Contrary to what Wu-Tang Clan would have me believe, I seriously doubt the rapping skills of the average Shaolin monk. While they may be well-trained and diligent practitioners of a multitude of acrobatic kung fu styles, they aren’t particularly boastful and don’t seem to say a whole lot, so it…

Iowa native Eric Tosten has been carving out his place in the Dallas art scene with fluid plastic and acrylic shapes that bend and swirl against medium-density fiberboard and paper like magnified blood samples from one of Keith Haring’s stick figures. Tosten’s more recent pieces seem to shed some of…

The number seven has long been representative of perfection and godliness. Whether it’s Proverbs 9:1 (“Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars.”) or the Pixies’ “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” (“…then God is seven”) evidence of seven’s numerological purity is well-documented. Angelbert Metoyer was born on the…

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s incomparable leadership during an urban apocalyptic aftermath earned him a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II and the hilariously ironic Ronald Reagan Presidential Freedom Award. But prior to September 11 Giuliani helped to successfully transform the once-seedy Times Square into a family-friendly hub of…

Richard E. Grant is one of those actors who you may not know by name, but you’d probably recognize him if you saw him. He’s appeared in some memorable pieces of cinema (Gosford Park and The Age of Innocence) and some remarkable pieces of crap (Spice World and Hudson Hawk)…

Sue Loncar is many things. She serves as the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. She has a lead role in their production of Stanton’s Garage. She’s also married to local lawyer Brian Loncar. You can’t help but wonder if she’ll take liberties with the third act and…

The art of bodybuilding has been around since the late 1890s, though its athletic roots date back to 11th-century India. By 1904, slathering one’s monstrous physique in baby oil and flexing for the delight of large audiences had developed into a more refined formal sport with the American premiere of…

Scholars have pondered it, scientists have dissected it, and still no one can explain why celestial imagery and three-minute guitar solos fuse so naturally. Laser Floyd would be mesmerizing enough, but the Planetarium at UT Arlington has upped the light show ante with their Rock Hall of Fame full-dome projection…

Scholars have pondered it, scientists have dissected it, and still no one can explain why celestial imagery and three-minute guitar solos fuse so naturally. Laser Floyd would be mesmerizing enough, but the Planetarium at UT Arlington has upped the light show ante with their Rock Hall of Fame full-dome projection…

Art can be found anywhere. Art is on museum walls and bathroom stalls, displayed in bars and on subway cars. Art is in the earth, in the clouds, in a flower and crap like that. And sometimes “rare and affordable prints” of modern art juggernauts are available at the Saks…

Polka has taken over. Just turn on the radio. Open a magazine. It’s everywhere. The worldwide polka explosion is about to reach critical mass, and the good people of Ennis, Texas are firmly planted in its nexus, ready to withstand the massive aftershocks. I’m not sure if that last sentence…

Q Cinema’s Annual Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival is a precocious little 8-year-old. Born in 1999, the slapdash weekend of gay-friendly screenings has steadily matured into a full-fledged cinema schmooze event, complete with nightly after-parties and live entertainment. Previous years have seen some hit-or-miss moments, more than likely a…

Ush on the Rocks cheerfully purports to deliver “a brand of comedy that you won’t find anywhere else in Dallas.” As weak and predictable as most Dallas comedy cavalcades are (I’m looking at you, Section 8), such a proclamation is analogous to an Eskimo bragging about being the best wind…

When the subject of a documentary has been self-documenting himself for most of his natural life, it presents a filmmaker with no dearth of source material. It does, however, raise an obvious challenge: How do you condense decades of experience and introspection into a cohesive narrative? Given his subject’s near-mythical…