Welcome to Best Of 2014
This, our Best Of 2014 issue, is like a telethon for a good cause, except that you don’t have to listen to people in...
Cheese and Eggs
Just in time for the start of autumn comes The Boxtrolls, the first good mainstream movie of the season or indeed in what feels...
Suicide Siblings
Kristen Wiig became famous for her outrageously funny performances on Saturday Night Live, but she’s shown enough by now that we shouldn’t be surprised...
On Display
If you want to see everything our city has to offer culturally, there isn’t a better value than Day in the District. For one...
Best Of Getting & Spending 2014
Customer Service
Readers’ choice: Junker Val’s, 3458 Bluebonnet Circle
Critic’s choice: Glen Keely, Poag Mahone’s Irish Pub, 700 Carroll St
Businesses make mistakes. But how a place...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Hector and the Search for Happiness (R) Simon Pegg stars in this comedy as a psychiatrist who travels the globe to find out...
Off Asides On Dallas Cowboys vs Rams, Fumbles
Tony Dorsett can finally relax.
The former Dallas Cowboys star fumbled the football more than any other National Football League running back not named Franco...
Luke Wade Wows on The Voice
Part of what makes The Voice better than its predecessor, American Idol, is the former’s emphasis on musicality in objection to sheer record-selling capabilities....
Sonny Carl Davis on Windsor, Alamo, Evil Bong, Willie Nelson
Sometime back in the early 1990s I stumbled across Last Night at the Alamo (1983), an obscure black-and-white film directed by the tortured Texas...
Top 5 Shows
1.) To help raise money for Duane Smith, the Southern Train Gypsy bassist who recently had to relocate to Houston to receive cancer treatment,...