During the summer of love, people hung out outside, sang songs and had sex, producing kids with stupid names like “Flowerpuff.” But summer lovin’ is what happened to Sandy and Danny in Grease. This Thursday, combine the two by bringing your significant other to a free outdoor screening of Grease…
Two weeks ago, a pretty Irish lady who also happens to be the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize winner was in Dallas to talk about a city she is opening in Italy. There, hundreds, maybe thousands, of orphaned, abused and otherwise displaced refugee children will come to live in safety and…
Hard. Pale. Chunky. Chipped. Not exactly phrases I’d use to describe hot legs. But the Venus Breeze razor “Legs of a Goddess” contest is so named, and all the goddess legs I’ve ever seen have been carved into stone and marble, ancient representations of female deities displayed in museums. Since…
You live in a remarkable time. Not because humanity is exploring new media at the dawn of the digital age or forming more open, democratic societies that place more emphasis on social equality. No, you’re fortunate because of Harry Potter. You are in the midst of the debut of an…
A little girl in a black and white polka-dotted leotard with a pretty, frilly skirt practices her turns on the practically empty ice rink at the Downtown Dallas Westin Hotel. Her skates are bulky, like cinderblocks on the ends of her skinny legs, but she doesn’t mind. She twirls on…
For too long, museums have separated art from science. But who has not gazed upon the structure of a T-Rex and seen beauty? But for one evening, natural history and the arts will unite in a lecture called Art Treasures of Natural History: Connoisseurship and Preservation. The accompanying exhibit features…
Raise the terror attack threat suspicious activity alert monitor bar system color code level to pearly white! Why? Because, Lord willing, the Gospel Comedy Explosion is coming to town! Sister Cantaloupe, Chocolate, Ms. Vickie and other special guests will be holy rolling in on a church bus fully loaded with…
WWJR: We’ve never had any beef with church or church-goers—it’s just that Sunday mornings are mostly good for sleeping, and those pews are even less accommodating than the kitchen floor, which is usually where we find ourselves, frequently facedown, on a Sunday morning. But if controversial gospel rapper Tonex continues…
What parent has not used that most despicable of embarrassment methods—singing what he or she believes is “cool” music at top volume in front of their offspring’s friends? In case you just couldn’t get enough of that as a teen, you can experience something quite similar this Friday at the…
There are two Marshall Sylvers onstage in front of 500 rapt fans in a high-ceilinged ballroom at the Adam’s Mark hotel. One Marshall Sylver is on a larger-than-life poster, posed in front of a Rolls-Royce, its hood ornament perfectly in focus. This Sylver wears a tailored suit and a shiny…
Toby Keith is bringing America to the Smirnoff Music Centre for a concert this Sunday night. As the official keeper of America, Keith will unload buses full of apple pie, ass-whoopings, yellow “Support Our Troops” magnetic ribbons, Bud Light, Big Macs, Bibles and pretty little blond girls with ringlets. He…
We say: the phrase “killer of sheep.” You think: rap metal band circa 1994, something Wes Borland would have been into before he met Fred Durst. Or maybe you’re thinking more along the lines of an awesome epic epithet. Like a metaphor for a character’s tendency to wipe out hordes…
So, I was hanging out the other day, working on my list of things that make babies go blind, and I just felt like something was missing. I had all the obvious ones, such as sharp objects and hazardous chemicals and, of course, blindfolds. But it just didn’t feel complete…
Band campers: Whatever cancer-promoting evils Camel cigarettes may be perpetrating, their most dastardly deed recently was kicking 15 kids out of summer camp. Sure, the ousting was temporary and the kids weren’t exactly singing “Kumbaya”—more like some Zeppelin or Sabbath—but for four hours, the teenage attendees of Rock Camp USA…
What a powerful moment it is when you realize a man, like, really understands you. A man who completes your soul in ways you could only imagine. The kind of guy who writes books telling you exactly what you should do with your reproductive organs, with whom and, of course,…
No longer does the Super-Soaker suffice; kids now have the Super Big Freaking Soaker Million-Jet Water Assault Rifle With Detachable Power Saw. And they had to put Spider-Man in a three-movie special effects crapfest so the kids would come out and enjoy the superhero. Very rarely are things that were…
It is just before 7 o’clock in the morning, and I’m standing in a closet somewhere deep inside Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Cristina, a short woman with a smile far too big for the early hour, is shaking her head in amused disapproval as I fumble with the gold buttons…
Cue the scary, ominous echoing music. Dum-dum-dum-dum. Chssh-chssh-chssh-chssh. Nowhere is safe. No one is protected from…the page turner! You can read, but you can’t move forward until…dum-dum-dum-dum, chssh-chssh-chssh-chssh…the page turner says so! Cower in fear of the hand that rocks the novel. No? Not scared? We didn’t think so. But…
Tolerance? You want to talk about tolerance, Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre, home of the upcoming play about acceptance, Honk!? OK, then. We’ll talk about tolerating people who think movies are a great place to bring babies. How about tolerating that jerk in sales who drinks the last of the…
Always look on the bright side of life. We do, and so do the creators of Dadfest, a morning-long dad party celebrating dudes with spawn. Dadfest features a kids’ 50-yard dash, a 5K run and something called the “diaper dash,” which sounds more like what Grandpa does after a big…
In an Al-Jazeera (stick with us, rednecks) profile of Arab comedian Maysoon Zayid, the 30-year-old Muslim virgin with cerebral palsy laments that being 30 and single in America is fabulous and very Sex and the City, but being 30 and Arab and single is like being 67. The remarkable Zayid…
It’s been pouring rain for three days—a real toad strangler, as members of my East Texas family would say—but that isn’t stopping thousands of people from spending their Memorial Day holiday prancing around outside in lace corsets, spandex tights and capes. What’s a little rain when there are jousts to…
