This Wednesday, for a measly 10 bucks you can see Ozzy Osbourne, Rip Torn, Peter O’Toole, Sean Connery, Vince Vaughn and tons of other celebs makin’ jokes. No, Addison Improv isn’t hosting Celebrity Open Mic Night. But, close–8 p.m. Wednesday, comedian and voice actor Mike MacRae (you might know him…
Screw Zales. Jewlery is not what the Diamond Ring at 500X Gallery is about. See, this is an exhibition of paintings created from 1970s Topps baseball cards and a wrestling match pitting Captain Kiser against Nick “The Roughneck” Halliburton. For serious. When was the last time you saw an art…
The great boundary-crosser of Iranian cinema, Bahman Ghobadi, purposefully steps over the line with No One Knows About Persian Cats—a quasi-documentary, highly unofficial panorama of Tehran’s tenacious underground music scene and a movie that has accrued additional urgency since its first public screening at Cannes last May. Ghobadi’s co-writer, journalist…
As Iron Man 2 begins, Tony Stark—mechanical genius, Forbes 400 perennial, the pop-star CEO of Stark Industries—has dropped any pretense of a secret identity. Stark is garishly “out” as Iron Man, performing a one-man air show before touching down to host his Stark Expo, which transforms the World’s Fairground at…
Sure, you take your car in for regular tune-ups. But what about you, man? Who’s taking care of your maintenance? Maybe it’s time you looked into a tune-up yourself. “Tune up the Whole Man: Mind-Body-Spirit,” a men’s health conference for ages 12 and up, is the perfect opportunity. The event…
As kids, we were obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Being eight-year-olds, nineteenth-century life on the prairie complete with Indians, wolves and a snug little house to keep the family safe looked pretty good to us. There were 10 books in the series…
Ask five people what they think of when they hear the word “India” and you are sure to get five drastically different answers–a group of women peddling embroidered silk scarves on a cobblestone street, Hawaiian retirees eating a bhut jolokia chili pepper, maybe even Paul McCartney practicing transcendental meditation with…
Photographer Terry Falke has spent four decades exploring what makes a landscape particularly American, and his career is a document of how that definition has changed. He began shooting black and white landscapes with Ansel Adams’ California collective, the Friends of Photography in Carmel, in the early 1970s, but over…
Just the possibility of uncovering a lost treasure, a bag of gold coins or a huge precious stone leads people of all ages and income brackets to spend hours down on their knees, digging in the dirt at different sites around the world. One of the most popular sites is…
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, take the 37th annual Swiss Avenue Historic District Mother’s Day Home Tour, where you’ll explore the 22-block area, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and recognized as a Texas Historic Site. The 200 preserved and…
Who knew Dutch oven cooking was so cool? Well, besides our grandparents… Apparently, the cooking style has a local and international following complete with fan pages and book series; there was even a television show back in the late ’90s hosted by Cee Dub, a Dutch-oven cooking master. Well, you…
There’s a day that caters to just about everything these days. Talk Like A Pirate Day, National Hugging Day, National Barefoot Day — we could go on and on. So why not dedicate a day to trains? National Train Day invites history enthusiasts to check out train displays including the…
Do you like your mom? Do you enjoy putting things in their proper place? Then boy, is there a perfect Mother’s Day event for you! From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, folks at Texas Discovery Gardens, 3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, will celebrate all things mom…
Who doesn’t love baseball? Furthermore, who doesn’t love a good movie about baseball? The Natural, The Sandlot, Rookie of the Year (Come on, who didn’t think Henry Rowengartner was precious? And it’s probably the last sane thing Gary Busey ever did.), Field of Dreams–I could go on forever. It’s easy…
My mother always told me that it’s not polite to talk about politics in certain circles. I feel that my mom taught me well, and I’ve spent many an evening on the patio of the Lakewood Landing sitting in a corner, watching friends duke it out over healthcare reform while…
Good news for those stuck on what to get Mom for Mother’s Day: Wendy Fahle’s ink cartoon series–I Do. I Did. I’m Done.–will be on display at Kettle Art this weekend, and limited edition prints and notecards featuring Fahle’s whimsical takes on love and commitment will be on sale 7…
The Texas sun can be a beat down, and not just any old shrub or succulent can withstand its heat. That’s why the Dallas Arboretum’s Senior Director of Gardens, Jimmy Turner, is hosting “Lone Star Greats: Texas Tough Plants,” a class designed to show you the perfect plants for our…
If you were to brainstorm all of the possible festivals TXU would sponsor, an art fest probably wouldn’t make the top of the list. Or maybe that’s just us. Either way, it appears that the energy company wants to keep all of us guessing by presenting the seventh annual CityArts…
An English playwright who wasn’t Shakespeare once wrote “all’s fair in love and war,” but a French guy deserves credit for taking it to extremes. Psychological warfare outweighs true love in Cruel Intentions, the decade-old movie adapted for the stage by the Collin Theatre Center. The story–based on a scandalous…
This isn’t the first time Andrea Rosenberg has flied solo. She did it before in this fair city, two years ago, in fact. It was then that she seduced audiences with paper works that were emotive and sensual, floral and warm. And this time, she offers her fibrous artistry again,…
There are certain films that influence your life whether you know it or not. For example, Rudy makes every underdog feel like they can rule the world, Jaws makes you want to live as far inland as possible and, well, this week’s midnight movie playing at Inwood Theatre (5458 West…
Animated films (not to be confused with that Pixar noise) have seriously been upgraded since we were kids. We were satisfied with a simple story about a lion cub that loses his dad and has to grow up fast to save his family and friends (with lovable sidekicks in tow)…
