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They spot the truck in the gathering light of 7 a.m., way down a ragged, weedy back street in blue-collar Balch Springs.
"That'll be him," says Mike Armstrong, spotting at...
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Sara Hickman said it herself. She was always the girl on the front porch...the girl next door...the girl wearing gingham, playing guitar, spreading joy with the crystal-bell,...
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Strip malls are excellent places to get microwave burritos, spandex fashions, lessons in ballroom dancing, and salon-caliber hair gels and foams by the barrel. But this kind...
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Hong Kong director Kirk Wong (credited here as Che-Kirk Wong) is the latest defector from the troubled H.K. film industry. Until now, he has been best known in the United...
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Two unrelated facts: the French Revolution happened more than 200 years ago. Painting has been called "dead." So what's an artist doing painting the clasped hands of Napoleon...
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I learned an important lesson while watching Having Our Say, Emily Mann's theatrical adaptation of the best-selling memoir from a pair of hundred-year-old black sisters in New...
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Even now, more than a year later, the kids at school taunt him. They call him liar, say he's arrogant, full of shit. Hey, when ya gonna get your own video game? They pull up...
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No shirt, no shoes
Full Service No Waiting
Peter Case
Vanguard Records
Peter Case was one of the lucky ones--a one-hit new-wave hero whose past didn't drag him down....
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Fog rolling out?
Thick rumors have been rolling in Dallas that Truluck's Steak and Stone Crab in Addison has acquired Fog City Diner. Not true, says Fog City's managing...
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Gwyneth Paltrow gets another chance to show off her letter-perfect English accent in Sliding Doors, an engaging romantic comedy that employs a rather novel narrative device:...
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This year's USA Film Festival may have, uh, sucked, but that doesn't mean that great films aren't coming to Dallas. Witness the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's...
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The gallery space feels womb-like--dark, humid, warm. Actual mist floats though the air. An old film whirrs on a tiny antique projector, little strobe lights throw images...
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The scoop on Paula
Buzz generally tries to avoid those mendacity festivals known as news conferences--the hard questions never get answered, and statements that should draw...
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Down in Austin, the little music city that thinks it's bigger than it is, thousands of musicians get up every morning and think to themselves, Today will be the day. They...
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Is the opposite of offhand, onhand? If so, The Spanish Prisoner is the most onhand movie since Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. Writer-director David Mamet delights in his...
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thursday
april 23
Let's face facts: If wine were really "better than masturbating" (as the tag line for the Art Bar's Generation X Wine Tasting argues), there would be...
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New Times film critic Peter Rainer was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York announced last week. New...
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Kim Lenz takes no offense at the suggestion that she is like a page torn from a history book. Quite the contrary, she finds it a flattering remark, testimony to the years she...
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In writer-director James Toback's quicksilver sex comedy Two Girls and a Guy, Robert Downey Jr. plays Blake Allen, a struggling New York actor who lives in a spacious loft in...
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For the last decade, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's free Easter concert on the greensward of Lee Park in the heart of Oak Lawn traditionally has been a marriage of the...
