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Henry Miller would be dumbstruck. The New York-born author of sexually explicit novels often castigated Americans for their chronic paralysis of taste and crude cuisine....
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Dimly, across the crackling phone line, all the way from Australia, there it is: undeniably, a rooster. It's dark all over America, but on Avalanches founder Robbie Chater's...
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Even in Plano, everything about Bob's is exaggerated, from the endless mahogany wood paneling to the near-golf-ball-sized jelly beans kept in a large bowl near the entrance....
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Nothing's more disappointing than the sequel that feels forced rather than organic. It was inevitable Spy Kids, so good Miramax's Dimension division released it twice last...
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Good morning, agent. Your mission--should you choose to accept it--is to infiltrate the ranks of the Sacred Order of Brides. It is your task to learn what drives a frugal...
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A press pass, reporter-turned-novelist Gregory McDonald once said, is good for one thing: It allows the journalist to ask very smart people very stupid questions. Certainly,...
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Maybe it's no coincidence that Central Market's serpentine maze empties into a delta of counters stocked with chef-prepared food, sandwiches and Paciugo Gelato ice cream....
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Sack of Kittens
This week in Sack of Kittens: The Filthy Skanks. Looks like? GWAR with absolutely no production values. Meaning: Instead of, say, an enormous erupting penis,...
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Though she's lived life as both a post-punk pioneer and an alt-rock heroine, Kim Deal's got her doubts about her latest work. "Nobody's gonna like the record," she says of...
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Over tens of thousands of years, human beings harnessed fire, created language and developed rudimentary tools as they slowly learned to tame the land. Either that, or God,...
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In case you didn't happen to read the tagline on the ubiquitous poster, Xander Cage, also known as XXX because he's tattooed his first initial three times on the back of his...
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When Light Crust Doughboys bassist Art Greenhaw curses today's commercial radio broadcasting industry as "a marketing scheme, a revenue-driven format, a way around payola,"...
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Yvonne went skiing the day KKMR-FM (93.3), better known as Merge, went off the air. It was January 3, and the radio station had given away ski trips to a few lucky...
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Everyone knows the various evils of the music industry and major labels. Or, at least, they should by now. The low royalty rates, deceptively large advances, secret recoupable...
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Blood Work, Clint Eastwood's 23rd film as director, is another crime thriller in the vein of, but better than, True Crime (1998) and Absolute Power ('96). And it bears a...
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The danger in writing a witty contemporary play filled with topical references and satirical jabs at public figures is that, over time, the references grow whiskers and the...
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The arrival of the West Nile virus in Dallas has proceeded with all the panicked fanfare that typically comes with public health scares: News reports announce the "deadly"...
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At this late date--15 years since its inception, or a century in hip-hop years--Public Enemy's only competition is its own past. Chuck D knows this, too, and it irks him like...
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Hearing that her writer boyfriend (Tristán Ulloa) has been killed in an accident, a Madrid waitress (Paz Vega) named Lucia takes off for an island that figures more...
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Don't you just hate it when columnists get lazy or run short on ideas and resort to answering their mail in print? You do? Well, turn the page, bub, 'cause this week, Buzz...
