Hey, Chicken Little? Noticed anything weird about the sky lately? Kinda sinking a little bit there in the middle. Nothing like freaking out over nothing to get the blood boiling, right, Chickie? Little might want to join his like-minded buddies of the Greater Dallas Chamber for their next Business After…
What is this, like the 80th time Albert Hammond Jr. has come to perform in Dallas? Do we really need this? Is the Strokes’ guitarist—as famous for his shaggy mane and his shagging of Drew Barrymore* as for his fake Television guitar licks—really all that great without his fellow girl-jeans-clad…
I’m perfect gang material. I mean, I love the matching jackets, and I’m super great at tying bandanas. I could be front row in any gang versus gang dance-off, any day. But, last time I went to gang tryouts, things looked way less like West Side Story and Grease than…
Once, written and directed by John Carney, is a deceptively simple movie—a narrative strung together by pop songs, but without the sheen (or arrogance) of most cinematic musicals. By day, a Dublin busker (Glen Hansard) sings Van Morrison on a street corner for spare change, which, on occasion, is swiped…
And so Disney’s immense, booty-busting, pro-piracy epic has come to an End. I doubt very much that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is, in fact, the last we’ll be seeing of Captain Jack Sparrow and, you know, all those other people. How could it be? Treasure remains to…
There’s a unique challenge in designing superhero games: How do you make it fun to play a character who, by definition, is vastly more powerful than his opposition? Hulk encounters a purse-snatcher: Hulk smash! Hulk win! Hulk bored. With battles that one-sided, the thrill of being superheroic quickly wanes –…
Afro Samurai (Funimation) Airwolf: Season Three (Universal) Alone With Her (IFC) Breaking Point (Fox) The Complete Matrix Trilogy (Warner Bros.) Epic Movie (Fox) Escape to Canada (Disinformation) Fay Grim (Magnolia) The 40-Year-Old Virgin: Unrated 2-Disc Double Your Pleasure Edition (Universal) The Good German (Warner Bros.) The John Wayne Collection (Paramount)…
Porky’s: The Ultimate Collection (Fox) When writer-director Bob Clark was killed by a drunk driver in April, the obits trumpeted his holiday classic A Christmas Story…but were somewhat reluctant to mention that, oh, yeah, he also wrote and directed Porky’s. But there’s no question which is the more important movie–and…
I have a dirty little secret. I was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. We moved to Dallas when I was 3 years old, so I don’t remember much about living there except that it was boring and it smelled really, really bad. I went back to visit when I was about…
Dallas sees dozens of Independence Day celebrations with the traditional patriotic parades, family cookouts and fireworks shows every summer. Throughout the season there are also countless opportunities to experience less familiar celebrations that some of us have yet to branch out and try. Of course, we’re not saying you should…
He used to see plays for a living. Now Tom Sime is writing them. The former Dallas Morning News and Dallas Observer theater critic left journalism a few years ago to work full-time in professional theater. Soon Sime will oversee the first full-scale local production of one of his plays,…
Remember that night in the tent when you were 5 and really, really had to wee but were afraid to walk across the campground and your big brother convinced you to just go in the corner, right there near the maps and stuff? That’s where the grown-ups go, he said,…
Summer movie season has arrived. There is an insane number of films on the (incomplete) list that follows, and plenty of room for optimism. To that end, we’ve tried to cut back on the snarky comments about pointless sequels and loathsome actors—although it’s nearly impossible to let those infernal pirates…
OK, Dallas, let’s get past this right up front. Most of y’all aren’t really from these parts—the chamber of commerce says more than a half-million new residents have moved here since 2000—and most likely have never seen livestock on the hoof up close, let alone a real rodeo. This is…
It’s summer again. Kids look forward to it all year, while parents dread it. It’s not so much the hot Texas sun (you’ve already stocked up on enough sunscreen to cover the whole Rangers team for a year) as the notion that those lazy days of summer are completely lost…
Arrested Development is the sitcom most people point to when trying to name the one outstanding live-action comedy that Fox has aired, but you have to also give props to Christopher Titus’ self-titled show, which ran from 2000 until 2002. You wouldn’t think that a show about a man wrestling…
I don’t heart the valet. I want to take its little silent “t” and knee it in the balls. Why am I supposed to be totally OK with handing my keys over to a stranger and then paying him to hide my car from me? I bet the first guy…
You gotta respect a movie that’s managed to garner the keywords, “action,” “comedy,” “fantasy” and “horror” all in the space of a couple of hours. And Evil Dead 2 really is all those things. As described in the plot outline on IMDb.com, “a young man named Ash takes his girlfriend…
When I was a kid, my family would drive down to Killeen a few times a year to visit my grandparents, and we’d always stop in West, Texas (note the comma), for a kolache or two. West is, after all, the “home of the official kolache of the Texas Legislature,”…
With more than 250 artists and craftsmen displaying and demonstrating their work, ARTFEST 2007 truly lives up to this year’s theme: “Art for Everyone.” What may seem like “just another craft show” (albeit an extremely oversized one) to the untrained eye of the jaded passer-by is actually a treasure trove…
Coolness. Kansas is coming to McKinney’s Myers Park and Event Center—at last, a band from my high school years in the ’70s. I remember the first time I heard “Heat of the Moment,” it was…huh? That was Asia? Right. Anyway, I really dug “Come Sail Aw…” Oh…that was Styx. Um…”More…
Big title for a little gem written and performed by veteran stage and TV actress Ronnie Claire Edwards (The Waltons, Designing Women). In tiny Theatre Too, Edwards welcomes the audience into the prison cell of “Little Egypt,” not the famous belly dancer of the 19th century, but a former “cooch…
