I was at the veggie aisle in a local grocery store the other day and came across some fava beans. The first thing I thought of was Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. The second thing I thought was, “I wonder if anyone actually eats these?” I was…
Mike Judge is a freakin’ genius; that goes without saying. Everything he does is brilliant and adored by millions. OK, so Idiocracy wasn’t exactly a box office smash, but neither was Office Space when it was first released. Mark my words, once we get over this global warming scare and…
Most weekends, I leave Dallas in the early hours of the morning heading toward the northern suburbs on the famed U.S. Highway 75. While most drive just slightly over the legal speed limit, there are usually dozens of others who zoom past, weaving through traffic and generally being crazy and…
Now that the snow has gone and the weather is getting better (ahem), it’s time to think about partaking in some outdoor activities. The people at Texas Discovery Gardens have you covered with their new monthly social mixer series, Organic in the City. This first mixer, “Murderous Plants: Love Potions…
Now a staple of weekend entertainment in Dallas, most people go to midnight movies at the Inwood to relive the magic of seeing the movies for the first time. Personally, though, I go for the educational value—not from the movie itself, but from the trivia contest that precedes it. At…
Bruce Bruce is a large man. He’ll tell you so himself, in fact. He usually opens his stand-up routine stating his assumption that the people in the front row are hoping he doesn’t fall on them. He has been losing weight, though. According to some recent interviews he lost more…
Henry Cho knows how to make the most of who he is. An Asian-American born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, he sounds very Southern, but looks very Korean. As he says himself, that right there is enough to make people laugh. (Fortunately, that joke is just a fall-back, as his…
We all love stuff. As George Carlin says, stuff is the reason people need houses. Houses are just a place to keep all your stuff while you go out and get…more stuff! And isn’t art, in its simplest form, just stuff you like to look at? Except it’s not called…
During the holiday season last year, I visited my in-laws and was treated to the DVD of whatever “blue-collar” comedian was hot at the time. I don’t remember the comedian’s name or even a single joke, but I do remember deciding that I must not have been blue-collar enough to…
Sometimes you want to go to the museum and touch stuff. You know, really mess with it and see what it’s made of and what it can do. Unfortunately, that sort of behavior is usually frowned upon and could even get you in some serious trouble. Not so with the…
Fresh off the Punisher tour with Carlos Mencia, Cristela Alonzo returns to her home ground on her own this week. As a writer for Mencia’s Comedy Central show, Mind of Mencia, Alonzo helps Mencia rant about everything from race relations to gas prices. On her own, she tends to mix…
Of all the movies about a carpenter from another world being shown around the holidays, The Day the Earth Stood Still is perhaps the most relevant to our current global political climate. OK, so it’s not about an actual carpenter, but someone who adopts the name Carpenter. The 1951 film…
Now that the weather has decided to turn colder, it’s time to think of some indoor activities. Then again, this is Dallas, so it might be just as necessary to go indoors to avoid the heat, no matter what the season. A cool (ha!) indoor activity is checking out new…
Critical and necessary art movement, or just the blatant defacing of property? The graffiti debate rages on. One thing not up for debate is the fact that the Dallas Police Department has been cracking down on graffiti in the downtown area. Last December, six graffiti artists were arrested and accused…
When Guy Reynolds decided to take photos of his routine walks through downtown Dallas, he chose a specific camera. Knowing that Reynolds is the photo editor and an occasional photographer for The Dallas Morning News, you would assume the camera to be something ultra-modern and fancy with all the bells…
Some things just have to be seen to be believed. One such thing would be the sheer spectacle of a Pink Floyd concert performance. Pink Floyd pioneered the live music experience in the late ’60s and early ’70s with over-the-top visuals, quadraphonic speaker systems, sound effects…oh, and some good music…
4/3 We tried to read Great Expectations twice before giving up and buying the Cliffs Notes. Charles Dickens just never really appealed to us. If you’re of the same bent, or even if you like Dickens, you’re bound to enjoy The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a “music whodunit” based on…
What kind of dork would go to a midnight screening of Office Space, a movie about working a mind-numbing job without a happy ending? Put simply, if you haven’t been enslaved by bureaucracy and corporate culture yourself, you have no idea how accurate–and therefore funny–this movie actually is. One ongoing…
Sometimes, the search for romance can lead us down some interesting roads. There’s the special someone your aunt set you up with and thought would be perfect for you to settle down with. Or the blind date your friend set up. Then there was the time you got that misdirected…
Celtic music, food, fire-eating warriors, handmade wares and endangered birds are only some of the ingredients of the third annual Celtic Festival Benefit, which takes place Saturday at Betwixt & Between Community Center. Originally scheduled to happen in March, when the festival benefit was rained out, the all-day, indoor event…
It may seem like we just got the neon revolution terminated and the spiral perms grown out, but already the ’80s are back. Bands are being influenced by ’80s music, parties are being thrown with ’80s themes and more and more people are wearing skinny ties. OK, so maybe people…
