Sammy Davis Jr.

The Dean's List

Marty Pants

Idol worship

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars

Fashion plate

Trivial and proud of it, Clueless is an improbably entertaining time-waster

Such a Deal!

After a divorce, housewife Helene Glazer hit bottom. Then she hit paydirt as Dallas' garage-sale guru.

The Morse code

Texan Ella Mae influenced rock, then she crawled under one

Clara's Last Supper

Dallas' ailing soul-food queen longs for one more turn in the kitchen

Letters

Dallas' ailing soul-food queen longs for one more turn in the kitchen

The ghost of Xmas passes

Landmark local band packs it in

Power lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but don't tell him that

The glory of Bugs

Texas guitar hero Bugs Henderson wouldn't swap family for fame

The Voice, The Spark, The Image

On film, on vinyl, and in print, the late Chairman of the Board offers pleasurable surprises

Chairman of the bored

HBO's Rat Pack don't mean a thing, because it ain't got no swing

Say cheesy

The Cheesecake Factory aims to please everybody. Blah.

Best Place to Put Money in a Jukebox

The Elbow Room

New Year's Eve Guide

Don't be caught at home when 2002 arrives

Packin' Them In

Sinatra and friends jazz up the Majestic

The Brady Bunch

Dallas gets a dose of Wayne

The Way You Make Me Feel

Harmony Korine creates a Neverland for celeb impersonators in the singular and sincere Mister Lonely

Animal Crackers

In Madagascar, the wild things romp, then roam

Who's Tommy?

A Carrey co-star visits the Improv

Hear What We Hear

Find the perfect Christmas CD for your favorite guitar-slaying Navajo cousin

Something Missing

Liev Schreiber adapts a best-selling novel, without the best results

Season's Bleatings

Thanks to these CDs, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

Dirty Blonde, Black Roots

Musicals explore the birth of the blues, the death of a bawdy Hollywood icon

Tec Support

The dynamic duo of storytelling

Attention Deficit Theater

Dallas Children's Theater and Pocket Sandwich know how to handle kids, both big and little kinds

Timeless Flight

L.A.'s twangy, trippy Beachwood Sparks ascends with a white-soul masterpiece

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

The Negro Problem

Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong but loses its way

Let's get it on

Andre Williams may be 63 years old, but he's still agile, mobile, and hostile

Giant steps

They Might Be Giants hopes that the revolution will be downloaded

Ketchup and Soy Sauce

Cibo Matto gets out of the kitchen and fries up the national prize

Esquivel takes another swing

Cibo Matto gets out of the kitchen and fries up the national prize

10 Questions: Erika Henderson

Patrick Michels West Village is cool, sure. But after seven years as a cocktail waitress, Henderson has seen a lot of "cool" in a lot of places. The Social House waitress and bartender has been through just about everything--at Frankie's in Uptown, West End Pub, House of Blues...all aroun ... More >>

Oasis Cafe Gets The Breakfast-For-Lunch Task Done Right

Patrick Michels West Village is cool, sure. But after seven years as a cocktail waitress, Henderson has seen a lot of "cool" in a lot of places. The Social House waitress and bartender has been through just about everything--at Frankie's in Uptown, West End Pub, House of Blues...all aroun ... More >>

Listomania: Eight Jewish Musical Icons To Celebrate On This Final Night of Chanukah

​When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah praye ... More >>

Dallas Theater Center's Kevin Moriarty rescues a singing Man of Steel from his Fortress of Solitude.

​When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah praye ... More >>

Seven Shows Worth Seeing Tonight in Dallas

Quite a diverse collection of musical acts we have in our area tonight. Hell, there's even a Swedish hip-hop group. No joke.

On The King Bucks, and The Importance of Really Connecting With an Audience...

Sarah Jane SemradThe King Bucks​Take The King Bucks, for example. Nothing wrong with their music, and they have chops. They're good lookin'. They have some fine ironic facial hair.But I don't like 'em and I'll tell you why: Because they don't care about me. Not me personally, but me as a member of ... More >>

For Sale: An Extraordinary Collection of Photos Taken By (And Of!) the Legendary R.C. Hickman

Photo by R.C. HickmanSammy Davis Jr. pays a Dallas radio station a visit in June 1954.​In December 2007 we said farewell to R.C. Hickman, the Mineola native who became the staff photographer at the Dallas Star Post and whose astonishing body of work tells the story of black Dallas in the 1950s, ' ... More >>