If you’re worth your salt when you lose your mind, you couldn’t do better than to get institutionalized at McLean Hospital. The famous psychiatric hospital has played home to everyone from John Nash to Frederick Law Olmstead to David Foster Wallace, and the list of literary works set at McLean…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. If you’re anything like us, you take your phone everywhere. Because, let’s be honest, it’s more than just a phone – it’s an entertainer, accountant, baby sitter…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through, and beyond, hump day each week. When we’re feeling particularly snarky, one of our favorite places to let off some steam and do some on the clock button mashing is Adult…
If ’80s movies taught us anything, it’s that out-of-town cops like visiting sunny California to wreak a bit of havoc and save the world. Some of them did it by partnering up with the local good guys and others did it with the aid of an awful laugh (yes, I’m…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. Now that it’s officially summer (hello, super torturous temperatures), we figure it’s time to be as low-key as possible, lest we break into a sweat. Physical exertion…
Dear KERA-FM, Are you trying to break my heart? I thought we had something good going here. I listen to you daily, I pledge when drive time comes around, and I laud you in public, telling every person I know (and even those I don’t) about all of the new…
Though it goes against every fiber of our being, there’s a special place in our hearts for certain con artists. No, we still want bad, bad things to happen to the likes of Bernie Madoff and his sleazy ilk, but we’ve got a soft spot for Danny Ocean and all…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. Trying to decide on what to have for lunch? If you’re anything like Hungry Sumo, you’ll most likely eat massive quantities of rice and then knock about…
Lalo Guerrero may have best been known as the “Father of Chicano Music,” but he was also the father of Dan Guerrero, the self proclaimed Gaytino of Hollywood. As the son of a beloved icon in the Chicano civil rights movement, Dan Guerrero had some big shoes to fill, and…
In honor of E3, aka every game nerd’s favorite trade show of the year, we’d like to introduce you to a new weekly feature, Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way though hump day each week. When you can’t bring yourself to look at…
Usually Memorial Day weekend ushers in the season of formulaic blockbusters, but if you want to postpone your plunge into the summertime Cineplex vortex for just a bit longer, then the 13th Annual QCinema (Fort Worth’s Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival) is here to save you. Featuring 30 films…
It’s the Wednesday WTF? wherein we randomly select a photo/video/thing that makes us say those three special words. Now I would never force my dogs through a field of spikes, lasers or creeping rotary blades just to fetch me some bling, but seeing as how Silly Sausage isn’t mine, I’ve…
Is it porn or is it art? is always a question that gets debated with people’s nekkid parts show up on the walls of galleries, homes and museums. Collectors and appreciators of vintage porn are a special breed, regarding the images not so much as a source of entertainment or…
If you are what you buy, then the use of product placement would make James Bond and Carrie Bradshaw (and all of their assorted accoutrements) a match made in heaven. The newest Bond film is setting a record for product placement with $45 million (or 1/3 of the film’s budget)…
The use of human hair as an art medium may seem a bit questionable to some, but for an artist like Rosemary Meza DesPlas, who’s obsessed with the line, it’s a logical choice. Her works focuses on common feminist issues of gender and identity in a unique way using watercolors…
Some would find it a little presumptuous for a forty-something non-celebrity everywoman to write five, yes five, memoirs, but Jen Lancaster has something to say and she’ll be damned if anyone is going to stop her. Her tales have run the gamut from unemployment to weight loss to reality television…
A disclaimer: At the recent Dallas International Film Festival, I saw 27 movies in nine days. Most were great, a select few were awesome, and a couple I should have skipped for a meal of non-concession stand snacks, but, exhausting as it was, I would do it all again because…
Art appreciation is about more than just quietly enjoying the classics. As the world changes, so does the art of the times, and there’s no better way to get a look at the past, present and future than by checking out what (and why) art is created today. Take, for…
When Lewis Black calls you “the funniest woman in America,” it can be seen as a gift and a curse. Female comics get a bad rap sometimes, but Kathleen Madigan has spent over 20 years transcending all of the potential backlash usually thrust upon female comics, and she’s done it…
There’s nothing like sitting in a dark movie theater filled with total strangers, watching a creepy scary movie about the bubonic plague, to put a person on edge–especially when you hear that first cough and sit idly by as it starts to spread through the seats like wildfire. Of course…
The Magnolia Gallery (located inside the West Village’s Magnolia Theatre) has shown work by some of the Dallas area’s best local artists, and the current exhibition is a prime example of the talent this city has to offer . Artist Cabe Booth has been an vital part of the Dallas…
For quality drama and damnation, leave the Real Housewives and kids of Jersey Shore behind and go old school with the Dallas Opera. With only two operas left in its 2010-2011 of “Dangerous Desires,” it’s only fitting that the Dallas Opera would include a performance of the Giuseppe Verdi classic…
