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It's not as though we didn't already have the two most challenging kids in the world. Max is 5, a Harry Potter clone; he's an exhausting, whirling dervish of a child, a...
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He doesn't write songs about being Texan, drinkin' Shiner, plowing a rut on Interstate 35, pulling into Gruene Hall, selling out for a case of Miller Lite. That's why he's not...
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It feels like an old neighborhood nightclub in an aging industrial city or maybe New York, one hollowed out of the ground like a gopher den. The ceilings are low. The light is...
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It's no surprise that the Louisiana-born novelist Rebecca Wells has seen her wildly popular books translated into 18 languages, with no fewer than 6 million copies in print....
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The ultra-modern lost-and-found poster might read something like this: Claud the dog, brown with a red collar, good-natured, transponder code 8354690210. Now even pet locating...
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It's one of the great ironies of the modern-day smut biz that it took a boob burglar like Joe Francis to shake Hugh Hefner's once-mighty empire to its creaky knees. Francis is...
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Michael Flemons was like a lot of tough bosses. As president of MDF Enterprises, a Dallas company that provided "trauma" therapy to Medicaid patients here and in Houston,...
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Kori Gardner, 27, and Jason Hammel, 25, went to Tahiti after their wedding last summer, but their real honeymoon didn't start until they got back to their hometown of San...
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Bistro K, famed chef Avner Samuel's stab at a kosher restaurant he sprung on North Dallas earlier this year, has suddenly shuttered. The only telling details of the demise in...
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So this is what it's come to: another week, another terrorist-with-a-suitcase-nuke movie. Last Friday, it was up to Ben Affleck to save the world from nuclear annihilation, an...
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The new Martin Scorsese film is out, and, no, it's not the delayed, high-priced Gangs of New York, but rather a delayed, low-budget documentary shot for television, though it...
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Farewell, fourth wall. Actors are talking directly to their audiences in three shows, each of which tries to dissolve the invisible barrier between performer and spectator in...
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Low-income housing developer Virginia McGuire has resigned from the troubled nonprofit that paid her and her husband's company roughly $500,000 to buy an aging East Dallas...
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True story and, come to think of it, we've probably told this one before: A couple of years ago, we went to see the Beastie Boys at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Had...
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This weekend, Hola intends to brazenly flout Dallas health codes.
It's a one-time deal for the Knox-Henderson-area establishment: break the law, do it quickly and get away...
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Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the French film The Piano Teacher, aside from Isabelle Huppert's unnerving and masterful performance, is the totally nonexploitative...
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I have a weakness for quixotic figures. In literature and in life, I've always been a sucker for the wisecracking cynic, the jaded guy (or gal) whose hard-boiled façade...
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The TV ad hits hard and fast, like some upstart boxer who had better score early and often: "Do you think electric bills in Dallas-Fort Worth are too high?" asks a narrator...
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Think of it this way, and perhaps Marshall Mathers' (or Eminem's, or Slim Shady's) 25-mil-plus-sold popularity makes more sense to the old farts who stoop to find him...
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Whatever problems Stolen Summer may have encountered during the production process, as documented on the HBO reality series Project Greenlight, it doesn't feel like the...
