Urban Gypsy’s upcoming symposium of writhing tribal gyrations features a class called “Dancing Darkly—Introduction to Gothic Belly Dance.” Despite the ominous title, we’re guessing it has little to do with listening to Bauhaus and ritualistically burning your forearms with a lit cigarette. Sorry to disappoint. But there are still a…
The Oceanaire Seafood Room at the Westin Galleria, 13340 Dallas Parkway, has its seafood flown in daily. Not trucked, not driven. Flown. Anyway, in celebration of the restaurant’s four-year anniversary, it is offering a special through the month of January. Between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., Chef Chad Kelley will…
During the holiday season last year, I visited my in-laws and was treated to the DVD of whatever “blue-collar” comedian was hot at the time. I don’t remember the comedian’s name or even a single joke, but I do remember deciding that I must not have been blue-collar enough to…
When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you can always go…Uptown? That’s not the song that we’re used to, but it works. A similar new twist on old favorites can be found at the Uptown Players’ Broadway Our Way fund-raiser. This year’s event takes selections from hits such…
As a former college runner and current disdainer of cookie-cutter cities, I am going to have an unusual dilemma next week. Ordinarily, I’d love to race the Resolution Run, but as luck would have it, it will be held in Addison, the home of every chain restaurant known to man…
While still a relatively new sport compared to baseball, basketball or couples ice dancing, freestyle motocross has already forged its own memorable history within a few short years. We all remember where we were that fateful day in 2000 when Carey Hart first pulled off a backflip in competition. I…
Back in the early to mid-’90s, I had the biggest crush on my friend Jon. When we hung out there was always this undercurrent between us that said we were a good match…in my mind anyway. Unfortunately, youth on both our sides and naïvete on mine resulted in nothing happening…
We’re not quite sure what the genesis of the Pink Floyd laser light show tradition actually is, but we hope it’s this: Way, way back in time—you know, the ’70s—geeky young scientist types who worked at the museum were bemoaning the spiraling popularity of the planetarium. Whereas wholesome youngsters once…
Imagine two game producers rushing down the hall. One wants to pitch a WW2 game, the other a sci-fi shooter. They round a corner, crash into each other, and their papers go flying everywhere — and in one of those great “You got chocolate in my peanut butter!” moments, Resistance:…
Airwolf: Season Two (Universal) Be With Me (Film Movement) Dane Cook’s Tourgasm (HBO) Danica (First Look) Factotum (IFC) The Family Values Tour 2006 (Firm Music) Girls Behaving Badly, Volume One (Starlight) Haven (Fox) Mars Invades the Earth! (Alpha) Mi Amigo (Velocity) Mr. Fix It (First Look) The New Adventures of…
Jackass Number Two: Unrated (Paramount) The sequel to the dumb-ass jamboree makes its predecessor look plain and inoffensive. In short: more puke, more blood, more semen (from a horse, consumed nonetheless), more shit, more piss, more everything till you’d think the Jackasses (Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, etc.) would be…
While the Seattle SuperSonics may not exactly top the NBA standings this year, there are two little words that should encourage you to check out their stand against the Mavs 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the American Airlines Center: Ray Allen. How badass is he, with the He Got Game acting…
If Mel Gibson made Spaceballs today, he’d be up to his tequila-hole in defamation lawsuits. But in 1987 (before political correctness exploded), Mel Brooks was given a little more leeway to take pot shots at the chosen people. And while the movie is filled with stereotypical jabs at the “Druish,”…
Sometimes you want to go to the museum and touch stuff. You know, really mess with it and see what it’s made of and what it can do. Unfortunately, that sort of behavior is usually frowned upon and could even get you in some serious trouble. Not so with the…
Fogy that I am, the first time I heard of the Cheetah Girls was this summer from my 12-year-old cousin, who in August began planning her Halloween costume as one of the girl stars. The only problem was that her fourth “best friend” felt left out, since there are only…
The Good German is a noir-style romance-thriller-mystery set in post-World War II Berlin. Shot in black and white and full of references to the Potsdam Peace Conference, allies and the Russian Zone, it’s the perfect flick for the history buff. Especially one with kids. The film’s being shown as a…
The first day of any new year sets the tone for the months to come. For sports fans and college students, that means kick-ass “footbowl” games featuring the best up-and-coming players in the country. An exciting show of talent and testosterone is headed for Dallas’ bowl game this year, where…
Arguably the lamest holiday of the year, New Year’s Eve boils down to a celebration of one thing: relationships. Every year at the stroke of midnight, New Year’s Eve points at you and says, “Ha, ha! You’re single and alone!” At that precise moment in time, you can actually feel…
Recipe for a Gingerbread Village: Gather ingredients. With an electric mixer, cream 100 pounds of butter and 80 pounds of sugar until fluffy. Beat in 500 eggs, one at a time. Add cinnamon, ginger, salt, baking soda, and flour. Mix well. Bake at 350 degrees for at least one hour…
Happy Kwanzaa and Kujichagulia to you too. Kujichagulia, pronounced koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah, is self-determination in Swahili. And it’ll take a fair amount of self-determination to learn to say that. Kujichagulia is day two of the seven day long Kwanzaa holiday, created in celebration of family, community and culture. Kuchichagulia is a day…
Black Nativity is the re-telling of the birth of Christ from an African-American perspective. Written by Langston Hughes, who died in 1967 and was known as the “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race,” the play runs at the Jubilee Theatre, 506 Main St. in Fort Worth, through Saturday. Catch performances…
Sometimes it’s annoyingly cute, but other times it’s kind of convenient and nice when a band’s name hints as to what it sounds like—sort of a musical onomatopoeia. Texarkana’s Pilotdrift falls into that latter category. The group’s lilting, chiming, unearthly rock evokes the sensation of a pleasant extraterrestrial experience, as…
