It's pitch black. You're sitting on the edge of your Ultra-Recliner of Power doing an anterior shoulder stretch and your secret ninja thumb exercises. Suddenly a nearly...
When you come in the door at night, do you say hello to a meowing, four-legged family member? Do you occasionally leave the TV on so someone with whiskers can watch his...
Tulisoma, brothers and sisters. In Swahili, that means "we read." In South Dallas, that means a weekend of entertainment, politics, poetry slams and celebrity elbow-rubbing at...
Nothing says "Texas is a melting pot" like the Czechfest...er, I mean Westfest, held annually in West, Texas, to raise money for community projects. (Think the Texas State Fair...
It's fun to learn surprising, fun facts about people. Who woulda thought that playboy gazillionaire Bruce Wayne secretly liked to dress up like a bat and kick ass all night...
Wow. Actor Jack Foltyn brings his Elvis-themed show, Just Jack, to The Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Ave. in Plano, and I am pretty sure you don't want to miss it. Whether...
OK, everybody, let's sing! "Oklahoma, where the storms come roarin' down the plains/And the trailer parks fly just like larks/And we pee our pants ev'ry time it rains." Hah! We...
Illicit teacher-student relationships are all the rage these days, whether it's creepy pedo guys hitting on helpless teenage girls or hot MILFs sleeping with football players....
If you can't imagine going to the zoo without your camera, then you should probably enter the Dallas Zoo's 6th annual photography contest. Open to amateurs and seasoned...
I despise Ikea. The store's furniture is rickety, particle-board crap that costs about twice what you'd pay at Wal-Mart and is distinguished only in its "modern" styling that...
For the longest time I never really understood the time-honored practice of rich people giving away their art collections to museums. But then I got older, moved a couple of...
Who didn't spend many a freshman-year Friday night passed out and still clutching an empty bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill? Well, we didn't, but that was just because we...
Designers gain inspiration from art, so this seems like a natural conclusion: In our fashion-obsessed society, why not send an artistic statement through fabric? Artist Sunny...
There are very few bands that manage to come up with a name that really says something about the bands sound, but The Slow Burners have done it perfectly. The...
The small screen brings some very memorable characters into our homes, but relatively few of them make a lasting impression in our consciousness. Those that do tend to be...
For better or worse, Peter Frampton is permanently ingrained in the fabric of rock and roll. It probably doesn't hurt that he's sold more than 16 million copies of Frampton...
I must admit, I'm having a hard time deciding how to spend the Labor Day weekend. (I totally won't admit it's the same weekend as my birthday because, um, that would just be...
If you can say you inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel (among others), simply because of the way you lived your life, then you deserve a...
If it were produced the way its characters intended, The Big Bang would fill a big stage with 312 actors, 6,000 costumes, 302 "prosthetic devices" and a budget somewhere north...
There are few bands that manage to come up with a name that really says something about the band's sound, but The Slow Burners are perfectly named. The electrified,...