Artist Kehinde Wiley's paintings mix the vastly different aesthetics of formal European portraiture and urban hip-hop, resulting in the type of colorful mash-up images you...
Canadiansâour mild-mannered neighbors to the northâare so irreverent. I did a Google search on Canadian comedians and the words...
The last time you saw something Belgian, it was probably a crisp, golden bierâor it was, until your unrefined tastes caused you to chug it down. Show Belgium...
One of the beautiful things about nature is that it's freeâminus the cost of mosquito bites, sun burns, poison ivy and other sweet treats provided by the...
We don't have to go out of our way to spice up breast cancer; it already has two attention-grabbing words. Though, in truth, we'd much rather see the word "breasts" coupled...
Ralph Stanley transcends genre, era, place and taste. His unique tenor voice has graced the world of bluegrass for 55 years, with his late brother Carter as the Stanley...
In some ways, ladies these days have become expert worriers. We're awesome at worrying about horizontal stripes and our skin and dark parking garages. But for some reason, we...
One of the better moments of this year's Oscars was Marion Cotillard's win for Best Actress. Her portrayal of chanteuse Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose was flat out first-class...
During a routine visit to the Fort Worth Zoo several weeks ago, a few odd creatures in particular caught my eye. One was a man tossing Cheetos to the orangutans, right in front...
Kids in rock bands these days can't play guitar worth shit. It was bad enough in the nineties, when they started covering their guitars with bumper stickers and duct-taping the...
Things might have changed, but midnight movies used to mean such subversive fare as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pink Floyd The Wall. But stretch your imagination a bit...
It's exciting when the seasons change, the days get longer and spending time out of the house seems like a good idea again. Even if the Dallas Art Dealers Association's (DADA)...
In the world of the swinging pendulum, there are two kinds of practitioners: therapeutic hypnotists and their cheesy ass you're-getting-very-sleepy...
Dear whomever scheduled live music at the Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival: You are a moron. You managed to book two great acts, Dr. John and Son Volt, and filled out the...
To be imprisoned by Buddha, one must have done something fairly heinous. or at least somehow interpreted as malicious. I'd think that making war with heaven would be on the top...
I miss my summer sand volleyball on Saturdays at Buddies but when one of my buds stepped on a big rusty nail that was itâTetanus is so not a good look for me....
Glass: brittle, transparent substance made by fusing sand over 70 years with offbeat Western classical, mathematics, philosophy and Ravi Shankar. The rare Philip Glass, that...
When the Bush administration and much of the rest of the world was still ignoring the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, Nicholas Kristof was avidly reporting about the horrors of the...
You know you're timeless when you're a professed and proven favorite of both Frank Sinatra and the (often fickle) MTV generation. And, if you've been singing long enough to...
Simulated bowling on a videogame console strikes us as something similar to drinking non-alcoholic beer. What's the point? You're still bowling, only you don't get any exercise...