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Sister Act

By Daniel Daugherty
May 14, 2009

We all want to give money to worthy causes, but it's so difficult to make room in the budget. Besides, after a hard week of work, you really just want to spend your hard-earned cash on something to help you unwind or divert you from the barrage of depressing news...
Senior Senior James

By Daniel Daugherty
May 14, 2009

If you were born in the early '80s, your first exposure to James Taylor was probably seeing him play "You've Got a Friend" for Homer Simpson and Buzz Aldrin, who are aboard a space shuttle in The Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer." Even now, it's one of the show's most...
The People's Gardens

By Daniel Daugherty
May 7, 2009

When I first heard about National Public Gardens Day, the name conjured up Karl Marx's wettest dream. I envisioned men, women and children of all stripes coming together to plant flowers and vegetables, comrades with an equal stake in their garden's success. Turns out it's an annual, nationwide celebration, locally...
Girl Talk

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 30, 2009

Yes! My favorite chewing gum is having a special charity event, the Chiclet Luncheon, with creative food arrangements and Chiclets as the featured ingredient. There will even be a guest speaker, supermodel/actress/reality TV judge Paulina Porizkova. Who knew SI cover babes loved nostalgic gum brands? Aw crap, I got that...
Just Desserts

Drag your teen to cupcake class

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 23, 2009

There's something magical about the age of 13. Hair grows in awkward new places, you receive constant bullying from pizza-faced peers, and your parents become an unbearable presence. This last thing never goes away completely, but it's strongest the five years before you're stuck in a dorm without mom and...
Let's Dance

See the news choreographed

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 23, 2009

Let's face it: Somewhere along the way, American TV news outlets decided to emphasize entertainment values over news values--especially the cable networks. They milk the drama out of missing white girls, endlessly repeat video clips of a squirrel on water-skis and attach "-gate" to every scandal, no matter how trivial...
Get Lost

Take a trip with David Maisel

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 23, 2009

With the advent of Google Maps, aerial photography lost its novelty. What a surprise, then, to see the work of David Maisel. Maisel's body of work takes aerial photos out of the realm of pure functionality, creating a sort of documentary surrealism. Tweaking contrast and color, he creates landscapes at...
The GPS Is Hard To Read

Fareed Zakaria speaks at the Fairmont

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 16, 2009

Based on his writings, it's tough to pin down Fareed Zakaria's point of view. At times he sounds like an apologetic voice for U.S. imperialism--he initially supported the invasion of Iraq--but lately he's focused on the rise of Asia as the beginning of a multi-polar, "post-American" economic order. As a...
Warm Wizards

Don Snuggies proudly for charity

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 16, 2009

Ten thousand years (6,000 in the South) of human development have finally brought us to the precipice. Not the Internet and its bounty of free porn. Not even the first black president. I'm talking about--wait for it--sleeves in a blanket! Sure, we may be in a recession, but Snuggies prove...
Sake To Me

Indulge with a master sommelier at Kenichi

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 9, 2009

Whatever happened to the good ol' days of tossing back booze indiscriminately? Now we have to learn how to taste and savor everything we drink, as though the alcohol content wasn't already enough. Maybe becoming an aficionado of liquors makes a nice excuse for binge drinking—six shots of sake can't...
Birdbrained

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 9, 2009

Lately, when I'm at art galleries, I find myself thinking, "This piece would be so much better if it had skulls. Or birds. Or birds perched on skulls." I must not be the only one. Through Saturday, the visionaries at Kettle Art are hosting Birds vs. Skulls, a 58-piece showcase...
Rex and Effect

See Sophocles' classic in Addison

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 2, 2009

Patricide. Incest. Suicide. Self-inflicted blindness. This isn't the content of an underground snuff film but a night of classic Greek theater (rated PG-13). For those who haven't read it since high school, the namesake for everyone's favorite psychological complex, Oedipus Rex, explores the theme of fate versus free will. One...
Ca-Caw, Ca-Caw

Grapevine hears the call of the Falcon

By Daniel Daugherty
Apr 2, 2009

You've seen this story before: 1) Private detectives take on gorgeous, seductive female client. 2) Client gives them a dummy assignment. 3) Detectives figure out they've been had, but only after learning too much information and putting their lives at risk. While it sounds stereotypical and formulaic in 2009, The...
Torn Between Two...

Will the Phoenix rise again after Two Lovers?

By Daniel Daugherty
Mar 26, 2009

The Joaquin Phoenix "Farewell to Acting" tour comes through Magnolia at the Modern this week with the screening of his "last" film, Two Lovers. After an awkward appearance on Letterman, Phoenix will now embark on his even more awkward rap career. If you haven't seen his live rapping on YouTube...
Long (And Wide) Range

By Daniel Daugherty
Mar 19, 2009

If the only Beatles songs you ever heard came from the White Album, what would you think when you finally heard Meet the Beatles? Taking a look at the range of photographer Barbara Crane's work, it's possible she espouses an even greater dynamic range in her choice of styles and...
Sleep Recession

Slip into something more comfortable at the Majestic

By Daniel Daugherty
Mar 5, 2009

America in 2009 is a tough place for the working class. Lay-offs could be reported like the weather, with a five-day forecast (mostly cloudy with occasional drizzle), while CEOs head to sunny Dubai with billions of our tax dollars in their pockets. The few manufacturing plants left plan on moving...
Fair Pub

By Daniel Daugherty
Mar 5, 2009

Not that I'd complain about an excuse to booze it before noon--I usually find there aren't enough--but St. Patrick's Day does have its shortcomings if we want to fully understand the sacrifices and celebrate the contributions made by the Irish to U.S. culture and society. Mixed in among the upbeat...
Fresh Paint

UNT leaves the tags on

By Daniel Daugherty
Feb 26, 2009

Say what you want about the aesthetic merits of urban graffiti, but you can't deny its effectiveness as a medium. Like anti-billboards, tags and murals are messages we can't avoid receiving, in a world where nearly everything comes on-demand with a built-in spam blocker. Spray-painted works on buildings, sidewalks, DART...
Honeymoon in Fort Worth

By Daniel Daugherty
Feb 19, 2009

I like to think I'm savvy to international politics and foreign cultures--I'm a news junkie who's lived in several countries--or at least I can BS my way through most conversations, but I'll be damned if I know what to make of Iran. The place seems to have a functioning democracy...
All Aboard

Being a Stars fan is cooler now

By Daniel Daugherty
Feb 19, 2009

After a slow start, the Dallas Stars' stock is rising. At the time of this writing, they've skated to six consecutive wins and a spot right in the thick of the Western Conference standings. With the playoffs still months away, there's plenty of room on the bandwagon. You can jump...