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Immodesty Blaize used to be a convent student. Now, she's a U.K. burlesque sensation. If you ask me, her parents pretty much sealed that deal at birth when they named her. I wonder what they named their second kid: Boobs McGee? If you're hyped that someone invented a legit art form that... More >>

If the closest you've come to seeing a Japanese film this year was nostalgically watching Kill Bill: Vol. 1 on DVD one lazy Sunday afternoon, it's time to shape up. Head to SMU's McCord Auditorium, 3225 University Blvd., at 6:30 p.m. Friday to see the first of four days of the 2010 Japanese... More >>

One of the great things about Alaska is that you can always keep your eye on what Russia is up to. But there's no need to distract yourself with Russian matters when there are so many activities in the Last Frontier (we're talking about Alaska again). If you don't want to experience the... More >>

By now we all know better than to trust a vegetarian, but 20 years ago it took a visionary Italian director named Claudio Fragasso and a little movie shot in rural Utah to set us all straight. Like zombie-movie indictments of corporate greed or the slasher flicks that warned us about underage... More >>

In the great flood of the Noah's Ark story, animals were saved two-by-two. Not so with the great floods of Hurricane Katrina. There were no arks; there were no clear directives from a higher power. It was a time of literally sinking or swimming, and it's nearly impossible to swim, climb into a... More >>

I'm just going to go ahead and throw this out there--I'm a geek. A big one. I jump up and down every time I receive my National Geographic magazine, I do cartwheels when Shark Week premieres on the Discovery Channel and sometimes I break out with the Urkel Dance when I watch Animal Planet. Now... More >>