From 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday make the drive out to the Fort Worth Central Market Cooking School, 4561 West Freeway, for Cooking With Beer-American Classics. The class will be taught by Joe Synatschk, who’s a sous chef at Screen Door, a home brew expert and a guy whose last…
There’s really no telling what the animals at the zoo get up to after hours. Their daily routines–swatting flies, tearing into raw meat and walking the same slow circle of their pens–are no great mystery, but most of us can only imagine what goes on at the Dallas Zoo when…
John DeMers is a triple threat: he cooks like the devil, writes mystery novels, and hosts a radio show. I’ve never met DeMers, but I bet you my grandmother’s top-secret banana pudding recipe (the secret’s in the Nilla wafers!) that women love him and men want to be him. Heck,…
On the beaches of northwest Florida a few weeks ago, I witnessed an absolute phenomenon. For as far as the eye could see, women and men were sitting on their towels and beach chairs reading books, each with the same bright yellow cover. It created a glare that could probably…
For those of us who love baseball, but can do without glitz, glamour and high ticket prices, minor league ball is a great way to spend a summer evening, without a lot of fuss or expense. For a mere $14, you can be hoity-toity in a reserved box–and even those…
Before that bullshit movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, there were real G.I. Joes. You know the ones with the plastic AK-47s, the jangling dog tags and the rubber military-issue boots? No, not the tiny, plastic dudes with the spring-loaded guns–we’re talking about the 12-inch bad boys with the…
It’s hard to believe it, but back in the day Grease was considered a raunchy musical when John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John signed on to play the leads in 1978. Summer love, teen pregnancy and s-e-x won out in the end because the movie’s a classic. Come on out and…
Come to the 5K run for the National HIV Testing Day and get a free HIV test with results in 30 minutes. Prizes will be given away for getting tested. Registration for the run is $25, but those who would just like to watch or get tested can just make…
Baseball truly is America’s pasttime. Where else would a nonprofit organization be able to not only exist but thrive as an entity that supports and facilitates the futures of young lives through baseball? You guessed it–right here in Big D, in the good ol’ US of A. For the last…
It’s summer now. You’re pulling your hair out after all the spring cleaning and garage sales of the past few months. Now it’s time to let your imagination run wild and your idle hands get a little creative. The Supplies Me! art and craft supply sale is just what the…
All the summer birthday pool parties are starting to get dull. Your skin is on fire from having a sunburn on top of a sunburn. Your hair is crunchy from the chlorine. You don’t feel like going to the pool, much less celebrating another person’s day again. To top it…
Comic Greg Giraldo–you might know him as the dude with the stupid friendship-bracelet-looking forearm tattoo who was always on Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn–isn’t afraid to be politically incorrect (in other words, honest) in discussing the differences between men and women. One of his recent bits in the aftermath of…
We have a question for you, folks. Were you ever lucky enough to watch Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel? It was an 11-part series about–you guessed it–Earth, split up into multiple parts to give viewers a chance to see everything from mountains to oceans to jungles to deserts to…
Deep Ellum’s tunnels used to be the place to go to see breathtaking graffiti–not the hastily sprayed tags and four-letter words scrawled throughout the rest of downtown, but real spray-paint art. But maybe the new home of art graffiti is Oak Cliff. The crew to watch is Sour Grapes, a…
Man, Japan comes up with some quirky things. Did you know they invented a hair noodle protector? It’s this weird thing paper fan-like thing that wraps around the side of your face to keep your hair out of your noodles. Um, ever hear of a scrunchy? There’s also this Japanese…
Nothing like a good yeast to sugar ratio brought on by a few glasses of “Big Red” to coax out your inner imagination and break down the barrier between artist and non-artist. Join Creative Musings: Provocative Prints, an informal program designed for adult artists of all experience levels presented by…
On Contemporary Dance Fort Worth’s website, the dance company describes its work as “NOT the ballet,” and sums it all up with a slogan fit for a Nike commercial: “New music. No swans. No limits.” Clearly, if you’re to learn one thing from this message, it’s that contemporary dance is…
You rarely hear anyone complaining about having too many options. Thirty-one flavors of ice cream? Freaking awesome. Fifty-three snow cone varieties? Bring it on. This summer, the Norwood Flynn Gallery presents its own spin on variety with Gallery Artists: Summer Show 2010. Each week, the gallery will choose a new…
With a dramatic, added-time goal in their final first round game, the USA has qualified for the knockout stages of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The team’s next match, versus Ghana, kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Please see our World Cup Soccer Bars Directory for great…
There’s always been a debate about the merits of art school. Sure, you get the basics of technique in school, but can you actually teach talent? There’s plenty of cookie cutter student art out there–like the “political” collages of talking heads and mushroom clouds or the “modern” take on abstract…
San Antonio photographer Michael Nye’s stark black-and-white prints put a face on society’s most marginalized members–teen parents and the mentally ill in past exhibits, and those who don’t know where their next meal will come from in his latest. Even better, he also captures their stories in audio recordings to…
Remember when you were younger and you took your sisters’ Barbie dolls only to return them in compromising positions? Well if you cleaned that up a little bit, inserted vintage ’60s backdrops behind them and then took a picture, then you’ve pretty much created the works in Davis Parise’s Vintage…
