Newy Scruggs and Dale Hansen are both big guys, in suit size and local ratings. They're both sports anchors. And that's where the similarities end. For there are many ways Scruggs, Channel 5's sports director, is different from the longtime Dallas-area ratings champion, Channel 8 sports director Hansen. They are...
"There's a section right after the beginning part where a Casio's playing quite fast and then a piano and a drum kit come in and they play this very hectic, cartoony-sounding thing. And eventually, a couple pianos and an organ come in to play this big chromatic scale going up...
The bootleg bins have long been bereft of Clash product. The band existed till it just didn't anymore and left behind scant evidence that it made any kind of revolution rock outside its handful of studio recordings. Rumors abounded of extracurricular material--the story most often told was about an entire...
The maintenance workers were pulling down photographs from the wall when a Dallas Morning News staffer stopped to watch. Piled on the floor were several frames, each housing a picture of a DMN employee who'd worked there 25 years or more and had just been laid off. "Tell you what,"...
Maybe the prognosticators were right, those who said the next great wave in restaurant trends is Indian fast food. This is counterintuitive on its face. Indian cuisine is by nature complex, a jet stream of reverent aromas that blast the mind into reflection in a way a sub with provolone...
At closing time on a recent Saturday night, Ignacio leaned against the bar at Bamboleo's, a gay Latino club near Oak Lawn, satisfied that he'd snared one last beer before the cut-off. He wanted it known that he usually would have been drunk by that time, but instead of boozy...
They laughed then--roared, actually, till they ran out of breath--and probably will now. He expects nothing less, because rare is the punch line who doesn't remain the punching bag, at least until the glowing eulogies set the record straight far too late. But he is 73 now--Jesus Christ, Captain Kirk...
Steak drives men to ramble. Specifics? Monte Morris. Before Tristan Simon and his merry band of Consolidated Restaurant operators lured him to run Cool River Café in Las Colinas, Morris was burrowed in a steak house up in Denver. Then Simon broke from Cool River to launch Cuba Libre, bringing...
New York City is the materialization of order out of chaos. Boisterous crowds of pedestrian and vehicular traffic elegantly course through its veins on a minute-by-minute basis. Its manmade mountains, what Walt Whitman called "solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars," mark the upward thrust of an endless hustle and...
Those old enough probably remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, a popular television series in which the hosts tracked hungry beasts roaming the savannah or crept up on skittish prey. Well, consider the Burning Question crew literary heirs to Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler. Over the past few weeks we've...
Julia Fordham's slight stature doesn't prepare you for what happens when she opens her mouth. Her husky alto is at once unexpected and beguiling. It's this unique voice that's drawn storied producers and musicians to the British expatriate's side throughout her career. Hugh Padgham (Phil Collins, Sting, Paul McCartney) produced...
The very best thing about A Dirty Shame, a giddy sex farce from John Waters, is the credits. What's not to love about a list of characters that includes "Sylvia Stickles," "Marge the Neuter," "Fat Fuck Frank," "Cow Patty" and "Tire Lick Boy"? The soundtrack, too, bears comic fruit, with...
The Dark Matters and the Lingering Lightness, installation by Michael Velliquette Installed in the small "project room" at Conduit Gallery is Michael Velliquette's full-body multimedia environment, replete with voodoo-cosmic music and a myriad of interior accoutrements--aluminum foil doodads, construction paper chains à la second grade, and paper cut-out silhouettes all...
Come with me on a journey deep into the Dumpster of nitty-gritty gut-level local politics, down where the money meets the road and virtue is the lesser of two evils. Don't forget your boots and a clothespin for your nose. A month ago, Mayor Laura Miller accused District 8 Councilman...
Long drives in Texas demand a certain soundtrack. Hills, prairies and farms are the stuff of country songs, but the kolaches, watchtowers and Wendy's along the way reflect a small-city life that hokey banjos and good ol' songs ignore. It's country, but it's more than country, and Li'l Cap'n Travis'...
Fortune smiles on groovy egregiousness. In the case of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the filmmakers' investment in their weird visions is wildly unorthodox, but the payoff is oddly satisfying. The movie features myriad killer robots, raucous underwater dogfights and Laurence Olivier's best work since he died 15...
9/5 Either we're prophetic or we watch entirely too much professional wrestling. Yeah, we knew months ago that golden boy-turned-franchise player Randy Orton would win the big gold belt, sparking a bitter, extended feud with eternal bastard Triple H. The WWE pulled the trigger on just these events recently, and...
Andre Anthony Lewis used to dream about his death. He thought of it so often it became almost like the memory of something that hadn't yet happened. In this dream, Lewis sits in a prison cell, a man comes to fetch him, and together they walk down a long, silent...
The press release went out midweek and scattered like cigarette ashes so that by late Friday afternoon everyone had heard the news. They wandered into the bar depressed and beaten, wondering what to do, what came next. "Where you gonna work, Jade?" someone called out to the bartender. She shrugged...
You don't need to know about [DARYL] to figure out that the band's latest album, Ohio, is something special. It's a brave take on rock music whose dozens of instruments meld into sensible, glorious blasts rather than self-indulgent experiments. Lyrics reach for chaos, loss and hope with little strain, and...
Autism of Desire: Work by Lionel Maunz Lionel Maunz is obsessed with the body, human and animal alike. A combination of sculpture, painting, drawing and taxonomic expression, Maunz's installations reveal him to be something of a young artist coming into his own, that is, a painter productively becoming a mad...
Cast: Photographs by Jin-Ya Huang In her photographs, Jin-Ya Huang turns fuzziness and blur into a visual vocabulary of the indecipherable. The illegibility of her images is by no means frustrating. The combined result of the artist's secret prop choices and photo-digital process, these images will keep you guessing while...
