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Mike Carter Field sits off Front Street, just past the convention center and the rose garden. Across the way is the football field where Earl Campbell played during high...
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As a boy growing up in postwar Vietnam, Lai My Truong was different. At school in a peasant village near Ho Chi Minh City, teachers and other children harshly ridiculed him,...
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The cop said he'd been following the van for five miles, maybe more. About five or 10 minutes, he said. The cop was exaggerating. Probably. No, the cop was definitely...
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Sunday is the big day at Italian Cowboy, a sort of steak and pasta dojo dressed in operatic cowboy gear. On the Sabbath, Italian Cowboy holds what it calls lasagna mania, an...
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Now here's a tricky one. Start with a busload of familiar and appealing stars, shacked up together for a couple of weeks in a house in the Hollywood Hills. Assign them their...
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No movie playing at Q Cinema, Fort Worth's annual gay and lesbian film festival, is more emblematic of the state of homo social evolution than opening night's All Over the...
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If you don't think too hard about Eighteen, the centerpiece production of Kitchen Dog Theater's 2001 New Works Festival, this small, concentrated domestic drama will give you...
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It wasn't as though she asked for much: a warm bed, a full belly, a squeaky chew toy. Of course, she had needs. What dog didn't? But Missy the Chihuahua never complained. She...
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Don't be fooled: Mandarin is a real Texas band. Its name is Chinese, and it certainly doesn't play straight country music or sport 10-gallon hats, but its music sounds just...
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Silver Fox, the prime steak vision jointly dreamed by Gene Street and III Forks founder Dale Wamstad (a.k.a. Capt. Bob Cooper and Del Frisco) finally opened in Grapevine a...
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If internal combustion ever becomes obsolete--that is, if the auto industry ever allows internal combustion to become obsolete--whatever will movies do for heart-stopping...
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Spring officially ends Thursday, which means there will be a quick transition from when the sun leaves a pleasant feeling on the shoulders to when its oppressive waves sear...
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It's summertime, and the living is easy--so easy, in fact, that I've given myself an assignment. Sooner or later, every bona fide art critic has to tackle the 800-pound...
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Administrators at Trinity Medical Center in Carrollton just wanted the grackles out of the pear trees. The sometimes annoyingly loud crowlike birds were defecating on the cars...
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At this rate, the only thing Epic Records hasn't released bearing Stevie Ray Vaughan's name on the spine is a double-disc collection of his entire funeral--with a limited...
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Way back in the days of classic film noir, reporters spent their workdays hanging out in squalid taverns, knocking back whiskey and blurting vintage slang, piecing together...
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After winning five Audience Awards and other honors at various gay and lesbian film festivals during the past year, Thomas Bezucha's Big Eden has finally opened in general...
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On the 13th of next month, a movie based on a book I wrote will be released in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and about 16 other cities not including Dallas....
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As it turns out, Tricky's been making records even he hates--contract-killers, he might call them, if not audience-killers in the process. (Everything since 1995's Maxinquaye...
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Milton Mapes' front man Greg Vanderpool and head Deadman Steven Collins shared band and stage for nearly seven years; they did their time as Plebeians, recording two discs for...
