Forget Captain Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Chances are in 20 years everyone else will have forgotten it too. But Long John Silver will still be sailing the seven seas long afterward. Treasure Island is one of the most popular and enduring stories in the world. Come…
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell is an appropriate, Bush-approved Afghanistan war hero. In his new book, Lone Survivor, the Texan lashes out at the media and questions engagement rules against killing unarmed civilians. Luttrell regrets his June 2005 decision to spare unarmed Afghani goatherds who stumbled upon his four-man SEAL team,…
During the summer of love, people hung out outside, sang songs and had sex, producing kids with stupid names like “Flowerpuff.” But summer lovin’ is what happened to Sandy and Danny in Grease. This Thursday, combine the two by bringing your significant other to a free outdoor screening of Grease…
Seeking that elusive balance between having fun and staying out of trouble? Nate the Great, Kid Detective and star of the eponymous children’s books and play, proves that it’s possible to solve mysteries, have adventures and still be an all-around good kid. That makes him a great inspiration for young…
In the age of visual communication, photographs are a way of showing a scene to those not close enough to see it for themselves. More than that, though, they are a snapshot of a moment in time, freezing a point in time that might pass too quickly to be seen…
What’s not to like about the combination of 1920s Hollywood and murder? Theatre Three’s opening musical this season features Fatty Arbuckle, the famous director prosecuted for killing a starlet, and Desmond Taylor, a director who was himself murdered. They’re just supporting characters, but it’s not a bad backdrop. Mack and…
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be presented by Casa Mañana at Bass Performance Hall, Fourth and Calhoun streets in Fort Worth. The musical is based on the 1988 film starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine and is the story of two con men (played…
One can raise a hooplah over just about anything, and we’re aware that one person’s hooplah is another person’s snooze fest. But we’re fairly confident that the hooplah over Hooplah, the Webb Gallery’s latest exhibition, is well deserved. Since 1989, this downtown Waxahachie gallery has been an art aficionado’s destination…
Let’s see, you take various assorted techno-geek cannon fodder, give them lots of cool gadgets (possibly a couple of annoying kids too), isolate the entire group in some improbable locale and then have the latest technological marvel go horribly awry as a result of human hubris. Of course, we’re talking…
“Warning, Joe Rogan may be considered offensive to many people.” That’s the first line on the Improv’s web bio for Rogan. Frankly, it’s a bit of an exaggeration. I mean, a million people get offended by women wearing pants–everything’s offensive to someone. Joe Rogan’s simply loud and says “dick” and…
Even though we are at war right now, it probably doesn’t feel like it to your average college type. This was definitely not the case in the late ’60s and early ’70s during Vietnam. It seemed like every college student was either protesting the war or protesting the protesters. One…
My little brother was one of those kids fascinated with geological catastrophes (and Star Trek, but that’s another story), and he had all of those Time-Life books about volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tornadoes and other fire-and-brimstone-type events throughout history. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius was one of his all-time favorite calamities,…
Mary Roach is one of those rare nonfiction writers with a sense of humor. Among all the gloom and doom cluttering the nonfiction section these days, Mary Roach writes books about dead people that are uproarious. Roach’s Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a witty book about what…
Oh, to be a princess. After overindulging in raspberry tarts, Princess Lenore tells her father that the only thing that will make her feel better is having the moon. Our dad would just give us some Pepto and tell us it was our own damn fault, but then again we’re…
Did John Waters sell out? Or did our ever-more-metrosexual age merely render him irrelevant? Certainly long before Hairspray took up residence on the Great White Way in 2002, Waters had abdicated his throne as America’s elder statesman of underground smut in favor of a more lucrative career as a neutered…
In the observation room of the spacecraft Icarus II, passengers sit on a bench in front of a large, rectangular screen displaying a view of what lies ahead. They gaze at the spectacle as you might marvel at special effects on some ostentatious plasma monitor. A seething orb of gas…
I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did. Two straight guys pretending to be gay (insert fiscal excuse here); been there, done that (insert all known variants on The Odd Couple here). Rampant homophobia hiding behind liberal pleas for tolerance—blech. And it’s true that…
From his humble beginnings as a stand-up comedian in the D.C. area, Tommy Davidson has risen to become a well-known actor, comedian, musician and singer. As an original cast member on Fox’s In Living Color, Davidson was known for his spot-on impressions of Sammy Davis Jr. and Michael Jackson. He…
Kathy Griffin has this story about taking her dogs to a resort in Palm Springs that kills. Really, it’s just so funny that it hurts to watch, and it’s even better because it’s something that could happen to any one of us. Sure, she’s famous for her often vicious send-ups…
Young Annie Sullivan, hired by the Kellers in 1886 to tame their wild, blind and deaf daughter Helen, was practically blind herself, raised in a poorhouse and stubborn as the mule in their barn. But stubborn gets the job done when you’re playing impossible odds and can hardly see the…
Take Neil Simon, throw him in a big gay musical stewpot with the greatest choreographer ever–Bob Fosse–and stir in that chick Paige Davis from TV’s Trading Spaces and what do you get? Well, besides a pretty strange-tasting stew, you get Sweet Charity, a really weird musical about a girl who…
Oh, Broadway—what other entertainment entity can combine the all-American drama of baseball, the cheesy thrill of overproduced song and dance numbers, and the creepy Satanic fantasy of Faust? You’ll find all of this in Damn Yankees, perhaps the quintessential Broadway musical, which kicks off a local run as the second…
