We know what the inside of Swedish houses look like. We got the Ikea a few years ago and have made enough trips—actual and through that fabulous catalog—to know the perfectly organized reality of Scandinavian nesting. Clean lines, children’s creative areas, inviting color and tasty, lingonberry-sauced meatballs. Right? Right. But…

It’s never just right. At least, not romance’s big picture. But those tiny, ideal moments and whimsical details counteract the gigantic fuck-ups and earth-shattering misspeaks in relationships. One silly reminder note can end up being better than any expensive gift. And one back rub can make up for many a…

The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra aims to give audiences a little 1960s flashback and a happy heart with this weekend’s i>Music of the Baby Boomers concerts. They think that a revue of tunes by The Beatles, the Beach Boys, Motown’s finest, Frankie Valli, Burt Bacharach and others, conducted by Jack…

So I’m looking into this Dr. Kenneth Cooper guy, father of aerobics and man behind our own Cooper Aerobics Center, and I’m thinking, “Maybe I shouldn’t be drinking this shake. Maybe I should keep track of my Weight Watchers Points all the time. Perhaps my exercise plan should consist of…

You know Bruce Bruce. The doubly monikered comic has hosted BET’s Coming to the Stage, has been in Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits commercials and that Ying Yang Twins video “Salt Shaker.” I’ll take the Popeye’s and the Ying Yang, but I cannot tolerate Bruce Bruce’s participation in box office splat…

The neat freak versus the messy one. OCD versus pack rat mound-making. Unger versus Madison. It’s a pairing pop culture fans know better as The Odd Couple. The Richardson Theatre Centre, however, is shaking things up a bit. They’re throwing out the classic tale of singles co-habitating…only this time, instead…

After reading Born Standing Up, Steve Martin’s memoir about the beginning of his career, it’s clear that many of the entertainers (including Martin) we consider to be legendary comics started out doing magic tricks. So what are the new comagicians up to these days? The floating ball? The dove? Card…

Oh, to be a person of leisure. To have reason for a chaise or fainting couch and have occasion to lie upon it. To schedule hair appointments at hours that don’t make my stylist want to strangle me. To eat meals seated. To not drink my low-fat yogurt smoothie whilst…

I didn’t cry when Bobby Brown left New Edition. ‘Cause well, Bell Biv DeVoe kinda had it goin’ on for a while there. Producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and the Shocklees had ol’ BBD bustin’ out with “Poison” (to which I can still sing the lyrics) and the whole…

He’s played with faeries, talked to angels, fronted the electro-drag She-Dick and now he’s got an exhibition of original artwork. He’s Dan Paul Roberts, and folks, if someone can do all those things, be called a “wizardly gentleman” by the Magnolia Gallery’s Scott Horn and hail from Wichita Falls, then…

To this day I remain amazed that Bucky Covington made it to 8th freaking place on American Idol. His disdain for hitting any ol’ note and his aw-shucks attitude posed a quandary for me: I wanted to punch him in the effed-up teeth but alas, one hand was on the…

Aside from her prolific career as an award-winning gospel singer, a charitable woman and a family gal, Vickie Winans is one of those rare birds that is a “I lived through all this, baby, you’re fine” sort of inspiration. Don’t believe me? A glance at any of her assorted Web…

I do it every time. I start a series of something and I obsessively watch or read it with this insatiable urge to finish. (Yeah, sometimes even if it starts to suck really hard, as in the case of Scrubs.) It’s a compulsion. I must know every detail. I must…

People always said a friend of mine had a problem for picking up other people’s scraps and trash and taking them home to see if he could either make them work, or make them into something else. I always thought it was kind of cool that all this stuff folks…

If there’s a name that screams former Justice Department agent, it’s Cotton Malone. Seriously. The fact that the guy is now a rare books dealer that gets involved in all sorts of political conspiracies seems like a natural segue for a guy with that name. His sidekick, you ask? Why…

Everyone knows Gone With the Wind. Rhett Butler, dresses made of curtains and you know what? I don’t give a damn. There are GWTW collectors and obsessors—regarding the book, the movie or both. I don’t get it. Call me crazy, but rarely do I have cravings for a good Civil…

I have to start eating better. I should start exercising more regularly now that I’ve successfully ended a three-year contract with Bally after having entered said center one time. I will stop over-scheduling myself—I have to manage my time better so that I can actually go out and do things…

“You say goodbye, and I say hello.” Everyone from the Beatles to your mom has had a relationship with the dichotomy of greetings and farewells, arrivals and departures. Are you really happy to see Aunt Kay? Or is it better when she and that dog of hers head out the…

Time to bust out the wallets yet again. Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden has rounded up contemporary art, early Texas art and 19th- and 20th-century American and European art for an exhibition with a cause. Holidays Are a Time for Giving not only represents the wide range of art…