Samuel James
Samuel James' version of the blues mixes tradition, sly humor, and a knowing wink with a steady, almost hypnotic acoustic beat.
On Songs Famed...
The Thing From Another World
The ever-busy Linda Blackburn enjoys a solo exhibition at Artspace 111, having contributed to their Gallery Night show last month as well as the...
Gilmore Girl
The last great pianist from the country of Argentina was Martha Argerich, the sultry, eccentric, reclusive, unpredictable keyboard wizard who lit up the 1960s...
Poor Foundation
Local architect Ken Schaumburg is known in the real estate development business for hits and misses.
His townhouse designs - downtown's Le Bijou, the...
That’s-a Mediterranean!
For almost six years, Café Chadra near John Peter Smith Hospital offered lunch crowds and evening diners a split-down-the-middle menu of Italian standards (lasagna,...
Quaid Pro Quo
Mark Jude Poirier's name will be more easily recognized by readers than cinephiles.
He's an acclaimed fiction writer whose novels (Goats) and short-story collections (Unsung...
L.A. Lawlessness
The overheated yet stubbornly unexciting cop thriller Street Kings stars Keanu Reeves as Los Angeles Police Department vice-squad detective Tom Ludlow, a loose-cannon cop...
Late in the Hip Parade
Not picking on any one place in particular, but Chow, Baby is beginning to suffer from hip-sushi-joint fatigue. In now-and-then doses they're exciting and...
UTA Faculty Biennial IX
There's still time to catch the UTA Faculty Biennial, which features works in ceramics, painting, sculpture, photography, glassworks, video, digital art, and graphic design...
Hell in the Carpathians
A few weeks back, The New York Times ran a piece in their Sunday magazine about the suddenly hot Romanian film industry.
The Weekly pointed...
