Among the most truly nerdy of nerds, Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage is perhaps one of the most talked about films of the year (and by “year,” we mean in general, since the film comes out January 1, so it would be kind of silly if we meant… anyway), in large…

For any parents who’ve ever foisted music lessons upon their unwilling offspring, the word “recital” will probably conjure up images involving stiffly combed hair, flubbed notes and the abject terror of kids getting their first taste of stage fright. But although it involves young musicians, tonight’s Tracing the Romantic Muse…

Time to scrub the slate clean: Today marks the start of the year when you’ll finally amount to something, thereby proving that your implacable father was wrong about you all along. And since you’ve got a lot to accomplish, you might as well get a jump on what to expect…

It’s almost an affront to the word “news” that the Rupert Murdoch-owned umbrella conglomerate that oversees media outlets like Fox News and the UK’s The Sun is generically called News Corporation, since that term generally implies facts. Facts, however, have never been the specialty of either of those organizations, as…

The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the dumbest week — at least if you’re unlucky enough to be at work (which, if you’re looking at this, you most likely are). Everyone else is on vacation, there’s not a whole lot to do and you’re just apathetically coasting into…

For those old enough to remember, the website was once a novelty, a nebulous idea that companies knew they had to have, but nobody was really sure how or why. These days, it’s kind of the same thing with smartphone apps, speculates Amy Burkhardt, a first-time businesswoman who recently co-founded…

Where a less puckish person might have dismissed these two leaning mailboxes near Cheesman Park as an example of poor engineering, at least one smartass saw an opportunity for love. Due to groundswell and personality issues, though, the mailboxes are expected to be acrimoniously separated by this time next year,…

For nearly as many years as the old jump-slide-across-the-hood trick has been a part of the lore of buddy-cop movies and The Dukes of Hazzard alike, the old try-to-jump-over-something-and-fall trick has been a time-honored gag in failure caught on video. But that doesn’t make it any less funny when it…

And now the end is here, as Frank Sinatra might have said before his end actually was there and he died. As we coast toward the close of the debauched year that was 2010, we’ve got less than a week left to get our party on before facing the unpleasant…

Christmas can be intense: Rife with familial undercurrents and financial strain, the yuletide can bring a time of crushing disappointment, dissolving relationships, mounting tension and exploding tempers — but if we open our hearts and we wish hard enough, it just might also be a time of redemption. As it…

Every holiday is more fun with a little something that starts with the letter “b.” Booze? Boobs? “Both,” says Michelle Scheffer, who makes up half of Ooh La La Burlesque and is probably better known by her alter ego, Fanny Fitztightlee. Ooh La La’s fourth annual Fuck Christmas Party will…

Like an overinflated balloon, the holidays strain at the seams with cultural expectation—the good cheer, the idyllic family life, the perfect gift for that special someone. It’s a pretty picture few actual lives can match, and for most, it all adds up to little more than disappointment and deflated hopes…

Once a year here at Westword, the overlords let us out of our “blogging cage” and send us home for a four-day weekend, equipped with homing devices so we don’t try to escape. We’ll be gone until Monday and the blogs will be quiet (we’ve still got you covered on…

It’s been ten years since the first installment of Meet the Parents paired Robert DeNiro as an overbearing, somewhat menacing father-in-law with Ben Stiller as an awkward, you know, every character Ben Stiller ever plays. But get this: His last name is — this is hilarious! — Focker. Ten years…

For the lonely, there’s probably not much lonelier than Christmas, that time of year when we’re supposed to be basking in the warmth of family and loved ones, but instead we’re watching It’s a Wonderful Life for the third time and eating TV dinners seasoned with the bitter salt of…

Don’t get us wrong: We’re celebrating the repeal of the long-lasting, draconian ban on homosexuality in the military; the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the military’s only slightly less brazenly discriminatory concession to the ban, now awaits only President Obama’s signature before it’s official. Still, the ban and its…