While Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck squabble over whether it’s rabbit or duck season, Central Market’s Dallas Cooking school has already made up it’s mind, and will be hosting a two and half hour long class that’s, well, all about duck–sorry Daffy. The hands on class will explore the many…
Poor Southern belles always have all the problems. The women in Horton Foote’s plays are no different, usually encountering more drama than domestic bliss, and even a Mint Julep can’t cure their woes. Foote’s The Roads to Home, a series of one-act plays, is a glimpse into the lives of…
The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it’s a mixed blessing. In one corner, you’ve got the jailbait fantasies of Donkey Punch and Kick Ass, which eagerly trade on notions of naughty girliness rather than transcend or interrogate them. In the other,…
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly contemporary-sounding blue humor, blunt profanity replacing the naughty-naughty, tankard-sloshing, heaving-bosom ribaldry that goes with the period setting. The scene: a generic medieval realm from an EverQuest or Forgotten Realms module…
A splendid play happens offstage during Horton Foote’s Pulitzer-winning The Young Man from Atlanta, now running at Uptown Players at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. If only the action out front were as entertaining as the stuff we never see. Throughout this static little drama, the latest entry in the ongoing…
So much attention has been focused on John F. Kennedy’s death that his life is often forgotten, especially in the city where he was assassinated. Now Washington, D.C., psychiatrist Alen J. Salerian is putting the focus back on the man himself and his legacy through a collection of 200 paintings…
We always thought the greatest honor for a centenarian was a shout out from Willard Scott on The Today Show, but a bona fide Texas Historic Landmark marker is a far bigger tribute. The Sons of Hermann Hall (3414 Elm St.) is turning 100 this year and celebrating the milestone…
Stepping onto (that’s right, onto) one of Jim Lambie’s installations seems like entering a room where an optical illusion and a box of crayons had either a violent fight or incredible sex. Lambie’s recognizable creations use yards and yards of multi-hued vinyl tape in linear patterns on a gallery floor…
Nosy scientists, armed with increasingly complicated technology, are unearthing dirty little secrets sealed for millennia in the tombs of ancient Egypt. DNA tests, a staple on Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, also dug up skeletons in King Tut’s closet. In true Springer style, Tutankhamen married his sister and their parents…
If they could time travel to the current century, Renaissance sculptors would probably wonder if marble and iron were scarce resources. Contemporary sculptors have come a long way since their classical counterparts began rendering royalty into stone, and it’s almost as common for artists to use grass, hemp fibers and…
Moon director Duncan Jones’ sophomore feature, Source Code—a pseudo-cerebral, modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller with ambitions more Philip K. Dick-like in scope than the recent Dick adaptation The Adjustment Bureau—is a propulsive ride worth your popcorn dollar, not for its preposterous genre tinkering but for its refreshingly humanist take on a…
There is a great deal of prowling motion in Insidious: a recurring sideways dolly outside an ominous house, a trenchcoat-clad cacodemon pacing outside a second-story window. It’s the restless motion of a movie stalking its prey—you, dear viewer. A married couple, Josh and Renai (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne), are…
Last year, the question most often asked of Dallas International Film Festival artistic director James Faust was, “What’s this year’s The Hurt Locker?”—a reference, of course, to Kathryn Bigalow’s wrenching Iraq bomb-squad nail-biter that had one of its earliest screenings at the 2009 fest then called the AFI Dallas International…
Before the hunky undead teens of Twilight, there were the hunky immortal brothers of Tuck Everlasting, the 1975 young adult novel by Natalie Babbitt. The popular book was adapted for the stage by Mark J. Frattaroli and in the lovely production now running at Dallas Children’s Theater, the story focuses…
Most men don’t talk about circumcision candidly, but then again, there are a few who aren’t afraid to broach the touchy subject. Don’t worry, you probably won’t hear many foreskin jokes here, but you will find humor in Yisrael Campbell’s account of his multiple religious conversions in his one-man show,…
What do a trip to the Laundromat, a stuffed bunny and over-sized dancing laundry have in common? Well, nothing, except that they can all be found charming the pants off adults and kiddies alike at The Eisemann Center in Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical. The Kennedy Center Theater for Young…
Figuring out the lyrics to “Greased Lightnin'” is kind of a rite of passage. Many of us innocently listened to the Grease soundtrack for years before one day exclaiming “What kind of wagon?!” If you’ve been waiting to belt out those lyrics loud and proud, now is your chance. Rockin’…
America’s favorite tank engine is here and ready to choo choo through the Metroplex. A Day Out with Thomas invites families to enjoy a day out with magic shows, arts and crafts, treasure hunts, and a train ride on the life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine. Don’t forget to make a…
Who says that Austin should have all the fun? As SXSW fades from memory, check out the 17th Annual Deep Ellum Arts Festival for one of the best parties that Big D has to offer. With over 75 local bands spread out on five stages, the six block street party…
The cosmetics counter can be a source of excitement or a source of dread. Miles of candy colors and expensive packaging beckon women with promises of youth and beauty, but how can we know what lives up to the hype? Will this cream really “firm and brighten”? Can this waterproof…
With the first ever American Motorcyclist Association race in 1975 and 26 consecutive Monster Energy AMA Supercross races under its belt since then, Dallas is no newbie when it comes to turf-tearing competition. But this is the first time the new Cowboys Stadium will host the event, meaning that supercross…
Outside of Mick Jagger’s cooing in “Sympathy for the Devil,” there is very little work out there that gives the dark lord the credit he truly deserves. Taken from the perspective of a demon, the stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters will give audiences a new understanding of…
