The Manhattan Transfer hasn’t released an album since 2006’s An Acapella Christmas and The Symphony Sessions, but who are we kidding? That doesn’t matter one jazzily delivered lick. The Transfer is known for their four-part, middle-aged, co-ed harmonies and popped-up vocal “stylings” of jazz standards…and for a few songs that,…

Back in the 1970s it was all black and white, wasn’t it? Everyone was listening to ELO and Supertramp, eating fast food only on special occasions and watching Sleestaks on Land of the Lost. And Bill Owens was literally shooting the black and white of it all for his photographic…

Merriam-Webster’s Web site defines “grotto” as “1. Cave, 2. Artificial recess or structure made to resemble a natural cave.” In visual artist Adam Morey’s exhibition Grotto, he employs the use of light and its penetration of transparencies, its movement around opacities and other elements to achieve an unpredictable dialogue with…

Sure you can downward-dog and cobra and tree. You can meditate and balance your chi. You may have even dabbled in Tibetan Buddhism–I could throw a stick and hit a Dallasite who took a weekend’s worth of interest in the religion and it’s discipline when it came into “vogue.” But…

The Stars’ season has, so far, seen a bit of the ol’ back-and-forth, the win-and-lose, the come-and-go. Stats notwithstanding and because I’m feeling a little excited that it’s chilly and it’s hockey season (yeah, me and three other people, I know), I’m going to give you a “hat trick,” so…

New York artist Kate Gilmore’s Girl Fight isn’t about ripping someone’s weave out or clawing runs into someone’s clothing and/or face. It’s more like a commentary via video installation on the sometimes laughable struggle within one’s self and with society when it comes to just being a girl. Exhibition curator…

There is a holiday story that’s bigger than Santa’s bag of toys. That blows the nose off Rudolph. That melts Frosty and burns Alfie the Christmas tree…no, never mind, no one messes with Alfie (regardless of his association with John Denver). This legendary tale travels through reality, Nod and a…

The story goes that when America’s Got Talent judge David Hasselhoff laid eyes upon comic impersonator and puppet master of sorts Terry Fator he said, “Oh, no, a ventriloquist.” But c’mon, we only trust the Hoff’s expertise when it comes to cheeseburgers and home video. Fator proved Sir Baywatch wrong…

Most people think that ballet is all pink pointe shoes, tutus and the stuff of Swan Lake. But thanks to choreographers such as Alvin Ailey and Ohad Naharin, and contemporary ballet companies like Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal that perform said choreographers’ cutting-edge and boundary-crossing works, ballet isn’t stuck…

Imagine our delight to find an art exhibition that focuses on life as affected by contemporary media. Except, well, it isn’t so much media proper (newspapers and the like), so our egos weren’t stroked as much as we’d like…but hey, a nod is a nod, right? Anyway, 500X hosts Open…

Bridges to nowhere have been a hot political topic of late–but at Craighead-Green Gallery, the artistic “bridges” of exhibition trio David Crismon, Danna Ruth Harvey and Jeff Wilson definitely go somewhere. Crismon, working in oil painting on metal, creates new presentations via manipulation of historical works in Dislocated Histories. He…

Laurie Berkner totally knows that kids really dig being silly. Like dancing, jumping, funny-face silly. Like, cry-halting, positive mood-swing silly. It’s as though she’s tapped into what those Yo Gabba Gabba! kids are dancing to, bottled it, reformulated it with piano, bass, her acoustic guitar and child- and adult-friendly voice…

Call us crazy, but despite gluttony being one of the seven deadly sins, we really have no problem with shoveling some seriously delicious food into our cakeholes. Especially, when the price to do so is but $20 and the samplings (offered fair-style for purchased tickets) come from more than 10…

Brian Gibb is a dangerous man. He can make you want things. He can make you buy things. And he doesn’t even have to be in the room. His eye for talent brings some seriously amazing shows to his gallery, The Public Trust. But more important, his own art is…well…addictive…

I know, I know. It’s called Tuna Does Vegas. But part of me really wishes it was Vegas Does Tuna so I could observe not only how many wardrobe changes it would take to make a really, really awesome tuna sandwich onstage, but also so I could see a long…

The Nasher Sculpture Center may only be 5-years-old, but it totally knows how to celebrate. The museum is kicking out the jams family-style with sculpture scavenger hunts, live dance (courtesy the Dallas Black Dance Theatre), choral (Arts District Chorale) and opera highlights (Dallas Opera), museum tours, artist demos and so…

OK, so General Hospital’s Lucky (Greg Vaughan) is signing autographs and greeting fans as part of everyone’s favorite publication Soap Opera Digest’s “Shop Like a Soap Star” tour. Now, this is interesting to us, because we did want to know where soap stars got those iconic outfits–think Erica Kane’s shoulder-padded…

When music collides with performance art, the hope is always that nymph-like art rock icon Laurie Anderson is the mastermind. For more than three decades, Anderson has provided fodder for head-cocks and deep thoughts through amazingly diverse performances, film and, hell, even a little dance. And she’s done it all…

I enjoy a good play on words even more when it’s paired with a great cause. Thus, it pleases me that the Furniture Marketing Group and Haworth are hosting the “Everyone Deserves a Place at the Table” fundraiser for the North Texas Food Bank…since, well, both organizations deal with those…

I’m not sure where it began, really. It could be somewhere in a vast history of working in a retail setting with excessive compilations featuring the song. It could’ve come from watching late-night compilation infomercials. It might be really bad luck. One thing I do know: It has nothing to…