The creepiest showbiz confession ever was Ryan O’Neal’s admission that during the funeral for Farrah Fawcettt, he tried to hit on a woman who turned out to be his estranged daughter, Tatum. Like Ryan O’Neal, the protagonist of Elinor Lipton’s The Family Man reconnects with a long-lost relative after a…
He’s sold 175,000 CDs since 2000, people. This cat has swanked up sets for TV hosts from Jimmy Kimmel to silver fox Anderson Cooper. But you might want to go ahead and start weeping for the future because Richard Cheese is retiring from tourdom. Yes, the man who is responsible…
“Abra-abra-cadabra, I want to reach out and grab ya!” Let’s hope Sugar Ray’s got a little magic up their sleeve with the release of their latest album, Music for Cougars. After a five-year wait, the band that brought listeners hits like “Someday” and “Every Morning” is back with a whole…
Not only is the Dallas Cowboys preseason match-up against the Tennessee Titans the first home game of the season, it’s also the first chance to see the ‘Boys play in Jerry Jones’ new stadium-shaped tomb. (We hear the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Jerry is located deep under the 50-yard line, where…
If I wake up after a dreamless night, I usually don’t worry about plummeting to a premature death. I brush my teeth and start my day. Not so for mad scientist Krank of The City of Lost Children, who kidnaps little ones and feeds on their dreams to sustain his…
Do you want to combine your kickboxing class with your cooking one to save time and money? Well, keep looking, buddy, because the Knockout Desserts class isn’t it. With the help of Central Market staffer Rebecca Allinson, you will, however, learn how to make Italian chocolate-almond torte and not-so-angelic angel…
If you’re lucky, you get to live in a city famous for something wonderful. Paris, perhaps, if you’re a couture fashionista. London, maybe, if finance gets your blood pumping. Darwin, Minnesota, if living within the same city limits as the world’s biggest ball of twine sounds like something you could…
“American consumers are demanding more God in their entertainment every day!” So chirps Matthew, lead singer of an adorably clueless, Bible-based pop quintet called Altar Boyz—also the title of the satiric musical about the group that’s been a smash Off-Broadway hit going on five years now. The regional premiere, full…
In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki envisions a small Japanese port town turned upside-down by visitors from the bottom of the sea. Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The…
One of the things about karaoke that is so cheesy is that you are not only drunkenly singing some old song, but you are doing it with a recorded back-up band. Even with my limited experience of being in a band, I can say that there is nothing like it…
The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast and furiously inventive District 9, their huddled masses long ago extracted from their broken-down mothership and deposited in the titular housing slum on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Unlike the space…
Teenagers have long answered the mall’s siren song, but now their little siblings can tag along too: Every Tuesday in August, Pottery Barn Kids is hosting a story time book club. Don’t forget to pick up the Book Club card on your first visit and get your card stamped at…
For some folks, going to Craft or Abacus is just another Thursday night, but for me and mine, going someplace like that is about planning, saving up, ordering the cheapest thing on the menu, and enjoying the thrill of trying something we can’t get anywhere else. It’s certainly a luxury…
I always thought there was a fine line between being a spy and being a stalker. They are kind of one in the same, but being a secret agent man who travels the world on missions makes you a badass, and well, being just a regular man who watches women…
When a gallery produces an exhibit entitled Sticky, it leaves room for speculation and possibly a few questions. Don’t worry; you won’t be walking into a room slathered in chewed pieces of bubble gum. In fact, you’ll meet the work of Chaitra Linehan and Jen Rose, two artists who share…
Local legend “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott was always known as a metalhead with a heart of gold, and there’s no better testament to this fact than watching Dime’s fans continue to help out his favorite causes some five years after his sad, untimely demise. The fifth annual Ride for Dime BBQ…
While Frankie and Annette were teaching American movie audiences the art of riding waves without messing up their hair, a handful of French filmmakers were busy starting a movement that would change the tide of the film industry completely. The French New Wave brought us Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais and…
People say you should take time out to stop and smell the roses. Well, if the scent of flowers makes you reel more than revel, then forget about scents and enjoy your other senses aboard a new kind of loco-motion. See the beauty of Grapevine, Fort Worth and everything in…
I’m not afraid to admit that I’m sometimes a slow learner. A very slow learner even. (Spoiler alert: I still can’t do fractions.) But my personal issues with math problems aside, let me tell you: I sure as hell know what a conjunction is. And the only reason for that…
Art collecting is something most of us have no concept of, at least in the formal sense. The majority of us probably collect art as part of some sort of decorating scheme, and have less of a theme or investment strategy in mind when we buy a piece. Hardcore art…
In 1978, three passengers voyaged across the Atlantic, carried by the buoyant helium of a balloon. Although the feat would be far more impressive had that balloon been, say, the Elmo kind that you can purchase from Tom Thumb, their wind-swept journey was an unprecedented mark in hot air balloon…
George Michael may be the man who croons songs like “Kissing a Fool” and “Praying for Time,” but, along with Kenny Goss, the two channel their passion for spreading inspiring art to the public by heading up the Goss-Michael Foundation, 2500 Cedar Springs Road. On Saturday, attendees will have the…
