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Usually, there's nothing funny about murder, but when the crime becomes a musical, there's room to bend the rules. In The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, a Nazi spy and a...
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There's a reason that prints of Claude Monet's impressionist paintings are so often used as "starter art." Relatable, visually attractive and extremely well known, the work is...
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There are plenty of things to miss now that the holidays are over--days off from work and school, the joy of watching a child unwrap a present and especially the drinking. But...
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Give me the chance to ask Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner a question and I'd ask him if he wouldn't mind explaining to my boss why I was wasted the other afternoon when I was...
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If you're a part of the baby boom generation, congratulations on making it through the red scare. Life just wouldn't be the same without a few scary communist and socialist...
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Perhaps the most inane colloquialism these days is the mopey, just-give-up phraseology of "It is what it is." It is? What? It is. Oh my, how thought-provoking. So we hope that...
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If someone finds out you're a fan of the show Flight of the Conchords, there's always one question they want to ask: Bret or Jemaine? But I think people need to delve deeper...
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North Texas may not be renowned for its cold weather (white Christmases aside), but you don't really need to be hiding from a snowstorm or lounging by a crackling fireplace to...
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As if getting back to the grind after the holidays weren't depressing enough, many people have New Year's resolutions dragging them down. Here's an idea: rather than make a...
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Some of us are old enough to remember the first wave of "blaxploitation" flicks that stormed theaters in the early 1970s. Others experienced the phenomenon via videos and...
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as the old saying goes. Whoever said that conveniently forgot to mention that really sincere imitation can be downright creepy,...
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Have you ever stared at a piece in an art exhibit and wondered, "Why would I pay for this when my 3-year-old could easily create a reasonable facsimile for free?" Likewise,...
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Nobody ever accused Pocket Sandwich Theatre of being too sophisticated. Tucked into the corner of a shopping strip across from Mockingbird Station, the cozy little dinner...
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As eventful as 2009 proved for Darktown Strutters' Kara Howell and Wes Darrin, 2010 looks to be an even more impressive year for the now Oak Cliff-based "satanic-disco" duo...
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Dallas hip-hop producer and DJ Rob Viktum is known as an impeccably tasteful sampler, a beatmaker who uses snippets of half-forgotten soul songs and boom-bap drumbeats for a...
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A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the '00s loose on one of the decade's prime literary phenomena: Cults collide as...
