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The pretty lady hobbled onto the plane. Her thin frame was wrapped in a worn black coat; she had one foot in a medical boot. She stuffed the coat in an overhead bin, revealing...
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It looks like the end of the world in here. Technological debris is scattered all around--stacks of computer cases, cables that would stretch for miles if hooked end-to-end,...
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"Food is life."
Promo materials for George Restaurant attribute the above quotation to George Brown, the lauded Dallas chef who just opened his own restaurant in the spot...
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If you've already decided to see Ocean's Twelve, it's probably best not to read much about it. Unlike its predecessor, a remake that clung to a hoary heist formula, the sequel...
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As icons go, surrealist painter Frida Kahlo has become as recognizable as the Virgin Mother or Ché. Her face peers out from jewelry, bags, clothing and décor of...
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To bastardize something is not usually a good thing. Bastardization--or crossbreeding, as one might have it--signals the trivializing or making hackneyed of an idea or object...
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Guilty Look
In Dallas, chatting on a street corner can get you in trouble
To hear Edgar Simmons tell it, he stopped his car to talk to a friend, and the cops thought he was...
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Personally, I'd like an iPod mini. One of those cute suckers, just $249 and the perfect gift from any aspiring local artist wanting to "get ahead." (I prefer pink, by the...
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Oh, boy.
Over the past several years people often wrote in urging us to dine on organ meats, find a cocktail we couldn't stomach or sit down to haggis and scotch. This week's...
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They walk among us. They resemble people, approximate our words and actions, present themselves more or less as human. And yet they are more--a different species, with their...
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Thursday, December 9
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has caught the Christmas fever. Screw peace on earth and good will to men. They want bigger; they want better. And they...
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Constructions & Architecture This show makes what might otherwise seem like the incongruent forces of art and architecture seamless and fluid. This gathering of things,...
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It's early, but Buzz wants to make a Christmas wish. No, not for world peace; we're not that ambitious. What we want is to be able to watch more than 30 minutes of television...
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Last weekend, I joined MySpace. It wasn't easy. For weeks people had been telling me about the Web site, the latest trendy wasteland for college kids and computer nerds, but...
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We're mostly hostile to Dallas versions of Italian cuisine. It's all so...Stouffer's. But we had sappy soft spots for Rick Robbins of the slowly bled Eccolo and Kevin...
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Skepticism suits Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury. It informs his professional acumen; it sharpens his impressive intellect. It feeds his wry sense of humor; it counter-balances his...
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Dallas Christmas Festival Everything about Prestonwood Baptist Church and its Dallas Christmas Festival is big and broad, from the cast (more than 1,000) and running time...
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"What am I, the Flying Dutchman?" I'm sitting on this DART train wondering. Outside I see a flat rolling moonscape, crumbling cinder-block walls, ranks of dusty 18-wheelers,...
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If you haven't been watching The Battle for Ozzfest--and unless your Monday night is as lame as mine, I assume you haven't been--here's an update: We're seven episodes into...
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12/12
Ballet gets a big boost this time of year--like when a scrawny male dancer determinedly hoists his flabby-tushed partner high up on his shoulder. The Nutcracker is an...
