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Yearly Archives: 2012

Live Oak Grows Cooler

The Near Southside’s Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge (1311 Lipscomb St., 817-926-0986) just got a much-needed infusion of youngblood in the form of...
The Awakening opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Awakening (R) This period horror flick begins promisingly before collapsing into a pile of nonsense. Rebecca Hall stars as a scientific debunker of...
School bully Alvin cowers behind Norman as he tries to read the incantation that’ll stave off the walking dead in ParaNorman.

ParaNorman’s Activity

All right! This is how I like my animated kids’ movies — intelligent, funny, and scary enough to keep you up at night. ParaNorman...

Timothy Green: Autumn Leaves

The word “odd” is entirely appropriate in the title of The Odd Life of Timothy Green. This family-oriented movie has the bad luck to...

Chipping Away

Two years ago, members of the city’s little known and little used Ethics Review Committee found out what happened when you pissed off Mike...
Toni’s fried catfish is heaven on a plate. Tony Robles

Soul Kitchen

Some joints you just root for. You walk in whistling, thinking that either this place offers lip-licking tasties or, dang, it’s just another reminder...

Boba Me, Baby

I had never understood the appeal of boba tea. Now that I’ve actually tried it I’m in boba lust. (Although I still don’t get...
Richard Don Simms and Libby Bogart in A Midsummer Night in Texas.

Puck Yeah!

There’s nothing particularly new about setting a Shakespeare play in some place and time other than the one that the Bard specified. We’ve all...

Still Time To Sign Up For Tomorrow’s EPA Meeting On (cough, cough) Clean Air

The Only Hearing in the Nation on EPA’s Proposed Weakening of Toxic Air Pollution Standards for all U.S. Cement Plants :Thursday August 16th-9 am to...

Cliburn Video Contest Winner Announced

I got so caught up in the Olympics that the Van Cliburn's Amateur Piano Video Competition slipped under my radar. Rather than make weak...