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A Month before he closed his Texaco service station at Forest Lane and Webb Chapel Road, Greg Kraft surveyed the array of honors lining his office wall--Texaco Excellence...
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Ask anyone involved in the underground rock scene what the future portends, and there's a good chance they'll sing the praises of emo, post-rock, post-hardcore, or whatever...
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Sugarcane is rampant in Cuba. The primary agricultural commodity in that country has, over the years, pushed other vegetation out of existence. Land once covered with palm and...
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Although it must have been a no-brainer to make a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, it was hard to imagine an intelligent follow-up to a film that culminated in the apparent...
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School's OutGoodbye, farewell, adiós, Freaks and Geeks; we shall lament your departure no more and content ourselves instead with Tuesday-night reruns on the Fox Family...
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British playwright Shelagh Stephenson worked extensively creating monologues for radio and television broadcasts on the BBC until one of her pieces--the harrowing Find Kinds of...
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"Commit a crime, and the earth
is made of glass. There is no such
thing as concealment..."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
PROLOGUE
The search had been under way for three days in...
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Death Cab for Cutie are welcoming winter with open arms.
Witness: Within the last few months, singer Ben Gibbard got hit by a car while riding his bike. Guitarist Chris Walla...
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Lombardi Mare, Alberto Lombardi's seafood extravaganza, has had a shift in the head. Executive chef Tony Knight has departed, or is departing, or might not completely depart,...
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Any moviemaker who ventures into the sewers of New York City corruption will find Sidney Lumet's wet footprints. In films such as The Pawnbroker, Serpico, and Q&A, this...
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A Cut AboveThe wide-eyed, hyper-alert, sweaty-palm appeal of horror has not been mine to enjoy. A haunted house named Brigantine Castle on the New Jersey shore took that away...
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I thoroughly enjoyed Pegasus' Southwest premiere of Sound-Biting, not for original thoughts on the contemporary, poll-driven political process but because of enough...
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Some city leaders hope to flush out downtown Dallas' void of pedestrian activity and tourist facilities by installing a very non-Dallas innovation throughout the central...
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"It's like my mind is this constant movie," Damien Jurado says on the phone from his home in Seattle, a few hours before he heads to work at a local daycare. "My mind is always...
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Roasted crickets taste a bit like popcorn. Really.
Mealworm-infested pizza isn't bad, either--according to a Texas A & M entomology class in which students undergo a...
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The stark simplicity of A Time for Drunken Horses, one of the few films that have slipped out of post-revolutionary Iran to the West, does nothing to obscure its emotional...
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Tinkerbell, or one of her ilk, has been to Plush, Randall Garrett's new alternative art gallery on South Akard Street that's attracting all sorts of people, real and imaginary,...
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Some 85 years have passed since untold numbers of Armenians died in Eastern Turkey at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, but the historical fact of that genocide has caused...
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The alternative venue at the moment is the Elbow Room on Gaston Avenue, just on the cusp of Deep Ellum, previously thought to be little more than a beer-and-billiards joint--a...
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Sometimes Jeremy Parker slides behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Diablo. More often he drives a Mercedes. But in rare moments of juvenile flair he bops around in a bright...
