Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg Ably Fill the Hat

Should We Celebrate Juneteenth?

I had lunch with Rev. Peter Johnson yesterday. He walked into CT's Real Deal Barbeque in South Dallas, shook my hand, and smiled. "How was your holiday?" he asked me. "Great!" I said. It was. I told him I spoke to my father for about 15 or 20 minutes, and I had even gotten a few texts and congratu ... More >>

Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

Look At This Poster For Texas Frightmare Weekend

Texas Frightmare is this weekend, and Mixmaster has all the info you need about the three-day event, which includes a prom where Anthony Michael Hall will be in attendance, and a reunion of the cast of They Live. If that's not enough to get you excited, I'm not sure what's running through your vein ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Wednesday 3/14/2012

​If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving musi ... More >>

The Favorite Foods of All 44 Presidents

​After an exhaustive search of public records and historical documents at the Library of Congress (read: drunken Google search), we are ready to honor President's Day with a comprehensive list of the foods enjoyed by our fearless leaders of the past. Throughout this process one question continued ... More >>

Happy Hour at Malai Kitchen, Where Five Dollars Will Make You Hollar for Another One

The West Village isn't typically a favorite destination 'hood of mine unless I'm seeking fro-yo or a sale on cardigans, but a Yelp search pointed me in the direction of Thai-Vietnamese spot Malai when I found myself in dire need of a drink on a Sunday evening. I have zero desire to wait 30 minutes ... More >>

As the Governor Declares August 6 "Day of Prayer and Fasting," One Response to Rick Perry's "The Response" Event

From Governor Rick Perry's Flickr pageRick Perry and Sarah Palin at that Heroic Media event at the Majestic Theatre last November​Speaking of over-the-weekenders, the morning paper had a pay wall piece Saturday about Governor Rick Perry's "call to prayer for a nation in crisis" scheduled for Augus ... More >>

Grab Your Stovepipe and Dance

The Conspirator: Redford Helms Another Dull History Lesson.

Poster of the Week: Titus Andronicus at Club Dada on Wednesday Night

​ Titus Andronicus' phenomenal 2010 release, The Monitor, is a fairly dense album -- not necessarily because of its visceral combination of punk aesthetic with indie rock instrumentation, but because of its subject matter, which centers around the Civil War. So it's quite fitting then, that the An ... More >>

Of Broccoli-Hating, Deranged Bowels and Ex-Presidents

Yeah, we don't like broccoli either.​Abraham Lincoln had plenty of notable characteristics, but a healthy appetite wasn't among them. Even his stepmother wasn't impressed by his eating habits: "Abe was a moderate eater," she recalled. Lincoln typically ate an egg for breakfast and an apple for ... More >>

At the Winspear, Mel Brooks' happy, tappy, snappy Young Frankenstein musical is electrifying.

In Search of America's Next "Sputnik Moment," Obama Points to Local Teen as Country's Future

Amy Chyao and President Obama at the White House in October​Before the first bell rings this morning, this inspirational moment ... Perhaps you recall: Back in October, 16-year-old Amy Chyao, a junior at Plano's Williams High School, was among the whiz kids invited to the White House to show-and-t ... More >>

What Did the President Say at Russell and Dorothy Budd's House Last Night?

Courtesy Kim Seale, Southwest AirlinesAir Force One leaving Love Field yesterday evening​Let's go to the lengthy transcript, which the White House just posted from last night's big-ticket fund-raiser at the Highland Park home of the attorney and his wife, a former president of Dallas Area Habitat ... More >>

Airing New Research and Dusting Off Old Yarns, 46 Years After the Kennedy Assassination

Patrick MichelsErnest Brandt, who says he was an eyewitness to the Kennedy assassination, shows 11-year-old Mack Reed the window where Oswald fired from. More photos are up in this slide show.​Out at Dealey Plaza Sunday afternoon, there was something for everyone: fashion, literature, song and, fi ... More >>

Get With the Times|Bang, Bang|Pay to Play

The Dallas Historical Society's Lincoln Letter Is a Most Controversial Find

Eat This, Jared

Color Theory

Hell, No, Blow, We Won't Vote Ever Again. For Anything. Because Democracy Sucks, Man!

Junk Food

ATHFCMFFT is 87 minutes of pure art, with fries

Aping Abraham

See Lincolnesque in Fort Worth

To Tie-Dye For

Jupiter aligns with Mars and Hair returns in all its flaxen, waxen glory

Hand It to Him

Patriot Acts

Art sledgehammers politics with a smile at Barry Whistler Gallery

Mad Rushian

History for Sale

Heritage Auction Galleries made a fortune selling rare coins. Now it’s making a mint offering gems from America’s rich past.

Because of Dixie Win

CSA envisions life today if the South had won the war

Steer Queer

Bombs & Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Art From A to Z

The DMA's great American paper chase

All His Children

A Number of clones visits Undermain Theatre; Bootstraps kicks up laughs at the Bath House

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

Wallerin' and Hollerin'

Ain't Misbehavin' at DTC; but, oh, they're trying to at Plano Repertory Theatre

Dead Presidents

Two brothers, one gun take aim at American racial history in DTC's Topdog/Underdog

Top Dog

Plus: Bad Medicine; Sack of Kittens

Active Cultures

Juneteenth Film Festival is worth the wait

Mr. Misunderstood

If you stumble across Fishboy's third album, consider yourself lucky

The Book on Golf

Plus; Sack of Kittens; Annika's TO-DO LIST

Happy Freakin' Valentine's Day

Some local CD-release shindigs make this horrible holiday a little more tolerable

Patriot Acts

Three actors, two hours, 700 years of old jokes in Complete History of America (abridged)

Dead Kennedy

Plus: J.Ho, The Human Weed

Sarah Quite Contrary

Sarah Vowell leaves the Cannoli and takes on dead presidents

Recall 9-11

The Sixth Floor Museum reflects on American tragedies

He Got Rhythm

Ken Burns wants you to know why Jazz is America's music

Attack of the suits

And the business community wants to take over the Dallas school system exactly why?

Scene, heard

Earl Harvin shows; Sugarbomb signs; Dooms U.K. get the Details; Plus more

Southern fried

What's in a name? A lot of ugly history, at least when it comes to Jefferson Davis Elementary.

Munch on this