Sam Shepard

Shooting Star

The debut of Jessica Lange, photographer. Before King Kong, before the two Oscars, before the love affairs with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange was a square-jawed student of fine art at the University of...

Theater review: Topdog/Underdog

Upstart Productions has done the unthinkable: launch a new theater company in buzz-starved Deep Ellum with an edgy two-character show starring and directed by two African-American men barely old enough to vote.

It's a Lightning show

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.13.2008 Georgina Lightning has carved out a career as a go-to American Indian actress, appearing in "Walker, Texas Ranger" and voice acting in "Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World" among other...

West and Clear's Lone Star Film Festival preview

and with that in mind, I have one thing to say to you, Fort Worth: Go, or I will send this Swedish vampire to your house to bite you. How’s that for a sales pitch? Admittedly, we at West and Clear are homers about this. We love...

FRANK HOIER and T... - South Haven, MI

Frank Hoier is poised at the front of a new wave of modern Americana roots music. Well practiced in the ragtime and slide guitar blues of Blind Willie McTell, the vocal enthusiasm of Little Richard, and Bob Dylan's skillful...

Weinstein backs film adaptation of Broadway's 'August: Osage County'

Back in (appropriately enough) August, when we heard that a film version of the hit play August: Osage County was in the works — penned by Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright Tracy Letts himself — we were so excited we...

New York's uptown: Palm courts, brownstone and jazz

Uptown Manhattan is as different from downtown as the Jazz Age is from hip-hop. Two writers explain the appeal of the yin and the yang of this vibrant city. Here Graham Boynton, an Upper East Side resident for 10 years, makes...

November 5th

Today is the birthday … of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Art Garfunkel, 67. Bridge Over Troubled Water … of Sam Shepard. He’s 65. An inductee as a playwright into the Theatre Hall of Fame, Shepard was also nominated for...

It’s Barackfest in New York!

As election night neared, New York’s power elite—but also its creative class, its political class, its partying class, lurched to find the center of gravity for election night. The premonition that New York’s obvious choice,...

The ‘A' List |

Bachelorette breakup ‘a lot to swallow'Trista Sutter is getting kind of lonely since another “Bachelorette” couple has bitten the dust.“The Bachelorette” couple DeAnna Pappas and pro-snowboarder Jesse Csincsak have broken off...

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