| | | | | In Richardson Mayor Scandal, the Cover-Up Is Worse than the Crime Richardson is supposed to be an orderly place, where a citizen can settle into a comfortable existence, which includes twice-weekly trash pickup and all the plastic grocery bags one can carry, and gaze dismissively down Central Expressway to the shit-show at Dallas City Hall while thinking, Not here. more >> | | | | | | Vaden Todd Lewis' Burden Brothers to Reunite at 2015 Dia De Los Toadies Festival by Kelly Dearmore  Between 2003 and 2006, the Burden Brothers ruled North Texas rock. The band's full-length debut, Buried in Your Black Heart, from locally based Kirtland Records, made a splash nationally, and songs like "Shadow" and "Beautiful Night," the ocean-sized anthem that had a nice run on the Billboard Rock charts, became ubiquitous in bars and Guitar Centers across the region. National tours, radio airplay and Dallas Observer Music Awards were regular for the band that many likened to an epic 1970's arena-rock act. more >> | | | | | | | | With ZaLat, Good, Weird Pizza Is Just a Late-Night Text Away by Scott Reitz  For as much as texting has taken over our lives, there are a few human interactions where spoken dialogue is still standard. We may text friends a happy birthday message, but we don't -- we can't -- text our service provider, "WTF Time Warner?" when our bandwidth seems low and House of Cards hiccups. Using only your thumbs, you can ask someone you barely know to have a drink, but you don't make appointments with your doctor or restaurant reservations via text. Not yet, anyway. more >> | | | An Interview with Standard Pour Chef Cody Sharp, Part of Dallas' New Guard It used to be that fine cuisine was prepared by French-educated men in white coats who adhered to a very strict set of rules about what food should be. Now, there is an entire generation of young chefs happy to thumb their noses at the culinary establishment's stuffy rules. One of those chefs is The Standard Pour's Cody Sharp. more >> | | | | | | Joss Whedon Fights to Keep His Avengers Human in Ultron by Amy Nicholson  Avengers: Age of Ultron is a complicated, ticking machine — a cuckoo clock under attack. Returning helmer Joss Whedon is earnestly trying to make a movie out of a bag of bolts: six stars, nine cameos, three enemies and at least 10 films to go before the climactic Avengers: Infinity War – Part II opens in May 2019. In Age of Ultron's opening tracking shot through a forest battlefield, you sense Whedon racing to cram it all in before the bell tolls. more >> | | | Adult Beginners Crams Kroll Into a Played-Out Arc I dread explaining man-child dramedies to the ghosts of the dead. "You see, Grandpa, after your time, a generation paralyzed by the economy and indecision stopped growing up — and started churning out indie movies justifying why not." Movies like Ross Katz's Adult Beginners parade heroes like 36-year-old comedian Nick Kroll — twice the age of the boys who became men on the beaches of Normandy — as yet another misguided but inherently decent overgrown dude who would be a good guy if only someone would bother to make him more >> | | | | | | The Internet's Best Mother's Day Gift Guide: From A Mom! by Alice Laussade  Mother's Day is right around the corner, you guys! But, what do you get the woman who shot you into this cruel world? You are once again met with the challenge of figuring out what says, "Thanks for humping sperm, building my eyelashes from scratch, and then painfully fluiding me out into the world, Mom! You're the best! Still!" more >> | | | Actress Janelle Lutz Boosts the Wattage of Lyric Stage's Lady in the Dark You don't have to be in love with the old play-with-music Lady in the Dark to appreciate its artful sophistication. It's an odd one, more psychodrama than full-out musical; there are only 65 minutes of singing spread out over two and a half hours. But because it's almost never produced in regional theaters (it was last near Broadway for a brief Encores! series performance in 1994), you should experience this collaboration of three creative geniuses — playwright Moss Hart, composer Kurt Weill, lyricist Ira Gershwin — to see and hear how they shook up American musical theater in both form and content in 1941. You'll also witness one great big knockout performance. more >> | | | | |
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