Mark Twain

A River Runs Through It

More Twain than Twain

Hal at the Hall

True Grit: Coen Brothers Take Their Tongues Out of Their Cheeks.

Over The Weekend: Justin Townes Earle at the Granada Theater

Justin Townes Earle, Caitlin Rose, The O'sGranada TheaterDecember 3, 2010Better than: seeing a washed up, crappy honky tonk wannabe band in some two-bit bar.Justin Townes Earle​There's a concept in the Orthodox Church that says, when you enter a worship service, you step outside of time into an et ... More >>

Tapas Tumble: Si Tapas vs.
Sangria Mediterranean Tapas and Bar

Photo by Steven DoyleOur winner, Si Tapas' tortilla espanola​Many of us are familiar with the lowly and inexpensive appetizer. These easy to eat prequels to dinner are the tiny bites that often consist of finger food and little dips, and can foreshadow the quality of food to come. In the fine dini ... More >>

Timing Is Everything As Pocket Sandwich Theatre And Stage West Go Broad With Their Comedy.

Photo by Steven DoyleOur winner, Si Tapas' tortilla espanola​Many of us are familiar with the lowly and inexpensive appetizer. These easy to eat prequels to dinner are the tiny bites that often consist of finger food and little dips, and can foreshadow the quality of food to come. In the fine dini ... More >>

A Long-Lost Twain Comedy Comes to Life in Addison, and T2 Burps Up an AA Play

Photo by Steven DoyleOur winner, Si Tapas' tortilla espanola​Many of us are familiar with the lowly and inexpensive appetizer. These easy to eat prequels to dinner are the tiny bites that often consist of finger food and little dips, and can foreshadow the quality of food to come. In the fine dini ... More >>

His Art Is Alive

Photo by Steven DoyleOur winner, Si Tapas' tortilla espanola​Many of us are familiar with the lowly and inexpensive appetizer. These easy to eat prequels to dinner are the tiny bites that often consist of finger food and little dips, and can foreshadow the quality of food to come. In the fine dini ... More >>

Twainy Days

Photo by Steven DoyleOur winner, Si Tapas' tortilla espanola​Many of us are familiar with the lowly and inexpensive appetizer. These easy to eat prequels to dinner are the tiny bites that often consist of finger food and little dips, and can foreshadow the quality of food to come. In the fine dini ... More >>

Muddy Water

Photo by Steven DoyleOur winner, Si Tapas' tortilla espanola​Many of us are familiar with the lowly and inexpensive appetizer. These easy to eat prequels to dinner are the tiny bites that often consist of finger food and little dips, and can foreshadow the quality of food to come. In the fine dini ... More >>

Hophead: Too Much Of A Very Good Thing

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

Using Cal Jillson, Like Everyone Else, to Get to Sarah Palin's Sportscast

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

Lee Trull, Prepare Your Keister to Be Kissed

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

Get to Know Cappy McGarr!

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

How Dallas-Area ISDs Are Celebrating "Banned Books Week." Some, By Banning Books.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

Are You Ready For a Miracle?

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

Belo to Get New Life?

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

Exiles in the Heartland, Part 1

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

Binding Ceremony

Stuff the stockings of bibliophiles

The Critter Whisperer

Catch Dr. Dolittle in Garland

Rio Grande

Catch Dr. Dolittle in Garland

The Gore the Merrier

Catch Dr. Dolittle in Garland

I'll Be Your Huckleberry

Twain's classic comes to Richland

Just Do It

Twain's classic comes to Richland

Cameron Crowing

Twain's classic comes to Richland

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Twain's classic comes to Richland

Sign a Song

Mark Twain takes you down Big River

Ghoul Crazy

Handsome Frankenstein at Dallas Children's Theater; Cargo troupe takes Dracula down for the count

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Handsome Frankenstein at Dallas Children's Theater; Cargo troupe takes Dracula down for the count

Best New Bookstore

The Book Gallery

Minor League

The comic-book Gentlemen have never been more flat

From the Hip

A Connecticut Yankee stays true by staying loose

Weasel Out

Pocket Sandwich Theater kills and grills

Anarchy in the U.K.

Wilson and Chan are Knights fallen on their arse

Best Place to Learn How to Swing Some Sticks

The Range at Tenison Park

Crazy/Beautiful

Brian Jonestown Massacre would rather be insane than average

Food Fight?

Rumors circulate around the departure of George Papadopoulos from Voltaire

Train Dreck

The Boxcar Children serves up a saccharine treat only a parent could love

Letters

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

Applause, applause

Voltaire talks the talk and walks the walk

Drink up

Better off dead? The Minus Man thinks so.

Sins of the playwright

Isaac retells an Old Testament tale as a family coming to terms with its dysfunctionality

Take me to the river

PBS documentary goes on a bumpy ride down The Mississippi

Bed head

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

And the winners are

Presenting the 1997 Jimmys--like the Tony, but without the boring awards show

Out Here

Presenting the 1997 Jimmys--like the Tony, but without the boring awards show

Events for the week

Presenting the 1997 Jimmys--like the Tony, but without the boring awards show

Welcome Home

In Stephen Wade's hands, the lowly banjo is the key to the American experience

Striking a Nerve

Laurie Anderson riffs on fame, death, and the political landscape