La Cage aux Folles is a classic story of love triumphing in the face of diversity. Except it is a little more, well, diverse than it is classic. Georges owns a nightclub in Saint-Tropez, La Cage aux Folles (The Birdcage). He and his longtime partner, Albin, who is also the…
The Harlem Globetrotters were originally named the “Savoy Big Five,” and the team was founded in 1926 in Chicago by Abe Saperstein. That’s right, Chicago. They didn’t actually play a game in Harlem until 42 years later, in 1968. Also, they played pretty serious basketball, honing the tricks and routines…
Love a good romantic comedy? A sucker for a happy ending? Well, they don’t come much better than in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. I know, its not exactly a Meg Ryan film, but, give it a chance and it will jerk the tears right out of you. And,…
My first concert ever was Van Halen in 1982. I was 13 and almost definitely wearing feather earrings, with bandannas hanging from my belt loops and wrapped around my wrists. The show was at The Capital Centre (where, four years later, the legendary Heavy Metal Parking Lot was filmed) in…
The new exhibit Texas Bauhaus illustrates the Bauhaus philosophy, where “less is more” is the key, as seen through the photographs of three Texas women—Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988), who taught photography beginning in 1935 at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, along with two of her protégés, Barbara Maples (1912-1999) and Ida…
Growing up, I remember Albert Lamorisse’s The Red Balloon, a gorgeously filmed tale of an enchanted balloon and a boy in 1950s Paris, being shown a lot in school. It seemed like every time there was a spare moment, the teacher would haul out the projector and play it. And,…
What could be better to gear up for the New Year than a good ol’ Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire movie like Holiday Inn? Irving Berlin wrote it (and its many classic songs), and you can watch over steak and wine under the Dallas sky as singer Jim Hardy (Crosby) and dancer…
This weekend, a trip to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth could take you much farther, when the Modern presents In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) as part of the Magnolia at the Modern film series. The surviving crew members from NASA’s nine Apollo missions, which went to…
The 13th annual Careity Celebrity Cutting event takes place Friday at Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, featuring such irresistible luminaries as David Dewhurst and Tanya Tucker. For the uninitiated, cutting is an equine spectator sport in which a single rider gently guides a single calf away from its…
