Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were heavyweights of dance. Their routines are some of the least edited and most demanding in movie history, and for all the strutting they did backward, sideways and on roller skates, you never once saw them sweat. The Southwestern Invitational Dancesport Championships, at Westin Dallas…
Oh, Greece. As the birthplace of Western culture, you have a lot to answer for: Reality television is on you. So is Miley Cyrus, TMZ and every other scourge that has been born of your loins. Your parenting skills are questionable, but we can’t stay mad at you too long…
If the Internet has proven anything, it’s that each touch, taste, smell, sight and emotional and physical interaction has the ability to become fetishized. And for all you know, your grandma’s running a webcam business out of Shady Oakes. So where do all of these kinks get kinky in three-dimensional…
If you’re not in love with Nicole Stewart, then it’s because you haven’t seen her in action. The powerhouse behind Oral Fixation: An Obsession with True Life Tales has been finding the storyteller in all of us, and through some heavy-duty stage-side curation, she’s brought amazing and entertaining stories to…
Sure, it’s frowned upon to spy on your neighbors day and night. But when you’re stuck in a wheelchair with nothing but time on your hands and some fancy-schmancy photography equipment at your fingertips, what’s a guy to do? Or so we’ve discovered, thanks to some prime sleuthing by James…
I’m pretty sure we all know the story of the Lion King, but who couldn’t use a refresher, right? Hakuna Matata! The story starts out with Simba, the heir to the Pride Lands throne, disobeying his father, Mufasa, and visiting a graveyard. Mufasa saves Simba from the crapface hyenas that…
There’s a spookiness to Big Tex’s new persona. Since the great flambé, we’ve anthropomorphized him into a walking, bilingual, phoenix-like colossus — a super weird way to collectively cope with loss. His “footprints” have been left all over the state like those of some corn dog-divined Sasquatch and public relations…
Few things evoke Americana like a barbecue (though in fairness, pretty much every culture grills). It’s the setting for a very summery, suburban and 1950s idea of what America is. The play Detroit, by Lisa D’amour, focuses on Mary and Ben, a married couple in a suburb outside of an…
This Sunday, the blue-ice alchemy and suspenseful plots of Breaking Bad will come to an end. For five years, fans have watched Walter White metamorphose from a dying high school chemistry teacher to murderous dying chemist who cooks up the purest meth in the Southwest and Czech Republic. We saw…
It’s been 12 years since a fire took the home of North Texas professional wrestling, the famed Dallas Sportatorium, thus extinguishing the notion of North Texas as a hotbed for dudes in underwear fake-punching each other. Before Sportatorium’s demise, professional wrestling was already limping along, thanks to the Dallas-based World…
Art’s usefulness is a funny conversation, and one that will be had tomorrow night at Texas Theatre. We think of “art for art’s sake” and the nobilities surrounding that — those lofty Platonic ideals deemed somehow so pure, so intangible that they exist in a mysterious, non-utilitarian fume. But that’s…
Garrison Keillor’s longevity is an interesting play. Broadcasting live from St. Paul for nearly 40 years, his throwback production honors that relatable, wholesome, oh-so-NPR Middle-Americana. But what’s kept him fascinating is the peculiar subversive undercurrent seeping up between the Powdermilk Biscuit commercials. Keillor isn’t as spit-shined as the Lake Wobegon…
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was the go-to screening for teachers during union strikes, rainy recesses or just to grab a smoke break to prevent them from tranforming into the headmaster from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” Even though it is not totally faithful to Roald Dahl’s famous children’s book,…
Patrick, the Dallas Zoo’s star gorilla, has become something of a celeb among the primates in the same way that Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson found notoriety — by acting like a massive tool. Patrick hasn’t been very friendly with other gorillas, especially females, thanks to an uncaring mother who…
Last night, through a haze of Sunday night drinks and with the guide of show host and local comedy favorite Paul Varghese, 10 comedians took the stage at the Addison Improv with the hopes of winning the first round in the Comedy Central Up Next Talent Search. They were each…
Earlier this morning we looked at Saturday’s greatest Flugtag crashes, and boy were they glorious. But there were also those moments prior to gravity’s embrace. Design, manpower and lots of that trigonometry we never thought we’d use merged, creating prolonged moments of flight. The photos of those quick victories, captured…
Gravity is a funny thing. Despite months of planning and trial runs, each of those dedicated Flugtag experimenters inevitably faced The Big Fall. Sometimes it happened right off the ramp. Others were given a few brief moments of flight before it all came crashing down. Either way, we caught these…
Teen Wolf – watch more funny videos From concept to execution, Teen Wolf is a positively perfect ’80s film that makes absolutely no sense. Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) has lived in the same town his entire life. When his adolescent hormones shift, he realizes that he’s a werewolf. This…
Comedy Central is always on the lookout for the next big comedy star, and to speed up their search, they’re hosting a nationwide talent contest this fall. The Comedy Central Up Next Talent Search kicks off with the preliminary rounds, hosted by 26 participating certified clubs. One of those clubs…
Yesterday was North Texas Giving Day, where donations made to local non-profits were amplified through a shared funding pool. Students at Booker T. Washington got in the mix at the Downtown DART station with an early morning flash mob, of sorts. Photography intern Zara Walsh was there and caught a…
Recycling is a big theme with Peter and the Starcatcher, the Tony-winning play onstage at the Winspear Opera House through September 29. This “prequel” recycles the story of Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys and Captain Hook – yeah, we’re a little tired of that crowd, too. But it puts…
“This is going to be wild,” the man seated next to me warned as I settled into my seat after intermission at last night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert. It was an accurate prediction. The DSO and Maestro Jaap van Zweden opened their 2013/2014 season Thursday with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s…
