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Yearly Archives: 2009

Tune In

A few Sundays ago, my kids and I laid some plastic over the dining room table and broke out the clay. I gave them...

Gallery

The "Oculi" in the title of John Holt Smith's show at William Campbell comes from his abstract paint renderings of photos of human eyes. The...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Is Anybody There? (PG-13) John Crowley (Intermission, Boy A) directs this drama about a morbid 10-year-old English boy (Bill Milner) who befriends a retired...

Mala Day

The latest and certainly the least of the recent 3-D movies, Battle for Terra is directed by Canadian animator Aristomenis Tsirbas, based on an...

Wedding Carol

What can be done with Matthew McConaughey at this point? Back at the beginning of his acting career, in Dazed and Confused, he played...

Taj Mahal on the Trinity

"It was a debacle from the beginning. You should stop construction, mothball those buildings, and cut your losses." That's what Kyle Poulson, a partner...

All Aboard!

Train stations used to be central gathering places in most big cities many decades ago. And they still are for some of the metros...

Bread Upon the Waters

Chow, Baby was zooming across the Toledo Bend Reservoir back into Texas when a horrible thought dawned: It had forgotten to eat a muffuletta....

New Frontier

Enrica Tseng, who took her final bow as principal dancer with Texas Ballet Theater last season, and her husband, Chung-Lin Tseng, also a former...

Wendy Davis comes out swinging

State regulatory agencies that come across as apologists interested in protecting rather than regulating industry are getting torched...