Mother’s Day celebratory activities usually go as follows: maybe church, maybe brunch (or one of the three squares) at a pricey steak house, or, if your mom is anything like mine, open-to-close shopping at DSW. If you are looking for something different to do this year to celebrate the most…
Is that it? Another Mother’s Day, and you’re again taking your aging mom to lunch at Luby’s and handing her yet another bouquet of soon-to-be dead flowers? How nice. After all, she only carried you for nine months and passed your bulbous noggin through her birth canal. Luckily, if yours…
Dogs wearing curly twirly mustaches? Cats wearing cherry red lipstick? Have the animals taken over Dallas? They may not be roaming the streets with their human-like attire, but they’re definitely sprucing up for one special night out on the rooftop. That’s right, the animals have hit the roof. East Lake…
The Cottonwood Art Festival has been ranked one of the best art festivals in the Unites States, and provides art lovers a chance to not only look at, discuss and purchase art, but also meet each artist in person. This year roughly 1000 artists submitted their work for consideration, out…
Sidewalks are social spaces native to the urban landscape. Cafes spill out upon them; busking musicians claim their corners. They’re also shared turf, used for an infinite number of purposes; walking, running or biking are among the more mundane. One might dance upon them, if so inclined. Contemporary Ballet Dallas…
Do chickens really plot elaborate escapes from chicken farms, a la Chicken Run? What was on the other side of that road that inspired a clucker to risk death in a cloud of feathers? Why do so many things “taste just like chicken?” Sadly, answers to these questions won’t be…
Some would find it a little presumptuous for a forty-something non-celebrity everywoman to write five, yes five, memoirs, but Jen Lancaster has something to say and she’ll be damned if anyone is going to stop her. Her tales have run the gamut from unemployment to weight loss to reality television…
Jerry Seinfeld is coming to town and he’s bringing a big bag of jokes with him. Well, not a real bag, just a metaphorical one that he keeps in his mind. Who keeps jokes in an actual bag? That’s just weird. But that’s neither here nor there. The important thing…
Cinco de Mayo originated as a celebration of the Mexican army’s underdog victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. So to commemorate the holiday, Bailey’s Prime Plus, 8160 Park Lane, Suite 130, hosts a panel discussion of the French occupation and its repercussions on the United…
For a lot of gringos, Cinco De Mayo exists as little more than an excuse to go out and hit up the bars, in which case the most culture they’ll get out of the event is ordering a cheese-infused chimichanga at a Tex-Mex joint. Do yourself a favor, put down…
There’s one thing the chaps around here can’t live without, and that’s the brew-kettle. Without tea our coverage of nightlife in this town would cast about like a ship lost in the drink. Though, that’s not all that true because we aren’t British. In fact, we only raid the tea…
Pretty in Pink is one of a handful of movies I will watch anytime. I mean, I would watch it every day if it presented itself every day. There is something so very comforting about it, and I can’t put my finger on it. Is it just because it was…
Denmark seems like such a peaceful, harmonious place that it’s hard to understand where Danish filmmakers get all of their angst. But time after time, the country’s cadre of talented directors find and examine the darker side of life, making what seems like an idyllic culture appear rife with drama…
Tim Hetherington, the photojournalist and documentarian who was killed in Libya on April 20th, was scheduled to speak at tomorrow’s Oak Cliff Texas Theatre screening of his Oscar-nominated Afghanistan war documentary, Restrepo. Following the tragic and untimely death of the photographer who literally risked his life to bring all aspects…
Don’t go looking for Liza Minelli, now, but the stage version of Cabaret is chock full of the sex and songs that made the decadent cabaret scene of 1930s Berlin a fun place to be. The musical, written by Kander and Ebb (the duo that came up with the smutty,…
When Old MacDonald had a farm, he didn’t have many problems to worry about, other than the constant quacking and mooing. In Giggle, Giggle, Quack, the sequel to the popular children’s musical Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Farmer Brown has plenty to worry about when he leaves Bob, his…
Balanced, not boring. That’s Robert Rector’s work, boiled down to three words. But although it’s easy to condense the description, the work itself is far from simplistic. While the contemporary Southern painter seeks to maintain a sense of symmetry and cohesiveness in his work, the visual tension, use of color…
Look no further for a reason to break free from the monotony. The latest production from Dead White Zombies, blahblah, takes audiences through the lives of a young Dallas couple as they struggle with the humdrum toils of life set against the backdrop of the metroplex. But after taking a…
One of the most compelling elements of a great ghost story is a character’s guilty conscience, leading the audience to question whether it is a ghost or regrets doing the haunting. Playwright Naomi Iizuka’s Language of Angels, a kind of ghost story set in working-class North Carolina where a girl…
Life may be a cabaret, old chum, but Cabaret onstage is not Cabaret the 1972 Bob Fosse movie. The sprawling, super-sized Cabaret that just opened at the Dallas Theater Center downtown is its own animal, an irresistibly sexy beast, even when it’s indulging in wretched excess and heavy-handed messages. Get…
In the geometry of a love triangle, the three sides are rarely equal. Somebody has to be the hypotenuse, loving the wrong person, giving too much or too little. Red Light Winter, the steamy three-character play by Adam Rapp that just opened a scorching-good production at Addison’s Second Thought Theatre,…
The iconic image of Major T.J. “King” Kong riding a plummeting H-bomb like a rodeo star has ingrained itself within American film culture, but how much does Slim Pickens’ portrayal really relate to the history of Oak Cliff? Terry Southern, screenwriter for Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How…
