At 5 o'clock in the morning, a van pulls into the deserted parking lot outside the Richardson public library. Ordinarily at this time, a group of Falun Gong practitioners would...
As Tom Stanley lay dying, his heart worn down by time, Lillian Stanley searched for ways to console her husband. Each day he spent at Presbyterian Hospital in January, she...
A year after the debut of her critically acclaimed first album, there are those who are still asking, "Who is Jill Scott?" You can hardly blame them, because the answer is...
Sometimes Big Bowl isn't big enough to fit all of the corn flakes that want to get in. Sometimes, maybe most of the time, they give you one of those flashing, vibrating duck...
The most telling scene in Rush Hour 2 comes during the closing-credits montage of outtakes, which have become the most enjoyable part of Jackie Chan's Hollywood outings. Chris...
There are those who would insist the best thing to have ever happened to James Dean was his death--at an early age, in a violent car wreck, sitting behind the wheel of a...
The mock religious Web site www.landoverbaptist.org staged a spoof protest outside the eight-month Los Angeles run of Del Shores' Southern Baptist Sissies. A director friend...
"Little Rose" has a butter-melting smile, cascading cornrows and huge brown eyes. An adorable 5-year-old, she's the kind of cute you can't resist hugging. But don't be fooled...
La Crescenta is hardly known as a hotbed for rock and roll, nor is it the place you'd expect to find America's most prominent dance/rock group. But this far northern Los...
Bistral Neighborhood Bistro & Bakery will shut down at the end of August, if it isn't sold. If this doesn't prove that McKinney Avenue is in the grips of a gustatory curse,...
"I want you to suck my big dick. I want you to lick my balls." Thus begins Larry Clark's Bully, a return to Kids territory, following a forgettable detour into adulthood named...
The Ramones are indeed legendary, and the recent death of lead singer Joey Ramone makes an inside scoop on the group even more timely. However, the band members'...
A wag once defined philosophy as unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Alas, contemporary art can too often be defined as semi-intelligible answers to questions that...
It starts with a phone call and one question: "Have you heard about the Toadies breaking up?" A week or so later, we've heard that same question over and over in phone calls...
It's difficult to imagine a more important year in baseball annals than 1908. It was the year of "Merkle's Boner," which isn't what you think it is. In an era when cocks woke...
Chopper, the first feature from Australian video director Andrew Dominik, is a strong, effective but often stomach-churning portrait of notorious Aussie criminal Mark...
There is only one reason Jon Favreau's new film is called Made. Not too long ago, his old friend and co-star Vince Vaughn called him up and told him, in no uncertain terms,...
Kissy, kissy: With the uninterrupted lovefest celebrating the opening of the American Airlines Center under way in the pages of The Dallas Morning News, regular readers of...
Whoever it was who first said bad things come in threes--it was probably Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger, that poor, stoic sap--had obviously never met Beyoncé...
Times certainly have changed. Twenty years ago, a musical about an East German transsexual rock singer would have premiered in one of New York's off-off-Broadway theaters or...
