Who knows? Maybe he developed writer’s block. Or joined Up With People. Or dropped dead from shock the day Bush got re-elected. In any event, the notorious Northern California serial killer who called himself, rather grandiosely, the Zodiac, hasn’t fired off a single letter to the editor since April 1978…
Writer, director, producer and actor Tyler Perry wins the perfect attendance award. The plays and movies featuring his cross-dressing alter ego, Madea, have become runaway box-office hits with black women older than 35, raking in more than $155 million over the past several years. Three performances of his latest show,…
Cloud Tectonics José Rivera’s dreamlike one-act play casts a powerful spell. On a rainy L.A. night, an airport worker named Anibal (Marco Rodriguez) gives a ride to a pregnant girl named Celestina (Marisa Gonzalez) and ends up taking her home. She’s a strange creature, but he’s attracted to her ethereal…
Francesco Patriarca’s L’Appartement The young Italian photographer Francesco Patriarca captures the collective memory of space and objects combined. Accompanied by the lyrical catalog essay by Sibylle Pieyre de Mandiargues, “The Apartment,” Patriarca’s photographs distill the remembrance of things past without any of the soupy navel-gazing to which similar pictorial peregrinations…
Through the Fire (Disney) He’s averaging just nine points in his second season for the Portland Trail Blazers, but considering where he came from and what he’s overcome, Sebastian Telfair is doing just fine, thank you. Jonathan Hock’s fascinating documentary takes us back to the young New York basketball legend’s…
Gamers have a derogatory name for people who prize a game’s visuals above all: “graphic whores.” But sometimes great graphics can enhance game play — or even provide an experience that couldn’t have occurred otherwise. Fight Night Round 3 for the Xbox 360 is a perfect example. The boxers in…
All Dogs Go to Heaven/All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (MGM) American Psycho (Lions Gate) Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (Warner Bros.) Basic Instinct: Ultimate Edition (Lions Gate) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo — The Little Black Book Edition (Disney) A Fish Called Wanda (MGM) Get Shorty/Be Cool (MGM)…
More than 100 blue jean jackets will be made over with a new look from the borrowed talents of big-name and local designers. The Dallas Chapter of Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS is holding Celebration: Live, Laugh, Love, an annual fund-raiser. J.C. Penney donated the Arizona denim jackets. Now they…
What’s the difference between good porn and bad porn? Is it lighting? Is it sound editing? Is it a great set of…actors? Sure, all of those things come into play, but ultimately the difference, in my opinion, between good porn and bad porn is your ability to see the porn…
Michael Bublé is the incarnation of everything I hate about adult contemporary music. His latest album, It’s Time, is tasteless, dry and uninspired pap, a childish rehash of Rat Pack standards and puffy, sax-tastic leftovers from a Robert Downey Jr. recording session that would scare every trace of VD from…
Through film, conversation, music and food, Black Cinematheque Dallas tells the truth about love at the 10th annual Black Women’s Film Festival. Ten films have been selected to tell the stories of black women and relationships as per this year’s theme: Looking for Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now. The…
NBA Development League team the Fort Worth Flyers play the Arkansas Rimrockers this week. I’m not sure what rimrocking actually is, but I’m pretty sure it’s a safe bet that you can get your rim personally rocked at any of the following places: on a mountain in 1963 with Heath…
We’re not fans of a merge-happy marketplace. AT&T is turning the phone industry into a new monopoly, media corporations are taking more control over newspaper, radio and TV outlets and, worst of all, this weekend’s AllCon will try to serve all nerds at once. Outsiders might think it’s convenient for…
When you’re driving a toothpaste-green, held-together-with-wire Geo to your minimum-wage job, a rhinestone brooch or fancy “diamond” ring can add a touch of much-needed sparkle to a suicidally drab day. Costume jewelry can be as simple as a bracelet from the dollar store or as exquisite as faux pearls and…
When I think of a guitar competition I think of someone like Stevie Ray Vaughan shredding on his electric guitar. The Texas Guitar Competition at the University of Texas at Dallas, 2601 Floyd Road, will be nothing like that. Instead, it features guys like Thibault Cauvin, a Frenchman who started…
Family-friendly hilarity is what Tim Conway and Harvey Korman promise in Together Again, their two-man show of “wholesome humor” and “nostalgic and endearing entertainment.” Wow. Does that still exist? If you loved them during their 11-year run on The Carol Burnett Show and shudder to think about Conway and Korman…
The only reason to listen to Dallas FM radio, other than KERA and The Ticket, is 95.3 The Range. These guys, who started broadcasting in 1997, are the answer to the absolute shit mainstream country music has become (I’m talking to you, Kenny Chesney, you puka-shelled, barefooted, NASCAR-loving son of…
Professor Henry Higgins was a pimp? Quite possibly…if you ponder the dubious hero of My Fair Lady and his professional tactics. He plucks young ladies off the streets, tidies them up, teaches them how to talk right and puts them on display for others to gawk at. A pimp prototype…
According to Homies online resource www.homies.tv, which has the 411 on the miniature figurines, the word “chuco” is short for “pachuco,” a “low-riding, zoot suit-wearing Chicano from the ’40s and ’50s.” This is relevant because it allows those of us not familiar with postwar Latino slang to better understand the…
If you want a healthy challenge, try ice-skating on a frozen lake. The two main problems: no railings to grab and grass-cicles poking up every few feet—conditions even the best toe-pick can’t compensate for. As someone who can hardly negotiate a Zamboni-polished rink, I took the challenge wearing so many…
Ever imagine what the voice of God might sound like? I bet it sounds like James Earl Jones—booming but comforting and always unmistakable. Yet Jones’ eloquent baritone belies the fact that as a child he stuttered so badly he refused to speak at all. That is, until a teacher encouraged…
The 1992 TV movie T Bone N Weasel starred Gregory Peck and Christopher Lloyd, who along with Peck’s “T Bone” spends most of the movie driving across South Carolina in a stolen car. Considering Lloyd’s character in Back to the Future (Dr. Emmett Brown) was a scientist who owned a…
