Arts & Culture

One of the best new video games on the market requires you to take math tests. During summer break, no less. But before you cue up “Night on Bald Mountain” and run like hell, you really should play Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree. Any “party title” that can hold a…

After the Wedding (IFC) The Astronaut Farmer (Warner Bros.) Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Funimation) Brutal (Lionsgate) The Comedy Collection (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Taylor Collection (St. Clair) Extras: The Complete Second Season (HBO) Fat Burning Hip Hop Dance Party: Urban Style (Shami) Fred Astaire Collection (St. Clair) Frankie & Annette: MGM Movie…

Andy Warhol conjures up a lot of images for a lot of different people. Some think he was a brilliant artist; others feel that his art was a hoax; many just see him as a celebrity-obsessed partier who used his art as a means to climb the social ladder. It’s…

You can keep your 2006 fully animated version of Curious George, about the inquisitive ape and his friend The Man in the Yellow Hat, voiced by Will Ferrell. Whatever, kid. Those who know better understand the sine qua non of George, the proper way to ingest him, is in pajamas,…

Of all the versions of “Cinderella” handed down by various cultures, why was the United States stuck with the syrupy translation of Frenchman Charles Perrault’s tale? His Cinderella is a sappy little do-gooder who eventually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Better is the Brothers Grimm take, in which the stepsisters end…

Although in the 1930s the Bath House at White Rock Lake was just that, it currently draws from that era’s historical salons, which facilitated all manners of artist exchange. Salon du FIT 4 showcases work by modern frontrunners in art and performance under the Bath House roof and turns it…

By 1968, The Beatles had migrated from the realm of just being the “greatest rock ‘n’ roll band of all time” to the pantheon of modern day gods. They managed to become more and more popular every year despite the fact they hadn’t even played live since 1966. The progression…

Other than value menus at many a drive-through, the dollar doesn’t carry much weight. That reality slapped me in the face when I bought a pack of gum for a $1.19 at Target. And since when did “dollar movies” start charging a buck-fifty? Forget that, I’m heading to the Dallas…

The good news for all you lazy freaks (read: normal people) that don’t want to run a 25K/50K “ultramarathon” is that El Scorcho’s registration is done filled up. All numbers taken. That doesn’t mean that you can’t head out to Trinity Park in Fort Worth at midnight Sunday and cheer…

We wouldn’t have believed it three months ago, but 92.5 KZPS’s recent format change has actually turned us back into occasional FM radio listeners. Save for the overabundance of Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Thorogood and Steve Miller on the station’s playlists—seriously, if we hear “Pride and Joy,” “Bad to the…

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day. I imagine that’s what the employees of the Texas Discovery Gardens will be chanting during Outdoor Fun Day this Saturday. All this precipitation is probably both a blessing and a curse to the horticultural haven. Despite astounding greenery, it wouldn’t be…

Raise the terror attack threat suspicious activity alert monitor bar system color code level to pearly white! Why? Because, Lord willing, the Gospel Comedy Explosion is coming to town! Sister Cantaloupe, Chocolate, Ms. Vickie and other special guests will be holy rolling in on a church bus fully loaded with…

Unicycles and juggling were once the domain of clowns. Now, nerds rule both disciplines. Juggling world records, for example, are tracked by something called the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON). Members include two nerds who call themselves the Bounce Dicks, so named because they hold the world…

If you can quote lines from the movie Office Space, have every episode of The Office taped and can’t get enough of Dilbert and his magically monotonous cubicle, then as the Veggie Tales characters say, “have we got a show for you.” Man vs. Office is another take on the…

I’m not exactly sure how you would go about this, but if you could smuggle a bottle of Crown past the American Airline Center’s crack security team (the ones who broke a $50 compact during a particularly aggressive purse search at a Dixie Chicks show in December, thank you), you…

Many folks give Katharine Hepburn the credit for having the biggest cojones of all the classic actresses, and Joan Crawford definitely was legendarily crazy, but Bette Davis was the queen of them all. She was over the top, more difficult on set than Lindsay Lohan could ever dream of being,…

Jeffery “Mayhem” Thompson was a Renaissance fair enthusiast, a television actor, a radio personality, a musician, a bouncer, a personal bodyguard and the head of security for the band Damageplan. It was the security gig that led him to the fateful night when he, guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and two…

Of all the versions of “Cinderella” handed down by various cultures, why was the United States stuck with the syrupy translation of Frenchman Charles Perrault’s tale? His Cinderella is a sappy little do-gooder who eventually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Better is the Brothers Grimm take, in which the stepsisters end…

“His swollen member throbbing in his Levi’s, John rams Jeanette against the counter like the bull ram he is. Her warm loins tingling, she accepts his moist tongue in her mouth.” Now if that don’t sound like literature to you, why don’t you head back to New York where you…

For too long, museums have separated art from science. But who has not gazed upon the structure of a T-Rex and seen beauty? But for one evening, natural history and the arts will unite in a lecture called Art Treasures of Natural History: Connoisseurship and Preservation. The accompanying exhibit features…