South Pacific

Brief Encounters: A Showcase for Academy-Anointed Shorts.

Pop Quiz: Can You Tell One City from Another By Menus?

​I recently had occasion to look up a menu from a town where I used to live, and was startled by how ostentatiously it flaunted the region's culinary biases. The menu was so obviously issued by a restaurant in this particular town that I'm pretty sure I could pick it out of a line-up of 100 me ... More >>

The Island One

​I recently had occasion to look up a menu from a town where I used to live, and was startled by how ostentatiously it flaunted the region's culinary biases. The menu was so obviously issued by a restaurant in this particular town that I'm pretty sure I could pick it out of a line-up of 100 me ... More >>

Happy Talk

​I recently had occasion to look up a menu from a town where I used to live, and was startled by how ostentatiously it flaunted the region's culinary biases. The menu was so obviously issued by a restaurant in this particular town that I'm pretty sure I could pick it out of a line-up of 100 me ... More >>

PAC It Up, or: Why Dallas Is "Lucky" the Original Arts District Master Plan "Failed"

​Monday's the big day -- the grand opening of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, which kicks off at 8 a.m. with South Pacific star Keala Settle performing the "The Star-Spangled Banner" before AT&T PAC president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen, Mayor Tom Leppert and other city officials play ball. ... More >>

Appetite For Instruction: Blackened Trout With Linguine

Recipe Demonstrated by Chef Peter Gray of Cretia's on McKinney ​Cretia's on McKinney, the bistro-slash-bakery-slash-live music venue, reopened in March after a nine-month hiatus to, um, refresh and regroup. In addition to moving just up the road to the former Tijuana Bar and Grill location, a b ... More >>

Notes from a Veteran's Son

Recipe Demonstrated by Chef Peter Gray of Cretia's on McKinney ​Cretia's on McKinney, the bistro-slash-bakery-slash-live music venue, reopened in March after a nine-month hiatus to, um, refresh and regroup. In addition to moving just up the road to the former Tijuana Bar and Grill location, a b ... More >>

Clique Shtick

The retail racket that is High School Musical on Tour! sells the same old Disney message but without the magic

One Good Turn

Billy Bigelow, ultimate anti-hero, finds his heart in Lyric Stage's sparkling Carousel

There's Nothing Like a Musical

Billy Bigelow, ultimate anti-hero, finds his heart in Lyric Stage's sparkling Carousel

Hamburger Done at DTC

Billy Bigelow, ultimate anti-hero, finds his heart in Lyric Stage's sparkling Carousel

The Man and the Myth

Billy Bigelow, ultimate anti-hero, finds his heart in Lyric Stage's sparkling Carousel

Winging It

With candor (and Ebb!) T3 salutes musicals; Angels flutter down at the Bath House

None Like It Lame

Connie and Carla models a classic but ends up being a drag

Come Together

Local bands unite!

Island Records

Get Tiki with it

Counsel for the Defense

At 76, flamboyant criminal lawyer Racehorse Haynes keeps doing what he does best--winning

Tiki Tacky

Tiki Bob's is hanging on by a vine

Green Giant

Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

Dust to Dust

Once more, a man calls upon the troops to save The Alamo, before it's gone forever

Tom Terrific

Hanks finally grows up and delivers the adult romance of Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away

Tuned Out

DTC's production of the venerable Guys and Dolls hits some flat notes

Bloodhounds

New DNA evidence points to a gruesome end for atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair

And the winners are

Dallas theater critics spread their disease

The sound of a musical

DTC's South Pacific should be heard and not seen

Blues no more

After waiting and worrying, playwrights finally see opening date for Blind Lemon musical

Waiting was the hardest part

Terrence Malick emerges after 20 years with his complex but compelling The Thin Red Line

Beach bums

With a tired plot and cutout characters, Six Days, Seven Nights seems longer

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Here be monsters

The Island of Dr. Moreau is a shambles, but too bizarre just to ignore

Billy Bigelow revisited

There's still more to John Raitt than being Bonnie's dad

Scam Without A Country

For con men the world over, there is no place like the Dominion of Melchizedek because it is no place

Events for the week

For con men the world over, there is no place like the Dominion of Melchizedek because it is no place