You know the holiday season is just around the corner when tree ornaments and lights go up at Walgreen’s, Christmas gift ideas start showing up in magazines and newspapers, and The Nutcracker (in some form or fashion) starts popping up on theater marquees. And this season for DFW, the nutcracking…
How can you not love Kevin James and Vince Vaughn? Kevin is always the endearing and portly sidekick (with an asthma problem, if you remember his character in Hitch) and Vince is ever the fast-talking funny man who has cemented “ear muffs!” and “Dorothy Mantooth is a saint!” forever in…
Generally we find ventriloquists to be the opposite of funny and actually, kind of creepy. OK, really creepy. However, puppets in general are a different story. From that endearing scene in The Sound of Music–where governess Maria stages the puppet show that presumably gets Captain von Trapp to notice her–all…
For all those out there whose frustration level with the Cowboys season thus far has reached higher than Jerry Jones’ blood pressure (as mine has), fear not: Respite is on the way. Regardless of how much the last few seasons may or may not have been a disappointment, the Dallas…
It’s been right around six months since the devastating fire that devoured four beloved bars and restaurants on Lower Greenville Avenue. And while the time has passed and more and more information has leaked out about insurance (or the lack thereof) claims, lost jobs and the cause of the blaze,…
There seems to be a new trend: overachievers who decide to participate in marathons. As someone who generally avoids any kind of working out or physical exertion in the presence of any other living soul, I have not come around to this new trend. However, I make one exception to…
Even considering people who don’t regularly follow professional sports, it would be rather difficult to find anyone who missed the dramatic fallout surrounding the Cleveland Cavaliers this summer. To recap: The Cavs’ very own King (LeBron) James decided to jump ship in Ohio to join cronies Chris Bosh and Dwyane…
In DFW, nothing says Fall quite like temperatures below 90 degrees, Cowboys football, and the great State Fair of Texas. I’d be willing to bet (basically for no other reason than state pride and instinct) that no other city or state’s attempt at a fair of any sort can even…
As a recent devotee to Entourage and all of the Hollywood drama and stereotypes (and well primarily just Jeremy Piven in general) it entails, I am convinced that if Vincent Chase really did exist, he and E would have fired Ari for not getting him the lead role in David…
Carnegie Hall is to classical music as Cowboys Stadium is to football. And for those who have taken residence under a rock somewhere in the past two years, it is the largest domed stadium in the world and houses the largest high definition video screen in the world at its…
When I was a kid, Aladdin on Ice and other live-esque shows dedicated to the various popular children’s movies of the day were a massive upgrade from your typical elementary school entertainment. They were an almost literal immersion into a fantasy world, the likes of which even the biggest IMAX…
There have been some pretty famous men in the past who have been lucky enough to get some pretty epic nicknames. “The Duke” (John Wayne), “Ol’ Blue Eyes” (Frank Sinatra), “The Boss” (Bruce Springsteen), and of course the most infamous of them all, “Tater Salad.” And to whom does the…
Long before little orphan Annie ever immortalized the phrase, “the sun’ll come out…tomorrow,” there had long been another orphan Anne in town. The Anne I speak of is the title character from Lucy Laud Montgomery’s famous novel Anne of Green Gables. Both of these orphans have red hair in common,…
Popular country music of today has evolved to something that probably makes Johnny and Hank turn over in their graves, and Merle just cringe really intensely. Funny that these exact individuals are the legends who most country superstars credit as their musical influences. That said, however pop-esque his sound may…
In-laws always seem to get a bad wrap. Specifically, the mother-in-law always seems to be an adversarial figure in just about any situation, real or fictional, you could think of. I blame plays like Once Upon A Mattress, currently running at the Runway Theatre, 217 N Dooley St. in Grapevine…
We think it’s fair to say that Lady GaGa is the new Madonna. She’s become quite the cultural phenomenon, to say the least. Most people who are familiar with her–and at this point, with as many times as Top 40 radio plays “Poker Face” and “Alejandro,” it’d be impossible not…
Tap dancing is probably one of the most underrated art forms of all time. Even though Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Gregory Hines made it look easy and badass, nowadays everyone thinks ballroom dancing is the superior dancing style. Show me Tap Dancing With The Stars and then I’ll be…
It’s fair to say that Americans are huge fans of any holiday that incorporates grilling (or any other kind of food consumption), beer drinking and any sort of potential patriotic display where color-coordinated clothing is required. Be it Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick’s Day, Memorial Day, etc., no one can…
Baseball truly is America’s pasttime. Where else would a nonprofit organization be able to not only exist but thrive as an entity that supports and facilitates the futures of young lives through baseball? You guessed it–right here in Big D, in the good ol’ US of A. For the last…
Some things you might not know about Whoopi Goldberg: She has been married (and divorced) three times; she has won almost every notable award one can win in entertainment (save an MTV Video Music Award or a CMA); she doesn’t seem to despise The View like everyone else in America;…
There is something about foreign language films–specifically, Spanish foreign-language films–that is undeniably sexy. Whether it is the beautiful scenery from the streets of cities like Barcelona or the ebb and flow of a romance language that has now thrice mystified me in my learning attempts, I don’t know. But they…
Going on an African safari would be totally badass. But as far as affordable vacation destinations go, they rank very near the bottom of that list, surpassed only by trips to the moon (just ask Lance Bass). Fear not, because the Dallas Zoo has the perfect solution. At 9 a.m…
