This weekend, North Texas Beer Pong is hosting its Battle of the South Weekend, a multi-day event of beer pong tournaments at McFadden’s in Addison. It kicks off with the King and Queen of the South, the men’s and women’s singles tournaments, and builds to an eight-round squad tournament with…
“Who are you?” pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And that’s not a spoiler — it’s a selling point. A less secretive director (i.e., all save the ghost of Stanley Kubrick) would trumpet that his…
Count on Dallas Children’s Theater to do more than just mail it in with The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, based on the popular kids’ book by Jeff Brown. The musical adaptation, directed and choreographed by Michael Serrecchia (with an assist from Megan Kelly Bates), makes a slick, three-dimensional, 75-minute…
Whole lotta twerking going on in Fela!, the Broadway musical whose national tour is now steaming up the Winspear Opera House. The dancing in this show is hotness on a whole other scale from other Broadway hits. Bill T. Jones’ nonstop choreography fills Fela! with an athletic eroticism centered roundly…
The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have loved every one of Coppola’s movies: I love her sure and delicate touch, and she’s better than any other contemporary filmmaker at capturing the greatness of…
François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is another story about a family in crisis: Isabelle (played by Marine Vacth, a stunning-looking if ultimately inert actress) is a student who still lives at home with her mother, stepfather, and…
will be talking about. That’s one of the terrible things, too: There’s no one to warn you when you’re about to see a puppy murder, a 12-year-old girl borne away toward rape and misery, or a penis doused with lighter fluid and set ablaze. All three of those things happen…
Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival — a bird’s-eye view of a kiss between a young Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward — has been crazy about it. The couple’s lips meet in the center of a perfect sunburst. She’s two…
Can’t get it up for the average artist talk? Thursday’s lecture at CentralTrak (800 Exposition Ave.) will forever change that as photographer Denise Prince invites her psychoanalyst, Charles Merward, to fly in from Los Angeles and speak on her behalf. Merward has been Prince’s analyst for several years and the…
They summon the footnotes of the Merriam Webster Book of Idioms on demand. They solve your homophonic confusions through etymological dissection. They even exhume the roots of those regional phrases or heirloom colloquialisms that your grandmother imprinted on you — you know, the ones you say that make your friends…
If there’s one thing we know in Dallas, it’s backcombing. And if there’s another thing, it’s fashion. We have malls, boutiques, designers and knockoffs. So it’s only fitting that we have an entire charity dedicated to providing professional attire to underprivileged women. This isn’t an easy city to succeed in…
If you skated out of college with a C average or quit entirely after your third freshman year, chances are you excelled at something. And that something is beer pong. Landing a pingpong ball in a cup of beer is a highly developed skill, and if you’ve acquired it, well,…
If you’re counting the days until Comic Con hits San Diego (or if you just want to save yourself from madness and airfare costs), then get a Texas-sized taste of geek season this weekend at Dallas Comic Con. As a special treat, this year’s con will feature “One Fine Sunday…
Have you ever yearned to try curling, the Olympic sport that originated in medieval Scotland and involves strategically pushing stones across a sheet of ice? Of course you have. Summer is beating down on us, and it’s time to sweep some ice! Your dreams can come true at Ice Training…
This marks the second annual benefit for Brendan’s Wish, a charity that aims to raise awareness for histiocytosis, a skin disease that largely affects children. If you’re feeling extra charitable, they’re looking to collect $1,000 at the door at North Dallas biker bar Strokers (9304 Harry Hines Blvd.), so a…
Put on your good pair of pants, the ones that aren’t covered with Cheeto dust, then go undercover as Dallas’ highfalutin Design District opens its newest collection of shows. It’s a big night, with all of your favorite galleries uncorking bottles and showing off prized names before the summer heat…
Trying to get your arts fix is kinda like squeezing out paints on a palette. Your visual arts are the blue and your music is the red … and dang, if they don’t turn into something completely awesome when they’re mixed. It’s such a shame to isolate them, no? ArtLoveMagic’s…
Most well-rounded humans spent lazy afternoons soundtracked by two things: Mr. Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Originally a BBC Radio program, Whose Line challenged four comedic performers to games of improv and sketch, which would often devolve into absurdity. It made a leap to American television in the…
Better upgrade your mapping app and pump up those bicycle tires, because the Oak Cliff Speedbump Tour returns this weekend to bait you inside the homes of stranger artists. (Somewhere right now, your mother is irrationally angry but doesn’t know why.) The 2013 hop-along includes the studios and residences of…
Next to instant ramen and Nintendo, manga and anime are Japan’s most adored exports, and one of the hottest purveyor of said goods is Studio Ghibli. Not one to be boring, the animation powerhouse mixes it up with its latest film, Goro Miyazaki’s From up on Poppy Hill. It’s a…
Listen, sister. Underneath that Jezebel-browsin’, beer-swillin’, takin’-care-of-business exterior lies a girl who once wore high-waisted acid-wash pants and danced to Amy Grant in her bedroom. Baby, baby, just maybe you like to embrace your girly-girl side once in a great while and spend some time with your lady friends enjoying…
Playing with the idea that the urban landscape can be used for more than just commerce, Red Bull is transforming downtown Dallas’ Victory Park into a golf course for its latest event. Rising pro golf star Rickie Fowler will be taking it “Off the Course,” and instead of playing the…
