Sometimes we don’t have to look far to find reasons to get super indulgent. Just finished a big project at work? Let’s eat some Nutella straight from the jar. Successfully ran a 5K without vomiting more than once? Order a couple baskets of potato skins and then dump them onto…
Ron White, whose headshot greatly resembles a bloated Don Johnson, called Kathleen Madigan “easily one of the best comics alive.” Lewis Black agrees, and that asshole doesn’t like anything. Except rage. One of Madigan’s first appearances was in 1988 on Stand Up Spotlight hosted by a poodle-headed Rosie O’Donnell so…
The Irish are a multi-talented people, churning out figures from Kenneth Branagh to Oscar Wilde to Bono. Ireland has produced great writers like W.B. Yeats and mediocre ones like Frank McCourt. And musical juggernauts like Enya and Sinead O’Connor. But all that historic oppression and drinking doesn’t just contribute to…
If you don’t already know DadBoner, here’s the breakdown. @DadBoner is the Twitter handle of a guy named Karl Welzein, who tweets pop culture commentary (“In the end, the Breaking Brad guy shoulda got erotic with a few babes, piled high with all the toppings. Close out the show with…
Pecan Lodge is quickly achieving legendary status, and actually getting in before all brisket and sides have been piranha’ed is getting harder and harder. So it’s pretty exciting that W.T. White High School is offering plates of Pecan Lodge barbecue along with tickets to school’s performance of The Odd Couple…
Local Urban Craft Kitchen, more smoothly shortened to LUCK, opens this evening at 5 p.m. in Trinity Groves, according to a press release put out today. As the name suggests the restaurant will put a heavy premium on local ingredients and American regional dishes, but what the name leaves out…
UPDATE: According to a spokeswoman the opening has been pushed back to mid-November, firm date coming. Vegetable matter is a precious commodity when it comes to takeout and fast food. So the Green House food truck, even if it left Carnivore-in-Chief Alice wanting a little something more, was a welcome…
Maybe Rick Perry’s “come check out Texas” campaign is really paying off. According to Austin360.com, Union Square Hospitality Group has announced their first ever restaurant opening in Austin in late 2014. Which means Texas is getting its very first Shake Shack. Shake Shack is famous not just for its legendary…
This Saturday and Sunday Texas Theatre will be home to all manner of low-budget shocks and splatters. The DOA Bloodbath Film Festival is back for its fifth year, celebrating the Halloween season with independent horror films from around the world. At a glance one would assume that DOA stands for…
The Lone Star Film Society has announced the lineup for its seventh annual film festival and its poised to be their biggest year yet. Along with big names like The Book Thief, directed by Brian Percival of Downton Abbey fame, and studios like Fox and Sony Classic Pictures, the 2013…
Has the government shutdown still got you down? Looking for a reason to get out of bed now that summer is over, at least in the strictest technical sense? Or maybe you’re just disappointed at the newest crop of freshmen Saturday Night Live players. What you need is a healthy…
When night falls on the Dallas Arts District tonight, expect the whole area to come to life, like when forests of mushrooms crop up after a rainstorm. The Aurora Project, presented by The Dallas Morning News, is a massive open-air exhibition that allows artists to turn the nearly 70-acre district…
Few things can cause rifts in friendships like disagreements over what is and isn’t OK to eat. But fad diets and molecular gastronomy are rarely the source of contention as much as meat-eating is. Many a dinner party of barbecue has fallen apart once some unwitting attendee realizes there’s no…
Pole dancing has been a non-stripper thing for a while now. Well, it’s obviously still a stripper thing, but many non-strippers now turn to it for general fitness and to ensure they could flee upward into a firehouse if the situation calls for it. Even though pole dancing champions have…
After elementary school, Columbus Day loses a lot of its luster. The day off is nice, but it starts to get harder and harder to really get into Christopher Columbus. You learn that he actually wanted to get to India and about the whole genocide part, and it’s just hard…
Though it’s still firmly rooted in the strip club scene, pole dancing has been in daylight for a while now. It may still raise some eyebrows when it shows up on the class schedule at an aerobics studio, but even the most pearl-clutching of housewives will admit that shimmying up…
For the past few years State of the Arts, a panel series hosted by KERA-FM 90.1’s Jeff Whittington and presented by the same station’s Art & Seek, has been bringing fascinating conversations about art to North Texas. The series has brought together scenic designers, photojournalists, composers and museum directors to…
This weekend Klyde Warren Park will be a great place to revel in the North Texas cultural scene. Museums and theater groups will descend on the park for Fall for the Arts, a day long event of music and performances. To make it a full on arts bonanza, Fall for…
On Sunday the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 North Harwood St.) premieres Give More Than You Can Take, the first survey exhibition of American installation artist Jim Hodges. The New York-based Hodges has been working since 1987, and Give More Than You Can Take features 80 pieces from throughout his…
Dallas Pride may be over, but that’s no reason to let the pride stop. Dallas Southern Pride, the city’s biggest black gay pride event, is this weekend, and the theme is “Candy Land: Where Everything is Sweeter and Sexier.” Organizers are expecting 10,000 people to show, and the perfect way…
As the weather seems to be turning less and less hostile (all those joggers we sacrificed over the summer are finally paying off), the urge to actually leave the house is stronger than it’s been in months. That’s just in time for Fall for the Arts, in Klyde Warren Park…
FenCon is not a pedestrian science fiction and fantasy convention. FenCon is a bastion for fans of literary science fiction, with a heavy emphasis on science, literature and music, and this weekend is its 10th iteration, at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 14315 Midway Road in Addison. Since it’s a member of…
