Have you ever been, uh, dropping some kids off at the pool and thought, “Hey, I wonder how many other people are dropping kids off at the pool right now too?” Sure you have. So has Arlington, Texas, native Brett Brownell, the brain behind World Wide Movement, an international photography…
What is it about baseball that so connects father to son? Think Field of Dreams and that iconic moment when Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner)–who turned his cornfield into a baseball field for reasons even the movie’s producers probably don’t understand–is divinely given another chance to play catch with his father…
Let’s cut to the chase–Desire is a weird name for a trolley. Lightning, sure. Sparky, Wheels and The Old-Timer? All acceptable. But Desire? Seriously, what was Tennessee Williams smoking? Nevertheless, his 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire, remains a classic to this day, while we’ve been shopping our soon-to-be-classic children’s…
At “Dog Days of Summer,” an event benefiting the Greyhound Adoption League, executive chef Chris Ward will demonstrate “recipes for humans and canines alike.” Presuming the press release isn’t referring to soylent green and Korean food, why the hell would you cook something for a dog? Guess what: The dog…
Advertising today is a reactive and cynical affair, mostly tongue-in-cheek, that tries super hard to relate to you. Note the rush of ads a couple months ago when everyone figured out the economy was going to shit: Advertisers suddenly assured you that they knew you worked hard for your money;…
Notwithstanding all the pundit-driven hot air about the horrors of being young in today’s America, I’m willing to buy the argument that it’s getting harder to survive those years, if only because there’s so much more for the poor dears to worry about—more information, more technology, more stuff to consume,…
Oh, what a night. A great big Broadway smash called Jersey Boys hits the Music Hall at Fair Park and suddenly everything is all right again. Soaring on tunes about love, youth and yearning, this show flies right to the heart of what musical theater, big or small, should do…
Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly’s mid-19th-century novel Une vieille maîtresse—once notorious for its treatment of a young libertine’s erotic obsession with a homely 36-year-old woman. Set on the cusp of modern…
I was 13 when Stephen Sommers’s 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out—just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind of junk-addled auteur, and if The Mummy didn’t achieve its obvious goal of topping Raiders Of The Lost Ark, it was close enough as far as I was…
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that’s about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The clever premise, which would have seemed like pure science-fiction no more than eight years ago, concerns a U.S. presidential election whose…
Finally, an art gallery is bringing us an exhibit that attempts to answer the much-pondered foodie question, “Are we the masters of the table, or is food seducing us?” Thank you, McKinney Avenue Contemporary! You can’t imagine how many times I’ve sat down to dinner and eyed my meal suspiciously,…
The Creative Arts Theater and School (CATS) in Arlington, which puts on productions using all-kid casts and crews, presents a show for the whole family. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf is a madcap adventure based on two stories everyone knows–The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood–and…
The organic movement has laid claim to our lawns, our pantries and our laundry rooms. And now they’re aiming for our closets. According to Eco-Centric, a clothing manufacturer, “Conventional farming devours roughly a third of a pound of pesticides and fertilizers to produce enough cotton for a single T-shirt.” Oops…
As a kid I read lots of weird books about Texas–full of ghost stories, roadside oddities and the like. My favorite was probably the story of Ol’ Rip–the horny toad entombed in the cornerstone of the Eastland County Courthouse in 1897–who was found, alive, when they renovated the building 31…
Ironic trucker hats are not acceptable anymore. Seriously. Stop wearing them. Just go find a metal can, borrow my grandmother’s recipe for “hobo stew for the campfire” and use all the ones you have in your closet for fuel. Save the trees. All of you except Judah Friedlander. It’s OK…
Midnight is the magic hour for all manner of dark creatures. But did you ever think you’d find them at a Barnes & Noble? As Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn, the final book of her Twilight Saga, goes on sale, you can expect to see costumes, fortune telling, jewelry making and…
My limited knowledge of comics remains confined to the vintage cartoons of Gorey and Addams, but The Armory Wars intrigues me. The brainchild of Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez, the tale follows a rebellion against tri-mage Wilhelm Ryan led by Jesse and supported by Claudio (Sanchez apparently named him…
Sehnsucht, a German “composite” word, loosely translates to “aspiration” or “longing” in English–at least, that’s the closest we can come since there’s no literal match. It’s an appropriate term for the title of the latest Light & Sie exhibition featuring former fashion powerhouse Hedi Slimane, photographer Jeremy Kotz, multimedia wiz…
If you were to ask the average Joe on the street who his favorite guitar player is, you’d probably get an answer like “Jimi Hendrix” if you’re lucky, “Dave Matthews” if you’re not. But if you were to ask someone who really knows the possibilities a guitar presents, you’d probably…
I’m going to wager that there aren’t going to be a lot of men at Menopause: The Musical. It’s a subject that makes them a little nervous anyway (like tampon commercials and yeast infections), and men just aren’t into normalizing physiological changes in the same way as the ladies. I…
Line up at the buffet of news, kids, because we’re about to serve you up a heaping entree of extended food metaphors! Ask your waiter for a tall glass of grammar, ’cause we’ve got a lot to say in a little teaspoon of space. Ding, dinner’s done! What’s that smell?…
When people think about volleyball, some may reminisce about that awesome game in junior high where they spiked the hell out of that ball. Others may get all nostalgic for those Frankie and Annette beach flicks; so innocent, so naïve. The younger generation probably salivates over MTV spring break footage…
