Once again, The Modern gets all snooty with another highbrow affair. This time they want to show us “great movies we haven’t heard of yet.” Is that uppity or what? It’s as if they are daring us to be in the know and have the advantage over all our less-than-cultured…
The closest I’ve ever come to Hawaiian food was eating at Islands every Sunday after church when I was a kid. See, the waitstaff wears Hawaiian shirts, and there’s a burger on the menu that you know is authentically Hawaiian because it includes pineapple slices. Yum! But if wine and…
The title of the new exhibition at Road Agent Gallery comes from something Aldous Huxley once wrote: “Three-quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.” And while it seems a strange sentiment for someone who made his name writing…
Perhaps the only scene more fickle and catty than a seventh-grade class, Hollywood is a dangerous, glamorous place that’s known to chew up and spit out the popular kids with as much abandon as the fringy, nerdy ones. Cases in point: Ingrid Bergman’s banishment in the ’50s for having the…
Traveling from Texas to Mexico used to be a lot harder. The first rail connections to Mexico weren’t implemented until the mid-1880s, and air travel there wasn’t available until the 1950s. Eastfield Library, at Eastfield College, exhibits Destination México, documenting the many ways that people have run for the border…
The 17th annual Genesis Women’s Shelter Golf Classic takes place Thursday at the Prestonwood Country Club, 15909 Preston Road. The tournament, founded in 1990 by Ellen Terry Realtors, has raised more than $500,000 to help provide food, clothing and counseling for battered women and their children. Sponsorships begin at $2,500,…
Whether we’re at the casino boats hemorrhaging chips at the Texas Hold ‘Em table or engaging in a furious game of Uno with our 10-year-old niece, we totally suck at card games. But we love the idea of card games, and we love reading about people who are as bad…
If you’re gonna call your stage production The Great American Trailer Park Musical, you better have the goods to back it up. We want to see some tacky living, dammit. You know what we’re talking about—Dale Earnhardt memorabilia, Keystone Light, Power Wheels, three-legged dogs, stolen cable, that peanut butter and…
If you haven’t seen episode 107 of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, it’s hard to explain. You see, Sunnydale is under an enchantment that turns everyday life into a musical, courtesy of a dancing demon. And Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her friends are afflicted too. Even Spike, the vampire in…
Saturday Night Fever: 30th Anniversary Special Collector’s Edition (Paramount) For all its camp-classic status as the ultimate disco-fever dream, John Badham’s movie truly is remarkable—a foul-mouthed, mean-streets masterpiece that just happens to feature a Bee Gees score that spreads like melted cheese 30 years later. And, of course, it contains…
After Hair, Hairspray and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the ’60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes, indeed, here comes Julie Taymor to run the revolutions of sex, class and race through the PG-13 sieve. Not that one turns to musicals for deep thought, but John Waters at…
Even the most adamantly anti-war movies about American soldiers returning from Vietnam—Hal Ashby’s Coming Home (1978) and Oliver Stone’s Born on the 4th of July (1989)—redeemed their mangled, embittered grunts through the love of good women, devoted parents, political resistance or all of the above. You can’t pin that kind…
Wayne Hudson and his accomplice-wife Scout are the Wal-Mart Bonnie and Clyde. Dubbed the “Mall Murderers” by media, the pair has shot, stabbed and strangled their way into the home of controversial film director Bruce Delamitri. He’s the Wal-Mart Quentin Tarantino. Without the wit. When we meet these characters in…
In one of those karmic quirks of the film releasing calendar, actor-turned-director Griffin Dunne’s Fierce People finally staggers into theaters (more than two years after its premiere in the Tribeca Film Festival) barely a fortnight after The Nanny Diaries, that other cautionary tale about a proletariat pea that works its…
In space, no one can hear you scream, Jumpin’ Jesus, this is one of the greatest games ever! But that doesn’t mean you won’t try during Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.Hard-core gamers know Metroid’s star, bounty-hunter babe Samus Aran, has been kicking ass since 1986 — back when Lara Croft was…
Beyond the Gates (Fox)Blade: House of Chthon (New Line)The Boss of It All (IFC)Boston Legal: Season Three (Fox)Brothers and Sisters: The Complete First Season (Buena Vista)Catherine Deneuve: Essentials (Wellspring)The Condemned (Lionsgate)Deliverance: Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros.)Family Guy: Volume Five (Fox)Flashdance: Special Collector’s Edition (Paramount)Ghost Whisperer: The Second Season (Paramount)L’Iceberg (First Run)Severance…
Hey, kids! Wanna play a game? Tell your mommy or daddy to drop you off at at the mall so we can have some fun together. I’ve got a very special game for us to play together, and I think you’ll like it very much. I like to call it…
On the flip side of “Never Again,” the vow to prevent another Holocaust, is “again and again.” Over and over, survivors tell their stories, lest they be reduced to mere statistics. For me, the Holocaust was a junior high history assignment, numbers and camp names to memorize, concluded with a…
David Allan Coe’s illustrious songbook is jam-packed with classic country hits like “Take This Job and Shove It,” “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” and, of course, “Nigger Fucker.” Seems like our good buddy Coe has a problem with his fine white ladies getting the jungle fever. In…
Artist Jane Helslander’s work can currently be seen in the International Terminal at DFW, though it might be hard to fully appreciate if you’re late for a flight (she designed a terrazzo floor medallion which mimics the sensation of “walking on water and creating ripples”). If you’d rather avoid secuirty…
Parades of homes are great for voyeuristic views into the lives of others. And, if we’re lucky, we come back from them inspired to revamp our own homes. At the Green Built Parade of Homes, patrons can come back with more than just ideas for décor; they may be inspired…
I wouldn’t go see a play about Reese Witherspoon (boring!), but I am somewhat interested in the play Miss Witherspoon, playing this week at the Unity Church of Dallas, 6525 Forest Lane. Sure, the basic description offered in the press release—”a provocative comedy by Christopher Durang about life, death and…
