Archive Search Results
-
Feature
El Tren de la Muerte
Central American migrants risk life and limb on the death trains to Texas
By Megan Feldman
Published: July 26, 2007
Click here for more photos from this story Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices...
-
Music
Dicks and Janes
By Jonanna Widner
Published: July 26, 2007
It's about midnight on a Saturday night at the Monkey Bar, and I find myself rather confused. It's a few beers into the evening, so colors are blurring and edges are bending...
-
Critics' Picks
Bishop Allen, Page France, The Teeth
Saturday, July 28, at Hailey's, Denton
By Jonanna Widner
Published: July 26, 2007
Obsessed with a found trashed white piano, decidedly quirky and channeling everything from '80s pop to Modest Mouse, Bishop Allen is a band chasing after the heart of every...
-
playlist
Greyskull
Pretty in Ink (Self-released)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: July 26, 2007
If these local punks had a bit more chutzpah they would have covered the Psychedelic Furs' song they poke fun at with the title track of this terrific EP. As is, this potent...
-
And Another Thing
And Another Thing
By Jonanna Widner
Published: July 26, 2007
On the mouth: That charming fellow we all know as Cottonmouth Texas is hard at work these days, including recording a mash-up with Los Angeles-based band the Spores. (If you've...
-
Bsides
Staking Out the Scene
Tokyo Police Club chase down fame, but not fortune
By Eryc Eyl
Published: July 26, 2007
The life of a touring band has got to be glamorous and decadent. Luxurious buses packed to the gills with liquor, drugs and acquiescent groupies, shuttle you from one...
-
Dish
Braying Rock
Stone Horse Bistro is a mix of virility and lethargy
By Mark Stuertz
Published: July 26, 2007
There's a certain lethargy to Stone Horse Bistro, a stiffness. It doesn't completely unravel the place, but frays are visible through its gaunt earnestness. It appears on the...
-
Film
Light Dining
No Reservations is sweet and savory fare. Without the foam.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 26, 2007
Sadly, No Reservations is not the big-screen adaptation of Anthony Bourdain's snack-gulping, risk-taking Travel Channel show; you'll find no monkey brains here, nor any...
-
Night & Day
Khaki Blues
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: July 26, 2007
Last time I checked, getting shot in the head could earn you some serious street cred. However, for singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, best known for the 1991 adult contemporary hit...
-
Night & Day
Floating on Air
Presta's visions defy gravity
By Michelle Matthews
Published: July 26, 2007
When it's festooned with Winnie the Pooh characters, it's a mobile. When it's strung with abstract shapes, it's "kinetic art." The works of Salvador Presta fall into the latter...
-
Night & Day
Save a Horse
Write about a cowboy
By Patrick Williams
Published: July 26, 2007
Never really got the whole "cowboy poetry" thing. Seems like contrived sentimentality, the bane of good poetry, but since this Sunday Fort Worth will mark the National Day of...
-
Night & Day
The King and Queen of Nashvegas
McGraw and Hill make out onstage
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 26, 2007
Tim McGraw and his CMA-sore-loser wife bring their bullshit mainstream country treacle back to Dallas for the second installment of their Soul2Soul tour. Faith Hill's music is...
-
Night & Day
Drawing the Line
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 26, 2007
I've attempted to draw the perfect rocket ship since I was around 5 years old. I am incapable of such an achievement. For more decades than I can to admit, this simple...
-
Night & Day
Lifestyles of the Rich and Murdered
By Rich Lopez
Published: July 26, 2007
The day George Clooney, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie do dinner theater may be light years away. Heck, it would probably be an alternate universe. So instead we'll just have to...
-
Night & Day
Digital Gridiron
By Jonanna Widner
Published: July 26, 2007
Remember the days of neighborhood pickup football games? You know, lacing up your sneaks after watching the Cowboys whip the Steelers (or maybe the Bills, depending on how old...
-
Night & Day
Pie, Projected
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: July 26, 2007
Well, it looks like Felicity's higher education from fictional college UNY didn't do her much good--she ended up as a waitress at a pie diner in Small Town, U.S.A. And forget...
-
Night & Day
Wives And Daughters
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: July 26, 2007
Since the early '90s, hundreds of young women have been found dead, raped and tortured in the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua--the Mexican sister city of El Paso. Most of...
-
Night & Day
A-Drift in Germany
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 26, 2007
When a photographer shoots a photograph, he has a decision to make. Crop close to show only detail, removing the noise that might surround the subject, or allow other elements...
-
Night & Day
Stage Booty
By JARED BINDER
Published: July 26, 2007
Forget Captain Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Chances are in 20 years everyone else will have forgotten it too. But Long John Silver will still be sailing the...
-
Night & Day
Lone Star SEAL
Luttrell brings controversy to Mesquite
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 26, 2007
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell is an appropriate, Bush-approved Afghanistan war hero. In his new book, Lone Survivor, the Texan lashes out at the media and questions engagement...
Now Click This
