When I was a kid I had a Sesame Street playhouse, and it was badass. It was so badass, in fact, that one night two car thieves used it as a hideout from the cops. Didn't work...
Americans love meatâto the tune of 200 pounds per person in 2005, according to the USDA. You know you're eating meat when you're served a juicy steak, a side...
More than two years later, it still stuns. The gravity of the situation in New Orleans can be revealed to us, brought back to the forefront of our thoughts, in any number of...
By high school, I was certain I knew everythingand certainly everything there was to know about the two squares who were always bossing me around. But my parents still...
Country singer Sara Evans was well on her way to being the next Faith Hill. Starting out as a fairly modest act, a string of hits and crossover appeal transformed her into a...
Putting the performance in performance art and blowing it up to 11, BLAST! was the toast of 2001 Tony Awards. The touring show has been making the rounds for a few years now,...
For a brief moment in college I considered studying architecture or design. Then I realized how much math was going to be involved in those fields, so I went running toward the...
Ah, Run Lola Runâthe movie responsible for the sale of thousands of bottles of Manic Panic Pillarbox Red dye. More importantly, though, the film was a...
I can get attitude anytime I want from The Gap at Mockingbird Station, but why those shop girls and boys throw so much of it over denim is beyond me. Maybe I'm just a tad too...
An award-winning science fiction children's book is now a play to be performed on one of America finest stages. No plane tickets to Chicago or New York needed, just a family...
The New York Times-lauded jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves is coming to Dallas soon to promote her new record, When You Know. According to the record's appropriately gushing press...
You might think you've made it in show business when you've been in one slacker drug film, but you really haven't reached the pinnacle of success until you're in the sequel to...
After reading the description for Molly "The Dining Diva" Fowler's Elegant Dinner for Friends class, I'm not so sure I need to go. Or, rather, I'm not sure some of my friends...
In the documentary The Black List: Volume One, currently pitching its tent on the film-fest circuit before landing on HBO in the fall, Chris Rock announces the precise moment...
By now the Jason Kidd experiment should be over (what are we, a dozen games in with Kidd at the helm?), but the truth is, the jury is still out on the new-look Mavs. Against...
All 103-year-olds should look as good as Major Barbara. There are lots of lines but few wrinkles in George Bernard Shaw's three-act comedy, now running in a production full of...
Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away...
In this corner, entering his 30th consecutive season as the radio voice of your Texas Rangers...Eric Nadel! And in this corner, approaching his 2,000th consecutive game as a...
A couple of decades back, U.K. metal acts such as Iron Maiden ruled the hard-rock world. Since then, the market for British steel has gone soft—but Bullet for My...
The press release for Alopecia claims that Why? ringleader Yoni Wolf was inspired "as much by MF Doom and Lil' Wayne as J. Newsom and Big Dylan." I don't hear any of that,...