At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, check out Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies at Theatre Arlington on 305 W. Main St. in Arlington. The show is about some actors trying to steal a fortune from a rich, dying woman. Ya know, like Nick Cannon is trying to do with Mariah Carey. The two…
You probably know about A Streetcar Named Desire, and I’ll bet you’ve heard about the delicate beauty of the Glass Menagerie, but even if you’ve never had a thought about Tennessee Williams’ plays you should see Night of the Iguana. Set in Mexico, it tells the story of the Rev…
So, you won’t find Drew Barrymore or Ellen Page rolling around an art gallery anytime soon, but would that really be something gallery enthusiasts look forward to anyway? Well, hey, at least a few cool people show up to Dallas Derby Devils Gallery Night every year. You know, like those…
Can we see a show of hands of who wants to embarrass themselves this summer by singing Celine Dion songs? During June and July, San Francisco Rose (3024 Greenville Ave.) will be holding its Fourth Annual Summer Karaoke Contest. The only thing it will cost you is your dignity. We…
As someone who has gotten motion sick on airplanes many times, let me put forth a theory that perhaps the motion of flight just doesn’t jive well with human physiology. If we were meant to fly, we’d have wings. Yet, thanks to contrary folks like Amelia Earhart and the Wright…
In love with furniture and real estate? Hoping for a life lesson and some belly laughing? Then meet Kate. Kate has a love for expensive furniture. So, she buys it at Salvation Army and then marks it up to sell at her downtown Manhattan furniture store. But there’s another facet…
Former stud catching prospect Taylor Teagarden had all the credentials to be a star in Arlington, but injuries and inconsistency have derailed his ability to fulfill his promise. A whopping 17 strikeouts and only one hit in 27 at-bats this year forced Texas to send him down to Double-A Frisco…
I love a good nap (who doesn’t?), but Rip van Winkle-ing it for a century until some guy finally shows up for a make-out session rankles my little feminist heart. But who am I to argue the merits of The Sleeping Beauty? The Texas Ballet Theater is performing the classic…
Inspired by a drug ring that used Hasidic Jews to transport over one million pills of ecstasy to the United States in a six-month period between 1998 and ’99, Kevin Asch’s Holy Rollers stars Jesse Eisenberg as a good old Brooklyn boy turned mid-level dope importer. Driven by the sense…
There are myriad moments during Get Him to the Greek—the roller-coaster spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall—when it feels as if the thing will jump the rails and smash to the ground in a thousand pieces of what-in-the-fuck. It’s a complete and utter mess from the big-loud-dumb start to the awwww-that’s-so-sweet…
Though Sundance-screened and sporting an upscale cast, writer-director Vincenzo Natali’s Splice has a mad science quality. He has crossbred a self-serious psychodrama and a queasy creature-feature and unleashed this malformed freak on the world. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley are Clive and Elsa, a married couple of “rock star” genetic…
The most moving of three musicals that have just opened on Dallas stages is the little one with no orchestra, only two characters and a collection of songs, performed mostly a cappella, that never won a single Tony. It’s Black Pearl Sings!, now playing at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre. More than…
Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature, Please Give, is a notable rebound from the insufficiently examined self-absorption of her last, Friends With Money. Please Give is not quite Lovely & Amazing—Holofcener’s mordant, quasi-autobiographical “three sisters” spin—but it is, for the most part, witty and engrossing. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt)…
Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm offers 52 acres of shopping, restaurants and green space at U.S. highway 75 and Bethany Drive in Allen. Those of you in the real-estate biz might recognize it as a “mixed-use development,” or, more colloquially, an “apartment mall.” See what the Creek has to offer…
Two of the best classes we ever took at the University of Texas were The Age of Dinosaurs and The Age of Mammals. Both were pretty fascinating, but amazingly, the mammals class pretty much owned the dinosaurs class, not only ’cause our professor was so cool–if you put 10 bearded…
Imagine gazing at a surreal painting of an island, a field full of tulips or perhaps the endless waves of an ocean. Do you ever wish you were actually inside that painting? If only wishes came true, right? Super Nature, a new exhibition featuring Dallas’ own Douglas Leon Cartmel, collects…
Henry Cho freaks my stuff out. If you sit down to do the math, the man’s successful career shouldn’t make sense. Thankfully having no relation to Margaret Cho, the Korean-American comedian grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee (wha…?) and has the twang to prove it. He starred in would-be career killers…
Pink will forever be associated with not only the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, but the entire full-fledged fight against breast cancer. But let’s be honest: A pink ribbon only spreads the message to the people who see you wearing it. Plants and flowers can spread a message…
Thursday through Saturday, the gang at Q Cinema presents the 12th annual Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, spotlighting the latest and greatest in gay cinema. Featured films include the opening night Southwest premiere of Violet Tendencies, a rom-com starring The Facts of Life’s Mindy Cohn as a thirty-something “fag…
In late 1972, Hollywood released one of the greatest films in history. It’s a tale of triumph and tragedy. It’s a hero’s journey in the tradition of classic works of literature such as The Odyssey. It is called The Poseidon Adventure. Most of you who have seen it may dismiss…
Dating blows. You never know if the other person is actually into you or if they just want to update their late-night booty-call contact list. Yeah, dating blows. Good thing we have friends to be our buffers on double dates. And good thing we have Lone Star Park (1000 Lone…
Have you met them before? Do you know the women with perfect posture, pouty lips and pretty jewelry? Have you seen the brawny men with their starched-collar shirts, fancy sports cars, greasy hair and brown cigars? Well, if you haven’t, they’re easy to find, and almost every suburban neighborhood is…
