Arts & Culture

We could pretend that we know a lot about basketball and the Harlem Globetrotters’ many contributions to the sport. We could talk about the team’s championship win at the 1940 World Professional Basketball Tournament. We could detail the team’s historic triumphs over the (ahem, all-white) Minneapolis Lakers in the late…

Lots of artists take the occasional hiatus after pouring themselves into and releasing solid projects. There’s Jeff Magnum, Lindsay Buckingham, Warren Beatty and freakin’ Joe Pesci. It’s a motley crew of sorts but it proves the point that when the work is important to creator, time lapse doesn’t make it…

If you haven’t been to the rodeo, you haven’t lived. There’s just something about the combined smells of horse crap, hay and chili dogs that’ll change a person’s life altogether. Plus, the barrel racing is rad, the bull riding is zero to eight seconds of awesome, and the cotton candy…

I miss ¡Three Amigos! Steve Martin. I miss Little Shop Creepy Dentist Steve Martin. Who wants Cheaper by the Dozen Steve Martin? Or Shop Girl “Now that I’m a senior, I decided to be a love interest and kiss Claire Danes on the face” Steve Martin? Not me. But, Writer…

I was raised in a blue state where the most popular sports are skiing and soccer, and we mocked people who meant “choppers” when they said “bikes” and lived for Monster Trucks and Nascar. But a couple years ago, I was at the IMAX theater in downtown San Francisco and…

I suppose there are children who find the combination of puppetry and classical music delightful. They’re probably the same plaid- and Mary Janes-wearing waifs who squeal when they get one of those meticulously handcrafted wooden “traditional” toys for Christmas. As for the house-apes I know, if a gift doesn’t have…

When I first saw that [bjm_danse] was performing at SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium, I naturally assumed it had something to do with the Brian Jonestown Massacre. A full-blown interpretive dance version of DiG! perhaps. Or maybe just Anton Newcombe and Co. playing sitars as the Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor–clad only in…

“I’m not 100 percent in love with your tone right now,” he said to me after I tossed out a rather off-handed remark. Spending my Saturday night at a bowling alley with a few friends, I had just nailed my fifth strike in a row. “This is so easy a…

Who is Kim Dawson and what is this Kim Dawson Award all about, you ask? It says here in the press announcement, “The Kim Dawson Award was created in honor of Texan, former model, and founder of the Kim Dawson Agency, Kim Dawson.” More specific, the 2007 Kim Dawson Award…

There are a few movies that you know you should see, that you need to see, but you’re just a little afraid. You can handle gorefests with ghosts, demons and giant killer crocodiles, but what gets you more are the horrors of real life. Sometimes we tend to shy away…

The end isn’t nigh by a long shot. Not according to the 30-something German graphic artist wunderkind Ralf Ziervogel. He views our modern society—obsessed with sex and violence, bathed in designer labels and incessantly groping each other over invisible airwaves–as evolutionary progress. A sort of medieval hell on earth that…

According to the nonprofit youth organization Girls Incorporated, its mission is to “help girls confront subtle societal messages about their value and potential.” Great! Down with gender roles and materialistic obsessions! To raise money for this admirable goal, Girls Incorporated is having a “Sparkly Sidewalk Sale.” Shoppers get 20 percent…

There’s plenty that’s eye-catching about the acrobatic dance troupe Pilobolus, but the first thing to catch my eye was that funky name. It sounds suspiciously unsanitary, and sure enough, pilobolus is a type of icky fungi that thrives on herbivore dung. Now why, you ask, would a bunch of talented…

Here’s a number that might encourage you to attend New Tang Dynasty Television’s Chinese New Year Spectacular in Richardson: $346.5 billion. That’s how much China held in U.S. Treasury securities at the end of November, an amount second only to Japan. That’s how much we’re borrowing from China’s smoking-hot economy…

Whoever made up that old wives’ tale about the kid who made a funny face and had it freeze that way was obviously no fun. Besides, we all make funny faces on a daily basis anyway, whether we mean to or not. You’re probably making a funny face right now,…

The next time you’re strolling through NorthPark Center, check out the society ladies scooping up the $300 jeans and $700 sandals. What are they wearing? Probably a pair of Juicy Couture sweats. Maybe their “crappy” pair of $300 jeans from last year. The privileged folk seem to be the ones…

I wasn’t a fan of the portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 2005 rendition of Pride and Prejudice starring Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley–Darcy is supposed to be dashing, not just socially awkward, more along the lines of Colin Firth’s performance in the BBC miniseries. Maybe the cast of Garland…

Here’s a stumper for ya: Why the hell would anyone want to drive from El Paso to Beaumont? An unyielding desire to trace the path of confused conquistadors? A certain need to travel the most boring road in America? A terrible urge to get the f*&# out of El Paso?…

If you’re a film buff, you’d be wise to check out the UNT Multicultural Center’s Each One Teach One film series, where students and teachers brown bag and convene for films that enlighten, as well as philosophical discussion on the state of diversification within the world community. They’ll be doing…