Tempting
The more I do these beer promos (the brand varies from week to week), the more I realize how everyone wants to appear refined....
Tilting at Texas Windmills
The cliché “hope springs eternal” has to apply to Paul Sadler, the Democratic nominee to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who isn’t...
Brainy Humor
A lot of theater artists feel an obligation to speak of William Shakespeare in reverent tones, as if performing the words of The Bard...
Killer or Filler?
Foxtrot Uniform’s Huj! Huj! Hajrah!
The alt-bluesy, country-psyching, classic-rocking Foxtrot Uniform has just released its first album, Huj! Huj! Hajrah!, after months of can-do and...
Still Bringing Up Stories
An upcoming Titanic exhibit designed to showcase the human stories from the sinking of that famous ocean liner in 1912 includes a 26-gem bracelet...
Gallery
Ah, drawings! The basis of all the other visual arts is the focus of the current show at the Gallery at UTA. The works...
Frankenweenie: Ghost Dog
Expanded from the same 1984 short film that got Tim Burton fired as a Disney animator, Frankenweenie (which Burton has made under Disney’s auspices,...
Wallflower: End of the Tunnel
Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age novelette The Perks of Being a Wallflower was a huge hit when it was published in 1999, and the author received...
Tech Revolution
The school building, with its weathered red brick face and ornate, buttermilk-colored trim, looms like a Gothic castle amid the modern medical offices of...
India Spiced Right
Inside its strip-mall location on South Cooper Street in Arlington, Spice India looks very much like a chain restaurant: flat-screen TVs mounted on the...
