With such a mild winter this year, it’s hard to imagine seasons at all. You always hear that Texas weather can change on the turn of a dime, but in reality it just goes from muggy to hot and back again. Before the dreaded summer arrives and the muggy disappears,…

Here’s a tried-and-true fact—every girl in America (including myself), will always love Jake Ryan. Damn that Sammy Baker Davis Jr. girl. In the real world, she never would have ended up with such a hottie, but you believed it could happen in Sixteen Candles. While honored with the title of…

When Kermit the Frog sang, “It’s not easy being green,” he obviously wasn’t talking about being a transplant in Dallas. Every hockey season since 1995 (except for the sadness that was last year’s lockout), I’ve found myself swimming in a sea of green while staying true to the red and…

Once, while in the throes of a Sunday morning hangover, I agreed to go to a Dallas Desperados football game with a friend. To me, football has always been a game where it took a bunch of guys in white pants about 20 minutes to move four yards—hardly a spectator…

Love is a four-letter word. Probably the most used subject in all of the arts, people just can’t get enough of it. There’s even a holiday for those people who just love everything there is about love. For those of us who would rather poke love in the eye with…

Driving the High Five every day, it’s hard to imagine the awesomeness that is modern architecture in your rearview mirror. For such an established metropolis, we haven’t been proud of a feat of architecture since Reunion Tower or the Meyerson. Tadao Ando made his mark in Fort Worth a few…

For the record, let’s just set one thing straight: Chinese New Year rocks. It very well could be the best holiday in the world. It lasts 14 days longer than Christmas, it’s more than a week longer than Hanukkah and Halloween’s got nothing on six guys doing acrobatic dances in…

These days, entertainment is not just about the show anymore. With hundreds of cable channels and special feature-packed DVDs, we want more than a pretty face. No one cares as much about the finished product unless they’re given an insider’s view along the way. Sometimes the backstage flubs, behind-the-scenes footage…

A couple of years ago I was treated to a dance recital at a local institution of higher education. Maybe it was my closed-minded nature (or the soloist who danced for the entirety of “Purple Rain”), but I didn’t enjoy it very much, and I swore to myself that I…

You know it. You love it. You own every special edition DVD, action figure and promo poster ever released. And, for a brief while, you pissed off every McDonald’s employee you saw with your new-fangled ordering style. Before John Travolta bought a bunch of jets in the name of Scientology…

Once upon a time, Robert Ryman worked as a guard at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Day in and day out he watched people admire the works of art hanging from the museum walls. Over the next 40 years, Ryman created his own masterpieces, exploring the many tones of…