Here’s a fun idea — let’s pit a bunch of comedians against each other on a softball field. Because if there’s one thing comedians are known for, it’s their athletic prowess. Now let’s place bets on the number of wacky knee socks that take the field at the DFW Comics…

The Producers is the Oprah’s Favorite Things of theater. You can’t help but sing-shout when you talk about it. And starting Friday, The Uptown Players will give you a reason to sing-shout all the damn time. They’ll perform The Producers and it’ll have everything you’re looking for: riotous comedy, oversized…

In life, few things change faster than fashion. Like, we’re back to jellies now? With ankle socks? And bike shorts? Apparently baffled is the look of the season. But not necessarily the look of the fall. To find out what is, head to Intermix on Thursday to be one of…

For the rest of America, fall is just around the corner. Here in Texas that means slightly less-hot summer will arrive in a couple of months. And with that one-degree temperature change comes a need for a whole new wardrobe. But we need help. How do we transition from summer…

There’s way more to Latino fashion than stereotypes suggest. It’s an often overlooked branch of a highly competitive industry, a branch that is constantly shouldered out by long-standing labels. But that is changing. Top Latino designers including John Dunn from Puerto Rico, Yirko Sivirich from Peru and Camilo Alvarez from…

Work on your whoops and perfect your “hollas” because Passion 4 Fashion is about to fashion all over your face. Wait, what? Join the cyclists of Lone Star Ride Fighting AIDS for an evening of fashion that not only benefits their cause, but yours as well. (It’s a night of…

How much cute is too much cute? Because we’re officially at the tipping point. It’s the Second Annual Project Pugway Fashion Showwwwww!! (You have to add an echo and exclaim that. It’s a cute mandate.) Project Pugway is a real-life runway show featuring pug fashion in categories such as Spring,…

Are you fantastic? Like to dress in plastic? Or like to be around people that do? Head to Club Colette for the Alter Ego “Sticky” Party. The event celebrates the 2013 Alter Ego Calendar, so yes, calendar girls will be present and they’ll be dressed in their finest latex and…

There was a time in America when family dinners were a thing and fast food restaurants weren’t. When a kid’s biggest concern was dodging lawn darts and not virtual insults. Pat Hazell remembers that time. So well, in fact, that he wrote an entire half-theater, half-stand-up routine about it. It’s…

When you get pit stains just from looking out your window, it’s not easy to think about Christmas. But when you realize there are people living out there and there’s something you can do to help, it’s time to put on the ol’ elf hat (preferably a ventilated one) and…

Turns out Ryan Cabrera is from Dallas. Who knew? I know what you’re thinking: “That guy with oversized Sonic the Hedgehog hair who once dated Ashlee Simpson?!?” YES. That guy. He’s from here! And so is Chip Jordan, founder of Real Industry People Entertainment, or RIPE, and apparently they used…

Ashley North Compton says it right on her website: “I make a mean cocktail.” It’s wedged under her one million other jobs — including beekeeper — but hey, it’s there. And soon, she’ll be here, at Oil & Cotton teaching your bumpkin ass how to make a proper drink. Lucky…

Looking for a gam-tastic good time? Head to Speakeasy, A 1920s Prohibition Party Birthday Bash. It’s a celebration for Retro Lovely Magazine and Angela Ryan, who will be signing autographs all night. The party is obviously a throwback to a time when drinking was done out of bathtubs and back…

The W Hotel is a scene, and it’s about to get a whole lot scene-ier. The W Hotel’s Living Room bar is teaming up with Havana Social Club to give you, the faux-tanned and freshly Nair-ed public, Havana Nights. The evening will include flights of spirits (the alcohol kind, not…

Avenue Q is a part-human, part-puppet musical for adults. (Well, let’s just say “mature audiences” because we all know 18-and-overs who giggle at the mere mention of s-e-x, drinking and p-o-r-n.) Anyway, Avenue Q tells the tale of a recent college graduate, Princeton, who moves all the way down to…

Michelle Hailey, aka Hypnotic Diva, aka HD, is bringing her Las Vegas stage show to one of Plano’s most notable Caribbean restaurants. Throughout the evening she’ll razzle dazzle you with comedy, hypnosis, sequins and tight dresses. She’ll call on volunteers, hypnotize them and basically encourage them to make asses of…

Here’s a fun fact for all you fun-fact nerd types: The Rocky Horror Picture Show invented shadowcasting, which is basically like watching a movie in surround life instead of surround sound. It’s created when the film is played in the background while a cast performs it onstage in the foreground,…

It’s a good thing the drinkers of the world don’t have to keep up with all the different types of gin or the sleights of hand that distinguish Manhattans from Algonquians. That’s the bartender’s job, thankfully, since measuring and muddling and mixing requires constant education (and, happily, plenty of sampling)…

If you’re living on a beanbag chair with a milk crate ottoman, get a job, you hippie. And then head to the first ever ID Dallas furniture showcase. There’s a thriving scene here in Dallas, and this one isn’t pumped full of Botox. This one is filled with handcrafted furniture…

Motions and Emotions is, shockingly, not a Beach Boys song. It’s a night of art, fashion, dance, catwalkin’ and charity, all for the kids. The event, which benefits the Children’s Medical Center, is free, with “food and drinks on us.” A $5 donation is suggested but not required so go,…

When you think “magician,” you probably think of Criss Angel … and then you instantly mutter, “What a douche.” But hopefully after you spend an evening with As We Lie Still, a contemporary musical about — you guessed it — a magician, you’ll think neither of those things. And maybe…

He’s given us Fat Albert, Pudding Pops and, unfortunately, Raven Symone. But let’s not hold that last one against, OK? After all, WACKY SWEATERS. I am, of course, talking about the man, the myth, the legend with the things and the stories and the words — Mr. Bill Cosby. He’ll…