Steve Martin

III Forks and Teavana Open at DFW Airport, Plus a New Cowboys PINK Store and Village for Your "Visit"

If you find yourself in the soul-sucking portal of travel delays and cancellations at DFW Airport soon, well, happy holidays! While you channel Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, you can now have a spot o' tea at the new tea emporium Teavana, located in Terminal A. If you're feeling a ... More >>

He Hates These Cans!

Sarah Jarosz at the Kessler Theater

Friday, July 20, at the Kessler Theater

Request Lines Now Open For Tomorrow Night's Kosher Christmas Music Show on The Ticket

Former News-man-turned-Lodge'r Michael Precker grabbed this last night at the kosher Tom Thumb in Preston Forest, which clearly doesn't want to wind up on Robert Jeffress's Grinch List.​If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), perhaps you've heard: Tomorrow night, from 9 till midnight, I'm yet ... More >>

First, He Was Tron. Then, The Big Lebowski. Now, Dirk Nowitzki's Navin R. Johnson.

Back in April we ran that Dirk Nowitzki film festival alluded to in the headline. Cute stuff, especially Dirk as The Dude. Tonight at the AAC, when Your Dallas Mavericks take on the Shaq-less Boston Celtics, debuts another addition to the filmography starring Dirk as Steve Martin as The Jerk. Sneak ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, November 1, 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.Bertell (Houston, TX) Goin Hard (EMI) We often get some odd items sent to u ... More >>

Today In Music News: Simon Cowell Gets Sued, Pavement Mad At Pitchfork And Dixie Chicks Record New Song

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 23, 2010...A former contestant on Britain's Got Talent is suing Simon Cowell for what basically amounts to Cowell hurting his feelings.Original hipsters Pavement feud with Pitchfork.The Dixie Chicks are recording again! Oooooh, with Steve Mart ... More >>

Her Mother And I Do

Uptown's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Plays Naughty Con Games; PFamily Arts Theatre's I Do! I Do! Doesn't

Singing Scoundrels

A Golden Night

He Hates These Cans!

Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinners in Movies (And TV)

When it comes to movie holidays, Thanksgiving usually takes a back seat to that overplayed holiday in December. The one with the elves. The one that rhymes with "isthmus." (Sort of.) But why the second-class status, Thanksgiving? The holiday's got all the same potential for family chaos, waxing mor ... More >>

Steve Martin's Bringing His Banjo to the Meyerson Tonight. Also: A Comedy Classic.

The missus and I are going to Steve Martin's bluegrass hoedown tonight at the Meyerson -- good cause, sure, but also a good time from the sound of recent reviews. And, say what, Onion A.V. Club: "The band nonchalantly launched into a bluegrass take on the novelty tune 'King Tut.'" Sure 'nuff; here's ... More >>

Saint Martin

Stalking The Aisles

We always were a sucker for the ones who play hard to get. By most indications, La Michoacana Meat Market doesn't really care if you want to shop there. Its low-key Greenville Avenue storefront (one of numerous area locations) sports an ancient-looking sign and the front door, covered in metal bur ... More >>

Merritt Martin's Second Cousin to Headline Central Dallas Ministries' Annual Shindig

What -- that headline doesn't do anything for you? Well, then. So, fine, Mr. Steve Martin then. Or Strove Mortman to his friends. Anyway, Central Dallas Ministries' honcho Larry James hopes you might want to attend his wingding October 27 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. James says more de ... More >>

Today In Music News: Natalie Cole Fans Are Hardcore, Steve Martin Is Playing The Opry and Youtube Blocks Music Videos (In Germany)

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 2, 2009... You thought that Phish and Widespread Panic had hardcore fans? Well, Natalie Cole's fans want to give her a kidney Comedian Steve Martin will make his debut at The Grand Ole Opry Yeppers, he's been a longtime banjo picker, and he ... More >>

Why Not Spend Saturday Night With SNL Writing Great Alan Zweibel?

Spy vs. Why

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor

Cheaper Onstage

The RTC takes on a dozen kids

Would You Pass the Salt, King Tut?

Wands Up!

Feel the magic of the Improv

Cellar Beware

Getting 'Non-Uncomfortable' with Dave Little

Scoundrel Days

Get conned at Bass Hall

Booger and Borat. Nice.

Coffee Talk

Picasso and Einstein meet for drinks

Ready, Freddy!

Scoundrels put the cork on the fork

Yeah, But To What Purpose?

Be Afraid

Jeff Abbott signs his new release

What's Under There?

Kitty Litter

Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor

Bloodsuck Mountain

Cowboys and vampires go head-to-head

Wild, Then Crazy

Steve Martin's May-December romance turns unseasonably cold

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Pitchfork's Progress

The Internet's most popular music site comes of age--and gets in trouble

Fast Times

Bellamy is off track

Action!

It's a race to the finish for Dallas video-makers

Phat Chance

Steve Martin almost gets Down with Queen Latifah, but they mostly strike out

Balk Like an Egyptian

Come see the "Pharaoh at the Bat"

Pyramid Schemes

The geezer from Giza reigns in The Curse of the Mummy at Pocket Sandwich Theatre

Are You In or Out?

Or, one man's passion for Clooney, killers, kooks and corn

Dental Damned

In Novocaine, Steve Martin sticks his fingers into all the wrong places

Pull my Bowfinger

Steve Martin takes his jabs at Hollywood, but there's no sting

Meeting of the minds

Picasso at the Lapin Agile provides laughs -- both cheap and otherwise

Night & Day

April 22-28, 1999

Don't it make that white hair gray

Steve Martin plays middle-aged not-so-crazy

The greatest story never told

The Prince of Egypt offers up the 10 commandments of (brotherly) love

Charlie Chardonnay

Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner offers up a yuppie Joe Six-Pack who's little more than an empty suit