Scarlett Johansson

Superegos Collide in the All-Star Avengers. Things Go Boom.

We Bought a Zoo: Not for Cynical Beasts

Matt Damon needs your love.

Pete Yorn, Ben Kweller

Friday, April 15, at the Granada Theater

The Problem With... Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough"

The last time we saw the Black Eyed Peas, they were offering up the sensory violation that composed their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show a couple of months ago. Their massive lights so bounced off the snow, I could see it from Denton.Yet another example of the Peas placing style over su ... More >>

Leaving: Unbelievably Desperate Housewife

The last time we saw the Black Eyed Peas, they were offering up the sensory violation that composed their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show a couple of months ago. Their massive lights so bounced off the snow, I could see it from Denton.Yet another example of the Peas placing style over su ... More >>

From Party Girl to Oscar Winner, Sofia Coppola's Journey to Somewhere.

The last time we saw the Black Eyed Peas, they were offering up the sensory violation that composed their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show a couple of months ago. Their massive lights so bounced off the snow, I could see it from Denton.Yet another example of the Peas placing style over su ... More >>

Chicken House: The Fried Chicken Gods Answer a Prayer.

The last time we saw the Black Eyed Peas, they were offering up the sensory violation that composed their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show a couple of months ago. Their massive lights so bounced off the snow, I could see it from Denton.Yet another example of the Peas placing style over su ... More >>

Like No Other

The last time we saw the Black Eyed Peas, they were offering up the sensory violation that composed their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show a couple of months ago. Their massive lights so bounced off the snow, I could see it from Denton.Yet another example of the Peas placing style over su ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, July 12, 2010

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Giving Tree Band (Yorkville, Illinois)      &n ... More >>

Listomania: Five Failed Musician-Celebrity Collaborations

​Last month, She & Him's Volume Two hit stores, featuring the "unlikely dynamic duo" of actress Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. Since then, many celebrities have become jealous to achieve this same intellectual-indie success. Last year, Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn made a little CD called B ... More >>

Iron Man 2 Will Lead To 3 And Probably 4, But That Doesn't Mean It's Good

​Last month, She & Him's Volume Two hit stores, featuring the "unlikely dynamic duo" of actress Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. Since then, many celebrities have become jealous to achieve this same intellectual-indie success. Last year, Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn made a little CD called B ... More >>

Today In Music News: Smith Gets Defaced, Scarlett Wants To Be Courtney And Beiber Fever Is A Helluva Drug

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 6, 2010...Either Roger Waters or one of his minions don't care to much for Elliot Smith...Scarlett Johansson says she wants to play Courtney Love in a Nirvana movie.  Uh, Scarlett... you're not skanky enough and you're too top-heavy.The ... More >>

His Vision Is Pure

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 6, 2010...Either Roger Waters or one of his minions don't care to much for Elliot Smith...Scarlett Johansson says she wants to play Courtney Love in a Nirvana movie.  Uh, Scarlett... you're not skanky enough and you're too top-heavy.The ... More >>

Pete Yorn

Thursday, November 19, at House of Blues

Cinema of the City

Thursday, November 19, at House of Blues

America's Game

Thursday, November 19, at House of Blues

Today In Music News: Scarlett Johansson Fills Out Another Album, Weezer Get A Wuggie, The Beastie Boys Love Hot Sauce

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 26, 2009... Let's hope that Zooey Dechanel and M. Ward haven't started a bad Hollywood trend. Unfortunately, it's looking like they did: Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn have teamed up for a duets album titled Break Up. After Snuggie-mania s ... More >>

10 Questions: Nick Badovinus

He's loquacious, that much is certain. And he's known for thick, floppy hair.But Badovinus can cook--something he's proven over and over again as he helped build Consilient Restaurants into a Dallas powerhouse...you know, Cuba Libre, Hibiscus, Fireside Pies. Those guys.A year ago he broke from the c ... More >>

Today in Music News: ScoJo Keeps Singing, Metallica Cop Fans Are Pissed, and Miley Cyrus Loves Maiden

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 28, 2009... Scarlett Johansson remains dead set on adding "singer" to her resume: She has now covered Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" for the soundtrack for He's Just Not That Into You. You know the movie your girlfriend ... More >>

Pop Quiz, Music Snobs!

What the hell happened with music in 2008? Well, let's see if you know.

Dude Food: Cousin's Barbeque

Cousin's Barbeque Various locations I don't think a Texas barbecue place does itself any favors by boasting that it's a favorite of an Ivy League, blue-blood Yankee, but Cousin's Web site brags about serving George H.W. Bush. Had I known that before trying the food, I'd have been a tad skeptical. ... More >>

Mighty Aphrodites

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

Mi Corazón

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

Scarlett Johansson

Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)

Auto Erotica

Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise

Not So Pretty

Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise

Now, HP Ladies Can Stay in Town to Spend a Fortune on a Haircut

Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

T-i-i-i-im-ber!

Justin's love interests just keep taking a fall

Miami Twice

Justin's love interests just keep taking a fall

Juices Flowing

Justin's love interests just keep taking a fall

French Confection

Sofia Coppola pays opulent tribute to the innocent boredom of a teen queen

J.R.'s Not Dead. He's Just Resting.

Sofia Coppola pays opulent tribute to the innocent boredom of a teen queen

Raising Dallas

Love lives at the jail

Lost in Translation

Love lives at the jail

London Fog

Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy

The Biggest D

Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy

Mild Wilde

A Good Woman would benefit from a good actor or two

Double Fault

Woody Allen's Match Point can't return serve

Suddenly This Summer

John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson face off in a Southern-gothic indie

Rilo Kiley

More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

Painting By Numbers

A picture may say 1,000 words, but this film about one says considerably less

Ad-libbing on Tokyo Time

Sofia Coppola and her cast get Lost in Translation

Hot Legs

Eight Legged Freaks skitters most sexily

Cain and Very Able

Billy Bob doesn't say much, but he's the perfect Man for the Coens' con job

American Without Tears

Éva Gárdos delivers an autobiographical culture clash

The Bitch of Kitsch

Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes trap us with a raptor in Ghost World

Lame horse

Redford's new film is like a horsey Bridges of Madison County--and it's way too long

Girl stuff

Manny and Lo plays hopscotch over female adolescence