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It seemed like such an innocuous idea to his new American scientific partners: take visiting Russian scientist Alexander Chepurnov out for dinner and a movie.
Some laboratory...
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When attacking the music business, one need not even break a sweat. After all, how hard is it to land a punch or a thousand upon a bloated carcass that can no longer move? In...
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After tasting Pyramid Grill's steak tartare, a huge mound of milky pink pulp shaped like a loaf of rye bread, I began to wonder: Why does so much of the tartare served in...
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In Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey plays a meek Rhode Island state trooper named Charlie whose aggressions are so pent-up they finally erupt in the form of a second personality,...
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Sometimes, I would like to get in touch with my inner child and beat the crap out of him. I know what he looks like; I've seen the pictures of that gawky brat, wearing...
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As the opening-night world premiere of Fugitive Pieces progressed, I couldn't shake the idea that playwright Caridad Svich was less inspired by Samuel Beckett--Waiting for...
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I was stretched out on my futon reading Harpers, the cat asleep on my stomach, when the fire alarm in the hallway went off. I have often heard fire alarms accidentally...
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Bourbonitis Blues, Alejandro Escovedo's sixth and most recent solo album, is the culmination of a life spent growing up in public. It wasn't an easy growth--his path has been...
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Village strokes
The great thing about Dallas is the seeming ease with which people morph into independent restaurateurs. Consider former country club chefs Claude Judd and...
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About nine years ago, in a humble Los Angeles-area nightclub, urbane British folk singer Billy Bragg reappraised 20th-century politics--as is often his Socialist wont--by means...
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In the late '70s, it was fashionable to predict that, by the year 2000, humans would be populating the moon. Man had first set foot there late in the previous decade, and...
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As the opening-night world premiere of Fugitive Pieces progressed, I couldn't shake the idea that playwright Caridad Svich was less inspired by Samuel Beckett--Waiting for...
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Donna Blumer made a pronouncement to her peers on the Dallas City Council at mid-morning. "It seems as though things are unraveling," she said simply.
They were. The council...
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I'm not at all homesick, but that night his words hit home, maybe harder than they should have.
"I mean, you get to England, and you expect the bands to be as good as the...
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I never imagined the day would come when I would cringe to see Ralph Fiennes onscreen. Not only is he shamelessly good-looking but, whether playing the brooding, remote figure...
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In the dark, troubling aftermath of last September's shooting rampage at Wedgwood Baptist Church, predictable rumors began circulating even as funerals were being planned and...
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Matt and Bubba Kadane said that they would continue to make music together when they decided to break up Bedhead in 1998. In April, they made good on that promise with Macha...
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So, when was the last time you shared a woman with your dad? No, not your mom--don't be gross. You know, just some woman that you and your dad both dug, who perked you up a...
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Bob Brightwell is reluctant to talk about it, and he damn sure doesn't want to be photographed. Not with the skin grafts that discolor his forehead and temple. Not with the...
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Sinead O'Connor
Faith and Courage
(Atlantic Records)
It's little surprise that Sinead O'Connor would come out in the new issue of Curve magazine (dunno, never heard of...
