There’s a new exhibition on display now at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive, and it goes by the name of Sweet Acrobatics: An Artistic Study of Motion. For you old-timers out there, let me explain: the “sweet” in the exhibition’s title does not refer to anything…
If the closest you’ve come to seeing a Japanese film this year was nostalgically watching Kill Bill: Vol. 1 on DVD one lazy Sunday afternoon, it’s time to shape up. Head to SMU’s McCord Auditorium, 3225 University Blvd., at 6:30 p.m. Friday to see the first of four days of…
Ever since the mindless swill the Disney Channel serves up cornered the market a few years back, kids spend their time learning about young pop stars who lead double lives and pretty teenage girls who are full of angst ’cause they’re also wizards. Kinda makes you lose faith in children’s…
When it comes to reaching cookie jars on high shelves, sure, the longer the arms, the better. But sometimes shorter is where it’s at. Take Ray Carannante, for example: He was crowned the first ever skee-ball national champion in New York City last month. He’s 5’5″. And for those of…
In my spice cabinet, or rather, in the tiny cupboard in my kitchen that’s crammed with glasses and bowls and spices tossed willy-nilly, there is one spice in particular that’s always running low. And that spice, my curious culinary friends, is curry powder. I’ll eat basically anything as long as…
Sometimes in our modern world, it pays to be an individual. If you have a unique way of thinking about things, you could potentially invent some new wonder product, become the next big thing in the art world or make really weird music videos. But at other times, it pays…
The best part about being a kid is all the leisure reading you get to do. With no job, no bills to pay and no physics homework (yet), a kid could probably finish Infinite Jest in a couple of weeks–if video games didn’t exist, of course. If you have fond…
Usually, an empty bowl is a bad thing, like if your cat is hungry, or your pipe needs to be refilled. But sometimes, it’s a great thing, like an empty toilet bowl, or Empty Bowls 2010, a Tarrant Area Food Bank art luncheon that helps fight hunger. For $35, you…
If someone finds out you’re a fan of the show Flight of the Conchords, there’s always one question they want to ask: Bret or Jemaine? But I think people need to delve deeper under the surface of the show and ask the real, tough questions like: Murray or Dave? Come…
When I think of a “stewpot,” I think of a big pot full of lots of different vegetables stewing in juices, slow-cooking to delicious perfection. The Stewpot in Dallas, of course, is a bit different: It’s a resource center for homeless and at-risk individuals, and instead of being full of…
The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth is hosting their annual Mostly Mozart New Year Celebration Concert on Saturday with a 2 p.m. performance at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St. Featured pianist Adam Golka is only 22 years old, but has already performed at Carnegie…
Sometimes I bemoan growing up an American mutt, with no evidence of my ancestors’ nationalities except a few vague stories of people on boats in cold weather. But I do know I’m a full quarter Norwegian, and I like to tell people my Norwegian blood is why I never get…
I went to a trail of lights display last year, and it was OK. But the whole time I was walking along, looking at cardboard Disney characters and rows of red and green porta-potties, I had this itchy feeling in my heart, like something was missing. So, when I heard…
The name of the MADI movement, which is the force behind the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, 3109 Carlisle St., doesn’t have definite origins. Some say it comes from the founder’s name, CarMelo ArDen QuIn, but that looks a little too much like a 14-year-old’s MySpace page for my…
Entertaining people over the holidays really just creates an opportunity for disaster. Someone could get drunk and naked, the decorations could catch on fire or, worst of all, your souffle could go flat. So, why not ease some of the stress that goes along with planning a holiday meal by…
If you’re anything like me, you weren’t alive in the ’60s. You never shook hands with President Kennedy or attended (the original) Woodstock, and touch-tone phones totally predate you. And, perhaps most important of all, you never saw the Rat Pack live in Las Vegas, you poor, poor soul. (I’m…
Seems like Thanksgiving just happened and then you knock out Christmas and Hanukkah, and, man, am I full. I’d been dreaming about mashed potatoes and cornbread dressing for more than a month and one season didn’t cut it. But despite being a time for food festivities, the holidays were also…
I’m sick of misnomers. Guinea pigs aren’t pigs and aren’t from Guinea. Ringworm doesn’t come from a worm. Why can’t the people in charge just do the right thing? I think Michelle L’amour, Miss Exotic World 2005, feels the same way I do because when she started up the Naked…
My house is definitely not a net zero energy house. But such things do exist. GreenCraft Builders just put up a new house in Lewisville–the TimberCreek Net Zero Energy House–and as its name suggests, the house produces as much or more energy than it consumes over the course of a…
Stage names are a pretty good invention in general. If you’re born Norma Jean but want to be a glamorous movie star, you dye your hair blond and become Marilyn. If you’re born David McMahon and want to write music and make fun DVDs for kids, you’ve have to get…
I’ve never had a dog that was into catching Frisbees. I’ve trained dogs to sit, shake, shake with the other paw, lie down, roll over, play dead and even jump through a hula hoop. But never the Frisbee. And I’m gonna go out on a limb here and make an…
I want to know how the whole hitting-people-with-a-sword-while-knighting-them thing came about. It seems to me that if you truly respect someone, you should do the opposite of hitting them with a sword. Like, say, not hitting them with a sword. And if that’s what they do when they knight someone,…
