Berlin

Schutze is Lonely. Please Send Him Comments.

Be Like Dirk

The Secret Machines are Hunky Dory

Uptown Players' New Season: Blair and Tootie, Fresh and Fruity

Marchel Ivery, "The Real Deal," Will Be Buried on Monday

The Rap Up: Syntax Strange

Chief, It's Chaos

Tony Scott, with Redford and Pitt, plays a mad but vigorous Spy Game

Top Ten Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

BeloWatch

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

Tio's Will Return. Some Day. Somewhere.

A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio's Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won't make a comeback in February -- don't believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that, yes, " ... More >>

Out There

A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio's Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won't make a comeback in February -- don't believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that, yes, " ... More >>

Out There

A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio's Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won't make a comeback in February -- don't believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that, yes, " ... More >>

Events for the week

A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio's Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won't make a comeback in February -- don't believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that, yes, " ... More >>

Events for the week

A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio's Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won't make a comeback in February -- don't believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that, yes, " ... More >>

What's Going On At Lola's Saloon Feb. 24? No Idea.

Experimental percussionist and No Idea Festival creator Chris Cogburn.Beginning next week, improvisational/experimental musicians from around the world will be descending upon Texas and Louisiana for the multi-city No Idea Festival. The bulk of the action is taking place in San Antonio and Austin, b ... More >>

The intentional tourist

Texas artist Frank X. Tolbert2 gives us a new look at the Old World

Letters

Falling down; One deluded man; Family matters; The Stick Men speak

The Ideas Behind The No Idea Festival

Falling down; One deluded man; Family matters; The Stick Men speak

The International: This Movie Needs a Bailout

Falling down; One deluded man; Family matters; The Stick Men speak

THe BAcksliders

You're Welcome (Self-released)

Half-baked Shake

Although inventive, Branagh's Love struggles vainly for harmony

Backtrackin'

A few things you may have missed the first time

Killer Climax

A few things you may have missed the first time

DVD Releases for the Week of November 13

A few things you may have missed the first time

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

Iraq's Cinema of Longing

A conversation with director James Longley

Peaches

Impeach My Bush (XL)

Star Spanglish Girl

Pick Pico de Gallo for hot comedy with smarts; at WaterTower's Cabaret, the wurst of times

Willkommen

Life is a Cabaret in Addison

Kitschy Cool

Totally kooky, totally European, totally fun: Stereo Total

Out Like a Lamb

Downfall chronicles Hitler's last days with an awkward note of sympathy

Interpol

Antics (Matador)

Rockin' Politics

Bush-bashing worth a beating?

Singing Fuels

At CTD pump jockeys and pretty waitresses fill 'er up; theaters announce season lineups

Lenin Grads

A sweet German film pokes fun at East Berlin life after communism

Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico

Le Bataclan '72 (Alchemy Entertainment)

Blue's Clues

Blue Man Group started as a joke. It's not as funny anymore.

Mind Games

George Clooney impressively toys with the twisted delusions of a game-show producer

Stereo Total, Soviet

November 9

The Faint

May 10

Odd Couple

The makers of Aimee & Jaguar make us believe in an unlikely love affair

Sex Machine

Under the disguise of Peaches, Merrill Nisker says things that would make Luther Campbell blush

Jake Mandell

Love Songs For Machines
(Carpark)

The Kindness of Strangers

Archival footage illuminates a remarkable Holocaust story

Willkommen, old chum

Cabaret is Sam Mendes' German Beauty

The redcoat is coming!

Art critic Matthew Collins delivers quite a Sensation

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Our First Look At Vapiano

Tim McCallum wants you to eat at Vapiano. Partly because he owns the place, but also because he really thinks it's great--which may again have something to do with the fact that he owns the place. But we don't want to get into one of those circular 'what caused the Civil War' arguments. Everyone ... More >>

Gig Alert: D.I. At Lakewood Bar and Grill Tonight

​Legendary '80s California punkers D.I. make a rare local appearance this evening at the Lakewood Bar and Grill. Although lead shouter Casey Royer is the lone original member of D.I., the band's sound hasn't changed all that much from the froth and snarl approach first introduced on Ancient Artif ... More >>

An Unsilent Night in Downtown Dallas

As previously announced here on Unfair Park, last night Dallas joined the ranks of cities around the world hosting an Unsilent Night, the holiday performance piece during which a crowd wanders through downtown blasting a pre-recorded soundtrack in unison through boomboxes and speakers. In fact, loca ... More >>