So as I’m writing this I’m hearing staff writer Rick Kennedy extol the virtues of David Blaine and how he got the raw deal after Monday’s television special Drowned Alive. “Dude, he had to get out of eight handcuffs! Everybody’s all like, ‘He was only in there for seven-something minutes,’…
Women hesitant to enter the workforce should heed Missy Elliot’s sage advice: “Girls, girls, get that cash/If it’s 9 to 5 or shakin’ ya ass.” Indeed, developing your skills and talents—iron smelting, macramé, hog wrestling—may secure you a lucrative and rewarding career. If your talents extend to playing the shamisen,…
Last week, I was faced with a harsh reminder that I was a serious musical dork in high school. (And by “musical dork” I mean not that I had unpopular taste in music but that I had seen and knew many lyrics to many musicals.) It was, I believe, during…
He certainly never read How to Win Friends and Influence People, but it doesn’t matter—in spite of all his on-the-field and off-the-field shenanigans, we’re convinced Keyshawn Johnson has a heart. Check out his track record: He’s got The Keyshawn Johnson Education Foundation. He raises money for the Boys & Girls…
Reason No. 913 on our list of reasons to never have children: We will never have to attend anything that “promises lots of fun and laughter for both the young and the young at heart.” This promise comes from Duncanville Community Theatre, which is staging Tom McCabe’s Goldilocks and the…
Ever think botox and collagen existed outside of Highland Park and D magazine? Probably, but did plastic surgery ever cross your mind in the argument of internal racism versus infinite vanity? The documentary Western Eyes follows two Asian women troubled by their physical appearance considering a nip/tuck to acclimate to…
Affordable home and furnishing options in Uptown seem few and far between. But at least for a little while, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary features some in the form of its current exhibit, a showcase of good home design and construction achievable for those with limited budgets. Artists, architects and sustainable…
OK, Dallas. It’s your last chance to catch acclaimed conductor Andrew Litton leading our Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He’s an international legend now. The last 12 years of his 23-year conducting career have been with the DSO, a group he’s led through three major European tours, seven annual summer residencies at…
Acquaintances and casual relationships can cause fleeting change, but true, real friendships can change your life forever. I may have a scandalous affair with some peek-a-boo-toe heels, but my Converse patiently wait for me to take them to brunch the next morning and bitch about the night before—like true friends…
If I could, I would ask John Stossel’s mustache if it thinks the 20/20 correspondent to whose face it is attached would be able to get by without it. I have strong suspicions that John Stossel’s mustache is the driving force behind John Stossel, and that were Stossel deprived of…
I was a nerd and took extra math in high school. Now the work has paid off. I invite you to join with me in using our algebra skills to decipher the title of Mark Collop’s latest exhibition of paintings at the Dallas Central Library: (me + x) + (you…
What can you do in 24 hours? You can have a shirt dry-cleaned 24 times. You can watch an entire season of 24. Or you can race to make a movie. Those who choose the latter, as part of the Video Association of Dallas’ Fifth Annual 24-Hour Video Race, will…
During Stephen Colbert’s incredible White House Correspondents Dinner speech on April 29, he took a break from attacking the current administration to poke fun at Jesse Jackson…in the form of an anti-Bush barb. After comparing a Jackson conversation to “boxing a glacier,” he said, “Enjoy that metaphor…because your grandchildren will…
Gustafer Yellowgold is gold, and he is part cat and part alien, and he is from the sun. His friends include an eel and a dinosaur. Trust me, your kids will love him, and you might too. That’s because the only way to see Gustafer, the creation of songwriter/illustrator Morgan…
One of the best parts about digital cable is the favorite channels list. The Game Show Network is not on mine, so I don’t know much about their Lingo show other than it’s hosted by Chuck Woolery, formerly of the Love Connection, who has remarkably well-highlighted hair. According to the…
Before Sting got a nose job and delusions of jazz grandeur, before Chrissie Hynde turned into a meat-is-murder wacko, before Ric Ocasek started dating supermodels and not much after Deborah Harry’s junkie days, New Wave was just really cool. And not entirely accepted. I remember my sister’s friends sneering at…
Everything I ever needed to know about science I learned by watching Jeff Goldblum. Some of the lessons I’ve picked up along the way: When working on teleportation experiments, make sure to call an exterminator first to get rid of any pesky insects. Aliens are ugly, smelly and susceptible to…
Let’s say you’re a teenage boy dying of cancer. A well-known charity dedicated to helping people like you offers to make your fondest wish come true–so long as it’s something realistic, as opposed to, say, finding a cure for cancer. Would you choose a VIP pass to Disneyland…or a visit…
Coming closer even than Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers to resembling the Chinese cover art for an Iron Butterfly album, Chen Kaige’s The Promise is psychedelia extremis. Hardly a minute of it passes without a concentrated dose of digital frou-frou and lavish cartoon-poetic imagery: floating ocean goddesses, flying swordsmen,…
The most important thing to know about the new movie Hoot, adapted from the children’s book by Carl Hiaasen, is that it’s co-produced by Jimmy Buffett, who also appears in a small role and provides new music for the soundtrack. Middle-aged drunks and boat owners might possibly rejoice at the…
Mission: Impossible III finds Tom Cruise downplaying the world’s single greatest piece of action music in deference to an Age of Fear vibe that’s a lot more grueling than rousing. Seems Lalo Schifrin’s adrenaline-pumping “dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum” is now as dated as the Cold War from which it sprang; maybe the star-producer…
Among the six actors in Nickel and Dimed, now playing at Kitchen Dog Theater, only the lead, Kristina Baker, is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association. That means something in this show that it might not in others. Nickel and Dimed is based on journalist Barbara Ehrenreich’s nonfiction bestseller…
