Seems appropriate that someone so adept at impersonating voices, comic Craig Gass, grew up in a deaf family. Without verbal guidance from his parents or sister, Gass relied on the TV to lend him speaking skills. Now he has a stable of go-to voices (many of which are also stand-up…

Delaney boys: NYPD or no, if you can’t tell your mom you’re engaged (or married and expecting) because she’s got such a hold over you with guilt and good cooking, then we’ve either reverted several decades or you’re, how-you-say, a pussy. And that would put an unfortunate slant on the…

He won VH1’s Glam God and dammit, if he can stand up to Vivica A. Fox and still make hot duds, this guy must be a force. He’s Indashio and he’s making his Texas fashion show debut Friday at the McKinney Performing Arts Center, 111 N. Tennessee St. The runway…

I’ll admit that thanks to the perfection that is Top Gear (that they’d ever try that show in America is a travesty, by the by) and to my car-loving beau, I’ve learned a bit about the high-octane world of four-wheel competitions. But after having seen televised versions of races far…

Of course there is artistry in the creation of literature. We cherish the written word when placed in combinations that speak to our hearts, senses of humor and personal needs. But The Arts Gallery is looking at books just under their covers during the exhibition, Hidden Between Covers: Artists’ Books…

Who doesn’t love raising some money for charity? Having lost a relative to HIV/AIDS, it, in particular, has always been an important cause to me. Being a fashion fanatic (due to the economy, this fanaticism is exhibited internally) as well, DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) is right up my…

OK, yes. We all know Greg Behrendt was the mastermind behind Berger advising Miranda, “He’s just not that into you,” on Sex & the City. And he co-wrote the book He’s Just Not That Into You. And he’s probably rolling in the dough from the ensemble cast hit, um, He’s…

When was the last time you took a photo? Did you post it to Facebook or Twitter? Did you upload it onto your Flickr photostream? Or was it taken with an iPhone, and then you used an app to make it look like it was taken with a Holga? Maybe…

If you really want to see and feel what it was like to be amidst the Civil Rights Movement, say in 1964 Mississippi, all you have to do is take advantage of the African American Museum’s exhibition of photographer Herbert Randall’s Faces of Freedom Summer through April 16. Get even…

For four days before writing this, I checked several online book retailers regarding The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey, My Passions: Photos and Mementos from Q’;s Personal Collection. At least twice during the searches, the book–which features a preface by the renowned Maya Angelou, a foreword by Clint Eastwood and…

Remember whirligigs? Those wooden yard figures whose arms spun like crazy–often with a familiar creak–when the wind picked up? They were pivotal to the seasons of childhood spent outdoors, confined to the backyard or “three houses either way” if you got to play in the front. I don’t know any…

Zooming down the Roaring Rapids at Wet ‘N’ Wild in Garland circa 1986 did not a river-rafting adventure make. Sure, it might have provided for some drama when your raft got stuck in that one whirlpool and you couldn’t get over the ridge for going around and around while people…

Few contemporary pop songs elicit such gut-wrenching emotion, than that felt by any dejected, middle-aged woman while listening to “I Can’t Make You Love Me” as performed by bluesy skunk-striped Bonnie Raitt. But Raitt isn’t only beloved in the forties female demographic. The songstress earns high praise among fellow musicians…

What is a hyperpower? According to Amy Chua, right now, the United States is. But, it’s one threatened without a change in “tolerance.” Her bestselling book Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–And Why They Fall, compares even ancient empires such as Persia and the Roman Empire to…