Who wouldn’t like to boss around celebrity chef Stephan Pyles? He and more than two dozen local celebrities will be dishing out food and fun at the 12th Annual Celebrity Waiter Gala benefiting the Child Abuse Prevention Center. Thrill to former Oakland Raider and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown dashing…
An argument can be made that no female writer has been more influential than newspaper columnist Heloise, “every housewife’s friend.” The uses of vinegar and the best stain removers! Organization tips and getting burned food out of a pan! Daughter Poncé took up the mantle of Queen of Household Tips…
Family-friendly hilarity is what Tim Conway and Harvey Korman promise in Together Again, their two-man show of “wholesome humor” and “nostalgic and endearing entertainment.” Wow. Does that still exist? If you loved them during their 11-year run on The Carol Burnett Show and shudder to think about Conway and Korman…
“Hell is other people.” When Jean Paul Sartre coined that phrase in his play No Exit, he must have been anticipating Paris Hilton, Dr. Phil and everyone on American Idol. The play revolves around three characters trapped for eternity in a drawing room in hell, where they chatter on about…
The lyrics may not be in English, but the 26-member Soweto Gospel Choir can carry you away. The Atlanta Journal Constitution likens the choir to the sound of “a pipe organ roaring to life.” Formed of singers from South African churches, the choir’s patron saint is Desmond Tutu, and the…
Set against the backdrop of the 1906 quake, the movie San Francisco (1936) starred Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. Nominated for six Oscars, it won only best sound recording. Tracy lost as best actor but was the first to win back-to-back Oscars for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys…
Vote on the worst-dressed. Throw popcorn at long-winded winners. Goggle at starlets who forget to wear their bras. In short, get on the A-List for the 78th Annual Academy Awards by attending one of 46 Academy-Sanctioned Official Oscar Night® America Parties. Telecast on a theater-size screen courtesy of WFAA-Channel 8,…
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled in favor of prison inmate Emily Dowdy (“Oklahoma Railroad,” by Glenna Whitley, July 21, 2005), granting her an evidentiary hearing. Her family hopes the ruling could lead to a new trial. But the hearing, which must be held by mid-April, will take…
As chairman of the Board of Directors of Deloitte & Touche U.S.A., Sharon L. Allen oversees companies with more than $7 billion in annual revenues. But does she balance her own checkbook? Hmmm. Allen will speak as part of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s Distinguished Women Leaders Lecture Series…
You gotta say Texas is picturesque. Any state that includes Padre Island and Palo Duro Canyon, the Big Thicket and Big D’s skyline has got scenery to spare. Artist Kris Kistner of Colleyville often trains a camera on Texas glories—longhorns and landscapes, whooping cranes and cowboys, boots and bullets. See…
Waving to the crowd, the man with the most-talked-about hair in the world bounds onstage to the music of “Money, Money, Money,” surrounded by the “Fun Girls”–tall, sexy models in short black skirts and white tank tops, who are leading the audience in a chant of “Trump, Trump, Trump…” Confetti…
“He lied, cheated, and killed all in the name of love.”—that tag line cited on Internet Movie Database sums up the plot of the oft-filmed thriller Love From a Stranger, adapted from a short story by Agatha Christie. Cecily (Alicia Bullen) wins the lottery, then falls in love and marries…
In late January, University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren crossed the Red River to steal some of the best and brightest students in Dallas from under the noses of college recruiters at the University of Texas and Texas A&M. The method was impressive–and expensive. OU recruiters filled a banquet…
Aloha and pass the shrimp. Chef Roy Yamaguchi will celebrate the fourth anniversary of Roy’s in Plano by preparing a five-course dinner paired with wines from California’s Wente Vineyards. Also at the stove: Kent Rathbun and Brian Sommers of Jasper’s Restaurant in Plano and George Brown of George in Dallas…
You might say Millie Dillmont was looking for love in all the right places: jazz clubs, speakeasies and the Great White Way in Manhattan circa 1922. But what this naïve Midwestern maiden really wanted was a modern marriage. Well, good luck with that. A spirited musical based on the 1967…
Don’t sniff the cork—squeeze it, you dope. Learning the basics about wine can be intimidating, and the titles of books written by expert Brian Smith sound doubly daunting. One is called The Sommelier’s Guide to Wine. Even Smith’s title at The Culinary Institute—Professor in Wine Studies and Liberal Arts—sounds very…
What a family reunion! Granddad’s dying. Babe’s just killed her abusive husband. Meg’s coming home from Hollywood not a star but a nervous wreck, and Lenny, all of 30, sees old age staring back in the mirror. Of the eight plays written by Beth Henley since she graduated from Southern…
Alex Winn’s bedroom was crammed with a dozen teenagers. The smells of old pizza, rank sneakers and sweat hung in the sweltering air. Empty boxes of Goldfish crackers littered the floor and peeked from under the rumpled bed. Against one wall, emitting incredible heat and a blue glow, stood a…
Audubon Dallas and the Fort Worth Audubon Society will go head to head (or is it beak to beak?) in the Big Day Challenge to see which organization can identify the most bird species in Dallas County over a 21-hour period. Participants will form four-person teams. Contact Connie Sandlin at…
“The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.” That Irish proverb is definitely proven true by the indefatigable Chieftains, who return this week for their seventh annual concert at Bass Hall. Co-founded by Paddy Maloney, the Chieftains have been touring internationally for almost 50 years. They’ve played with everyone from…
Pickup tricks: Spotted on the tailgate of a tricked-out Ford dually pickup: “This vehicle used to belong to a drug dealer. It was forfeited and he went to jail.” On the doors: the seal of Mesquite police. Sounds like the Mesquite police are thumbing their noses at the hapless cocaine…
When the inspector showed up to make sure Harrold Andresen’s new enterprise complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act, he learned one of Andresen’s clients–a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic–wanted to learn to weld with his mouth. “Impossible,” most people would say. He’d be incinerated. “No problem,” Andresen says. In a large metal…
