The Aura (Genius) Avatar: The Last Airbender — Book 2: Earth, Volume 2 (Paramount) The Batman: The Complete Third Season (Warner Bros.) Beneath Still Waters (Lions Gate) Bobby (Weinstein) Coming Soon (Lions Gate) Dead and Deader (Anchor Bay) A Guide for the Married Woman (Fox) Life of the Party (THINKFilm)…
Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake—the three Stooges inhabiting Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters—will survive should you choose to avoid their movie. Truth be told, you’ve probably never heard of them anyway, unless you’re a regular viewer of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block or vaguely recall…
First, I’m not a sports writer. Thus, I won’t ramble off statistics about shooting averages. I won’t ponder what teams need to win and lose which game to determine the path to the championships. All I’m going to say is I hope the Mavericks mow down the Spurs like a…
According to the Internet Movie DataBase, the “plot keywords” for Mike Nichols’ 1967 über-classic The Graduate include “dysfunctional family,” “bus ride,” “alcoholic mother,” “adultery” and “sports car.” Those few words do as much as any others to sum up Nichols’ cinematic portrayal of post-college generation gap angst, confusion and horniness…
When I was growing up, my mother’s chocolate bundt cake and the handmade star we put on the tree were cherished Christmas traditions. But we dreaded the inevitable Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album, which my mother played for a week straight, until we thought we’d go mad and hang ourselves with…
This summer’s Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is going to make your old grade-school trips to the planetarium look like Bantha turds by comparison. Can’t wait till June? This weekend’s sneak peek will allow visitors to hang with R2D2,…
With the hopes and dreams of an entire city riding on their shoulders and the playoffs just around the corner, Mavs stars Dirk Nowitzki, Josh Howard and Jason Terry must really feel the pressure mounting right about now. Luckily for all of us, they’ll have a chance to blow off…
Why would anyone rub a baby with butter? So it would brown properly after you stuff it with an onion and bake it in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes per pound, of course. Geez, don’t you people coo…no wait. My bad. Turns out that massaging babies with Palmer’s Baby…
Sure, it’s amazing that the O’Jays have been spreading Philly soul to the masses for nearly 50 years now, but what’s even more amazing is that they’ve kept it up in the home stretch of the past 13 years, after a certain other O.J. publicly soiled their good name. Thankfully…
During my days as an ’80s DJ, the one rule I had was that everything I played had to have been released in the ’80s. Sounds like a no-brainer, but it’s amazing how many ’80s songs were actually released in the late ’70s. I didn’t play Gary Numan’s “Cars”—that was…
A panel of scientists, intelligent design experts and authors will discuss no less than the development of life at this weekend’s “Darwin vs. Design” conference. All of the panel are directly or indirectly involved with the Center for Science and Culture, proponents of intelligent design, so they may be a…
The guy responsible for coming up with the euphem-tastic names for James Bond women ought to be hanging his head just now: The fact that some buxom swingerette named Pink Martini hasn’t been pinned down and given the 007 treatment yet is downright shameful. But despite Pink Martini’s linguistically suggestive…
Picture folks in burkas and and saris lining the halls of First Baptist Dallas, ooh-ing and ahh-ing, calling for encores of yet another verse of “Amazing Grace.” Would that sermons on the book of Micah were like riveting monologues from Tony-winning plays, capturing the imaginations and wonder of tourists the…
One part human kazoo and one part yawning tree frog, an expert Tuvan throat singer can traverse scales and melodies throughout dreamlike hypnotic stretches, sometimes stacking up to four notes at a time. This traditional vocalization style also lends itself to some beautiful and poetic lyrics. Here’s a sampling: “Uuuuuuuuuuunnnnnngh,…
Lions are awesome. I wish we could have lions as pets. My lion would have a cute name so when he grew up to maim Dakota Fanning, everyone would totally be on his side. They’d be all, “There’s no way Fluffykins would ever do that. Dakota’s stupid Stewey-looking face must…
Before KMVK-107.5 FM MOViN’ launched last October, we were forced to endure call-in bits like “Dateless in Dallas” (more accurately, “brainless in Dallas”) on KISS-106.1 FM if we wanted any hope of hearing 45 seconds of pop goodness from Beyoncé or Kelly Clarkson. KISS had no room for the classics,…
After a staged reading of The Secret Life of Girls received raves from teen audiences (hard to get if you’re not Fall Out Boy), their parents (yes, teens and adults sometimes agree) and mental health pros (go with us on this), the Dallas Children’s Theater has launched a full-blown production…
If you’ve ever spent a decent amount of time at the Dallas Museum of Art or The Modern in Fort Worth, then chances are you’ve already seen some of photographer Nic Nicosia’s work. Remember that little girl in a tutu spotlighted on the dining room table or those kids setting…
Sorry, but this is all just a formality for you, right? You don’t actually need to be told why you should go hear Joe Ely perform? You do live in Texas, don’t you? Because even if you just got here yesterday, well, even you ought to know. There’s no excuse…
The second book in Patrick McManus’ Bo Tully mystery series will make you shiver and giggle at the same time. In Avalanche, quirky Sheriff Tully goes to investigate a missing persons report at a hoity-toity mountain lodge. When snow rumbles down the mountain he becomes trapped in the middle of…
Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze will speak Wednesday at the Lakewood Library on “Pictures I have of Laura Miller that could get her in a whole lot of trouble.” Schutze lied to the Lakewood Library Friends, hosts of the event, and said he would be speaking on the Dallas mayoral…
If you had to be trapped on a desert island with one of the Food Network chefs, whom would you choose? It’s a tough decision, I know. Rachael Ray is definitely out, because perpetual cheerfulness probably gets old very quickly when you’re staring death in the face. And you certainly…
