Dang Good
Danny Dang has worked in the family’s business since he was 11 years old. He’s 30 now, and the hours he spends at his...
Cold Case
Sheesh, you make one splattery serial-killer flick that turns into a blockbuster hit, and everybody thinks they have you pegged.
It’s been a good...
Classical Gore
I’m always puzzled when my fellow film critics decry the notion of “style over substance” in movies.
Style trumps everything. Style is what distinguishes...
Secret Devil Sign
A million years ago, Black Sabbath, heavy metal’s original Saurians, electrocuted the blues to invent an ominous breed of devil-courting, mom-scaring music.
Shortly thereafter,...
Men With Choppers
Some years ago, political satirist Mark Russell observed that guys caught in mid-life crises tended to handle them in one of three ways: They...
Since My Baby Left Me
If Black Snake Moan is disappointing, that’s largely because it starts out with one of the greatest premises of any movie in recent years....
Spaghetti Western
The weekends in the Stockyards after the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo closes in early February have that lonely the-traveling-carnival-has-come-and-gone feel, with small...
Mommmm, I Don’t Need a Sweater
The good thing about last week's warm-weather spike is that Chow, Baby got back into cruising mode and happened upon a couple of more...
College Boards
We’re now far enough into the spring semester that collegiate theater departments have had time to rehearse and stage their new plays. Texas Wesleyan...
Margarita Cabrera / Billy Hassell
This is the last weekend to catch the show at The Gallery at UTA.
Billy Hassell’s vividly colored oil paintings combine nature imagery with...
