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The young bricklayer peered out the window into the gray January morning, sipped from his coffee cup, and resigned himself to an idle weekend. No construction crews, he knew,...
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You boot up your computer. Go online. Punch in the address www.TimberwolfPress.com and hit "enter." Against a black background appears a photo of a lone wolf, its eyes...
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Forget about all the other summer tours making their way across the country in convoys of plush buses and overloaded trailers. The real show of the summer is hitting the road...
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It's hard to gauge what kind of a mind would turn a restaurant rooftop into a forest. But Carrabba's Italian Grill has done it, transforming the roofs on 16 of its restaurants...
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In Bryan Singer's last movie, 1998's Apt Pupil, Ian McKellen portrayed a Nazi war criminal hiding out in the suburbs, passing himself off as an ordinary old man crouching...
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I'm stuck in the waiting room of a car-repair shop. My only companions are a humming cola vending machine, a gurgling coffee maker, and a blue iMac that--every few minutes, in...
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But any resentment has been set aside for what has evolved, in only two years, into a jaw-droppingly disciplined arrangement of quality fare. I saw four shows in five...
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It's the Fourth of July, and the protesters are sitting in the shade under trees near the John F. Kennedy memorial. A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands in the sun with...
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Ninety miles or so east of San Francisco, the jarring sight of twin smokestacks erupts from the Northern California scenery, interrupting the placid backdrop of vineyards, blue...
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Steel feel
As a vicarious Porsche aficionado who's driven one only once (a 1973 urine-hued Targa with a cantankerous second gear), I've always appreciated the tight link...
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It has taken moviemakers and, more crucially, foot-dragging movie investors almost a decade to catch up with rave culture--the heady mix of secret warehouses, electronic music,...
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Warning Sign No. 1 that a TV series isn't going to stick around long: It gets dumped in the summer, when 58 people are watching television shows not named Survivor. Warning...
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Artists often accuse critics of being frustrated performers, as a way to counter the opinions they don't like--he/she wouldn't have the guts to get up there and do what I do....
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Taking a walk in the park isn't easy in Bob Salesky's neighborhood. Just around the corner from his home in Southeast Dallas, there's Bisbee Park. With its wild shrubs and...
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For years, Russell Simmons has been the King Midas of the hip-hop world: Everything he touches turns to gold...or platinum. While this phenomenon is obviously most lucrative...
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Kenneth Branagh's latest adaptation of Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, is not swooningly wonderful; rather, it is simply quite nice. Kindly note the distinction: If the...
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What's in a name
So Gordon Keith, KTCK-AM radio jock and sometime contributor to this paper, agreed to change his name to Dallasmaverick for one year and have the team's logo...
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The news came via e-mail late Friday, just before most people were leaving the office to begin the weekend: Leaning House Records, after five years in existence and twice that...
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So who are these celebrated Coen brothers anyway, and what's their point? These days, it's pretty easy to switch over to critical auto-pilot, to gush about funny-looking...
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This is so painful. Have you ever had this condition where your knee really badly wants to jerk, but it can't quite make it? I may have to go see a doctor.
Last week when the...
