Bill Murray

Haystack Burgers & Barley Will Be Alamo Drafthouse Neighbor in Richardson

Haystack Burgers & Barely is moving into the Richardson Heights Shopping Center, just a couple doors down from the Alamo Drafthouse that is currently under construction. Owned and operated by Richardson locals Kevin and Jenny Glavan, along with Rob and Christine Wondoloski, Haystack will open in mid ... More >>

Talking with the People of The People's Last Stand about Cocktails, Panic and PB&J's

Kartik Rathore opened The People's Last Stand in Mockingbird Station more than a year ago, and the foremost concept was it would be an upscale bar serving high-quality drinks. It was his first endeavor in the restaurant and bar business and he admittedly had a hard time in the beginning. While the d ... More >>

The Best Films of 2012

The end of cinema? Hardly. Taking a look at the top movies.

In Hyde Park on Hudson, it's Patriotic to Pleasure a President

Eight Music-Themed Gifts You Never Knew You Needed

Ah, the holidays, that time when you frantically try to figure out what exactly to give whoever you got stuck with in the secret Santa drawing. Maybe you got lucky and selected a music fan; maybe you think you want to give that music fan something that's not just the latest Pitchfork-blessed album, ... More >>

Six Korean Pop Artists To Watch After "Gangnam Style"

Korean comedian/musician PSY's track "Gangnam Style" became a global viral hit over the summer and served as an example of the Hallyu, or Korean wave. This week, Schoolboy Records (the crew behind Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen) picked PSY up for releases in North America, the most high-profile ... More >>

Young Love, Wes Anderson-Style in Moonrise Kingdom

Festy Says... Here Are Some Rules For Your Festival Season

With the arrival of 35 Denton this weekend, festival season is officially upon us. But festivals have gotten complicated, and you can no longer just grab your buds, hop in your Civic hatchback and chill in a tent for three days. You need provisions, a plan, intestinal fortitude, hand sanitizer, Red ... More >>

Art Conspiracy 7, In Less Than Three Minutes

Over on The Mixmaster yesterday, Leslie recapped Saturday night's Art Conspiracy jam, the seventh annual auction benefiting a worthy local cause (this year's was Musical Angels, which provides piano lessons to hospitalized children). No doubt they raised a ginormous pile of cash; prices got high in ... More >>

From Bobbie Wygant's Archives, a Chat With the Late, Great Sidney Lumet (Bill Murray Too!)

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Sidney Lumet for "The Morning After" from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Shortly after news broke of director Sidney Lumet's death at the age of 86 on Saturday morning, our pal Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth-based keeper of The Bobbie Wygant Archive, sent word: He had in his possession an ... More >>

South-By-Bingo Music Edition: Animal Hats and Uber-Street Performer Found

Illustration by Noah Patrick Pfarr; Design by Alexander FloresGot two spaces. See the original SXSW bingo card here.​Last week, we had our Art Director Alexander Flores and illustrator Noah Patrick Pfarr create a bingo card based on what we'd likely see at SXSW.Turns out our predictions are fairly ... More >>

DFW Film Crix, Very Social at Year's End

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review ... More >>

Bobbie Wygant's Archives, the Gift That Keeps on Giving: Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Khaaaaaaan

​Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth filmmaker who tends to Bobbie Wygant's archives, was sure he had in the stack o' tapes an old interview with Leslie Nielsen, which we had planned to post earlier this week. Alas, he dug and dug but came up empty-handed. But Erik more than makes up for it with this lates ... More >>

Playing Dead

Oh Are They?

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, July 12, 2010

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Giving Tree Band (Yorkville, Illinois)      &n ... More >>

Watch: Mount Righteous Backs Parry Gripp at SXSW

Kind of a dated clip, maybe, but in case you were curious as to what Mount Righteous was doing when not getting adored by Bill Murray at SXSW this year, here it is: They were backing Internet jingle meme king Parry Gripp during his showcase. The crowd, as you'll see in this video provided by an Inte ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Mount Righteous -- "Eat Your Wife and Kiss The Barbecue"

The cover for Mount Righteous' new self-titled release... once you unfold it.​At 8 p.m. on Saturday evening, the acoustic non-marching punks in Mount Righteous will celebrate the release of their new, self-titled full-length at Good Records--with a little help from another mountainous outfit, Fort ... More >>

What It Was Like: Eighteen Bands In Twelve Hours.

Pete FreedmanLA's Local Natives offered up the finest set of SXSW's second day.​ The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one--and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought ... More >>

Mother Pus Bucket

There's something strange in your neighborhood

Chicago Wisecracks

The Second City comes to Dallas

Mi Corazón

A Forgotten Documentary About Super Bowl X, Starring a Topless Rayfield Wright, Phyllis George and Bill Murray

Blume-in' Movie

The Inwood screens an Anderson gem

Stud Farm

See SC's future legends

Cellar Beware

Getting 'Non-Uncomfortable' with Dave Little

Here's a Tip: When You Rob a Bank, Always Check for the Tracking Device

Free Tickets! Don't Thank Us.

'Spoon Man

Papa Friday hits the Improv

Murray Does It Again

Digging in the Dirt

Flower Power

Bill Murray is an aging Don Juan revisiting former loves in Broken Flowers

Everyone's Watching

Oscar visits Big D

Sea of Loathe

Wes Anderson takes Bill Murray out to sea and strands him there

Get Your Wild On

Behind the scenes of E!'s Dallas shoot

A Good Buzz

Jim Jarmusch serves the perfect blend: Coffee and Cigarettes

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Ad-libbing on Tokyo Time

Sofia Coppola and her cast get Lost in Translation

Fallen Angels

Charlie's high-flying heroines kick ass, but not the sequel syndrome

Rebel With a Cause

Jason Schwartzman should Rushmore, slack less

Hairy Situation

Bandits holds out for a hero and gets two: Willis and Thornton

Gimme Swelter

Are you ready for the Summer? Don't be. It's all wet.

Deep Throat

In Osmosis Jones, a virus takes over Bill Murray. So that's his excuse.

Old Ghosts

Evolution ain't afraid of no aliens, but you should be

Farrah to Poor

With clipped wings, Charlie's Angels fly way too low to the ground

Letters

On being a man; Larry Duncan's little grudge; The bad seed

An odd bird

In Hawke's Hamlet, Shakespeare never sounded or looked so weird

The Case of the Headless, Handless Corpse

A reporter's tip helped detectives identify a mutilated body dumped along the Trinity, but finding the man's name led to a deeper mystery -- the disappearance of atheist gadfly Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Sermonon the Mount

Even Bill Murray's antics can't rescue this self-important comedy