over again, but changed slightly by…

5/15 Things found while cleaning a closet: three roaches (one for smoking), one skeleton and a Robert Schimmel interview transcript c. 2001, from which only a few words were excised for a short piece written the last time Schimmel was at the Addison Improv, 4980 Belt Line Road, where he…

Two women, dressed in standard waitstaff uniforms, emerge from the bar and into the well-appointed lobby of the hotel built 90 years ago by beer magnate Adolphus Busch, who tried to bring the Jazz Age to what would become a Muzak town. About 50 feet away, an interviewer and his…

Winslow Homer is one of those rare topics on which the hoi polloi and the critics have always agreed. Nearly a century after his death, he retains the critical and popular acclaim that followed him through life; from Robert Hughes to Meyer Schapiro, critics who couldn’t agree on the time…

The pinnacle of our public television contribution history came when we weren’t even old enough to have an allowance. We were in preschool (or would have been if we hadn’t cried and screamed until the teacher called our mom to pick us up early…and never come back). We cried and…

Thursday, May 8 The two raunchiest and yet completely enthralling autobiographies we’ve ever read: Klaus Kinski’s Kinski Uncut and Lenny Bruce’s How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. Their juxtaposition of real-life heartache and happiness with gutter-dwelling and porn-ish anecdotes is a literary treat when well-written. OK, so no one’s…

Near the beginning of her Sex Tips for Girls, author Cynthia Heimel complains that so-called “women’s magazines” like Glamour and Cosmopolitan are actually all about men. How to please men; how to take care of men. Even how to keep men around. But we don’t see how Heimel’s stream of…

5/9 The idea is brilliant: Give aspiring and professional video-makers a prop, a location, a theme and 24 hours to produce an original five-minute video. Make it a race to the finish line. The results? Ahem…well…judging by last year’s entrants in the Dallas Video Festival’s 24 Hour Video Race, “brilliant”…

5/10 Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come to face the truth, and we at Night & Day want to help you heal through the loss we have all suffered. Here goes: Tatu has retired. Not the industrial-pop underage-lesbian duo, but the 18-year star of the Sidekicks, Dallas’ finest (or…

5/14 A while back we realized that the four years of French we studied in college were kind of pointless. Living in Texas and all, we didn’t get much use out of it. So we decided to learn Spanish. The classes were expensive, though, and they wanted us to give…

5/10 Baby, if you’re lookin’ for the real thing, check out Ashford and Simpson. Married songwriters Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson created some of the grooviest love tunes of the 1970s for the likes of Ray Charles (“Let’s Go Get Stoned”) as well as duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell…

5/10 To fully appreciate the gritty production of the prison drama In the Belly of the Beast, being staged by the Kitchen Dog Theater from May 10 through May 31, one should know its origin and the dark life of killer-turned-writer-turned-killer-again Jack Henry Abbott. Son of a prostitute, he spent…