Apologies for not getting this up last weekend, which means this is the final weekend for the Dallas Hub Theater’s production “The Crash at Crush.” It’s playwright Jo Morello’s account of the famous/infamous 1896 railroad promotional stunt near West that...

New dates for recently postponed “Tuna Does Vegas!” were set today: January 23, 24 and 25, 2009. That’s a Friday through Sunday night with weekend matinees, the same weekday/end performances of the original Sept. 19-21 run at the Waco Hippodrome....

Hurricane Gustav did collateral damage to the Waco Hippodrome Theatre’s first fall production by causing postponement of the comedy “Tuna Does Vegas!” from Sept. 12-14 to January, 2009. The tour’s five Waco performances were the only ones unaffected by Gustav’s...

I shouldn’t be surprised after seeing movies made from videogames (Resident Evil, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Super Mario Brothers, Final Fantasy, etc., etc. ) and Disneyland rides (Pirates of the Caribbean) that one of the Internet’s most popular social networking...

For you fans of Sideways, Alan Rickman or human-scaled films, Bottle Shock will come to Waco’s Starplex Galaxy 16 on Sept. 5, the theater chain’s PR rep tells me. It’s the true story of a father (Bill Pullman) and son...

For those Cirque du Soleil fans who’ve had to drive up to Dallas or down to Austin to get their live fix of the eye-filling, jaw-dropping performing company, its film Delirium offers a reduced experience for a cheaper ticket. More...

It’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I’ve forgotten the audience’s shout-back dialogue, but the Waco Hippodrome’s bringing in The Rocky Horror Picture Show for a pre-Halloween Oct. 30 screening. No word on whether Scott Baker and his...

Waco musician Classie Ballou called me last week to give me a heads-up on a birthday gig he and his Family Band are doing tonight, Aug. 21, at Rosati’s Authentic Chicago Pizza in Hewitt. It’s his 71st birthday, he says....

Waco’s David Crowder Band, the acclaimed Christian alt-rock band with a national following, releases its live DVD/CD combo from last year’s REMEDY Club Tour tomorrow, Aug. 19. Fans in 80 cities, including Dallas and Austin can get a preview tonight,...

For those of you who are dual Harry Potter/Twilight fans, the sad news of the postponement of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie to next July has a little bit of a silver lining: The first Twilight film,...