A Turn (and Jump) for the Better
From a humble American beginning at the San Francisco Ballet under war-rationing restrictions in 1944, The Nutcracker has become a national Christmas tradition, performed...
Cosmic Dust
If you were to drop in at any point during The Golden Compass and watch only 30 seconds of it, you'd probably think the...
Operating Expenses
Awake begins with some text claiming that out of the 21 million Americans who receive anesthesia each year, 30,000 of them experience something called...
Black Tie Rising
Black Tie Dynasty's Cory Watson is happy with his band's debut, 2006's Movements. As he should: It's been short-listed for five Grammy nods, including...
Paying the Price for Free Speech
It was 2:30 a.m. when a guard woke her up and told her to pack her belongings. By 5 a.m., Karen Lucchesi Lewis was...
Water/Color
UNT’s end-of-semester art show is a retrospective of Rob Erdle’s paintings.
Entitled Water/Color, it encompasses both the artist’s work in color studies and his...
Songs From the Pole
First things first: the pronunciation of Mariusz Kwiecien’s name.
Here goes: MA-ree-oosh KVYEH-chen, and if you can manage it, pronounce that final “n” like...
Shadows and Mirrors
Chow, Baby's psychotherapist father did his children a great disservice by teaching us, early on, about Jung's shadow theory.
Being five at the time,...
Real Star Wars
In the depths of the Cold War, as the arms race between the United States and Soviet Union escalated, the terrible benchmarks were recorded...
Building for the Rich
No one can accuse the Dallas Cowboys' Jerry Jones of being a bad businessman. On the contrary, he is quite a genius.
Some years...
