Grimaldi’s Pizzeria3636 McKinney, Suite 190214-559-4611 Last night my ladyfriend and I decided on a pizza dinner at Grimaldi’s in the West Village. If you haven’t been yet, Grimaldi’s is the first Dallas location of the chain which has served famously delicious coal-fired pizza pies to dudes like Frank Sinatra (awesome)…
When I think of Latin Holiday music, I, like many boring WASPs the world over, can only muster a list of one: Jose Feliciano’s classic “Feliz Navidad.”” Granted, it’s a good one, but half of it’s in English, so it’s pretty much a cop-out. Thankfully, DFW International has the holiday…
Michael Martin Murphey might be fond of wearing buckskin jackets and singing “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” but make no mistake, he was raised just the other side o’ the river in Oak Cliff and “discovered” by A&M Records’ Bob Johnston playing in the long-gone Rubaiyat. He’s best known to the world as…
Dirk Cussler is the son and protege of author Clive Cussler, as well as the namesake of his father’s famous protagonist, Dirk Pitt. In fact, father and son have co-written the past few Pitt novels, including the latest installment in the best-selling series, Arctic Drift. In this adventure, Dirk–the character,…
As the days get shorter and the cold fronts arrive with greater frequency, we often find ourselves longing for a trip south. We could play it safe and head for the beach, or–if we truly had our druthers–we could chase adventure on Mexico’s legendary Chihuahua-Pacific Railroad (Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico),…
Furr’s Fresh Buffet 1540 Eastgate Drive Garland 972-682-8948 A couple weeks ago a family member informed me of the decision to forgo the traditional home cooked Thanksgiving meal in favor of eating out. Several reasons were cited, including–but not limited to–old age, convenience, disparate meat/vegetable preferences among family members and…
You know what my favorite part of Thanksgiving is? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not the praying. Another hint: It’s not the eating. Give up? The greatest thing to arise in the wake of the Pilgrims is the unnaturally multi-legged turkey of the NFL on FOX crew, allotted to…
Frankly, we’re tired of talking about what’s going on with the Mavs these days, so instead let us concentrate on former Golden State point guard Baron Davis, duped this summer into moving south to Los Angeles by buddy Elton Brand, only to have Brand bolt for Philly shortly after. Sucks…
Alley Oops 1115 N. Beckley Ave., Dallas All you really need to know about Alley Oops is that it’s cheap, it’s small, and almost everything is deep fried. I love it. Sandwiches range from about five to eight bucks. So you want a soup or salad with that greasy Philly…
The members of The Second City comedy troupe are kind of like the Texas Rangers of the comedy world, just paying their dues before moving on to bigger contracts and brighter things. To give you a taste of the group’s influence, alumni of Second City stage shows and writing programs…
While the Bush administration spent most of the last decade tarnishing America’s reputation on the global stage and building fences along our border with Mexico, Tucson, Arizona’s Calexico did the opposite, improving international relations (at least musically) and honing their dusty border noir to a fine point—all while expanding its…
Composer and lyricist William Finn is probably best known for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, though he’s written music and lyrics for a number of other projects, including A New Brain–based on his brush with death after brain surgery–and the trilogy of In Trousers, March of the Falsettos…
In this time of hotly contested elections, Wall Street collapses and High School Musical 3, it often feels as if the end times might be upon us. No wonder then that artist Alex Rubio dabbles in the apocalyptic, taking inspiration from Revelations, Aztec mythology, Nostradamus and Hollywood. Frankly, we wouldn’t…
Blackbird Harmony is the project of Evan Birdsong, a local country-noir singer-songwriter joined on Hardwood Exits by members of Eleven Hundred Springs and Bosque Brown’s Mara Lee Miller. From the start, the title track firmly establishes the album’s template, with mournful pedal steel giving way to Birdsong’s detached, weary vocals—equal…
The last time we heard from Jason Molina’s Magnolia Electric Co. was in 2007, when the band issued the Sojourner boxed set. Since then, the ever-prolific Molina’s been strangely quiet, though two new releases now sit on the horizon for those obsessed with his lonesome howl and schizophrenic songcraft—an equal…
Obviously, DART is not the best public transportation system in the world. Or the United States for that matter. Probably not even the best in Texas. So when the people of Saturday’s Urban Challenge event say you can only use public transportation to find the checkpoints in their charity scavenger…
Chicago band Mucca Pazza plays a punk- and gypsy-infused brand of marching music, sounding something like the cantina band from Return of the Jedi, or maybe a less cutesy version of local indie marchers Mount Righteous, who share a bill with the Chicagoans this Friday at the Modern Art Museum…
The last time we heard from Jason Molina’s Magnolia Electric Co. was in 2007, when the band issued the Sojourner boxed set—a definitive four-CD statement containing the albums Nashville Moon, Shohola and Black Ram, as well as a four-song EP recorded in Memphis’ legendary Sun Studios. Since then, the ever-prolific…
For every successful celebrity out there, there is often a lesser-known, sometimes slightly less attractive sibling to be found waiting in the wings. Chad Lowe, Don Swayze, Chris Penn, Clint Howard, Eric Roberts, Roger Clinton–I could go on and on. Now, some 19 years after A Time to Kill introduced…
For every successful celebrity out there, there is often a lesser-known, sometimes slightly less attractive sibling to be found waiting in the wings. Chad Lowe, Don Swayze, Chris Penn, Clint Howard, Eric Roberts, Roger Clinton–I could go on and on. Now, some 19 years after A Time to Kill introduced…
Reading the cast list for the film I Served the King of England, I was utterly appalled to see no mention of one Dame Judi Dench. How in the hell can you make a film about England without Dame Judi Dench? That’s like making a cross-country car chase movie without…
“[Tom] Wilson’s comedy is not offensive.” So says the Web site for the Addison Improv, anyway. And it’s probably true, unless you’re easily offended by the term “butthead,” which Wilson–most famous for his turn as classic bully Biff in Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future trilogy–will no doubt use repeatedly…
