Watch out, Shakira: Kathryn Evans is in the house. And I hear she’s got a mean set of pipes. Sure, you’re great at shaking your hips in the desert, and you do a spot-on impression of Kermit the Frog. But Kathryn’s renditions of those old-school 19th-century Spanish hits are off…
The work of painter, photographer and printmaker Chuck Close is constructed on a grid, so it can be “interrupted repeatedly without…damaging the final product.” An artist who accommodates interruptions? Sounds like a realist to us. But the grids, which remain visible in the finished product, comprise Close’s trademark style, which…
Henry Cho knows how to make the most of who he is. An Asian-American born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, he sounds very Southern, but looks very Korean. As he says himself, that right there is enough to make people laugh. (Fortunately, that joke is just a fall-back, as his…
Behold! He who has ears to hear, let him hear: The Doodlebops cometh. The peppy trio, armed with guitars, keyboards and drums, are coming to save the immortal souls of your children in the blessed name of music education. Gather ’round the Doodlebops and be amazed by their costumes of…
Ah, modern civilization. Could any of its wonders and technological advancements have been possible if people hadn’t forged great alliances? What if nacho chips and cheese had never come together? Imagine the horror we would endure every day if someone, somewhere, hadn’t realized that Wendy’s chocolate shakes and french fries…
Ah, yes, GayBINGO Dallas…just like your grandma’s bingo, if your grandma enjoyed all the bodily pleasures of Sappho. Now that’s a door prize! OK, seriously, hosted by Patti LaPlaeSafe and a number of drag queens on skates (!) working the floor, GayBINGO may just be the most entertaining way ever…
If I were an artist, my canvas would be unique. Perhaps even sand—like that guy in South Beach who creates intricately designed sandcastles that sprawl across the beach and come complete with bridges and chambers and even little candles peeping through the windows. Local artist Scott Barber also had an…
I remember watching a lot of movies multiple times during my elementary years, with Star Wars, Spaceballs and Top Gun chief among them. How my dear mother watched Spaceballs so many times without killing herself I will never know. ( Not that Spaceballs isn’t amazing, of course…) This weekend the…
I’ll have to admit, your Dallas Stars are doing pretty well this season. Better than my team, but that’s beside the point. With the 55th NHL All-Star Game rolling through town at 8 p.m. Wednesday, we’re going to share a team when the Western Conference takes on the Eastern Conference…
Ella Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and in 2005, nearly a decade after her death, was inducted into Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Hall of Fame. This week, she won another posthumous honor when her image debuted on a new 39-cent stamp. The U.S. Post…
If you have a rock act, you can only squeeze in a couple of brothers, or maybe a brother and sister every now and then. Cherryholmes, the “First Family of Bluegrass,” is an act consisting of a dad, a mom and four (yeah, four) children. While most families can barely…
Yes, it’s true. I thought Hall and Oates’ “Private Eyes” was a warning that my parents (and everyone else’s) had hired, well, Magnum-like employees to follow my actions so they could ground me at any moment. In my case, I was totally boring and only hoping for activities that required…
Ready to work out outside? Be sure you… Dress in layers during cold weather. Wear hat and gloves to prevent heat loss. Invest in a good pair of walking, running or cycling shoes right from the start. Bring plenty of water. It’s easier to get dehydrated outdoors. Do a thorough…
In the new Clint Eastwood movie, ordinary young men—husbands and fathers, artisans and aristocrats—are drafted into a war whose motives many of them do not fully understand. There, on an island called Iwo Jima, they fight against an enemy who has been demonized by wartime propaganda—a supposedly brutal oppressor with…
Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth is something alchemical. To an astonishing degree, the 42-year-old Mexican filmmaker best known for his contribution to the Blade and Hellboy franchises has transformed the horror of mid-20th-century European history into a boldly fanciful example of what surrealists would call le…
At face value, Alpha Dog—based on a real-life story that’s still waiting for its ending—plays like an amped-up, drugged-out episode of Dragnet. In 2000, a gang of SoCal kids kidnapped and murdered 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz, a soft-spoken boy from the San Fernando Valley who dreamed of becoming a rabbi and…
A bad review can be murder. So let’s establish right now that actor-writer Kurt Kleinmann and his merry band of Pegasus Theatre players are first-rate, top-notch, good-looking, love-their-shoes artistic geniuses who deserve every kind adjective, gilded accolade, naked statue and freebie-stuffed goody bag their profession allows. Kiss, kiss, hug, hug…
Bandidas (Fox) This review is not long enough for a suitable treatment of the beauty of Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek. The makers of Bandidas would certainly prefer I tried, though, than to discuss this plodding cliché of a western featuring the two. You could write the script right now…
It’s been 20 years since the first Castlevania bewitched gamers with its gothic horror. Twenty years of vampire hunters going fist to fang with Lord Dracula. With almost two dozen titles in the series, Castlevania is one of the most enduring and beloved game franchises of all time. Castlevania: Portrait…
America’s Funniest Home Videos: Salute to Romance (Shout Factory) Behind the Mask (Good Times) Broken Bridges (Paramount) Color of the Cross (Fox) Conversations With Other Women (Hart Sharp) Crank (Lions Gate) Everybody Says I’m Fine (BFS) Good Morning World (S’More) Hello Kitty’s Animation Theater: Complete Collection (ADV) Live Nude Girls…
I will stop smoking. I will not run for mayor. I will not watch the video of Saddam Hussein’s hanging. Again. I will lose 23 pounds. I will stop doing Borat impressions. You likes? Nice. I will learn to hold on to the football. I will learn how to ballroom…
As kids we didn’t call it exercise. We called it playing outside. We didn’t take spinning classes; we rode bikes. We also jumped rope, rollerbladed, ran ourselves breathless around the yard yelling “You’re it!” and built up our biceps and triceps climbing trees. It was fun. It still is, which…
