Human bodies are so hip these days. Some people like to look at dead ones on display, once they’ve been preserved and posed with tennis gear. At fancy parties, people serve sushi on naked women’s bodies because A) it looks cool, and B) it encourages people to eat more sushi…
Iceland is perhaps most famous in this part of the world for exporting musical talent with hard-to-pronounce names, but those more aware of the island’s economy probably know that it also boasts aluminum as a chief export. Austin-based artist Amy Revier recently spent 9 months in Iceland on a Fulbright…
Once, on a family vacation at South Padre Island, we woke up at 4 a.m. and went down to the beach, hoping to catch a glimpse of sea turtles hatching and flopping awkwardly toward the ocean. Long story short, despite the rumors we’d heard, we never saw any hatchlings making…
Valentine’s Day is currently recognized by most people I know as nothing more than a nasty ploy by greeting card companies to get us to spend our hard earned dollars on their sappy, one-size-fits-all sentiments. To me, though, the real problem with the holiday is the chocolate. I could see…
If your birthday is in early February, then you might understand the pain I feel every time mine rolls around. Each year, I’m thwarted left and right by people who can’t attend my super awesome birthday party because, you know, the Super Bowl is that weekend, and as such, there…
The world can be a harsh, lonely place when your loyalty is split between two opposing factions. The little mermaid loved her finned kin of the underwater kingdom, but she also longed to be with her beloved fish-eating prince on land. That kid from Glee was a macho football player…
The holiday season just isn’t the holiday season without at least one viewing of It’s a Wonderful Life. The film’s got guardian angels, soda jerks, broken banisters, people falling into swimming pools–what’s not to like? And, sure, you could rent a copy from Netflix and watch it on the ol’…
The parties I attend don’t usually come with MPAA ratings, but maybe they should. I feel like it might be useful to know ahead of time what you can expect from a night out, in terms of the number of occurrences of strong adult language and/or brief nudity. Unfortunately, most…
About 800 miles northeast of Dallas sits a small town in Illinois called Galesburg, which is notable for two reasons. First, it was the birthplace of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Sandburg, who once said, “Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.” Second, it is the hometown of photographer Chris…
Apparently, there is a really bad movie from 1964 called Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and it has a 2.3 out of 10 rating on the Internet Movie Database, which is weird because Gigli (2003) has a 2.4. The plot of the film involves Martians that kidnap Santa and take…
This, like so many other times in history, is a tough time to be a girl. We ladies need to stick together, and I’m not just talking about all the single ladies throwing their hands up. Our sisters and daughters are searching for role models in TV shows and the…
Etsy is seriously one of the best things to ever come out of the Internet. I mean, I don’t want to start a big argument about whether a Husky’s auto-tuned singing voice is better than a cat jumping on a surprised baby, but buying other people’s handmade items on a…
If you’re already into glittery vampires and werewolves who “phase” whenever they please, then you need no convincing to attend the Official Twilight Convention, which rolls into town this Saturday and Sunday at The Westin Park Central, 12720 Merit Drive. It should come as no surprise that this massive gathering…
Sonic the Hedgehog doesn’t look or act like an actual hedgehog at all. Have you ever seen a hedgehog in real life? First of all, they’re not blue. Also, they don’t wear tennis shoes or walk around on their hind legs, and most importantly, the last thing a hedgehog would…
National Grandparents Day wasn’t the only important day in September this year, as the 16th marked the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence. To celebrate, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery has a new exhibition of Nickolas Muray’s portraits of Frida Kahlo on display through January 1. Nickolas Muray was born in Hungary…
No one wants to say they consult with a fortuneteller. You can call them readers or psychics or seers, but people get offended if you ask them how the latest session with their fortuneteller went. I think they want to disassociate from those terribly vague, cheesy things fortune tellers say…
I’ve never personally owned a greyhound, but they run so fast they have a bus line named after them, and that’s good enough for me. This Saturday, the Deep Ellum Foundation and the Greyhound Adoption League of Texas (GALT) are teaming up to bring you the Deep Ellum Pup Crawl…
Martin Gerwers is not a geometric painter. For him, geometry is not the subject of his work, but rather, a tool he uses to shape the diversity of movements we see in his paintings. He builds upon the correlation between architecture and painting, and his works have an effect similar…
If you Google image search the name “George W. Bush,” most of the results are either photos of Bush standing in front of an American flag, looking patriotic, or shots of him making those goofy faces he was always making back when he was President of this fair nation. But,…
The best way to spice up a party is to grab hold of a theme and take it as far as you possibly can. Having an animal-themed party? Make the guests wear animal face masks and serve them nothing but cream-cheese penguins. The event chairs of the 2010 Great Gatsby…
Primitive camping is all well and good, but it can present a few problems, especially during the dog days of summer. First of all, you have no protection from pesky flies when you’re just walking around in the open air. And, as you probably already know, telling flies to leave…
It is commonly accepted wisdom that all good things must come to an end. And they do. It’s just that some of them are reborn and begin again, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, or the renovation of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Center for Creative Connections, 1717 N…
