Did you ever read that Flowers in the Attic book? It’s creepy. Locking your kids in the attic I understand (kids are annoying and stinky), but the incest part of that book always made me cringe. Maybe it was that I could never ever picture making out with one of…
Apparently, we were wrong when we made that initial and unwavering assessment that jocks are just meatheads with no creative bones in their bodies. Course, that could’ve been because this one group of white-capped assholes in high school dubbed me “Artsy McRunslikeagirl,” but I still attest that’s my Choctaw name…
Some people go to the Dallas Auto Show to see the bright and shiny new cars, but not me. I go for an emotional roller coaster that’s better than a night at the theater. There’s sadness: The sight of lovely women whose careers come down to standing next to cars…
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Aaron Lewis and Staind, and thank god for that. Unfortunately the shaved and sour Lewis is currently on an acoustic solo tour, spewing his angsty seventh-grade poetry in “intimate” corporate theater settings across the country. In preparation for his Friday show at the…
Ever have two (or more) worlds (or social groups) that just shouldn’t mix (say, for instance, on a landmark birthday)? It’s awkward, it’s weird and while it’s totally entertaining, it usually requires some explanation to someone somewhere the day after. We’ve all been there. That’s what Sara Goode is about…
Since its inception, the people behind Art Prostitute have shed light on cutting-edge, up-and-coming artists. Every issue of Art Prostitute magazine and its corresponding gallery show manages to cover different media types, and their gallery openings are arguably the best in the city. The latest exhibition, Melodic Inversions and Contrary…
When my father was a little boy, he liked to eat. A lot. His baby sitter had a peach orchard in her backyard, and he once ate two dozen peaches in one sitting. This decadent feast was inevitably followed by a nasty stomachache, and to this day, if my dad…
In college lingo, “101” translates to “for beginners.” Generally, one doesn’t learn much in a 101 (due to sleeping late and skipping), but they are sometimes good for getting dates. Probably the only 101 class that would be good to take a date to would be Sushi 101 at Central…
Fascinated by the supposed discovery of the “lost tomb of Jesus,” unveiled last week on the Discovery Channel? Karen King, professor of ecclesiastical history at Harvard Divinity School and author of The Gospel of Mary of Magdala, will be discussing her newest book, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and…
The word “Lincolnesque” gets thrown around a lot by people who really have no idea what they’re talking about. Take for instance Rick Santorum, who recently referred to President Bush’s handling of the Iraq War as “Lincolnesque,” a ridiculous notion if there ever was one. Lincoln ended slavery and saved…
Liberty, Gage, Churchill, Hardy—these are the names of which romance novels are made. But with Lisa Kleypas’ latest, Sugar Daddy, the reliance on All My Children-worthy handles might be the only similarity to traditional motifs of the genre. Oh sure, Sugar Daddy has the naughty bits and the good-girl-gettin’-some themes,…
The fact that O Brother, Where Art Thou? did not win a 2000 Oscar for best screenplay based on previous material—the award went to Traffic—proves that members of the Academy don’t read. I mean, come on! Joel and Ethan Coen collaborated with Homer, the Greek poet with some serious writing…
If Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol had a kid…wait a minute—they did. The “kid” inhabits a world revealed by artist David LaChapelle. Larger than life, sensual, quirky, colorful and waving an in-your-face “love me!” attitude, his photographs don’t just celebrate life, they create it—a vibrant, palpable fourth dimension of urban…
Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amidst copper-colored fields, in copper-colored homes made from copper-colored stone. Legend has it they would outline their copper-colored pecs and abs with ash to enhance their manly…
Gross-out horror is never far from comedy, and The Host, Bong Joon-ho’s giddy creature feature, has the anarchic mess factor worthy of a pile of old Mad magazines. A broadly played clown show full of lowbrow antics, Bong’s big splat is itself a sort of monster—the top-grossing movie in South…
Cara Statham Serber, Megan Kelly, Patty Breckenridge, Stacey Oristano and Sara Shelby-Martin crowd the top shelf of Dallas’ professional musical comedy performers. So it’s heaping helpings of fun watching them wallow around in the bargain bin bit of entertainment called The Great American Trailer Park Musical, now sweating up the…
Revenge of the Nerds: Panty Raid Edition (Fox) Revenge of the Nerds is a great movie. No, really. It’s got a bitching new-wave soundtrack and some truly inspired performances–memorable enough to wreck the careers of Robert Carradine (Lewis) and Curtis Armstrong (Booger). But mostly it’s the mix of innocence and…
From the newest iPod to the Olsen twins’ collective waistline, the world loves all things mini. The Nintendo Wii embraces this digestible format once again for Wii Play, a collection of nine easy-to-play minigames that comes bundled with a free Wii controller. However, the result is like a Happy Meal:…
A Brush With Death (New Light) Buster Crabbe Collection (St. Clair Vision) Captain Horatio Hornblower (Warner Bros.) Care Bears: Friends Forever (Lions Gate) Commissar (Kino) Confetti (Fox) Death Row (Anchor Bay) The Electric Company’s Greatest Hits & Bits (Shout) Fast Food Nation (Fox) The Full Monty: Fully Exposed Edition (Fox)…
America gets a little hot under the collar when the world community starts discussing our government’s use of torture. England, on the other hand, smiles and charges you £16 to explore their history of torment and execution. Perhaps a couple of centuries will give us perspective too, but it’s unlikely…
This one’s for all you trivia nerds out there: What do the Columbus Crew and FC Dallas have in common? You’ve never heard of either one? Wrong. They both play soccer? Yes, but that’s not what I’m looking for. They were both owned by Lamar Hunt, the rich (but very…
This weekend, Dallas Blooms starts at the Arboretum. And you’re so going. The festival features more than 400,000 (I can’t tell you exactly how many because that’s as high as I can count) bulbs. There will be tulips, daffodils and azaleas, and since this year’s theme is “Flower Power,” you…
