What loves wood, is more comfortable when it’s wet and is mainly active at night? Need another hint? They used to be prized for their fur, but nowadays people aren’t so much into their pelts. Also, their musky secretions can sometimes add an unpleasant taste. Give up? It’s the American…
Lubbock legends The Flatlanders released one quietly revolutionary eight-track in 1972 before scattering to the wind, with Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock all going on to successful solo careers. Rounder’s 1990 reissue of the band’s sole album coincided nicely with the rise of the alternative country movement,…
The naked truth is, The Full Monty is a cock tease. You won’t see the full anything in this gently ribald musical, now onstage at Addison’s WaterTowerTheatre. The working-stiff characters who band together for a one-night-only all-male strip act promise to take it all off, but the big finale of…
Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic equivalent of the 19th Amendment: finally, a level playing field for female action stars! This is mostly bullshit, of course—Jolie’s Evelyn Salt is not the first action hero to be…
Agora: Not lacking for conviction or cojones, Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora is a big, broad, stridently atheistic sword-and-sandals entertainment that recounts a tragic turning point in world history. Rachel Weisz plays Hypatia, a brilliant astronomer in 4th-century Alexandria whose life and work is increasingly threatened by a bloody societal shift toward…
The Nature of Existence: We’d all like to get to the bottom of the titular conundrum posed by Roger Nygard’s The Nature of Existence, but traveling around the world asking religious leaders, skeptics, scientists and a few ringer celebrities “life’s big questions” is probably not the best way to pursue…
Ramona and Beezus: Despite the presence of Mouse House starlet Selena Gomez, Ramona and Beezus is less Disney than Hallmark Channel, a loose adaptation of Beverly Cleary’s first novel in her beloved kid-lit series that’s wholesome to the point of dull. Elizabeth Allen’s innocuous film charts Ramona Quimby (Joey King)…
Going to the annual Festival of Independent Theatres is a bit like tumbling down Alice’s rabbit hole. You jump in and hope for amusing diversions on the way to a soft landing. For four weeks, eight small theater companies, so small they don’t have their own home spaces in which…
For those who grew up skanking through Sublime’s records, here’s a chance to do it in person…kind of. Sublime with Rome, the reincarnation of your Sublime youth, plays at the Superpages.com Center Wednesday. After the brief scuffle in 2009 with original Sublime frontman Brad Nowell’s estate over the use of…
The Wonder Years have arrived at the Decorazon Gallery. No, not the late 1980s show centering around Kevin Arnold, but an art exhibit featuring artists like Pitch Tangpun, Michele Mikesell and Bill Komodore. The show highlights paintings and other art about childhood, birth, memories and more. The Wonder Years is…
When your mom said not to play with your food, she certainly didn’t see the future of Spanish cuisine coming. Taking the enjoyment of food to a whole new level, Foodjects: Design and the New Cuisine in Spain is a display of more than 100 cooking and dining implements that…
We think it’s fair to say that Lady GaGa is the new Madonna. She’s become quite the cultural phenomenon, to say the least. Most people who are familiar with her–and at this point, with as many times as Top 40 radio plays “Poker Face” and “Alejandro,” it’d be impossible not…
At Gene Vivero’s Boxing Gym in Oak Cliff, you’ll find boys and girls pounding bags, skipping rope and occasionally goofing off. You can also find them in Mokah Art Gallery, where professional photographer Kate Mefford’s work is on display. Feel the Love: The Little Big Men of Vivero’s Boxing Gym…
Billy Aronson had a cutesy idea for a sex farce. Take a couple of “helicopter parents” who blow off work on their kids’ first day of school and give them the naughty notion of inviting other bored parents into their bedroom for a romp. That’s the premise of this bit…
I used to think of felt as a kids’ material, much like crayons or uncooked macaroni, but it turns out I was just using the cheapest stuff imaginable, and apparently making your own felt (or “felting”) is actually a popular artsy activity for crafty people. Its popularity makes sense because…
Summertime is great, but it can be monotonous. Lay out by the pool, drink margaritas, repeat. If you want to infuse a little artistic flair into your routine, start by adding a little Sizzle. William Campbell Contemporary Art presents a rotating group exhibition, featuring more than 25 highly talented artists…
Asian cinema is the most entertaining of all foreign film entries. I like French films for the character studies, Danish movies for the weirdness factor and German pictures for the atmospherics. But Asia consistently produces some of the most dynamic and colorful cinema out there. Certainly, it has its share…
He’ll do the dishes in your kitchen sink. He’ll put you to bed when you’ve had too much to drink. He could be the man who grows old with you. Seriously, he wants to grow old with you. Move over Adam Sandler. Although we loved you and your 1980s mullet…
A velociraptor is on the loose and could dive down from the sky at any moment. It looks like the brachiosaurus might not be a vegetarian after all. You find yourself screaming “must go faster!” as you attempt to outrun more dinosaurs. And now, you’re sitting perfectly still and quiet…
Attention, speedsters: Have you ever wanted to ride around the oval track at the Texas Motor Speedway? Now you can! Well, on a bicycle anyway. Prepare to burn some serious bicycle rubber at the DFW Tour de Cure at the NASCAR playgrounds. Hundreds of cyclists will be riding to raise…
Whenever my granny is having a bad day I talk about the Chippendales men I’m going to send her. The thought of those men–glistening with oil, wearing bow ties and little else–seems to inspire both of us, and soon we’re both smiling and hopeful. In the musical The Full Monty,…
The argument for organics doesn’t begin and end with consumables. In fact, there aren’t many things we can think of that wouldn’t benefit from the TLC that organic gardening provides. Did you know that, just like your dinner plate, your yard can reap the benefits of an organic upbringing? Randy…
