Glam dancing There's not one damned original thing about Spacehog. The ambisexual clothing is lifted straight from the glam section of the history books, as is most of the music--sort of operatic Mott the Hoople metal with a pogo beat--and the shtick is punk even if the execution is pure...
Clad in a pale green sweater and faded jeans, her red hair cut short and her face barren of any makeup, Ann Magnuson cuts a drab path through the lobby of the Sheraton Park Central. It's a stark contrast to the look she wears best--the more-glamorous-than-thou wardrobe, the style of...
When Richard Hunter announced he was running for the office of mayor in Fort Worth, he expected everyone to figure he was goofing. After all, Hunter isn't a politician. He's a long-haired 25-year-old bass player, for God's sake, best known for his stint in Killbilly and now I, The Jury...
In 1975, Ellen Burstyn--who'd won the Academy Award for best actress the previous year--caused a stir when she publicly decried the lack of good female roles in movies, and encouraged her sisters in cinema to boycott the Oscars by refusing to nominate, vote for, or participate in the actress and...
thursday may 2 26th Annual Big D Charity Horse Show: There are those who bond with horses faster than Elizabeth Taylor could drop a violet tear in National Velvet. But you needn't have much interpersonal equestrian experience to enjoy the 26th Annual Big D Charity Horse Show, which features four...
I was in New York two weeks ago, and I saw an extraordinary work of art, of fanaticism--and, the artist claimed, of love. Liza Lou, a young artist from the West Coast had entirely covered a life-size kitchen in tiny, brilliantly colored beads. Not one inch was left bare. Picture...
First it was scotch (single malts, the more obscure, the better), then it was the martini (in 100 high-end variations), then bourbon (single-barrel, please). The trend is toward connoisseur sipping, not guzzling, and the latest liquor to climb the ladder of taste is tequila and its sister, mescal. These days,...
The scariest thing you'll ever find in a flick is not a goo-faced, bug-eyed monster and it's not Freddy Krueger or Jason or Leatherface and it's not a bunch of skinheads with razor blades. The scariest thing you'll find in a movie is the Psycho Hag. The Psycho Hag is...
A group of 35 people, mostly well-dressed women with folding stools clutched in one hand, wait outside the special exhibit galleries of the Dallas Museum of Art where the current exhibition is Pandora's Box, the Women of Ancient Greece. The attraction today is not just the collection of kraters and...
Debbie M. Price COMMENTARY Send not to learn for whom the broom comes I meant to write this column last week, but other things got in the way. That is the way it is with life--things get in the way of things. While some things can be handled quickly--a pink...
WEDNESDAY Today's weather Measured civility, chance of scattered drivel Thursday Mostly fluffy, chance of pandering NEWS That was close Unabomber captured northwest of Arlington The eyes of babes Arlington youths draw the Unabomber SPORTS Hey Ross, over here To entice Mavericks, Arlington must bend over further than Ron Kirk OPINIONS...
Maybe she can talk to Bob These days, e-mailing Jesus is easier than reaching Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Just ask Linda Terrell, who has been working for two months on behalf of Denise Cowle, a Dallas woman who is dying of cancer and wants to meet cyber-god Gates as her...
On the day the Dallas City Council settled the Cinemark lawsuit, the mood around the horseshoe was grim. This movie-theater thing was just so out of control. A simple vote two years ago to reject Cinemark's Tinseltown proposal had led to a major lawsuit against the city and eight individual...
A kick in the ASKA I am an entertainment lawyer representing talented artists in the Metroplex, including ASKA. I have rarely seen an article as inappropriate, unsupported, and unprofessional as Michael Corcoran's personal attack upon ASKA and the metal-music genre in general, in the April 11th Observer ["1996 Dallas Observer...
Flinty-eyed realists--men and women to whom cant is a four-letter word--will tell you Broadway musicals are generally limp, lachrymose affairs long on surface sentiment and short on subtlety. And, of course, they will be right. Take Carnival, which opened at the Lyric Stage in Irving 35 years to the day...
Bob Schutze's foray into the art business was almost grounded shortly after it got off the ground. In 1988, Schutze's private gallery, Beaux Arts, which specializes in antique prints, was just 6 months old. That's when he received a call from the owner of an Austin gallery who asked him...
Listening to a musician talk about his or her craft is often as enticing a prospect as watching sausage being made. That is, you don't want to know how many fingernails and lower intestines and skull fragments get ground into the mixture; you only want to taste the final result...
Worshipping the Gods As a performer, Young Gods' frontman Franz Treichler is Jim Morrison reincarnate. He stands with his eyes closed, sweaty hair in his face, arms outstretched as if he wants to fly or be crucified, and his voice vacillates between a painful whisper and a determined howl. He...
Let's say you're single, and you meet someone interesting and attractive--maybe at a party or on the job, wherever. You have a nice conversation and seem to have common tastes, so you think you'd like to know this person better. But you've had your share of clumsy first dates so...
Michelle Shocked doesn't get back to Dallas much anymore. She lives in New Orleans now, and though she lives in a state bordering Texas, she resides just far enough from her old home that she doesn't much think about Texas anymore--except, maybe, when she writes a song. But even then...
Since his death in 1990, the late British author Roald Dahl has only strengthened his relationship with international cinema. Dahl, perhaps most famous in America as the husband who nursed Patricia Neal through crippling strokes and promptly left her, wrote about the world of adults with the same acrid wit...
Here's news that could presage a disturbing trend at the movies: Two films opening in Dallas within days of each other both deal with nebbish murderers whose decisions to poison family members, friends, and enemies alike form the basis of comedy. But The Last Supper is merely a peculiarly unfunny...
