Posts Tagged ‘it’s’
Looking Forward / Looking Back
GalleryWilliam Campbell rings in the new year with a show of objets d’art selected from the gallery’s 2006 shows.
Viejo Amigo
The new Tex-Mex diner Chimy’s has a lot going for it, namely a friendly vibe.ANTHONY MARIANI
Sometimes a bar/restaurant comes along and just works. Even though Chimy’s Cerveceria opened only a few weeks ago, it seems like it’s been around for years. The place, apparently, is the place to be.
Violation
Breaking and Entering makes hash out of big issues, and that’s a petty crime.Kristian Lin
Anthony Minghella made his name as the director of lush, cosmopolitan, epic literary adaptations with period settings, beginning with The English Patient in 1996 and continuing through The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain.
Capturing Katrina
A local filmmaker’s forthcoming documentary on the storm’s aftermath is apolitical in a political way.Brian Abrams
David Redmon might be the most earnest documentary filmmaker around. His subject matter is always edgy, he finances all of his projects himself (to avoid any implied or explicit biases and to have complete artistic control), an...
Sin for Your Supper
Only gluttons for cinematic theology will want a piece of The Last Sin Eater.Kristian Lin
The title of The Last Sin Eater refers to a ritual that hails from the British Isles, in which a designated “sin eater” (a beggar or homeless man, usually) provides absolution to recently deceased people by eating bread and...
Rooting for Roots
In a new book about Americana, the vitriol tries to dilute the poignant insights.Books
What an odd book — fascinating at times yet frustrating in its lack of organization and purpose.
Hot in the Neighborhood
Global warming comes to a garden, a stream, a statehouse near you.Gayle Reaves
You wouldn’t think that small things like begonias making it through the winter could have international significance.
Women’s Lib-ido
Theatre Arlington revives a spicy, classic Steve Martin adaptation whose early 19th-century theme still proves relevant.Stage
With their fervent and cunning production of Steve Martin’s adaptation The Underpants, Theatre Arlington and director B.J. Cleveland have done something unexpected — reminded ticketbuyers of the original Martin, a hyper-sil...
Off the Island
Letters From Iwo Jima is an Oscar nominee, but it falls short of the hype.Kristian Lin
Clint Eastwood shot Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers as companion pieces.
UNT Faculty Exhibition
GalleryAfter being displayed for three weeks at UNT late last year, the school’s Faculty Exhibition has been on hiatus for more than a month.