Nothing like a good yeast to sugar ratio brought on by a few glasses of “Big Red” to coax out your inner imagination and break down the barrier between artist and non-artist. Join Creative Musings: Provocative Prints, an informal program designed for adult artists of all experience levels presented by…
Quit rubbing your friends the wrong way. There’s nothing worse than a bad massage–the type that’s too rough, too delicate or leaves knots along your spine. Learn safe and effective basic massage techniques at BODIES: The Exhibition. Jo Grier, a certified massage therapist of 12 years and owner of her…
Guests can be sure to get the best seat in the house at Dallas Symphony Orchestra Saturday night. Seriously, seat swapping is encouraged! Highlights to the annual free open house include an opportunity to rub shoulders with music director Japp van Zweden and DSO musicians; performances by resident organist Mary…
If architecture is a dialogue with the forces of life, Rafael Vinoly, the upcoming lecturer at the Dallas Architecture Forum, is multi-lingual. The leading architect, with buildings ranging from large cultural projects to educational and commercial projects, will speak in the 14th season of the Architecture Forum in the Magnolia…
Ask five people what they think of when they hear the word “India” and you are sure to get five drastically different answers–a group of women peddling embroidered silk scarves on a cobblestone street, Hawaiian retirees eating a bhut jolokia chili pepper, maybe even Paul McCartney practicing transcendental meditation with…
Erotic might not be the best way to describe Fourplay, Webb Gallery’s newest exhibit. You’ll spot big hands and hulking bulges, but rather than make assumptions, allow me to give you the heads up: There isn’t much at Fourplay relating to the sexual endeavors foreplay entices. Rather, the exhibit seems…
Put a little jazz in your step at the 20th annual Denton Arts & Jazz Festival. There’s no “Austin wanna-be” about it, this free weekend festival is all Denton, from the sounds and sights to the flavor and jazz tradition that make up the city. Friday’s headliners include the Chick…
The Cleveland Police Department is something else. At Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s hometown show on March 29, they arrested Flesh-N-Bone, who has only been out of the state pen since July 2008, for allegedly hitting his mother with a gun. The kicker: the incident supposedly happened more than a decade ago! Did…
You can’t get a tan from the glow of your Facebook profile. So strap on your Chacos and slather on the BullFrog, because Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm and Connemara Meadow Preserve, both in Allen, want to help you replenish your vitamin D supply. EarthFest 2010 is a free, family-friendly…
While some of the metroplex’s cream of the crop, as far as chefs go, compete for bragging rights at Dining Out in Dallas: The Battle of the Chefs, remember that it’s your democratic duty, your right and responsibility to vote…and eat really, really good food. For a $50 cover, attendees…
Who would have thought Czech was the language of love? Then again, who would have thought a comedy about a bride exchange would be a national opera? The new romantic comedy, The Bartered Bride, sung in Czech with English subtitles and performed by University of North Texas opera students 8…
Neil Simon wrote Barefoot in the Park, his second play and first hit, with inspiration from his early days of marriage. From the get-go, Corie and Paul Bratter, the play’s newlyweds, hit trouble setting up their first apartment–a minuscule fifth-floor walkup in a downtown Manhattan brownstone. The heat is on…
Get ready to see the biggest dock in Dallas! The second annual Dallas International Boat Show and Dock Party will fill Dallas Market Hall with an ocean of watercraft–from luxury yachts and sailboats to powerboats and water toys–allowing you ample opportunity to dream of manning the wheel, gripping your favorite…
Bad dates. I’ve been on a slew of ’em and dealt with everything from introverted-emotional types all the way to brazen sport-heads, and from five-star restaurants to Mama’s cooking. I’m not awkward; dating is awkward. The cast of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change unabashedly gives voice to the…
Martin Luther King Jr. was 5 years old when James Farmer Jr. was initiating the beginning efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. After his first sit-in at a Chicago coffee shop in 1943, Farmer co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality, to which many Southern college students turned during the 1960s…
The J PLAYERS of the Jewish Community Center of Dallas presents an award-winning Broadway show, Ragtime, The Musical. The show explores the lives of an upper-class housewife, a Jewish immigrant and a Harlem musician all living in New York at the turn of the 20th century and united by their…
To celebrate the University of Texas-Dallas’ 40-year anniversary, the Visual Arts and Humanities Faculty presents an exhibition of works spanning the past four decades, courageously titled Years of Living Dangerously. Sparked from an attitude of continual change, the faculty’s exhibit is a little less dangerous-battle-scene and more of a dangerously…
Usually, there’s nothing funny about murder, but when the crime becomes a musical, there’s room to bend the rules. In The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, a Nazi spy and a German cabaret entertainer–along with the rest of the guests in a New York mansion–try to expose the mysterious murderer…
Dinosaurs may not spring to life and exhibits may not run amok, but if you ever wondered what goes on after hours at a museum, this is your chance. Roll up your sleeping bag and head to The Museum of Nature & Science for Snore and Explore All Things Cold…
Just because the holidays are over doesn’t mean you have to stop snacking. The Four Seasons European-style market at Firewheel Town Center offers some sweet-priced treats–peanut-butter pyramids, handmade truffles, almond toffee and much more–starting in the $3 range. Remember: Sharing is caring. Just try to make it home from the…
Dallas in December isn’t so much a description of weather as it is an inspiring exhibition of artwork at Thornwood Gallery. It features a wide range of painters and sculptures and their interpretations of the human-nature connection, the beauty of found objects and delicate architecture that is so often overlooked…
The best Christmas show in the world might just be THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER! What? You thought The Nutcracker or A Christmas Carol? Boring! Think holiday chaos, questions about the true meaning of Christmas, and the six worst children in the history of the world: the grimy and unruly…
