Emily Dickinson

The Ballad of the Bovine

Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

Naughty is nice at Central 214

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

Test My Balls of Fury

You want answers to last week's quiz? We got answers.

That's Not Fair

As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro

Literary Licks

See Tongues Dance at the Undermain

The Lost Generation

Longtime local rocker Mwanza Dover hates Dallas--so much, in fact, that he helms six music projects in town simultaneously.

The lesbian brain

Great acting saves Echo Theatre's Body from becoming a short course on feminist studies

Bed head

An unsung intellectual giant rules from the mattress in Wingspan's sparkling production

One night stand-off

Lean Theater offers a slight production of a thinly scripted play

Final flowering

Vittorio De Sica offers a requiem for Italian Jewry

Unexpected bonus

Cafe 450 offers a rare quality--serendipity