It was a time when Jennifer Lopez was just a fly girl, Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx were relative unknowns, and Tommy Davidson was just a comedian performing his Sammy Davis Jr. and Sugar Ray Leonard impersonations. Unless you lived in a cave or sketch comedy just wasn’t your thing,…
Tommy Davidson will be at the Arlington Improv for a special engagement May 1-4, telling jokes, singing, and fingers crossed — doing his spot-on President Barack Obama impersonation…
Todd Barry wants to make fun of you, and you should let him. Here’s why: He’s moving away from the traditional stand-up routine and exercising his crowd work skills in his most recent tour, the appropriately named “Todd Barry: The Final Crowd Work Tour.” He’s done this before, and he’s…
Just a few weeks after the Dallas International Film Festival packed up its reels and stuffed them into storage, the USA Film Festival has arrived, beginning today at the Angelika Film Center. Although, you may not remember it was happening there are plenty of movie screenings, talk-backs and events for…
Comedian and actor Todd Barry will be in Dallas April 25 at the Sons of Hermann Hall to promote his Louis C.K.-produced “Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour.” It won’t be the typical guy-stands-before-crowd-and-tells-jokes show. Instead, it’s complete improv and his main source of material is you, the audience…
Maybe I hang out with extreme cynics or maybe my friends don’t appreciate free, outdoor concerts like I do, or heck, I probably just don’t have enough friends, but convincing someone to tag along with me to the Final Four series of concerts at Reunion Plaza proved tricky. Everyone told…
If it isn’t enough watching Jillian Michaels yell in Biggest Loser contestants’ faces and then spending alone time with her in your living room while you grunt and groan to her workout DVDs, then her Maximize Your Life tour might just be the perfect push for you to finally get…
Her on-air personality is typically a hardcore mean trainer, who motivates The Biggest Loser contestants by most of the time yelling in their face…
Last night I reluctantly headed to Deep Ellum’s Club Dada to see Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band perform. Now, if you’re anything like me, then that sentence takes some serious digesting before it can be completely understood. Former child star Macaulay Culkin is in a Velvet Underground cover…
Can you hear that? It might be somewhat foreign by now, but it’s the sound of the Dallas Cowboys scoring a touchdown. You know, thousands of fans cheering in Cowboys AT&T Stadium and that one song blares through the speakers. Well that song is California-based band The Burning of Rome’s…
Even with the cold wind, Texas country music fans still headed out to enjoy the 18th annual Texas Music Revolution. This festival, featuring more than a dozen acts on the bill, was to take place at the famous Southfork Ranch in Parker. My friend and I picked up our tickets…
Sarah Jessica Parker will be in Dallas on March 9 to promote her shoe line and probably make Nordstrom’s in NorthPark a giant nightmare of starstruck women of all ages. The department store won’t be safe to go near for an entire afternoon. SJP is best known as her New…
It might have been the Christmas spirit or a feeling of a quarter-life crisis creeping up on me, but whatever the reason, I decided to volunteer. I ended up teaching some local kids everything about hip-hop dancing. Before you glance up at my name or Facebook stalk me, I am…
It all started with one tweet. Nice! Not even MY “entire”family are big fans. A few are like,”meh”RT @paginaskinner:seeing you in concert Sat.My entire family are big fans— Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) July 25, 2013 As I was performing my usual pre-concert routine of listening to the artist’s entire collection, I…
At about 2 p.m., I decided to purchase tickets to Demi Lovato at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie. Because why not? Now, I knew my friend and I would be some of the oldest people there sans parents, but we didn’t know just how old we would feel. I was…
