Funny how gaming’s most epic genre — the role-playing game — often feels the most limited in scope. After all, how many times can we traverse a medieval land, defeat the orcs, rescue the girl, save the world, and level up along the way?Never enough times would be the answer…
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Of all the things you need to know about Brooks and Dunn, the most important is that George W. Bush is a huge fan. Like, “my campaign song is by Brooks and Dunn” huge. Brooks and Dunn is to W like Fleetwood Mac is to Bill Clinton. Fleetwood Mac could…
People are always griping that Dallas is not a “real city.” You know, the suburbs, the questionable public transportation, the lack of a real center—oh, and the Republicans—all these things convince some folks that the shit ain’t real. Well, if you’re one of the haters, we suggest you check out…
Gene Hackman is a supreme badass. He’s The Man. He’s so The Man that his name has the word “man” in it. Let him play any character in any movie and the character instantly becomes a badass whether or not you even wrote the character that way. Gene Hackman is…
Calling all of DFW’s experienced locksmiths: Are you available for a one-time contract assignment this weekend in Grand Prairie? Local talk radio station Live 105.3 is hosting what they’re calling “DFW’s Largest Frat Party” that night at the Nokia Theatre. Can you work quickly and quietly, sealing Nokia’s doors from…
Denison-born artist Roger Winter once advised that one could learn more about drawing by observing passengers on a bus to South Dallas than by drawing a nude model in a classroom. And, although his work has surrealist tendencies, his affinity for its subject matter is clear. This ability to mix…
Had there not already been a Japanese cartoon from the 1970s with the same name, Firebomb Production’s The Secret War might have been titled Battle of the Planets. Two teams of stage performers (the Chaldean Enforcers and Hermatic Pymanders) lock orbits and duke it out for celestial domination of the…
Truth in Translation is a play born out of the struggle for forgiveness and reconciliation that went on following the end of apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid is that thing where blacks were forced to attend separate schools, get crappy jobs and recognize that they could never be a part…
Chef Claud Mann and his TBS show Dinner and a Movie have gotten me through many a Friday night. I enjoy knowing the culinary accompaniment needed for, say, Tomb Raider. Now the show comes to life with winery Castello di Gabbiano joining Mann to present Gabbiano Nights at Lee Park,…
Watch out, all you Dallas conservative Republicans (hell, even some of you Dems), because this city is about to get slammed in the backside with Queer Anarchy. No, this isn’t the pink uprising in protest of Constable Dupree’s resignation (we pretty much took his card back) or Ed Oakley’s flubbed…
Screw that lame trolley no one uses on McKinney Avenue—let’s talk about a part of town that deserves some mass transit with panache. The Oak Cliff Transit Authority wants to bring streetcars back to Oak Cliff; they’ve been working on it for a year and half now, and at 6:30…
We’re not sure why audiences roar when a jalapeño puppet says, in a thick, ersatz Mexican accent that his name is “José…Jalapeño…On a Steek.” That’s so…cruise ship. OK, maybe we laughed aloud when ventriloquist Jeff Dunham played straight man to the irascible old man puppet, Walter. (Walter: “Remember when you…
With only five home games left in the regular season, don’t you think it’s time you showed a little support to the most underappreciated professional sports team our city has? In case you missed it, we have a soccer team, and a good one at that. FC Dallas is one…
Mexican art tends to be dominated by the larger-than-life personas of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, at least in perception. And while either one could rightfully hold the title of the definitive Mexican, there’s a case to be made for Enrique ChavarrÃa as well. ChavarrÃa’s paintings and drawings are what…
Who’s to say what hair cutting, boxing, Mickey Mouse and fire medicine have to do with art and architecture? If anyone can explain the unseen similarities, it would have to be Michael Auping. As Chief Curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St.), Auping kicks off…
At her peak, before she had friends in low places, Trisha Yearwood had a string of agreeable hits including “She’s in Love With the Boy,” “Xxx’s and Ooo’s (An American Girl)” and “How Do I Live,” the latter of which completely overmatched LeAnn Rimes’ version. Unlike fellow ’90s stars Terri…
Molière, the latest film in the Magnolia at the Modern series, will have most people excited to see the 1600s in glorious color and with a fanciful and funny storyline. Some film fans, however, will no doubt be disappointed that this is not a showing of the 1978 French classic…
Druggies ruin everything: brownies, car antennae, easy access to pseudoephedrine and most important, “Puff the Magic Dragon.” No, dope fiend, not everything would “make a good bong,” and not everything’s about weed. “Puff” isn’t a veiled reference to your favorite strain o’ mary jane, but it does deal with some…
Lubbock native Terry Allen is a true West Texas renaissance man, as famous (if not more so) for his contributions to the visual arts as he is for his quirky and intelligent country albums. Like a high plains, pre-Pixar Randy Newman, Allen mixes barrelhouse piano with biting social commentary to…
So imagine that Casablanca was not made in 1942, but today. Drunken dinner party conversation topics: In 2007, would Ilsa get on the plane with Victor or stay in the desert with Rick? How much bare Ilsa flesh would we see? During the slow sex scene between Rick and Ilsa…
Who doesn’t love puppets? Whether sock puppets, marionettes or the weird Jim Henson kind with the sticks in their hands, puppet shows have been a staple of community entertainment for hundreds of years. Well, if you have a puppet jones and don’t know where to get a fix, your prayers…
