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How Did Burt Wonderstone Make Steve Carell's Awesomeness Disappear?

10 Acts to Catch at Fun Fun Fun Fest

I've been to every Fun Fun Fun Fest since its inception in 2006, back when it was a one-night event and Spoon played to a small crowd of very cold attendees. Since then, the fest has grown in scope and size, seen legends and up-and-comers grace its stages, and matured out of its original Austin loca ... More >>

Ten Acts To Catch At Fun Fun Fun Fest

45 Movie Trends That Need to Die Right Now (A Sequel)

Shake-Guzzling, Pat Robertson-Suing Dallas Bodybuilder Sentenced to Federal Prison

It takes a special type of person to sue televangelist Pat Robertson over a weight loss shake and say things to a reporter like "Me and Robertson are coming in a head-on crash," and "This ain't no goddamn game. He wants to come after me? Bring it fuckin' on." It takes an equally special person to re ... More >>

How the West is Sung

Your Light Bulbs Are Suddenly a Symbol of Freedom in Texas and Beyond

This bulb, currently on the extinction list, has become an ideological symbol in Texas and across the nation.​Earlier this year, state Rep. Marva Beck looked up at the elegant light fixtures above the House floor in Austin and decided they would be ruined by "squiggly" energy-efficient bulbs. ... More >>

Circle Theatre flies first-class with Boeing-Boeing comedy; time to get loopy again at WaterTower festival.

A Few Important Q's and A's with Demetri Martin Before Tonight's House of Blues Show

​If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters. Before he grappled with Important Things on Comedy Central, even before he took The Daily Show Trendspotting, Demetri Martin was an NYU Law dropout working off a hunch that he'd rather spend time writing quick o ... More >>

Because You're Gonna Be Watching Late Night TV This Week, Anyway...

The Orbans​...y'know, what with all the drama and all, then you might as well turn in to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight. Why? Well, 'cause you might spot a familiar face or two: Justin Pate, keyboardist for Fort Worth's The Orbans, will be among the the backing players performing in musical ... More >>

This Decade Saw Dallas Evolve Into A Major Player On The National Dining Scene

Get Motivated's Tamara Lowe Is Wearing Last Week's Criticism Like a "Badge of Honor"

Peter and Tamara Lowe​Apparently, there was some miscommunication at the offices of A. Larry Ross Communications, the firm that handles publicity for Get Motivated Seminars, Inc. Last week, as you will recall, Ross's office sent out a press release announcing that Tamara Lowe, co-founder of Get Mo ... More >>

Dawn Rizos Did Get Her Money Back From Newt Gingrich. No, It Wasn't 5,000 Singles.

​Michael Precker, who rather famously swapped a gig at The Dallas News for one at The Lodge, sends word the Dawn Rizos-Newt Gingrich saga has reached its conclusion: Newt's people returned the $5,000 check (along with a check "for the value of two nonrefundable plane tickets" to D.C.), and she's g ... More >>

Better Off TED: SMU Campus to Be Filled With Deep Thinkers in Deep Conversation

William Kamkwamba will be at SMU tomorrow.​Perhaps you saw William Kamkwamba on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Wednesday night and thought the co-author and subject of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope just might be The Most Interesting 23-Year-Old in the W ... More >>

Lemongrass Loves its Regular Customers. Newcomers Get Short Shrift.

George W. Bush, Texas' Prodigal Son, Returns

Given any thought to how you're going to react when you encounter George W. on the streets of Dallas?

Live from a Dallas Private School, It's ... Barack Obama on SNL? Maybe.

Wyatt Cenac as Barack Obama Tina Brown's Daily Beast reports that four contenders are in the running to oust Fred Armisen as Saturday Night Live's Barack Obama -- and two of them, heyheyhey, happen to be Dallas private schools graduates. One we introduced back in June, when Jesuit College Prepara ... More >>

Texas Democrats Will Clean Up. Or Get Their Asses Handed to Them.

Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People

And they bring him to life in Ghost Town

Lewis Black Is Angry About EVERYTHING, DAMN IT!

Dallas's Richard Bitner Explains the Subprime Mess to Jon Stewart

Tonight on The Daily Show, Jesuit Grad Wyatt Cenac Becomes Part of "The Best F*&#ing News Team Ever"

Harold and Kumar Get Shipped to Gitmo in a Forced Act Two

Will Ferrell Fouls Up Semi-Pro

Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half bad. His half.

Journalists and Lawyers Suck Face

Voter Fraud

Barry Levinson wags the dog again, but his bark is worse than his bite

None More Black

Cherry on Top

The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes

Cursed

Bewitched delivers just what you'd expect. Absolutely nothing.

Green Living

Everyone's Irish, even Gumby

Black's Back

Lewis Black brings his routine back to Texas

Back to Work

David Brent returns to The Office

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Vote No

Silver City plants a shrub where it wants to dig up a Bush

The Right's Stuff

A Texas-based band of conservative warriors tackles the left on its own turf--the street

Good News

Will Ferrell's Anchorman is dumb, and funny, as hell

The Italian Job

DTC's Accidental Death makes crooked cops funny; at the Bath House, Unseen should remain so

Rock on a Roll

Chris Rock finds some new ambitions

Depress Tour

I coulda sworn I was there when they turned on the TV

Letters

Curse of Youth

Two new Dallas papers are keeping tabs on the little futhermuckers

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Tin Giant

Let Belo buy every station in the country--makes my job easier

Dem Blues

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

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

It Happens

Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

The talking penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

Dawn of the dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

Joe Bob in Bloom

John Bloom has taken his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, and gone Hollywood. But watching America's favorite drive-in movie critic on television these days, a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself