Let’s think of some made-in-heaven pairs: Siegfried and Roy. Willing and able. Bogey and Bacall. PB and J. Starsky and Hutch. Jake and, obviously, the Fatman. Bikers and Badges. Fruit ‘n’ Fibre. T and…Wait. Go back one. Not the cereal, the one before. Bikers and Badges? Where the hell did…
Explore your domestic kink at the Home & Garden Show. You know you are a shelter magazine junkie when Cottage Living is jostling Metropolitan Home for space on your coffee table, when Martha Stewart Living is competing with Architectural Digest in your bathroom and when you go to bookstores looking…
Switching the lights on and off really quickly—this is what most of us call experimenting with light. Starting Friday night, the 6th Annual MindFest returns to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, 1501 Montgomery Street, to expand your definition of light experimentation with “Trip the Light Fantastic!” At…
Hello, Wind? This is Nipples. Come in? This is Nipples to the Wind, do you read me? We have a lot to talk about. First of all, Wind, we dislike it when you blow cold air on us, because it creates a lot of embarrassment. Secondly, Wind, we know you…
So we all know gays and lesbians can’t get married. But hey, who cares if we pay the same taxes as everyone else? Why bother with that “all men are created equal” malarkey? I wasn’t using my inalienable rights anyways. Despite all the obstacles to marriage, there is always the…
Different cultures have different coming-of-age rituals. Some parents send their teens out into the woods to fend for themselves. Others throw the little boogers multi-thousand-dollar parties to which they invite their little booger friends so they can all be on an MTV show about what little boogers they are. I…
The Goss Gallery opened with a bang last year with its inaugural exhibit of David LaChapelle’s hip and surreal photographs. And since then, well, um, hey, remember that LaChapelle exhibit? I’m probably just out of touch with the photographic art world, but I wasn’t jumping up for joy at the…
So you didn’t make it to Sundance this year. You intended to go, but you just couldn’t swing the vacation time, right? Excuses, excuses. Who are you trying to kid—you call yourself a film lover, yet you didn’t even make it to the USA Film Festival, and that was just…
Brad Meltzer’s got a rep as a writer of serious fiction—legal thrillers mostly, but also the new The Book of Fate, which deals with “a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle…ancient Masonic symbols hidden in the street plan of Washington, D.C. and a 200-year-old secret code invented by Thomas Jefferson,” says the…
When Michael Moore ruined American political documentaries with his impetuous voice, ugly beard and embarrassing white lies, the ever-seeking conspiracy theorists and liberal ranters were forced to look elsewhere for their demanding dosage of Republican-bashing. Moore’s abomination of the medium not only stopped people from watching documentaries but stopped people…
Thought Napoleon Dynamite might have been a History Channel documentary about a French emperor who’s into explosives? We all did. It’s not. But, a lot of people think it’s still really good. Some even think it’s worth more than a few viewings, so you should take the opportunity this Friday…
By the time Trust the Man opens this weekend, it will have been nearly a year since it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight. Forget that it’s a year old; this thing tastes a good decade past its expiration…
Another Gay Movie Directed by Todd Stephens. Screenplay by Stephens, based on a story by Stephens and Tim Kaltenecker. Starring Michael Carbonaro, Jonah Blechman, Jonathan Chase and Mitch Morris. Opens Friday. A blow-by-blow remake of American Pie, albeit with more gerbil sex play, Todd Stephens’ Another Gay Movie follows four…
Without actress Trista Wyly, the new show at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre would be just another ho-hum, pleasant little trifle. High art isn’t this venue’s specialty. Here it’s low-brow comedy and melodrama most of the year, with the audience invited to toss popcorn at hissing villains and to sing old-timey…
Arrested Development: Season Three (Fox) The final collection of Arrested Development discs feels sadly incomplete: only 13 episodes this time, the result of Fox’s inability to attract viewers to one of TV’s greatest comedies and the network’s unwillingness to give it a full farewell. But none of that diminishes the…
Have you ever looked into onrushing traffic and imagined how much damage you would cause with a simple crank of the steering wheel? If so, FlatOut 2 is the racing game for you. The latest entry in a genre best described as Evel Knievel meets NASCAR, FlatOut 2 lets you…
Akeelah and the Bee (Lions Gate) American Gun (IFC) The Castle of Cagliostro (Manga) Desperate Housewives: Season Two (Buena Vista) Stephen King’s Desperation (Lions Gate) Friends With Money (Sony) Iron Island (Kino) Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Paramount) Lonesome Jim (IFC) Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Warner Bros.)…
For untold numbers of teenage girls circa 1996, Jewel Kilcher was much more than a musician—she was a role model. She taught us to aspire to many, many things, such as living in vans and playing guitars in bathroom stalls. She gave us hope. If the jerk who inspired “You…
Tom Bosley is inarguably best remembered as perennial TV dad Howard Cunningham from Happy Days. Like most young thespians of his era (forging careers before you could shortcut your way to celebrity by eating the most bugs on a reality show or betrothing a pop music starlet), Bosley cut his…
In her poem “Famous,” Naomi Shihab Nye writes: “I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous/Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular/But because it never forgot what it could do.” Incidentally, it’s this knack for finding beauty in the ordinary that makes Nye’s work…
Inspired by her native India, Aditi Samarth’s art employs iconography, batik fabric design and a range of meditative deities to represent time and harmony. We’re glad that she’s the Visiting Scholar in Humanities at Richland College and co-coordinator of an emerging Asian/Middle Eastern American Studies Program—those who create harmony are…
When people think of Dallas, John F. Kennedy and pivotal events in American history, they think of bullets. However, the JFK Museum endeavors to supplement that experience with a more positive one. The SNCC Experience in Dallas features interviews with 1960s civil rights activists Bishop Emeritus Mark Herbener, Ernest McMillan…
