Kevin Nealon is hardly an innovative stand-up comic, but he has a light, nonfussy style that evokes memories of Saturday Night Live’s second golden age: During the late ’80s and early ’90s, SNL was stocked with future stars like Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and Mike Myers (Dana Carvey?, not so…
Can’t legally buy crack. Noooo, that would be bad. Grass, heroin, X, speed? Go directly to jail. But cookies? Not only has the DEA failed to regulate these highly addictive, waistline-destroying sugar bombs, some wicked people are even teaching classes on how to bake them at the Central Market cooking…
About five years ago I caught Linda Ronstadt performing with Emmylou Harris at McFarlin Auditorium. What should’ve been a breezy evening of country ditties quickly turned heavy-handed after the first song, when Ronstadt stopped the show to tell the audience to quit taking pictures. She was afraid the camera flashes…
Last summer Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson taught us “the rules” of wedding crashing. Rule No. 2: Never use your real name. Rule No. 10: Invitations are for pussies. Rule No. 72: Never talk about the bridesmaids you’re nailing; the polite term is “nailing love to.” OK, maybe I made…
Ducati has been making motorcycles since 1946, when they weren’t even motorcycles—they were bikes with little engines strapped to them. Today, Ducati, which is based in Bologna, Italy, is known as the premier maker of superbikes, which is short for bikes that haul ass. They also look cool, which is…
The Rock N Relays are probably the coolest running event we can think of—and that’s impressive considering we strictly avoid running at all costs and find runners to be out of their gourd for going out, intent on participating in an exercise that no sports bra, New Balance or Lycra…
Here’s a tried-and-true fact—every girl in America (including myself), will always love Jake Ryan. Damn that Sammy Baker Davis Jr. girl. In the real world, she never would have ended up with such a hottie, but you believed it could happen in Sixteen Candles. While honored with the title of…
When I read that Texas Discovery Gardens was hosting an event called Flying Wild: Songbirds to Raptors, I nearly fainted out of excitement. Finally, Michael Crichton’s dream of a dinosaur theme park had come true! And it wasn’t on an island off the coast of Costa Rica! It was in…
Evan Daniel Lintermans’ Mountain Paintings Lintermans’ space-age paintings of Mount McKinley augur a nimble and brainy future for the new gallery Road Agent. If small quantities are a mark of high quality, then this show receives high marks for good stuff. Six acrylic-on-Plexiglas paintings hang on the walls of Road…
The Tenants (Sony) Fifteen seconds into the video for “Nuthin but a G Thang,” it was obvious that Snoop Dogg had charisma to spare. More than a decade later, with his performance as ’70s-era radical author Willie Spearmint, it’s official: The man can act. Snoop’s shambling, searing performance is just…
Ask gamers of a certain age about Resident Evil, and a vivid memory springs to mind: They’re inching down a long, quiet hallway. Suddenly, a zombie dog crashes through a window. A ghostly howl. Insatiable jaws. Mommy, can you tuck me in tonight? The original Resident Evil pretty much single-handedly…
The Best of the Best of The Electric Company (Shout Factory) Breaking News (Palm) Buster Keaton: 65th-Anniversary Collection (Sony) The Californians (Hart Sharp) Curse Death & Spirit (Asia Vision) The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ to Town (Warner Bros.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros.) The House on…
A star who turned into a black hole somewhere between the release of, oh, The Wedding Planner and Sahara (or How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Two for the Money–really, where to draw the line?), Matthew McConaughey is better-known of late for shooting tequila with Oprah and…
From the stars of Elf, here’s a new drama about depression and family baggage! Might not want to bring the kids to this one, lest they wonder why Buddy the Elf’s girlfriend is drowning a kitten and deliberately slamming her fingers in cabinet drawers. On the other hand, the two…
If you plan to see The Libertine, an artful and brooding period piece about a scandalously debauched earl of the English Restoration, a few words of advice before you leave: Take a peek at the sun. Drink in some fresh air. Consider bidding goodbye to the majority of the color…
If the Confederacy had won the Civil War, would blacks still be enslaved? Would women vote? Would the United States have colluded with Hitler–or at least pledged non-interference? If the Emancipation Proclamation had been merely a rhetorical gesture from a President who would soon be exiled to Canada (after being…
Here’s the first thing that’s audacious about What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole, the second installment in what has become a franchise of oversimplified science, outlandish speculation and woo-woo spirituality: It’s not a sequel. It’s a revision. Shamelessly, Rabbit Hole uses extensive footage from the first film, including the…
Anyone who remembers the 1977 Wes Craven film The Hills Have Eyes, which was and remains a piece of Milwaukee-beer shit, remembers it because A) they had a memorable fuck-or-puke night at the aging neighborhood drive-in; B) Michael Berryman’s uniquely hairless mug, which glared from the video store horror sections…
Out in Plano, on the big stage at Collin County Community College, you’ve got The Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show, a loud, dirty, sexy, glorious rock musical that casts dozens of live actors alongside the sort manipulated by strings, rods and other mechanical contraptions. Over at Dallas Theater Center, there’s I…
The literary critic Walter Benjamin once said “to live means to leave traces.” Life is messy and, like the droppings of a scurrying rodent, we leave behind the pellets of life: evidence of our metabolism, of body and breath. The photographs of the young Italian artist Francesco Patriarca are confirmation…
Cloud Tectonics José Rivera’s dreamlike one-act play casts a powerful spell. On a rainy L.A. night, an airport worker named Anibal (Marco Rodriguez) gives a ride to a pregnant girl named Celestina (Marisa Gonzalez) and ends up taking her home. She’s a strange creature, but he’s attracted to her ethereal…
When James Brown declared, “This is a man’s world,” he wasn’t speaking about the film industry, but the sentiment certainly applies. Women In Film was formed to combat the “boys’ club” atmosphere in Hollywood. WIF Dallas celebrates International Women’s Day and women behind the camera with a month of screenings,…
