Arts & Culture

Listen, context is everything. Is Indiana Jones’ sidekick Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom a bit … um … un-P.C. by today’s standards? Perhaps. Is the film’s depiction of Hinduism and India on par with, say, a Three Stooges short’s portrayal of bone-wearing African tribesmen? Maybe…

Adulthood is largely overrated, with a few exceptions. Those make up a short list, to be sure, but high up is the ability to eat dessert whenever you damn will please. You don’t have to finish your broccoli or behave yourself at the dinner table. You can act like a…

March is not going out like a lamb this year, not if the ladies of La Divina Productions have anything to do with it. They’re planning on wrapping the month up with a big bang during the Spring Fling Burlesque Revue, at 9 p.m. Friday. Their fevered tribute to the…

Not only has the World Wide Web turned the most sheltered among us into cosmopolitan bon vivants, it’s changed the way artists interact with, discuss and create art. Three such artists are the elusive, questionably real trio: Whyte Window, Black Mirror and Black Burka. By all accounts, these artists use…

History is full of great rivalries: David vs. Goliath, Patton vs. Rommel, Kanye vs. mankind’s tolerance. But none is more heated than the rivalry between people who ride motorcycles and people who ride scooters. Both are excellent modes of transportation, and yet their fans can’t seem to get along. To…

Maximizing nights out is the best. Once kids are corralled, the house is panic-cleaned for the sitter’s arrival and grown-ups are scrubbed of lingering baby snot and dog fur, getting out of the house becomes a race to cram in all of the fun times. Usually, there’s time for dinner…

Here in the South, odds are you’ll end up at a crawfish boil at some point: It’s a rite of spring, an excuse to drink a lot of beer and a place where eating to excess is encouraged. In other words, Google a short tutorial on how to eat the…

As mesmerized as humans are with the possibilities of outer space exploration, we often seem to avoid examining the space and environment directly around our bodies. Dancers serve as our earthbound pioneers. Diavolo — whose tag is “Architecture in Motion” — offers a unique exploratory adventure for dancers and audiences…

Anna and Elsa have had millions of parents the world over in their death grips for well over a year now, and there’s little end in sight. Perhaps you’ll recall the Great Merch Freeze-Out of 2014, when parents forked over hundreds of dollars to asshole eBayers for under-manufactured Anna dolls?…

Often in a photograph there is more than meets the eye. What’s just out of view? What happened the second before? Or the second after? Dallas-based artist Kevin Todora takes questions like these and raises them further. In his recent photographic works, he challenges the medium itself, manipulating images and…

Today’s gamers have it so damn easy. You no longer have to go anywhere to play a top-of-the-line video game. You can sit at home, download one right from your console and play it until your thumbs turn to taffy. The fact that anyone can beat these games isn’t even…

Here are some questions to ponder as you wander through the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin St., during the annual DFW Auto Show. (And many will wander. The show’s vast display of current, concept and classic cars and trucks and product exhibitors drew 400,000 last year, according…

The patriarchy is a bitch. French playwright Molière pointed that out as long ago as 1662. In his farce The School for Wives, he highlights this mistaken male thought: “Keep her dumb, and she’ll be faithful and never question your authority.” I won’t spoil the ending, but lucky for you…

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Medea ain’t pretty. The ancient Greek tale of domestic horror has never been for the faint of heart. It stunned playwright Euripides’ contemporaries when it was first produced in ancient Greece, and those people weren’t easy to shock. The passage of nearly 2,500 years…

Most scary movies consist of characters trying to find their way out of insane circumstances. But when the characters purposely put themselves into the insane circumstances, it makes for a completely different story. House on Haunted Hill came out in 1959, and it’s about a millionaire who offers $10,000 to…

Justice the pit bull puppy died nearly three years ago, succumbing to injuries sustained during a senseless attack by a group of young men. Since that time, a fund established in his honor at DFW Rescue Me, the charity that spearheaded efforts to save the dog, has assisted many other…

The iconic ending of The Breakfast Club has been paid homage many times, lately in teen movies like Easy A and Pitch Perfect. But triumphantly throwing your fist in the air will never be cooler than when you do it with a theater full of people at an anniversary screening…

I’m a lifelong runner. Which is to say that I ran track in high school and have always owned a pair of running shoes. I typically pull them out only when I’m leaving the dumpy phase and headed into the frumpy phase. Or when I’ve eaten one too many delivery…