Beverly Hills (California)

The Postal Service Reunion was Ten Years Coming. Do you Feel Old Yet?

If you are in or around your mid-twenties, this probably isn't the first time you've felt the cold hands of classic-rockdom closing around your neck. (For me, it was seeing a Garden State DVD on the bargain shelf at an FYE. And then, right afterward, it was thinking, "Man, I can't believe I used to ... More >>

Here's a Chat with Jon Taffer, Host of Bar Rescue, Who is in Town Tomorrow for a Workshop

Jon Taffer, host of Spike TV's Bar Rescue, is in town tomorrow for his Rescue Tour Workshop, which is basically how to save your bar from yourself. I've watched Bar Rescue a few times, often grimacing at the dumb things people do and wondering, "Why are these people even in the business?" And I ap ... More >>

Smoke Guns and Cap'n Crunch at Four Lounge, the Cocktail Lounge for the Wizard in You

The barman procures a large glass jar from underneath the bar and pours in a few ounces of Sobieski vodka, followed by fresh-squeezed lime juice. Hickory chips are scooped from a glass jar and loaded into a hand-held smoking gun, then ignited with a small torch. Smoke fills the jar and infuses the ... More >>

Ever Wanted to Own J.R. Ewing's Hats and Boots? Larry Hagman's Having a Garage Sale.

Ro Kim's original painting of Jim Davis as Jock Ewing can now be yours.​TNT's still in and around town shooting that next-gen Dallas pilot; Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy and the kids are due to wrap this week, after which network execs will decide whether to move ahead with a full series ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 29: DJ Fishr Pryce

​ DJ Fishr Pryce thrives off spontaneity -- and, as has been made clear in the past, he doesn't like to take himself too seriously."I'm not afraid to be goofy," he says. "And I think that makes me a little different [from other DJ's in town]." Fittingly, the experienced hip-hop DJ, who has been sp ... More >>

Buy This: Closing the Door on Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald's Former Oak Cliff Apartment

​Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald's old Oak Cliff apartment -- the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn't officially go ... More >>

Combing for Photos of Dallas'
Don the Beachcomber

​Tiki history hobbyists -- a remarkably serious and disciplined group, considering its members like their drinks served in coconuts -- are on the hunt for photos of Dallas' Don the Beachcomber. Open at the corner of Meadow Road and Greenville Avenue from 1974 to 1982, the Dallas outlet of the ... More >>

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

Shut up, Jimmy Buffett.​You know what really gives us the summertime blues? "Summertime Blues," not to mention other maddening summer hits like "All I Wanna Do," "Margaritaville" or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing "Hot Hot Hot." It's bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cu ... More >>

Is Dallas Getting Yet Another TV Series? Called Cutthroat? Made by Fox? Maybe.

Mia Maestro​On Friday, Variety published a piece about how TV networks and production companies are looking outside of Los Angeles when scouting for pilot-season locations. Which, sure, Dallas knows all about, what with Jerry Bruckheimer's The Chase and Midland, with Jon Voight, having wrapped pri ... More >>

Up In The Air Director Jason Reitman Has A Good Sense Of Where He's From (Hollywood) And Where He's Headed (Hollywood)

Rangers, Hicks Continue to Speed Date Would-Be Buyers. This Week: Dennis Gilbert.

Dennis Gilbert​Last month, the Startlegram outed former Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco agent Dennis Gilbert as a would-be buyer of Your Texas Rangers, which the Beverly Hills-based Gilbert wouldn't confirm at the time. That made sense: He's still in pro ball (he reviews contracts for the Chicago Whi ... More >>

Texas Tea

10 Questions: Wolfgang Puck

Just about everyone with an abiding interest in food knows the name Wolfgang Puck.The Austrian born superstar helped to usher in the era of celebrity chefs after he opened the Beverly Hills destination Spago in 1982. What followed was a series of media raves, television appearances and the creation ... More >>

Swingin' Sinatra Style

Steve Lippia croons the blue-eyed

Last Night: Weezer At Nokia Theatre

Film 2007: Hit List

The top movies of 2007

Savage Love

Testing the limits of familial bonds, one nursing-home application at a time

Dallas Man Wants Goverment to Account for All of Its Gold

A Blue Day at Blue Mesa Grill

Missing Joules

Downtown resort shifts gears

From Prison Break to, Well, Prison?

Beverly Hills Cops Ready to Break Lane Garrison

Alley Fat

This grill requires a high-cholesterol billfold

Realty Check

Ladies' Man

Bill Maher visits the Majestic

Rivers Runs Dry

Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

Sidestep of the Machines

The Terminator's back. Again.

Bat Girl

Kelly Osbourne would like everyone to just Shut Up

God's Gift

From the Mountain come joyous songs about life and death

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

Letters

Swine Among Pearls, Speaking of Whining, Slave to Soccer

Bunk Whack

Barenaked in America is an exercise in self-pleasure

Best place to spend money

Highland Park Village

Hair to die for

The Big Tease only hints at a very funny movie about a hairdresser

England's dreaming

Director Mike Leigh owns up to his romantic side and sorts out all things Topsy-Turvy

Mommy weirdest

Anywhere But Here leaves Susan Sarandon flat on her face

Hash Over

Hey, world

On the Watts Prophets and the author's days in the Writers Workshop

Up in smoke

Lone Wolf fracas sees partners exit in a huff

Hash Over

Hash Over

Oys in the 'hood

Restraint and good taste keep this film from knocking us on our tuchas

Chinese slick

P.F. Chang's polishes Chinese fare with an American bistro veneer

City of angles

How Curtis Hanson turned James Ellroy's epic crime novel L.A. Confidential into one of the year's best films

Signs of the times

Paul Mazursky's art lies in his topical films about the modern American landscape

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Fashion plate

Trivial and proud of it, Clueless is an improbably entertaining time-waster

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Black and white

Madonna isn't a failed icon; she's a failed artist