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It's late on a Wednesday night in a warehouse district west of Dallas. Dozens of teen-agers face each other across a wide road. Between them, headlights from two muscle cars...
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Each week musicians drag out their friends, family and co-workers to see them play new-band showcases where the drink specials are the real draw (and often stronger than...
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You wonder how long it can last. It's tempting to put bets on it. But Paris Vendôme is a scene--a scene in a way that only Dallas can precipitate, one swollen from...
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The plot of The Bourne Identity is astonishingly straightforward: It is bereft of twists (instead, we're offered tangible explanations), free of the gaping plot holes that...
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While recently shopping at the Lush Cosmetics Store, I was bombarded by full-on sensory stimulation. The textured soaps and bath balls and the creamy lotions and potions...
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Five years ago, this interview would have been such the big deal--the coup of the year, the elusive great white at last wriggling on the hook. At least, that's how she was...
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Robert Ramirez, a successful artist and a family man, wants the same thing other business owners in the Bishop Arts District in North Oak Cliff already have: a chance to open...
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Everything in his little patch of Texas was blooming except for those high skinny weeds, and Darden Smith couldn't decide what to do about it. The Austin-based songwriter had...
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Last week it was reported in this space that Avner Samuel's fledgling Bistro K, a kosher restaurant in North Dallas, had surrendered to an entity called Bagel Cowboy. It turns...
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The opening credit sequence of Windtalkers--a montage of Monument Valley--instantly invokes memories of the opening of John Woo's immediately previous film, Mission:...
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Lewis MacAdams called the other day, and he began the conversation as though the person on the other end of the line had no idea who he is. "My old friend Angus Wynne said I...
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In only 70 minutes, Barbette, the new play from Kitchen Dog Theater, achieves what too few other stage works ever do: It makes art. That it manages to make art happen so...
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Very best theater of the absurd this city has seen, ever. Absolutely. Our eyes witness these events, but our brains can't believe it.
First, city council members Mary Poss,...
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High on Fire just might be the most overhyped indie metal band in the world. Spin called it one of the top five bands to watch for, Alternative Press gave its debut album,...
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If the Burning Question crew learned one thing during our interminable grad school years, it was that meaning exists in each action and every creation, that cultural identity...
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The "one thing" at the heart of Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing may not have one name. But as you wend your way through this intricate meditation on urban...
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As with any earthly endeavor, museum-going is governed by certain immutable, objectively verifiable laws. Laws like Biederman's Razor: The worse the institution, the greater...
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Maryln Schwartz is ticked. The 20-year lifestyle columnist at The Dallas Morning News, who was granted "permanent medical leave" from the paper after acknowledging multiple...
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The building at 508 Park Avenue isn't much of one, just a shell, really, not that different from the dozens of other abandoned husks cluttering downtown Dallas. It's still...
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We've only ourselves to blame. Our love for, if not obsession with, the detritus of popular culture has led us here--once more, into a theater screening a multimillion-dollar...
