This Memorial Day weekend, Ennis plays host to the 44th Annual National Polka Festival celebrating the city’s Czech heritage through traditional polka music, elaborate brightly-colored costumes, folk dancing and Czech food…as well as some less than traditional things like clowns on motorcycles and rock bands on floats taking part in…
One day, when my sugar daddy comes along, he’s going to buy me a purple Lamborghini. That’s right, I said purple. However, today is not that day. For now, I’ll have to be satisfied lusting after the sweet rides parked at NorthPark Center during the AutoShow. There’s a little something…
Sure, you may consider yourself a good cook–but if you rely on a pantry full of dried spices to inspire your entrees, you’re missing out. Ditch the stale seasonings and learn how to grow your own fresh herbs. On Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., head over to Texas…
Feeling festive but have a strange desire to honor cultural traditions? Solution: The Ballet Folklorico of Dallas is putting on a show. If you’ve never experienced this kind of traditional Mexican dancing, there will be lots of fancy steps, bright clothes and swishing skirts as the group explores folk dances…
Going on an African safari would be totally badass. But as far as affordable vacation destinations go, they rank very near the bottom of that list, surpassed only by trips to the moon (just ask Lance Bass). Fear not, because the Dallas Zoo has the perfect solution. At 9 a.m…
Kitchen Dog Theater holds its annual New Works Festival with this new play by Zayd Dohrn as its central production. Set in a dirty Phoenix trucking office, the action unfolds in overlapping episodes in a story of human trafficking, paternal bullying, unlikely love and obsession, and brutal murder. What feels…
If you’re that dude who’s totally into Choose Your Own Adventure books, musicals and improv, 7:30 p.m. Thursday get your overactin’-lovin’ shit together and see Blankity-Blank. Directed by Doug Miller and featuring Julie Johnson, the live improv musicalathon takes place in Theatre Too at Theatre Three (2800 Routh Street, #168)…
Dallas diva Liz Mikel gets a plum role as a 1930s ex-con who sings up a storm, all the way to New York high society. Based loosely on the story of Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter, this two-character play-with-music begins in the East Texas prison where Pearl is doing time for removing…
Lost in Woonsocket–the award-winning documentary that follows a group of filmmakers who, despite the cancellation of their reality series, continue to attempt to help (and to film) as two homeless alcoholics get their lives back together–enjoys a free Dallas premiere 7:30 p.m. Thursday. This highly acclaimed film presents questions about…
There’s probably no better way to spend a weekday evening then perusing farm-fresh produce in the setting of a modern metropolis. It’s like a free pass to visit the country without having to deal with that weird small town-ness. Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m., the outdoor pavilion in Mockingbird…
While Christopher Nolan’s recent installments to the Batman franchise are fairly dark, atmospheric and often gleefully macabre, they just don’t hold a candle to the noir-y goodness of Tim Burton’s efforts in Batman and Batman Returns. While I am partial to Batman Returns (probably mostly due to the soundtrack and…
There is something about foreign language films–specifically, Spanish foreign-language films–that is undeniably sexy. Whether it is the beautiful scenery from the streets of cities like Barcelona or the ebb and flow of a romance language that has now thrice mystified me in my learning attempts, I don’t know. But they…
Any plans this weekend? Want to hypnotize your friend into performing a lap dance every time they hear a certain pantomime-happy, poultry-related song popular with wedding DJs? This Thursday through Saturday, the Erotic Hypnotic will be in Fort Worth at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub (605 Houston St.) to do that and…
Throughout their 25 years in the business, The Indigo Girls have become so identified with the lesbian music scene that one may tend to overlook the actual music. But several chart hits and a Grammy Award later, they are still churning out their distinctive brand of modern folk-rock with no…
Sure, Garth ruled the ’90s country scene. But there was another Brooks–Kix Brooks–who along with his musical partner, Ronnie Dunn, crafted plenty of pop-country hits of our youth. It was that first album, Brand New Man, that came along at the right time to influence our nascent county-music consciousness. Songs…
Three writers from Asheville, North Carolina, came up with this 2008 mash-up of Steel Magnolias and Beaches, a comedy tinged with poignant moments among five women friends. Every August the former college swim team champs meet for a girls’ weekend at a beach house on the Outer Banks. In four…
“I never knew what true happiness was till I got married. By then it was too late.” Good line. And if you didn’t know you were watching The Dixie Swim Club, a comedy about five women renewing their friendship at an annual North Carolina beach weekend, you might think you…
Scarlet fever, blindness, a blizzard and a crop-killing fire hit the Ingalls family in Little House on the Prairie, The Musical. And that’s just the first act. These hearty pioneers respond to disaster after disaster in typically hearty (theater) pioneer fashion—by singing spirited ballads and engaging in thigh-slapping yeehaw dancing…
CANNES, France—Midway through the 63rd Cannes Film Festival it’s clear that, although the competition oozes glamour and Wall Street never sleeps, the action this year (even more than in the past) is to be found in its less prestigious shadow, the section with the untranslatable moniker, “Un Certain Regard.” The…
In his work as writer-director, Rodrigo García has admirably distinguished himself through his commitment to creating intelligent, complex roles for his heavily distaff casts. Like his debut, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000), and Nine Lives (2005), Mother and Child is a compassionate, multi-threaded tale about…
MacGruber (Will Forte), a highly decorated soldier of fortune known for “making life-saving inventions out of household materials,” faked his death and went into hiding after his fiancée (Maya Rudolph) was killed at their wedding, likely by MacGruber’s archenemy, wealthy industrialist Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). Years later, when the…
As of April, scientists have catalogued 453 exoplanets–that is, planets outside of our solar system. Of course, many of these planets could never support life as we know it. But as the science of astronomy progresses, it’s likely only a matter of time before we discover habitable planets. And with…
