Watch out, all you Dallas conservative Republicans (hell, even some of you Dems), because this city is about to get slammed in the backside with Queer Anarchy. No, this isn’t the pink uprising in protest of Constable Dupree’s resignation (we pretty much took his card back) or Ed Oakley’s flubbed…
Screw that lame trolley no one uses on McKinney Avenue—let’s talk about a part of town that deserves some mass transit with panache. The Oak Cliff Transit Authority wants to bring streetcars back to Oak Cliff; they’ve been working on it for a year and half now, and at 6:30…
We’re not sure why audiences roar when a jalapeño puppet says, in a thick, ersatz Mexican accent that his name is “José…Jalapeño…On a Steek.” That’s so…cruise ship. OK, maybe we laughed aloud when ventriloquist Jeff Dunham played straight man to the irascible old man puppet, Walter. (Walter: “Remember when you…
With only five home games left in the regular season, don’t you think it’s time you showed a little support to the most underappreciated professional sports team our city has? In case you missed it, we have a soccer team, and a good one at that. FC Dallas is one…
Mexican art tends to be dominated by the larger-than-life personas of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, at least in perception. And while either one could rightfully hold the title of the definitive Mexican, there’s a case to be made for Enrique ChavarrÃa as well. ChavarrÃa’s paintings and drawings are what…
Who’s to say what hair cutting, boxing, Mickey Mouse and fire medicine have to do with art and architecture? If anyone can explain the unseen similarities, it would have to be Michael Auping. As Chief Curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St.), Auping kicks off…
At her peak, before she had friends in low places, Trisha Yearwood had a string of agreeable hits including “She’s in Love With the Boy,” “Xxx’s and Ooo’s (An American Girl)” and “How Do I Live,” the latter of which completely overmatched LeAnn Rimes’ version. Unlike fellow ’90s stars Terri…
Molière, the latest film in the Magnolia at the Modern series, will have most people excited to see the 1600s in glorious color and with a fanciful and funny storyline. Some film fans, however, will no doubt be disappointed that this is not a showing of the 1978 French classic…
Druggies ruin everything: brownies, car antennae, easy access to pseudoephedrine and most important, “Puff the Magic Dragon.” No, dope fiend, not everything would “make a good bong,” and not everything’s about weed. “Puff” isn’t a veiled reference to your favorite strain o’ mary jane, but it does deal with some…
Lubbock native Terry Allen is a true West Texas renaissance man, as famous (if not more so) for his contributions to the visual arts as he is for his quirky and intelligent country albums. Like a high plains, pre-Pixar Randy Newman, Allen mixes barrelhouse piano with biting social commentary to…
So imagine that Casablanca was not made in 1942, but today. Drunken dinner party conversation topics: In 2007, would Ilsa get on the plane with Victor or stay in the desert with Rick? How much bare Ilsa flesh would we see? During the slow sex scene between Rick and Ilsa…
Who doesn’t love puppets? Whether sock puppets, marionettes or the weird Jim Henson kind with the sticks in their hands, puppet shows have been a staple of community entertainment for hundreds of years. Well, if you have a puppet jones and don’t know where to get a fix, your prayers…
Stein Mart’s slogan is “Once you go, you get it.” And they’re right. The first time I went to Stein Mart I was like, “Oh, I get it. It’s for Moms.” Your mom totally goes there, sporting her mom pants and her mom shirt and trying on some nice momcessories…
Kids bear the burden of many unreasonable expectations based on sweeping generalizations about who they are. Does every boy wanna be a baseball player? Every little girl a pretty, pretty princess? And what of the Kids Love Frogs exhibit at the Skillman Southwestern branch of the Dallas Public Library? Maybe…
Believe it or not, Iron Eagle was rife with technical inaccuracies, least of which that F-16s can launch missiles while taxiing on an airstrip. If the filmmakers had the referential aid of, say, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, they might have avoided some of the movie’s more glaring…
Before my parents’ divorce, they began taking Latin dance lessons together. When my mother told a friend about their evenings gliding across the dance floor, the friend raised an eyebrow and asked, “Is it working?” In the end, not even the sultry, sensuous tango could save that relationship, but it…
Year of the Dog (Paramount Vantage) It’s just about the First Commandment of Hollywood: Don’t kill the dog. So it’s a testament to the clout of writer-director Mike White (School of Rock) that killing off the dog is the first of many rules broken in this weird-ass movie. Folks fooled…
This is a mockumentary, right?” I’ve been asked that question at least a dozen times since The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters made its bow at the Slamdance Film Festival in January. Quite simply, some folks just don’t believe that Seth Gordon’s film about two men vying for…
A quiz: 1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: a. A former table tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground Ping-Pong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal (Christopher Walken). b. Suppository jokes. c. Little worth discussing and even less worth seeing…
The name Hip Pocket more than covers it. The west Fort Worth theater group has been reaching around and pulling it out for a popular 31 seasons now. But we’re not just talking about a super-sized black hole of endless talent and creative energy—they’re hip in the not-connected-to-your-ass sense too…
Forget the Johnny Depp vs. Gene Wilder question about who makes the better Willy Wonka. Call it a toss-up. Lets focus for now on the original movie version of the Roald Dahl creation; if you’re of a certain age and temperament—that is, you have taste and a heart—you remember being…
You misspelled “retribution” at your junior high spelling bee and have been bitter about it ever since. Your dreams of making it to the city finals were dashed, and your parents never forgave you. Some people just never understood the pressure you went through, but the kids in Putnam County…
