Cocaine Cowboys (Magnolia) Slam! Bang! Pow! Snort! This tawdry and giddy documentary tells the story of Miami’s transformation from a place where old people go to die to a place with so much drug money that the Mercedes dealers were constantly out of stock, where the hit men would rather…
For most of us, the closest we get to practicing medicine is telling a depressed co-worker, “Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.” But that doesn’t stop us from living vicariously through TV doctors. Now, with Trauma Center: Second Opinion, you can take your surgical dreams one step further. Thanks…
Park City, UTAH–On the first Saturday of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, I rolled out of bed and hustled up Main Street for the 8:30 a.m. screening of Tamara Jenkins’s The Savages, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney as adult siblings caring for an irascible elderly parent. Only, I…
PARK CITY, Utah — Ten days of terse texting among professional narcissists working on little or no sleep in one of the last cold spots left on Al Gore’s inconvenient Earth: Welcome to Sundance ’07, where wounding homefront melodrama Grace Is Gone sells and it hardly pays to be nice…
Brokeback Mountain: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition (Universal) Cowboy del Amor (Genius) Crooks (Lightyear) Fiddler on the Roof (MGM) The 2006 FIFA World Cup Film: The Grand Finale (Sony) Ghost Encounters: The Queen Mary (Anthem) The Guardian (Buena Vista) Hopeless Pictures: Season One (Genius) Jesus Camp (Magnolia) John Pinette: I’m Starvin’ (Image)…
Max Fischer has found the secret to happiness: “I guess you’ve just gotta find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. For me, it’s going to Rushmore.” And go to Rushmore he does. In the appropriately titled Rushmore, Fischer attends the hell…
People love big stuff. It’s true. It doesn’t matter how unexciting a normal-sized item is; when it’s presented as a giant replica, it’s awesome. Take, for instance, Big Tex: If he weren’t nine times the size of most men we know, the state icon would be just another slow-talkin’ cowpoke…
You know when you’re on a train and find yourself pondering humanity and the social condition? No? Well, lucky for us, artist Max Kazemzadeh did just that, so we don’t have to. He’s turned his findings into Express & Local, an interactive art installation that sheds light (and sound and…
Roughly eight years ago a group of 15 longhorns from ranches all over Texas was herded by modern cowboys through Fort Worth, from Sundance Square all the way to the northside Stockyards. Photographers documented the event—The Last Great Cattle Drive of the 20th Century—and the result is a portfolio of…
A Bachelor of Fine Arts may not ensure the same amount of financial security or job opportunities as an MBA or some fancy law degree. Plus, going for a Masters in Humanities, Aesthetic Studies instead of just an BFA does allow you to get full course credit for suspending 100…
It takes a British playwright to tackle an American icon. Ron Hutchison’s farce, Moonlight and Magnolias, locks movie mogul David O. Selznick, rewrite man Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming in one room to rework the script for Gone With the Wind. But Hecht hasn’t read the book, and Fleming,…
Part of me misses those Saturday nights as a kid when my parents and I would settle in for an evening with World Class Championship Wrestling. Chris Adams, King Kong Bundy and Iceman Parsons were my weekend guest stars, whom I would then talk about on Monday mornings with friends…
Called the “Gypsy Jazz King,” guitarist Django Reinhardt was not only a lyrical, tasteful and sprightly soloist; he could be a very supportive and complementary accompanist as well. His playing was amazing on its own and almost unbelievable considering the setback that occurred early in his playing career. When he…
Before America Ferrera was Ugly Betty, she played Ana in the HBO film Real Women Have Curves. And in fact they do. Salma Hayek, I’m sure you would agree, is a real woman, and she has curves. Former supermodel Tyra Banks, another real woman, has major curves now that she’s…
You have to say the timing is superb. Mr. Energizer Bunny of the ice-skating world, Scott Hamilton, sweeps into frigid Dallas with some of the world’s best skaters for an extravaganza called Double Exposure: The Many Lives of Figure Skaters. The show promises to give lots of insight into the…
I like cats…much the same way as I like having a clock radio. It gets me up in the morning. If it broke, I’d replace it. Same with cats. But I’m not one of those—ick—”just like my child” people, and I certainly wouldn’t invest money in a fancy cat. No,…
Did you know that there are circa 1970 nude pictures of Dr. Laura Schlessinger (aka Dr. Whore-a) on the Internet? (I’ll wait while you go fact-check that.) During her radio show on 100.7 The Jesus, she says sex before marriage is immoral. But those nekkid Internet hippie boobs of hers…
I gotta say, I love me some socks…almost as much as I love pants. So at last Saturday’s opening of Eric Trosko’s Synepet exhibition at Road Agent, 2909-A Canton St., as I gazed upon a pair of glazed canvases and a fine pair of furry socks, I got real stoked…
Despite its legendary reputation as one of our fair city’s “best fund-raisers,” Hooch and Pooch still sounds a little bit like something it’s not: like, they round up a bunch of dogs and get ’em drunk. Not beer drunk or wine drunk. Like, scotch drunk. And not just any scotch—really…
Remember SAT analogies? They were always the fun part of the test for me, like the testmaker had suddenly become that cool, laid-back substitute that ended up hooking up with some senior and getting fired—”Hey kids, let’s give the math a rest already. I’m gonna give it to ya straight…
Seems a bit like the title of an upcoming Texas-set dramedy at the Richardson Theatre Centre is a little outdated: Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will? Do people even pay attention to wills these days? Legal documents are, like, so 1983 or something. But now that everybody’s suing everybody for…
Richardson, Texas, might seem like a strange place for a Blues and Jazz Festival; with its wide streets, strip malls and business parks, it’s pretty much the complete antithesis of the crowded Deep Ellum street corners where Blind Lemon Jefferson and Leadbelly revolutionized country blues in the ’20s. But perhaps…
