Show Offs II
They just don’t stop making art in Texas, which is why you can’t go wrong with a show devoted to up-and-coming new talent.
That’s...
Man For All Seasons?
Well, it's about damn time. Ever since I heard the news that The Ginger Man pub chain was going to take over the spot...
Stealing the Show
Almost a year ago, when Sessions Music first opened on White Settlement Road, owner John Zaskoda and a rotating cast of his music instructors...
The Pearl and the Bird
Every year since she passed away in 2002, blues giant Lady Pearl has been honored by the blues community in the form of a...
Bandmates
The sound of The Bandmates’ The Buddha and the Alien is genteel psychedelic straight out of the 1960s and early 1970s. Self-produced by songwriters...
Bill Kirchen
A c.d. with the title Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, by a guitar player as hot for so many years as Bill Kirchen seems...
Shaolin Death Squad
There are concept albums, and then there’s Shaolin Death Squad’s Intelligent Design.
Having something to do with the Christian Right’s illogical argument against evolution, the...
Ghostcar
Blending some of the finest players from some of North Texas’ most formidable — and departed — bands, Ghostcar is an achievement of out-of-the-box...
Family Coup
Four years ago Zhang Yimou made the most expensive film in Chinese history, Hero, with an estimated budget of $30 million.
His latest epic, Curse...
Happily Never After
Chalk up yet another great year for Mexican filmmakers. The closely knit trio of Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro González Iñárritu all...