Thank God for the French and poor white Southerners. In this politically correct age, marginalized groups can get mighty huffy about stereotyping, even if it’s sort of good-natured and just for laughs. Seriously, just try to put on a traditional minstrel show and see what happens (really seriously, do NOT…
So, some Mr. Picky Pants classical music critics don’t much care for tenor Andrea Bocelli’s opera singing, describing his voice as resembling a thin, squeaky fart played on a child’s kazoo. (Not their exact words, but we’ve fairly captured the gist of what they’ve written.) Poor man, it must hurt…
Hmm. Now that I think of it, I can recall only a couple of snatches of music from Alfred Hitchcock films: the screaming violins from the shower in Psycho and the thrumming from the scene with the swinging lamp, when Mother showed her face. Of course, the master director must…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com Dear Arlington Martin High School Parents: Your children are sneaky, conniving savages. They have the morals and senses of humor of … well … pirates, and will, if you so much as blink, do their best to make you — adults — look like fools…
Stephen Young told you earlier about the latest renderings of plans lakes along the Trinity River near downtown in a post that seemed just a bit doubtful. “Impossible Fever Dream,” he called them. It’s sad, really. Stephen is a young man, and already he expresses such cynicism toward City Hall…
Frame for frame, is there a more quotable movie than Princess Bride? Hmm. Ghostbusters, maybe. (“That’s a big Twinkie.”) Monty Python and the Holy Grail? (“Your father smelt of elderberries.”) Young Frankenstein, Pulp Fiction … this is the sort of question movie geeks love. Princess Bride might not be No…
You say you just can’t wait to get your greasy mitts on some of the fine State Fair of Texas fried food? Twelve months is just too long to wait between bouts of funnel cakes and corn dogs? Well, we have good news and bad news. The good news is…
During a recent evening rush-hour, KERA was serving commuters one of its usual panels of NPR experts talking about the news, in this case the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot dead by a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. The talking heads all agreed: America needs to…
That image you see above is of a surprising email that just hit my (and probably yours) inbox from RickPac, Governor Rick Perry’s federal political action committee. The surprising part isn’t that Perry’s PAC is using his recent indictment to solicit contributions. All’s fair … when life gives you lemons…
Here’s the lowdown: The Lot’s Geeks Who Drink trivia night is a 120 minutes long. Teams of up to six players each compete in eight rounds of eight questions, with rounds 1, 4 and 6 being themed rounds, while rounds 2, 3 and 7 are … Jesus Christ! Whatever happened…
It’s the archetype of every buddy/cop movie since. Old guy paired with rule-breaking buck. They dislike each other at first, then become BFFs. Over-the-top bad guys. Shooting. Lots and lots of shooting. It’s 1987’s Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as mismatched police partners who something something bang…
At this point in the lives of the remaining members of Monty Python, you have to wonder: Is that a bit from the Ministry of Silly Walks he’s doing, or does John Cleese have a touch of lumbago? Oh, it’ll be hilarious either way; it’s just nicer to laugh with…
What the …?! Oh, come on. More? Geez. OK, fine. But only because the Rangers are done, preseason real football isn’t here yet and the Guinness International Champion Cup tournament has the word “Guinness” in its name. That always gets attention. Anyway, it’s AS Roma vs. Real Madrid, which are…
Joel Ferrell, choreographer and director for the upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Dallas Theatre Center, is looking for eight unpaid extras to take the stage, and to find them, DTC is holding an open casting call at The Rose Room (3911 Cedar Springs Road) from…
Dallas Independent School District has some important things to tell you, stuff that doesn’t get reported in the regular old media, so the district is looking at getting into the news media business, Superintendent Mike Miles said this week. Or we guess he said it. The Dallas Morning News said…
Dallas photographer Daniel Driensky caught this image of the “supermoon” rising above Reunion Tower over the weekend. A supermoon, also called a perigee moon, occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit. NASA says the moon may appear somewhat larger and…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Before Paco Vique and Javier Garcia del Moral settle into yet another interview about The Wild Detectives,…
In 2006, hunters generated $2.63 billion in retail sales for their sport in Texas, paying nearly $284 million in state and local taxes and supporting more than 44,119 jobs, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. That doesn’t include the millions spent by birdwatchers, photographers and others who enjoy…
It’s impossible to accurately describe an Eddie Izzard show. Intellectually dazzling, multi-lingual stream of consciousness? Well, yeah, it’s that, but way, way more fun than that sounds. He dives into history, religion, culture, nature and language – but with silly voices and physical comedy that can leave a crowded hall…
The U.S. Olympic Committee met yesterday, and one of the things reportedly on the agenda was which American city, maybe Dallas, will get to bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. It’s a long, obscure, secretive convoluted competition — sort of a modern bribery pentathlon — and we’re just excited…
Razzle Dazzle, the Dallas street festival celebrating Gay Pride Month – that’s June – returns to the Oak Lawn area this year with vendors, food, booze, live music and none of the controversy over bare skin. Nope, that’s the pride parade in September that had the brouhaha over how much…
Here’s what we gleaned about Ping Pong Summer, the indie comedy screening at 9:15 p.m. Friday at Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd.: It’s Karate Kid, except with table tennis and hip hop, the beach is on the East Coast, the time is 1985 and Susan Sarandon is Mr. Miyagi…
