You know how brothas are always chill about everything, and white boys are always all uptight and shit? That social phenomenon seems like a subject rife with comedic...
You could do a lot with 24 hours. Eat at 24 different restaurants, watch 12 Meg Ryan movies, sleep for 24 hours OK, so my ideas aren't so great. But the Dallas Video...
To be perfectly honest, I'm not terribly familiar with the work of Kansas City artist Archie Scott Gobber. I do know that "Gobber's mixed-media constructions and works on paper...
The humble bead looks insignificant, but over the course of history it has been used as currency in exchange for everything from goods and land to flashes of skin. It's been...
The last time singer-songwriter Mark Olson played the AllGood Café, the power went out right before the show. Olson and his band weren't fazed, however, offering to do...
If you haven't been to Marfa, face it: You're just not that cool. Two of the year's most kick-ass movies were filmed there (There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men),...
With the release of his 1991 novel, the darkly comical and ground-breaking American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis confirmed his place as a star in the world of contemporary...
Funny runs through the blood of the Sedaris family like corny flows through the Osmonds. Through the immensely popular works by David Sedaris, many of us are aware of the...
Children seem inherently drawn to craftiness, which they express with crayons, construction paper, glitter, sidewalk chalk and, to the chagrin of their parents, red lipstick on...
Hollywood can do a lot of things with special effects these days: Alien ships fly across the sky with no strings attached, dogs talk and Tom Cruise is tall. Not surprisingly,...
Oh, yes, Grapevine is a hard-ass. It's the Russell Crowe of DFW suburbs. Being a hard-ass, the city wants you to know of its hard-assness. That's why at its annual Main Street...
Jeffrey Ross is kind of a jerk. But, then again, that's kind of the snide comedian's shtick. More than likely, you know him from his role in the New York Friars Club and Comedy...
My mother was a children's librarian, and I am currently a reference librarian in a small public library, so I know children's books. But even though I really like kids and...
Two things that can never be mentioned in the same breath without triggering the gag reflex: "John Waters" and "dump." I bet I know the first image that juxtaposition conjured...
Just because a period of destruction is long past doesn't mean it's completely erased. This is especially clear in countries like Poland, where death camps of the Holocaust...
You hate the robber who mugged you last week, but we celebrate outlaws who made Texas their playground in the 1800s. Why? Blame the hats. Criminals in stylish hats such as...
When it comes to "things I love," Billy Joel and various foodstuffs are always at the top of the list. I've been living here in Allentown (er, Obsessionville) since my...
Remember that grizzly old actor who played Whistler the vampire hunter alongside Wesley Snipes in the Blade trilogy? Well, in case you didn't know, he's a singer-songwriter...
If you read reviews the way I do, you've already started by checking out the score, and now you're back here to see what the hell my problem is. Peace, brother. Grand Theft...
Naw, bullshit—really? The Tomorrowpeople, live onstage after being left for dead somewhere 'twixt infamy and fortune eight long years ago? True enough, in the words of...