Richard Nixon

Paul Ryan Pick Proves They Don't Make Rich People Like They Used To

What country is this? Have I been on some kind of horrendous toot, and did I sleep for a month, and did I wake up in the wrong country? All weekend long on my TV set I kept seeing Paul Ryan, the right-wing social Darwinist cheese-head, and they said he was a candidate for vice president of the Unite ... More >>

The End of Family Planning in Texas

They say they defunded Planned Parenthood. But lawmakers' attack on family planning will cost Texas money, reduce access to healthcare and result in even more abortions.

The Rum Diary Needs More Punch

Hunter S. Thompson adaptation oddly tame.

Dear Miami, We Hate You. And Your Sports. Love, Dallas

Miami has Colin Farrel's lame mustache. We have shirtless Matthew Mcconaughey. ​Recently our brotherly blog down here in Miami concocted a list of reasons why Miami is a better city than Dallas. Same ol', lame-o stuff. Calling us fat and redneck and boasting that "nobody's ever killed a sitting pr ... More >>

Rick Perry: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox? Guess Which We Pick.

Che

Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films in one four-hour sitting

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Oliver Stone Talks About W., Which, Damn It, Is "No Hatchet Job"

A Sound Bite in the Ass at Yesterday's Trinity Toll Road Debate

Tale o' the Pup

Sylvia sends a husband to the doghouse; End Times stirs memories of the Dust Bowl

The Mystery of the Tween Demo

Bringing smarty back, Nancy Drew returns for another generation of young consumers

BookScam

In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

High on the Hog

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

Dubya: A Really Cool Dude

LaHaye Hey

Quack Addicts

Where does Ryan Adams fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

Letters

Rained Out

No refunds, Rangers fans, even though the dark clouds of the A-Rod trade threaten the entire season

Counsel for the Defense

At 76, flamboyant criminal lawyer Racehorse Haynes keeps doing what he does best--winning

Life in the Slow Lane

This Bush's summer home is a long way from Kennebunkport, but the folks in Crawford think that's fine

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

Tango and Cash

Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

Johnny Cash

The Essential Johnny Cash / The Fabulous Johnny Cash / Hymns by Johnny Cash / Ride This Train / Orange Blossom Special / Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter (Columbia Legacy)

A Few Good Dogs

September 11 creates a bull market for dogs with a nose for explosives

Brave New City

What if people downtown actually got smart?

The Party Party

Why young, degenerate, cocksure Republicans love drugs, guns, and Bush

Back Into Hell

Marilyn Manson on Christianity, Columbine, and the media's evil influence

Baby, Get Back

"Autobiography" and bootleg box prove that when it comes to the Beatles, you can never just let it be

Swing Vote

Think all politics is local? In the 5th District, think again.

Floats, not like a Butterfly ...

Stinks like bad TV

The truth is way out there

Jim Marrs believes that Kennedy was murdered as part of a vast conspiracy, that aliens vist us regularly, and that the Trialateral Commission controls our governement. So, what if he's right?

From Russia, with bugs

Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

Letters

Just as rotten; Guilty, guilty, guilty

Out of bounds

Stone fumbles the rock in Any Given Sunday

Stacks of wax

Adventures at the bottom of the music trade

The New School

Everything I need to know about the modern American teen I learned by going to the movies

The Nerd Behind the Throne

Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul

Long dead, The King

Home for the holidays

Larry O'Dwyer's return to Theatre Three in The Miser is saved by a strong supporting cast

Long journey home

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels roll on a perfect road

Aging like wine

Two decades do the music of Yusef Lateef and Rahsaan Roland Kirk a world of good

After the revolution

Sexual liberation comes to the suburbs in The Ice Storm

Busted

Julio Mercado is Dallas' brand-new DEA boss, and he's inherited kilos of trouble. His city is about to be declared a drug disaster zone, but all his narcs seem to care about is snitching on each other.

Guerrillas in their midst

Neil Jordan's passion fuels Michael Collins

Roadshows

West Texas waltz

Pop-rockers return from the dark side of the Moon Festival

Rushes

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Events for the week

Letters