When I think of westerns, I think of sitting in front of my grandpa’s oversized television, chowing down on delivery pizza and watching John Wayne, or Poppa’s favorite, Bonanza. He had an unparralled love for the drawn-out fights between cowboys and Indians, and the melodramatic love stories of a handsome…
It’s Kenny mother effin’ G. He can melt your panties off with his smooth saxophone sound. He’s a god among jazz musicians. He was an original investor in that unknown coffee chain called Starbucks. OK, the jury is still out on all of that — except the Starbucks thing, that’s…
Some events are so horrific that time can never diminish them. This is particularly true in the case of the Holocaust, the worst genocide in history. Though we are nearly three quarters of a century removed from the unthinkable fates of six million Jewish men, women and children at the…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra settles into form with a program stacked with beloved classics. The evening begins with Bach’s legendary Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and closes with Beethoven’s relatively conventional Symphony No. 1, which grants a subtle glimpse into the composer’s radical and ambitious middle-period, while revealing his many debts…
Something that is awesome about Annie Get Your Gun: the music. Irving Berlin’s original songs are some of the most enduring in Broadway. Even if you’ve never seen the show, you know most of the songs: “Anything You Can Do,” “They Say It’s Wonderful” and “There’s No Business Like Show…
If there’s one thing that unites people, it’s music. It’s been called the universal language, because well, everyone can participate. As rebellious teenagers, we used it to explain ourselves; we create soundtracks for our daily lives; we get pumped up before a morning run. And in light of all of…
A college football championship win recently brought a swarm of notoriety to the Ohio State name, but there are other badass things happening at that university, outside the athletics department. Roger Beebe is an Associate Professor in Ohio State University’s Art Department and he’s found interesting ways to use projectors…
There’s an ever-shrinking number of us in the world who genuinely love Shakespeare. We love to read the Bard and will see almost any play or adaptation. And though I’d never refer to myself as a purist, I can certainly respect the undertaking of Shakespeare Dallas to stage every single…
Sports talking-head Jim Rome got in a bit of trouble when he spouted this off on Twitter: “Is there anyone not in a marching band who thinks those dorks running around with their instruments are cool?” If this meathead’s words don’t inspire you to support marching bands — if only…
Acts of terrorism happen every day. But here in America, they often seem far away, perpetrated by people and cultures foreign to us. Not so in Scott Blackwood’s newest novel, See How Small. It tells the story of a random act of violence that devastates the residents of a small…
To the best of my knowledge, the performers in Shaping Sound don’t actually make noise. They dance. It’s all about the choreorgaphy for this national touring production created by Travis Wall, Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson. They bring a mash-up of styles, rhythms and moves that you might…
A cartoonist for The New Yorker, Roz Chast has had more than a thousand cartoons published. Her cartoons reflect domestic and family life, so many depict interior scenes that heavily feature lamps and wallpaper. Chast credits her mother as her main source of inspiration, and she channels that same source…
Cirque du Soleil is an amazing spectacle, to be sure, but it could use way more horses. Cirque co-founder Normand Latourelle thought that adding an equine element to the mystical acrobatic artistry would really take things up a notch — and he was right. The product of that vision is…
The legend of Stagger Lee goes like this: A man got so pissed off at his “business partner” for taking his cowboy hat that he shot and killed him. In this day and age, it seems a little tame, but in late 19th century Missouri, Stagger Lee was a hat-retrieving…
It’s a rare opportunity to see two of the smartest artists working in Dallas in the same venue. Which is why you’ll want to head to the Goss Michael Foundation’s exhibition openings from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Jesse Morgan Barnett mines his own life to create abstract sculptural installations. He fills…
Remember when we looked at Austin with a glimmer of envy? I’m writing this down to remind the children. The ones who will remember seeing The Lego Movie, chomping down on good pizza, while their parents guzzled adult milkshakes. The ones who won’t remember movie theaters reeking of hot dogs…
Suspend any expectation that the actor playing Truman Capote in the one-man play Tru, now on at Theatre Three, will attempt an impression of the author as accurate as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman did in his Oscar-winning performance in Capote…
Let’s do some basic forensics on how a thing as wretched as The Book Club Play got produced at the Dallas Theater Center. DTC is our big League of Resident Theatres professional showplace with a large staff dedicated to bringing top quality scripts, new and old, to audiences. There have…
Jesse Morgan Barnett & Jeff Gibbons It’s a rare opportunity to see two of the smartest artists working in Dallas in the same venue. Which is why you’ll want to head to the Goss Michael Foundation’s exhibition openings from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Jesse Morgan Barnett mines his own life to…
BY INKOO KANG The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’s great misfortune isn’t that it replaces The Colbert Report, but that it premieres after Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. The Colbert Report was sui generis, and will likely remain so, because such a series makes leviathan demands on its host:…
You pretty people made Saturday night memorable. Forever Artopia 2015 will live as a twinkle of good times that we’ll relive in photos like these by photographers Mike Brooks and Kathy Tran. You were there, taking selfies in front of the Love Me Back neon sign, designed to bring to…
Four hours with a 6-year-old taught me that parents are the baddest motherfuckers on the planet. I have never been so exhausted. Nothing I’ve done in my adult life has prepared me for a day of trying to wrangle a 6-year-old while Spider-Man occasionally pops up to talk to him,…
