There was something truly exciting about seeing such an old art with such modern subjects from the minute I stepped into the Contemporary Tapestries Show at Stay ZaZa Art House and Social Gallery, another successful collaboration with the Turner Carroll Gallery. Once paintings or photographers, these pieces have been turned…
You may have seen a couple hundred balloons speckle the air on Saturday outside the American Airlines Center. Our photographer Stephen Masker did as well. It was the Snowball Express, which serves to benefit and honor the children of fallen military. Snowball brought over 1,700 kids–from all over the world–who’ve…
If you haven’t experienced the wacky tradition of the holiday season English “panto,” get yourself to Theatre Britain’s production of Jackie Mellor-Guin’s Dick Whittington, currently onstage at Plano’s Cox Building Playhouse. It’s broad comedy on two levels: a fun fairytale for the kiddies, some mildly bawdy double entendres for the…
While most of us are in the throes of the holiday season, shopping for family gifts and filling up our calendars, there are a few out there who are also consumed with planning an occasion that’s months away. Spring and summer are distant thoughts for most of us, unless you’re…
There’s something to be said for seeing the world in shades of gray. For 26 years that’s been the philosophy of Dallas’ Pegasus Theatre, which performs its annual murder mystery comedy in trademarked “Living Black and White” style. This year’s show, opening at the Eisemann Center in Richardson on December…
We don’t like to be gushing ass-kissers, but Jesse Manley’s the real deal. His poems get us tingly and anxious and thinking about our exes which means that his writing hits us in weird, deeply-repressed emotional soft spots. He’s a writer who understands economy, and his succinct – seemingly harmless…
New Year’s Eve (Wide Release) The latest ex-star-vaganza centered around a holiday a la Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve features more big names than a Jerry Lewis telethon. Directed by Gary Marshall (the aforementioned Valentine’s Day, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride), the film weaves together various stories of couples on NYE…
Every kid and, you know, non-kid, who fussed joyously with the Lite-Brite as a kid: Here’s an event you’ll appreciate. Texas Motor Speedway is showcasing the “region’s largest LED animated and glistening light displays” on the nearly two-mile drive through for the event appropriately named “Gift of Lights.” It’s called…
Big, soft, squishy: These words describe Jonah Hill’s heart as well as his body in The Sitter, the mixed-bag last record of its star’s physique before a radical slim-down. As the film opens, Hill’s layabout Noah, kicked out of college and living at home in the suburbs of New York…
Michael Fassbender bares it all (pun intended) in the new NC-17 rated Shame, a tale of a sex addict living in New York co-written and directed by frequent collaborator Steve McQueen (Hunger). For Fassbender, who’s on the fast track to movie stardom with leading man roles in Inglourious Basterds, X-Men:…
Origin magazine’s going national, and they’re breaking the metaphorical bottle of Champagne tonight at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. Encompassing the magazine’s commitment to oneness and cultural integration, the evening will begin with a round-robin yoga class from 6:30 until 8 before popping the real bubbly to kick off…
The trailer for the Farrelly Brothers’ Three Stooges debuted yesterday, which is less a trailer and more an embalming. It really is a fascinating piece of terribleness. You can watch the whole thing here, but I’d advise against it if you’re prone to migraines or murderous bouts of rage.But don’t…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. Forget about square pegs in round holes and all that mumbo jumbo. Instead, you’re going to have to abracadabra your way through disappearing shapes in this week’s…
Let’s shorthand it, shall we? Because in Twitterworld, who needs complete sentences? U w/me, ppl? -January 2011. Eleven lifetimes ago. Hop-skip through year’s tops and flops in pop culture. -Golden Globes. Host Ricky Gervais offends Cruise, not Depp. (And he’ll be back.) James Franco co-hosts Oscars. Good tweeter backstage. Big…
Pure Barre is located next to Pinkberry on Greenville so yeah, I’d seen it a couple of times. I never paid any attention though because I figured it was for leggy, dancer types and I’m more of a stumpy, TV-watching type. But I happen to know one of those leggy…
Inspired by a 2008 New York Times Magazine article by Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James’ commanding documentary The Interrupters, about “violence interrupters” in Chicago who intervene in conflicts before they escalate into gunshots, unfolds as deeply reported journalism. Much like Hoop Dreams (1994), James’ in-depth examination of the athletic aspirations of…
Like Ebenezer Scrooge, a certain rotund, snow-haired, thrice-married GOP presidential candidate regards poor children as slackers. “It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid,” Newt Gingrich told an audience at Harvard a few weeks ago. He’d like to put…
Most people raised on this side of the pond can attribute their love of British television to one source, PBS. From Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Doctor Who to Keeping Up Appearances and Fawlty Towers, our appreciation of the uniqueness of British television has grown over the past 35 years…
Never fear, oh young, hipster parents: The Polyphonic Spree’s Holiday Extravaganza has returned. After keeping a relatively low profile in 2010, Spree leader Tim DeLaughter has burst back into the region’s consciousness in multiple ways. A buzzed-about band (Preteen Zenith) and a revamped record label (Good Records Recordings) are just…
Long before cable access channels were home to community bulletin boards and City Hall meetings, people sat in basements, filming their very own shows. Of course, now we have YouTube, which is coincidentally home to most of the footage from ’80s and ’90s cable access shows. Earlene Hoople, the self-described…
Annie of the Little Orphan Annie comic strip may have had creepily empty eyes that were permanently rolled back into her curly little head, but she still managed to bring joy to kids and adults alike for more than 80 years. If you’re looking for a family-friendly type of fun…
When headed to the mall during the holiday season (or any season, for that matter), it’s not forefront in our minds to add “take cats and dogs with” to the to-do list right under “sharpen elbows” and “practice war face.” But given the price of quality Santa costumes these days…
