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Williams Run was supposed to be a sterling example of the latest thinking in affordable housing when Virginia McGuire convinced state officials to approve her plans to buy and...
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Today, any geek with a computer and a dream can have his own Internet radio station without jumping through all those government hoops that limit the number and broadcasting...
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Chef Jean La Font says he doesn't fiddle much with the food at Le Rendezvous. He eschews twists and mergings. He shrugs off plate landscapes framed in sauce dribble and herb...
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Poor William Randolph Hearst. The snapping dogs of Hollywood just won't leave the guy alone. It's been barely 60 years since a little epic called Citizen Kane portrayed the...
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Sitting at a railway crossing as the train cars cha-chunk, cha-chunk in front of our car, we tend to stare at the clock in the dash, watching the minutes slip past. But those...
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Peter Bogdanovich, maybe the last man alive who wears a neckerchief without irony, holds a copy of a newspaper article in which his old friend Larry McMurtry is saying nice,...
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The old television series M*A*S*H ran through about 4 billion episodes, each with the same story line--war bad, wisecracking disdain for authority good--before viewers tired...
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Tony Hajjar is in Vancouver, recording a new album with his band, which is exactly where he should be and not where you'd expect.
Let's back up. In 2000, At the Drive-In, an...
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Patrick Esquerré of Café Patrique is regrouping and adding some thrust to his fast-casual concept after he shuttered his operation in Mockingbird Station. He...
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During the past half-century, countless filmmakers great and obscure have stood in serious debt to The Bicycle Thief. But, for my money, no one has borrowed so cleverly or...
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The only time I can recall literally rolling with laughter was during a particularly good Monty Python's Flying Circus episode. It contained a sketch that had something to do...
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Some plays are timely, some plays are timeless. Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild is one of the former. Thornton Wilder's Our Town is the latter. And in productions of each,...
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Buzz, admittedly, is at times a bit naïve--naïve in this case being a polite word for "dumb." For instance, we naïvely thought that to be a cheerleader required...
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Buncha benefits happening around D-D-FW this week and next. First up is a shindig for the Denton Humane Society at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios on April 27, featuring...
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The USA Film Festival, now in its 32nd year, may never again be the powerhouse fest it was at its inception--which is not to damn it, since there are several excellent...
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The Sheep Are ListeningAccess to this tripe: "It's pretty sad when one of the greatest achievements by a Dallas musician is getting impregnated by Paul Simon..."
Hell, it's...
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If hip-hop is indeed "the proverbial sad clown of music," as New York rapper J-Live proclaimed on 1999's unreleased and unofficial anthem, "The Best Part," then J-Live himself...
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Written and directed by Bart Freundlich, this project deserves commendation for its psychological cogency and compassion, but it loses significant points for its lazy story...
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As a gesture of rebellion, the photo-shoot middle finger is sooo 20th century; at this point, an artist would be served just as well by donning a raccoon coat and strumming a...
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The thoroughly unlikable heroine of Stephen Herek's cautionary comedy about striving and satisfaction is a vain, actressy TV blonde (vain, actressy Angelina Jolie) whose...
