While it’s undoubtedly gotten “Boston George” Jung in plenty trouble over the years, it was the famous cocaine smuggler’s schnoz that recently bought him a short medical leave from La Tuna prison in Anthony, Texas. With less than two years left on his current 15-year sentence, the man who inspired…
Gardening is two parts labor and one part magic. It’s the magic part that kids find so alluring (well, maybe playing in dirt also has a role in it). The process of growing stuff cultivates patience, knowledge, and a deeper appreciation for this big ol’ ball of soil that we…
The main virtual hall Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs — even those of the adult nature. For the world’s first virtual porn convention, however, I’m not wearing any (relax … I’m in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention,…
Susan Miller doesn’t throw words like “retrograde” around willy-nilly, even when there’s an Oscar at stake. The celeb psychic put a celestial spin on last night’s Academy Awards by droppin’ fate cards via Twitter. More entertaining than the ceremony itself, Miller’s astrological decrypting of the 84-year old event predicted who…
Name: Erin Mcgaughey Age: 23 Occupation: Future physical therapist Style influences: “I don’t want to be all ‘Forever 21’, I want to be thrifty and Boho and hippie. I should be in California instead of Dallas.” Style breakdown: Steve Madden boots, H&M sweater, Baby-G watch, vintage clutch and rings, scarf…
Hollywood’s brightest stars will twinkle this Sunday for the 84th annual Academy Awards, to pay their respects to the best films of 2011 … at least the “best films” to a bunch of old white guys according to a recent and ‘shocking’ study by the Los Angeles Times. But regardless…
Casting news for local plays isn’t usually headline-worthy. Unless, that is, the artistic director from one major theater is cast as an actor in a much-anticipated production at another major theater. That’s the inside-baseball scoop about WaterTower Theatre honcho Terry Martin showing up as the lead in Dallas Theater Center’s…
Last night the Pin Show’s organizers transformed the Fairmont’s Regency Ballroom into a spectacle worthy of its two-and-a-half hour runway show. A six-foot wide catwalk stretched out, dividing the room to club-style table seating on one side and rows on the other. The DJ’s platform chose no party, instead it…
The kids in the sweet, funny new play The Chicken Who Wasn’t Chicken, running in Plano through Sunday, February 26, don’t know how lucky they are. The script is a new one from Matt Lyle, a former Dallas writer and actor who went on to Second City’s writing program in…
The guys hanging out together in Steven Walters’ get-down funny play Pluck the Day are old high school buds, now in their 30s and starting to go to seed. Duck, the former gridiron star (played with lovable stupidity by Clay Yocum), and brainy Bill (Chris LaBove) are worried about their…
Street Mural – Nicky Davis from Nicky Davis on Vimeo.Timelapse of artist Nicky Davis making Houston a little artier. This year’s 35 Denton showcase took its vitamins and grew extra massive. Now its lineup is fortified with bands like Built to Spill, Thee Oh Sees and The Jesus and Mary…
Hey everyone, who’s ready for the annual Hollywood stroke-a-thon hosted by Billy Crystal! Clapping! Mild tears! Montage of people who died! Anyway, Billy Crystal’s skeleton is hosting this year’s Oscars. We’re sure it’ll be a barn burner of joke delight, as the best of Hollywood comes together in their gorgeous…
Is that numbing pain in your shoulder diminishing? It can only mean one thing: The weekend is coming! Unwind from your stressball career with runway shows, stand-up comedy and drag queen brunch. It’s all happening this weekend, kids. Here’s a little guide to cool stuff happening around town. Share it…
If the cast of Chelsea Lately were to burn their bras, it would not be an act of defiance so much as a drunken scheme, and it certainly wouldn’t take place at a political forum. If Sarah, Whitney, Heather and Chelsea spark up their boulder holders it’s in order to…
“There’s no one way to live our lives,” hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping between the prefab identity options available to them — squeezed, stressed urban professionalism; suburban McMansion soul death; rural counterculture opting out — George and Linda (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) are…
Act of Valor is, according to the opening titles, “based on real acts of valor,” whatever that means. It stars real active-duty Navy SEALs and, as the uniformed representative of the New York Coast Guard, 9th Regiment, who introduced my screening explained, much of it was filmed with live-fire ammunition…
“A long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy.” Charles Manson said that. If anybody’s qualified to weigh in on crazy, it’s Charlie Manson. He’s 77 now, in his 42nd year of a life sentence. In the Ochre House theater’s chilling, strangely thrilling new show Mean, set in…
Hey, hey, hey ladies. Take off the flannel PJs and “Life’s Short. Eat more Twinkies.” T-shirt and head out to Hockey & Heels, a night for ladies only. And don’t go all, “Hockey is so violent” on me, ladies. You and I both know a co-worker, “friend” or salesgal that…
In a city fueled by fashion there are few runway shows featuring work by independent designers. The Pin Show, an annual worship service to all things glamour, mends that tear in our city’s style coverage. After taking a one-year hiatus, the garment fete is back and packed with more enticing…
A traumatized ex-soldier, a troubled marriage and blood money. In the hands of Clint Eastwood, the movie would be an intense character study. From Michael Bay, a blow-em-up flash fest with a sneering Eddie Murphy. But Kill List, the brainchild of British director Ben Wheatley, teeters somewhere between horror and…
Tupperware fans don’t dick around. The sound of a lid snapping can bring someone to tears if it’s the missing piece to a complete collection — say, for instance, the perfect 1960s aqua juice cups. But you don’t have to be a TuppNut to fit in; the world’s favorite Tupperware…
Linda Daugherty offers a sobering look into the destructive world of bullying. She sheds light on what it’s like to be a middle-school girl surrounded by gossip, exclusion, backstabbing, eating disorders, depression and cliques. Based upon interviews with girls who either bullied or were bullied, The Secret Life of Girls…
