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Yearly Archives: 2009

Film Shorts

OPENING: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) If the word "squeakquel" is in the title, the movie must be good, right? The animated singing...

Mayfest Waves On

A sick pig can't keep a friendly lion like Mayfest down. The City of Fort Worth's devastating decision to cancel this year's event due...

Nutty

It's no secret that The Nutcracker's great box-office appeal is a fabulous boon for dance companies. In a recent newspaper interview, New York City...

Strange Days

Don't call Hentai Improvising Orchestra a band. With completely extemporaneous performances and refusal to practice or designate a bandleader, the Fort Worth experimental ensemble...

A School for Peace

Military schools have studied the science of war for hundreds if not thousands of years. Serious scholarship on how to stop wars or avoid...

A Good Image

A lot of lesbian, gay, and transgender people over the age of, say, 35 will tell you that bars saved their lives. Queer lounges...

Doggone It, How Soon We Forget

It’s a sad day for dead celebrities, unless you're  an odd-looking freak who can lick his own crotch -- and I'm not talking about...

‘Tis the Season For Thievin’

Chances are if you're reading this column, you at least appreciate local music and musicians (and maybe artists in general). You probably won't mind...

Kinky on the Farm

With Houston Mayor Bill White in the Democratic race for governor, humorist/author Kinky Friedman has shifted his attentions to the race for agriculture commissioner. And...

Gallery

If you saw the Justin Hilliard film The Other Side of Paradise a couple of weeks ago at Artspace 111, then you were also...