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The throng of teens mills around "the loft," a youth-group meeting area sparsely furnished with plastic chairs. They're preparing for an icebreaker game, a prelude to their...
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By now you've probably heard the song. In a bar, perhaps, or while browsing in a CD store. Maybe you heard it on the radio, as I did. One day last week the song played on my...
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It sounds easy, but operating a successful neighborhood restaurant is tough: ingratiating yourself with a cadre of regulars, serving decent food, enticing nomads from foreign...
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You know how it's often the ones we love whose flaws are most apparent? Well, when it comes to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, I am smitten. This film is a...
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Every year, the barren, icy tundra of wintertime Dallas sparks fear in the hearts of metroplexians. Soon enough, we will have to brace for the utmost terrors caused by the...
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Dallas theatergoers can be aggressively vocal with their opinions. Some audience members open their gobs and offer audible reviews of a show while a performance is in progress....
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Every weekday morning beginning at 7 o'clock, the gate of Huntsville's Walls Unit opens, just slightly. Returned to society are a dozen or so prisoners who have completely...
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The Crystal Method is having a terrible time. The two guys who make up the group, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, sit in the shadowy corner of a posh San Francisco restaurant,...
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Pool cues or bamboo sticks? Chopsticks or billiard chalk? These were once the riveting questions posed up the Dallas North Tollway. But plans to plop a Cool River Café...
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The Mona Lisa Smile in question belongs, of course, to its star, Julia Roberts. Why? For no particular reason, actually. It's just what Italian professor Bill Dunbar (Dominic...
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Thursday, December 18
Any fan of black-and-white photography has seen Edward Weston's bell pepper shot, "Pepper No. 30." Its seductive lighting makes what is to some simply...
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It was just a coincidence, but Ellen Cotter, the Manhattan-based chief operating officer of the Angelika chain of art-house theaters, happened to be in Dallas the very day...
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For the past few months, I've asked friends who know Dallas music the same questions: Can I bum a cigarette? And who are your favorite local bands? Right off, I noticed two...
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William H. Macy's plain-vanilla features and hang-dog screen demeanor have served him well. Who could resist him as the clueless car dealer who hatched the disastrous...
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There are many symbols for this time of year. There's the Nativity for religious Christmas, and Santa and Rudolph for secular Christmas. A menorah for Hanukkah, and--according...
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So the Dallas City Council has spoken, and we are not going to devote our money or our energy to any kind of natural treatment of the river that runs through us. Instead,...
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Talk about timing. Quite a few local bands have album releases pending for spring 2004, leaving many scenesters' hopes for indie-rock stocking stuffers in the coal pit. But...
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Evidently, the French-Canadian writer-director Denys Arcand has a tremendous capacity for dividing the art-movie/film-fest crowd into enemy camps. Arcand's fans see him as a...
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12/20
It has come to this: During last week's poker game, my friend Shane and I found ourselves swapping recipes for, among other things, shrimp with grits, exotic chili and...
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In sports, particularly among the media, rumors are like venereal diseases: There are a lot of them out there, and they're quickly and easily passed around. Who's a nice guy,...
