Ahhh…remember the days of 2D cinema? Yes? What’s that? We’re still living in them? Huh. Well, remember the days when those cute, well-made, European slice-of-life movies were imported like handcrafted dolls? Oh, those are still here too? Let me guess, this one’s been praised by numerous critics using words like…
Okay, so the Rangers are doing pretty damn good right now. Let’s say that again–right now. The guys are also pretty damn good at letting us down. So when they do start their losing streak, probably around mid-season or so, pack up your grills and horseshoe rings and head on…
Fluids of all sorts have cameo roles in Zayd Dohrn’s soggy new play, Long Way Go Down, getting its debut production in Kitchen Dog Theater’s current New Works Festival. In the small, spare office of a Phoenix trucking outfit where most of the drama happens, buckets catch steady leaks from…
Like its predecessor, 2010’s Harald Zwart-directed The Karate Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother (Taraji P. Henson) are introduced in the Detroit apartment that he grew up in, now packed into boxes. Ralph Macchio shipped off to the Valley; Dre is going to…
Q’orianka Kilcher’s first role since her stunning breakout as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s The New World finds her playing to type as the last princess of Hawaii, struggling against the American takeover of a then-sovereign republic. It’s her second indigenous-versus-white people role in a row, which suggests troubling things about…
Passionate Republican, fervent Orthodox Jew, ruthless wheeler-dealer and super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff at his height fashioned himself into a human ATM machine who lined the pockets of politicians on every side of the aisle. Sooner or later, everybody from Tom DeLay to Patrick Kennedy was at least marginally in his debt…
Those kids never believe you when you try to tell them about your childhood–walking barefoot in the snow 15 miles to school, uphill both ways. Prove to them that they have it easy by sending them to the Wagons West day camp at Log Cabin Village, 2100 Log Cabin Village…
Jubilee Theatre in Fort Worth stages a marvelous, if LOUD, production of this August Wilson play, the ninth in his 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, but the first chapter in the overall saga of the American Black Experience, decade by decade. Aunt Ester Tyler (Cheryl Tyre) is 200-plus years old, a survivor…
Yes, there was Einstein. Yes, there was Picasso. But long, long ago in a galaxy not so far away there lived a man named Leonardo. Now Leonardo was not your average, everyday hero. In fact, he possessed far more brain power than any human being could ever imagine. Leonardo da…
Come see Kelly Clarkson, Metallica and maybe even The Beatles at the Gaylord Texan (1501 Gaylord Trail in Grapevine) during their SummerFest event. If you love watching other people fail while thinking to yourself, “I could do that way better,” then spending a Tuesday evening (4 to 7 p.m.) watching…
With all of the variety found in Fair Park over the years–opera, ShamWow demonstrations, women’s history, funnel cakes, that bizarre Magnum P.I. ride on the midway, musical theater, auto shows, educational gardens, science and history exhibitions, Big Tex, etc.–it should be no surprise that the newly reopened Band Shell Amphitheater…
Quit rubbing your friends the wrong way. There’s nothing worse than a bad massage–the type that’s too rough, too delicate or leaves knots along your spine. Learn safe and effective basic massage techniques at BODIES: The Exhibition. Jo Grier, a certified massage therapist of 12 years and owner of her…
Tanya Tucker fits into so many categories, it is hard to know where to begin. From prodigy (she had a hit with “Delta Dawn” at 13!) to actress to addict to outlaw to country legend, she filled so many roles so early in life. She also added author to that…
We’ve all seen the stereotypical dragonfly–the little stick bug with four wings that resides on juice glasses or pillows or wallpaper or garden stakes. Seems like unfairly limited representation when you consider that in Dallas alone there are 75 species of the “winged jewel.” Texas Discovery Gardens in Fair Park…
Eggs-tra, eggs-tra, read all about it! An egg-citing eggs-ibit is coming to Dallas…OK, OK, no more egg puns. We’re done yolking around. Almost. If you’re serious about crafting regular ol’ eggs into tiny works of art, you won’t want to miss the 36th Annual Eggs-ibit International, which is taking place…
Why is it that team names, logos and mascots are so much cooler at the lower levels of professional sports? Dallas’ NFL team is the Cowboys, whose logo is a blue star–both pretty boring if you look at them objectively, without considering their historic significance. But its Arena Football team…
He may have started out as a circus ringmaster entertaining crowds with live animals, but now comedian Paul Mooney gets his crowd going by simply asking, “Why do white people love Wayne Brady?” (If you were wondering: because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.) You might say Mooney…
No one wants to watch the US soccer team trample Jolly Olde England all by their lonesome. No, you need a patriotic jersey-wearin’ set ready to pound a pint and chant for our boys. Set up camp to view the 2010 World Cup matches, eat some grub and have a…
While the United States has exited the World Cup tournament, there is still plenty of great soccer to watch and the quarter-finals boast a pair of powerhouse match-ups. Please see our World Cup Soccer Bars Directory for a list of venues where fans will gather to watch the games. On…
Looking for an escape from the woes of sending e-mails and trying to figure out your new iPad this summer? Travel back to the 16th century, where the computer was yet to be invented, with the Trinity Shakespeare Festival cast as they perform Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. Experience…
Ironic that Dallas Independent School District, a system whose bureaucrats and politicians aren’t exactly unfamiliar with the smoke-filled-room approach to doing business, would name a student art exhibition DISD:Transparency. Students from several high schools were given license to create installations in a variety of media focusing on the theme of…
Most everyone–of legal drinking and deeding age, anyway–has experienced a lapse in memory concerning the proverbial night before. Of course, an actual split personality, a la Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, would make that blackout all the more mysterious…whether you’re the one with said split or just a seemingly innocent…
