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He's dressed in gym shorts and a raggedy white "Texas Rangers" T-shirt, and he has propped his feet up in front of the TV in a cheap Brownsville hotel room. On the screen, the...
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It's a crazy-hot Saturday evening at the Dessau Music Hall, a dancehall in far North Austin. It's so hot that the sun sweats all over the people in the parking lot outside....
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A group of men was leaving through the thick, beveled glass doors--large, beef-eating men in casual business attire. They were grunting, jabbing.
Several minutes later,...
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In 1994's The Monster (Il mostro), his most recent film to gain wide American release, Italian writer-director-star Roberto Benigni put himself at the center of a...
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Sitting in the recently opened Deep Ellum Center for the Arts with producer-director-writer Scott Osborne while builders and light engineers help him transform the space's...
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If some actors, directors, and designers from Dallas Theater Center and the Dallas theater scene didn't already want to restrain me atop a stone temple and yank my beating...
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Fred Washington's lawyer does not want his client's picture taken for this story. Attorney Eric Fein believes that if you were to see a picture of Washington, who stands about...
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The last thing John McLemore wanted to do was work another weekend. The Waco TV reporter had spent the entire month of February in Houston covering the grisly murder trial of...
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Willie Hutch's studio sits along a desolate stretch of Highway 67 in Cedar Hill. It is just off the highway, not far from an exit no one seems to use very much--unless,...
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Wamstad's big beef
If you think III Forks owner Dale Wamstad--and his 257-year-old alter ego, Capt. Bob Cooper--is a little off his T-bone, you may be right. Apparently...
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It must be math season in the film world. Recently, Darren Aronofsky's Pi hit Dallas' screens, and now we get Vincenzo Natali's Cube. The connection isn't merely in the...
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thursday
october 29
There hasn't been much progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Public awareness and understanding of the disease have improved in the last decade...
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Even for staunch flesh eaters, which I am, a meat-packing plant carries all the charm of the sixth level of hell. Doesn't matter how spotless, how ventilated, how safe for the...
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That's entertainment
Forget the cheesy haunted houses, skip the costume parties. If you're looking for some real Halloween fun, wash your face, comb your hair, and head to...
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Since the Toadies' major-label debut Rubberneck was released, Barry Switzer began his first season as the Dallas Cowboys' head coach, won a Super Bowl, then got replaced by...
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When Montoya, one of the fearless vampire killers in John Carpenter's Vampires, tells another character that nobody believes in the title creatures because nobody wants to,...
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The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture is one of those interesting bits of the city that might pass unnoticed by those for whom downtown is synonymous with Deep Ellum....
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You can almost hear the silence at KKDA-AM (730) these days. "Soul 73," long hailed as the voice of Dallas' African-American community, is not talking anymore.
The talk...
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Tract houses of the holy
The Night We Taught Ourselves to Sing
The Volares
Rockadelic Records
James "Big Bucks" Burnett has never lost faith in rock and roll's promise...
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UxLINKxU: How tall are you women? What's the height in here?
TallTXMs: ~6'3"
Cyrpent: UxLINK, welcome, please be polite...
UxLINKxU: What is you peoples ideal height...
