Jack Black

Join the Gun Club

Finally, Hitting the "Reset" Button

School Of Rock Branch To Open In Dallas Area

Echoes and Reverberations: The Photography of Vern Evans

We're here for the beer

Stick to liquid refreshment at The Copper Tank

Dude Food: Jack's Backyard

Jack's Backyard and Chill Grill2303 Pittman St.214-741-3131Dude factor: 7 (Jack Black) on a scale of 1 (Jack Osbourne) to 10 (Jack London). I've been meaning to get a drink or two at Jack's Backyard since it opened on Halloween, but never thought of it as a Dude Food destination until I saw chef Sus ... More >>

Whitt's End: 2.27.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Sorry to rain on Skip Bayless' - what, 14-year? - crusade, but Troy Aikman ain't gay. Went to the Pro Bowl and hung out with Aikman in Honolulu in '93. Lotsa drinks. LotsaLotsa hula girls. ... More >>

Live

September 4

Coming (At You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions

Apocalypse Whatever

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Not Taylor-Made

Owen Wilson's a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard

Be Kind Rewind Comes Up Short, Stale and Flat

Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking but disappoints

Laughing Pains

Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking but disappoints

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

High time

John Cusack's romantic comedy about a man... and his record collection

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Test My Balls of Fury

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

Weed Killer

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

Tenacious D

The Pick of Destiny (Epic)

One-Toke Wonder

Tenacious D gets the band back together and... and... and?

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

¡Ask a Mexican!

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

Monkey Shines

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.

Swindled Art

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Goodwin, Tripp Fontaine, Love Vs. Hate, the Bomb Almighty

Thursday, June 3 at the Hard Rock Cafe

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Black on Black

Why Jables is a "cross between a lightning bolt and James Dean"

Black Thing

The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock

Country in Crisis

Plus: War,the Sequel; French? Toast!

You, Me, Him

Philip Seymour Hoffman is a great actor, because he never acts

Tenacious D

April 20

Deep Freeze

In the Ice Age, three mammals and a baby try to keep us warm

Fade to Black

Jack keeps the Farrellys from drowning in the Shallow end

Tenacious D

Tenacious D (Epic)

Lift To Experience

The Texas-Jerusalem Experience (Bella Union)

Lump of Coal

Silverman's bitter "comedy" is enough to make you turn off your heartlight

Forgive its trespasses

Intermittently entertaining, Denis Johnson's junkies drift along in Jesus' Son

Whitt's End: 6.26.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope of merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Ventured down to the Mavs' draft last night and it was ... sad. Not the selection of Rodrigue Beaubois - though underwhleming - but more the lack of buzz. I remember when a much worse Mavs' orga ... More >>

A Triple Order of Frank 'N' Furters Makes for a Rocky Horror Halloween on Area Stages.

Whether you're at the end of your rope of merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Ventured down to the Mavs' draft last night and it was ... sad. Not the selection of Rodrigue Beaubois - though underwhleming - but more the lack of buzz. I remember when a much worse Mavs' orga ... More >>

Rocking With Honors

Whether you're at the end of your rope of merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Ventured down to the Mavs' draft last night and it was ... sad. Not the selection of Rodrigue Beaubois - though underwhleming - but more the lack of buzz. I remember when a much worse Mavs' orga ... More >>

Q&A: Ebbot Lundberg of The Soundtrack of Our Lives Talks Obama, Grammy Nominations, Wrestling and The Difference Between Swedes and Americans

Ebbot Lundberg, the rotund and intense front man for Sweden's The Soundtrack to Our Lives, had just landed in D.C. a couple of hours before giving me a few minutes of his time. Perhaps suffering from a bit of jet lag, but Lundberg sounded like a guy happy to be on the ground. His band is currently t ... More >>

At WinStar's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Qualifier This Weekend, Crazy Legs Conti is the Man To Beat

Patrick MichelsCrazy Legs Conti in 2007 at a blueberry pie eating contest in Brownsville, Ore. Competitive eating is a hard-hearted mistress, courted by many but gracing few with even a moment of her fickle affection. Most who enter a contest never do so again, and even those who do usually manage ... More >>

Listomania: The 30 Best Songs About Genitalia

The Caddyshack soundtrack is slightly phallic.​If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with "Fuck You," which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)," ... More >>

Laughing Through the Grunts

The Caddyshack soundtrack is slightly phallic.​If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with "Fuck You," which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)," ... More >>

Motorcycle club members and weekend warriors, seeking the freedom of the road, face dangerous curves on and off Dallas streets

The Caddyshack soundtrack is slightly phallic.​If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with "Fuck You," which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)," ... More >>

The Green Hornet: Seth Rogen Schlubs It Up as a Masked Hero.

The Caddyshack soundtrack is slightly phallic.​If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with "Fuck You," which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)," ... More >>

Hold On: The Ten Best Singalong Scenes In Film

"Someday somebody's gonna make you wanna turn around and say goodbye..."​Twenty-one years ago today, Wilson Phillips' "Hold On" shot all the way up the Billboard charts to become the No. 1 song in America. Somewhat adorably, the honor came 25 years after two-thirds of the vocal group's father, Bri ... More >>