Amy Schumer is coming to town next April and tickets go on sale this Friday. In the grand tradition of female comics (or comic — Kathy Griffin) she’ll be performing at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie. If you haven’t heard of Amy Schumer, that’s OK. She’s an up-and-comer so…
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, The Uptown Players’ latest production, is basically the story of gay Christmas. Fabulous takes us back to the start of it with the story of Adam and Steve and Jane and Mabel. We then “follow their lives through time as they move from Creation…
Pack up the poop bags and head to the Pet Expo in Fair Park from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and HOLY SHIT WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT SO CLOSE TO CHRISTMAS??? I HAVE TO GO SHOPPING, PUNCH A GRANNY AND LOOT HER CART. All right, everyone just calm…
Tone Bell is from Atlanta, but he started his standup in Dallas, so show him some of that B_G love. Tone was on the now-canceled Whitney, a show in which the parts were greater than the whole. (Individually funny, but put them all together and it was like a one-way…
How The Grinch Stole Christmas is already a legend. Written in 1957, it’s a clever little criticism on the commercialization of Christmas. There’s the Grinch who tries to ruin everything by stealing Christmas altogether and there are The Whos that celebrate the spirit of the season even when they’re tinsel-free…
Merci beaucoup. The 30th annual Beaujolais & Beyond Wine Festival is here, you little beret-wearing neckerchiefs. This year it’s at that incredible building in the middle of nowhere: The Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas. (You know the one — all angles and glass — spectacular, no? Hoh-hoh-hoh.) Hosted by…
The holidays are almost here and if you really love someone, you spend a lot of money on them. And if you really, really love them, you make a homemade gift. Trouble is, according to a Gallup poll, most Americans have no discernible gift-making skills. True story. Hey, we can’t…
If “It’s Raining Men” is running through your head, there’s a good reason. It’s the third Saturday of the month, which means it’s time for GAYBINGO at S4 (3911 Cedar Springs Road)!!! It’s the last Gaybingo of the year — even queens gotta reset — and the theme is “Happy…
“Keep Little Forest Hills Funky” is more than just a stoner’s chant. It’s actually an underground battlecry. It’s the Little Forest Hills residents way of saying, “Keep your barfbag McMasions off our property.” They mean it too. The neighborhood east of White Rock Lake is a quirky hodgepodge. Some streets…
Dallas Contemporary is turning 35 and to celebrate, they’re hosting Alive for 35, a two-day nonstop event that crams approximately 35 million things into less than 48 hours (1 p.m. Friday to midnight Saturday). Go ahead and block that calendar, girrrl. Then chug a sixer of Red Bull because it’s…
Tom Sale is curating The Florence Project at the Webb Gallery and it’s going to be a real doozy. The brain that has created skull spoons, handjobs in hell and foul-mouthed elf ornaments has now created an entire show on his latest obsession — Florence Nightingale. Sale has been studying…
There’s a thing called the Bad Prom 5K that’s so much more than just Bad Prom and a 5K. First of all, you run in your worst prom dress … at dark. (Fingers crossed it’s plastered with sequins.) Along the race path, you’ll dash through every predictable prom theme, loaded…
It’s been lampooned on SNL, mocked at every water cooler and gushed about over skinny caramel lattes at the corner coffee shop. It’s Fifty Shades of Grey, the soft-core porn that never should’ve been. Have I heard legend of women eating beans out of a can at their office desk…
Sandra Bernhard is an actress, comedian, writer, singer, advocate and in general just kind of a badass bitch. And she knows it. Bernhard’s latest show, The Comedic Prophesies of Sandra Bernhard, is playing at The Kessler at 8 tonight. Tickets range from $25 to $300 and are on sale at…
When you think about Sandra Bernhard, you likely picture Nancy, Arnie’s wife on Roseanne, but you need to think a little harder. Bernhard is an octuple threat — she writes, performs, sings, puts on shows, wins awards, write books, puts out albums and back-up sings for big-timers. On Wednesday she’s…
If you grew up anywhere near the ’80s (beat it, Biebers), your TV lineup included CHiPs and Dukes of Hazzard and somewhere in that menagerie of good old boys and tight tan pants you had your first crush. Back then you would’ve done just about anything to meet the legends…
The Walking Dead is back, and this season promises to feature chain-link fences, neutral tones and ample zombie struggles. Maybe even a death or two. To find out who gets dead first, meet up at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station at 8 p.m. Sunday and be among your…
He’s got a big ol’ potato body, but you love his pasty ass anyway. He was an original cast member on Mr. Show, he’s been on the Sarah Silverman Show, and if you were a fan of Just Shoot Me! (ME!), you might remember his 29-episode arc as Ray Liotta’s…
PhotoVelo is a super rad bicycle scavenger hunt in which the list is the opposite of lame. They’re not looking for a gnawed pencil or a used Kabbalah string. They’re looking for amazing things like a team member dressed in a quinceañera gown … for serious. (Also, that was a…
Dane Cook is coming to town, and I know what you’re thinking: “Ew, sick.” “That hack?” “He’s a fart bag.” First of all, we’re kind of all fart bags, aren’t we? And secondly, in order to truly loathe something you should at least be familiar with that thing, right? So…
7 Deadly Sins Burlesque and Sideshow solemnly swears to be “dark, diabolical and dangerous,” and after seeing the promo pics there’s no doubt they’ll deliver. Perhaps you’ve heard of the DJ? Satan! He’s pretty hard to book what with that torturing souls in eternal damnation thing, but DJ Frausun, the…
When you think Oktoberfest, you think Germany, October and beer. But, dear schnitzel, you’re thinking wrong. Change the first two to “Addison” and “September” and you’re in business, Mister. Addison Oktoberfest is here and that means four days of nonstop German things. Beer, tavern-style snacks, arts and crafts, a yodeling…
