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Dallas: Full of Famous Folk Friday!

Ladies and Gents, Give It Up for Ms. Patsy Ann McClenny

"There's My Flair."

Sick, Not Twisted

Moments of brilliance are few and far between in this year's Spike and Mike

Vaya Con Dios, Hank Hill

Moments of brilliance are few and far between in this year's Spike and Mike

Come Together

Kwanzaa is about living a good life, not filling a stocking

King of the Hill to ABC? Don't Play Mind Checkers with Me, Man.

Kwanzaa is about living a good life, not filling a stocking

Echoes and Reverberations: Liza Richardson's Infinite Axis of Influence

Life has a way of dragging us off the charted path and into rather randomly obtuse trajectories. Sometimes you just feel like you're everywhere, all the time. Like you've got the whole world in the palm of your hand.It often comes down to an intangible law of attraction: Many of us have that one ... More >>

Roadshows

Life has a way of dragging us off the charted path and into rather randomly obtuse trajectories. Sometimes you just feel like you're everywhere, all the time. Like you've got the whole world in the palm of your hand.It often comes down to an intangible law of attraction: Many of us have that one ... More >>

You Could Stare at Your Desk All Day or Drive to Austin for the Office Space Anniversary

Since some of Office Space was filmed in Las Colinas, and since writer-director Mike Judge once called Garland home, and since the movie still gets me to make the occasional "O" face, this good news courtesy the fine folks from Fantastic Fest down Austin way: There's gonna be an Office Space 10th an ... More >>

Citizen Cornholio

Boi-i-i-inng! Beavis and Butt-head Do America doesn't suck--not by a long shot

Heritage to Auction Off Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams's Collections, Including Some of the Most Iconic Props in TV History

Heritage Auction GalleryThis Ernie Kovacs caricature, signed by the man himself, is among the items being auctioned off by Heritage.Heritage Auction Gallery, which sits across the street from Unfair Park HQ on Maple Avenue, sends word today that its February Music & Entertainment signature aucti ... More >>

That sinking feeling

The USA Film Festival resembles the highest grossing movie ever. It's been leaking like Titanic for a while, but the 28th Annual schedule suggests it may be going down fast.

Ten Years On, Office Space Returns!

Patrick MichelsFrom left, Office Space stars Gary Cole, David Herman and Stephen RootFans and cast members filled Austin's historic Paramount Theater last night to honor the 10th anniversary of one of Texas's greatest gifts to the global zeitgeist: the Mike Judge classic Office Space. With its offic ... More >>

The plot thickens and thins

Jawbreaker revisits Heathers; Office Space brings Mike Judge's world to live action

Letters

Jawbreaker revisits Heathers; Office Space brings Mike Judge's world to live action

Robots in Love

WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Spacing Out

See Office Space, you son of an ass

Fully Animated

Mike Judge amps up the 'toons

Hold Your Horses

Mike Judge amps up the 'toons

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 1

Mike Judge amps up the 'toons

Our top DVD picks for the week of June 13

Mike Judge amps up the 'toons

No-Talent

Ass Clown

Michael Bolton returns to Dallas. Does his Initech doppelganger still have

a beef?

Software Bug

Dallas Appraisal District battles a software developer over property rights

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

Dallas Appraisal District battles a software developer over property rights

The Force Runs Its Course

Dallas Appraisal District battles a software developer over property rights

Kiss and Tell

Dallas Appraisal District battles a software developer over property rights

Gross Out

Dallas Appraisal District battles a software developer over property rights

Lean Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Virtual Family

It's the Spy Kids in 3-D, but where are Mom and Dad?

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Why Kids?

Robert Rodriguez follows his most personal film with his most impersonal

Going Perm

A self-sabotaging office worker makes the transition from stage to screen

Here Comes Judge

Mike Judge is King of the Hill at the Dallas Video Festival

Tale of the Tapes

With headliners like Mike Judge and an impressive list of films, the Dallas Video Festival once again wins by knockout

Life's a Bitch

Christopher Guest frolics with a pack of neurotics and their dogs in Best in Show

Reel challenge

Twenty-eight years after its creation, the once-proud USA Film Festival has lost its focus. Can, and will, two new area film fests fill the void?

Get Your Flair On

Twenty-eight years after its creation, the once-proud USA Film Festival has lost its focus. Can, and will, two new area film fests fill the void?

With Extract, Mike Judge Goes Back To Work

Twenty-eight years after its creation, the once-proud USA Film Festival has lost its focus. Can, and will, two new area film fests fill the void?

This Year's Dallas Video Festival to Pay Tribute to Chuck Morgan. About Damned Time.

Texas Rangers​During its 22 years of existence, the Dallas Video Festival has paid tribute to a great many pioneers and visionaries, among them Monty Python's Terry Gilliam, Robert Smigel, Paul Reubens, Martin Mull, Mike Judge, Mystery Science Theater 3000's Joel Hodgson and Slam Bang Theater crea ... More >>

You Haven't Made It Until You've Been Mashed Up by Girl Talk.

Texas Rangers​During its 22 years of existence, the Dallas Video Festival has paid tribute to a great many pioneers and visionaries, among them Monty Python's Terry Gilliam, Robert Smigel, Paul Reubens, Martin Mull, Mike Judge, Mystery Science Theater 3000's Joel Hodgson and Slam Bang Theater crea ... More >>

The King of Shorts

Texas Rangers​During its 22 years of existence, the Dallas Video Festival has paid tribute to a great many pioneers and visionaries, among them Monty Python's Terry Gilliam, Robert Smigel, Paul Reubens, Martin Mull, Mike Judge, Mystery Science Theater 3000's Joel Hodgson and Slam Bang Theater crea ... More >>

The Ten Biggest Dallas-Related MTV Moments

​As you've no doubt figured out by now, MTV turned 30 years old today. Indeed, that's a formidable amount of time -- enough, for sure, for almost entity to leave a mark.And, for sure, MTV has made plenty of marks. But beyond its ground-breaking debut as a music-centric cable station and past, eve ... More >>

Ex-Channel 5 Reporter Stinchfield Now Out to Expose the "Idiocracy" in D.C. ... As a Politician

This morning, MediaBistro directs our attention to Uncle Barky's item from yesterday about former KXAS'er Grant Stinchfield, who, after seven years on the job, left the NBC owned-and-operated in April so he could run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Stinchfield, whose wife Amy Vanderoef co-hos ... More >>

Ten Fictional Foods (and Beverages, Of Course) We Wish Were Real

"Mmm-mmmm, that is a tasty buger."​Throughout movie and television history, there have been fake foods and drinks that have given us the urge to punch through our TVs and force-feed the goods into our faces. Here we stroll through of our favorite faux products.Big Kahuna BurgerScrew In-N-Out ... More >>