TEXANS CELEBRATE AMERICA – Neither of the pre-game patriotic performances achieved Whitney Houston-level kudos, but both were delivered tastefully and capably. Lindale’s Miranda Lambert did some nice harmonizin’ with her hubby on “America the Beautiful,” and Burleson’s Kelly Clarkson shared her National Anthem spotlight with a gigantic drumline and background-singing…
Mockingbird Station parking lot. Level P2. Discovering this crappy Texas was, by far, the very best thing about seeing Haywire. Follow the Mixmaster on Twitter and Facebook…
Like most modern romances, Irby Pace fell in love in a Mac store. It happened when he was sliding his way across the photo roll on a demo Ipod, and there she was. He just knew. “I saw this one,” said Pace while directing his eyes to the photo exhibition’s…
Pina Bausch was more than a choreographer, her contributions to modern dance helped redefine the art form. After studying first in Germany and next at Julliard, she went on to perform with every major dance company that was lucky enough to get her, and eventually became artistic director of the…
The Dallas Burlesque Festival unrolled its stockings and clicked its garters into place last night for the inaugural Pin Up Pageant. Look out office-dwellers, the following photos contain explosive amounts of sexiness…
Among the promising slate of new works by local playwrights debuting at this year’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, March 1-10 at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, is the dark comedy International Falls by Waco writer, actor and former stand-up comic Thomas Ward. It’s a 90-minute one-act, premiering on WaterTower’s…
Tony Award winner and Fort Worth resident Betty Buckley watches American Idol. She loves American Idol. But she’s about to blow a gasket over Idol judge Randy Jackson’s putdowns of some of the singers who have what he deems to be a bit too much vibrato. Whenever Jackson rejects a…
When Shepard Fairey speaks his eyes go someplace else. They squint and look beyond you, alternating left and then right, scanning the entirety of his surroundings. It isn’t posturing and he isn’t searching for a more interesting person to flag down. The fact of the matter is that Fairey has…
If you wanted to attend Saturday night’s Phenomenon event with Shepard Fairey at the Dallas Contemporary but can’t swing the $50 ticket — or were just interested in hearing the artist’s intent, there’s a chit chat with Fairey at 7 p.m. tonight at the Dallas Contemporary…
I know what you’re thinking: “Redbox is already as cheap as it gets. There’s no way that you can secure a movie rental for less than $1.20. Besides, how pathetic are you?” Answers: Free, and very. I feel bad about using the movie kiosks to begin with; I know that…
The work week is almost over, and as far as I’m concerned the weekend always starts on Thursday. Here’s a list of fun things to do with that hard-earned money! Click the red event titles for extra information. Thursday: The Dallas Burlesque Festival (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) Va-va-voom! This isn’t…
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror filmmaking. His little-seen apprenticeship cheapies (The Roost, Trigger Man) led to a disowned, freelance gross-out job (Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever) and then finally a name-above-the-title breakthrough…
A Separation — the fifth feature by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box. Dispensing with preliminaries, it opens at a judicial hearing where, both facing the camera that stands in for the judge, a quarrelsome husband and…
A giant of a musical opened here the other night, but it wasn’t Giant, the horseless cowpoke operetta now plodding along at the Wyly Theatre, a co-production between Dallas Theater Center and New York’s Public Theater. It was Kismet at Irving’s Lyric Stage, a four-performance concert that ticked all the…
The Stiletto Stampede for the Cure, a 100-yard dash in heels, is coming to Dallas next month for its first stampede. Before you go out and maybe break a heel or two, dash over to Tootsies in Dallas for free admission to the Stiletto Stampede Kickoff Party. Strut your perfect…
According to weatherman (and stone cold fox) Pete Delkus, Canada has ruined our chances of having an actual winter this year by refusing to play nice and send us a heaping helping of arctic air. So, this summer when you’re battling hoards of fleas and swatting the legions of mosquitoes…
You there in the Snuggie. Stop sitting on the couch just a few degrees too warm watching SoapNet/Military Channel. Rather, prepare to get off your ass this Saturday, February 4, from 2 to 10 p.m. — don’t even worry about changing — and head Uptown for the 3rd annual Snuggie…
When LA street artist, DJ, and all-around Rad Dude, Shepard Fairey comes to town, Big D lights up brighter than the Omni Hotel and that crazy bridge, combined. Paired up with the Dallas Contemporary, Fairey is on a good-will mission. His agenda? To put up rockin’ tough murals all over…
In a few weeks, while your friends are bemoaning the annual holiday of red roses and heart-shaped boxes of waxy chocolates, you can brag that you’ve already treated your sweetheart to a nice date complete with expensive truffles and a limo. Impress your companion, and make your friends jealous, by…
Boats are fun. For the friend of the boat owner, that is. The friend just shows up, puts a can of Bud Light Lime in a koozie, then himself into a life jacket , and enjoys avoiding the onset of skin cancer for a couple of hours. As the sun…
Going to see a concert at the Granada Theater is a fine way to spend an evening. But, there are plenty of folks who remember that, before the proliferation of movie grills and theaters with full bars, the Granada was the one place where one could have a pitcher of…
The Dallas Burlesque Festival is back and this year it’s a four-night, multi-multi-multi-boobied event. Seventy-five acts will be performing, including some of the biggest names in the burlesque like Michelle L’amour, Ginger Valentine, Coco Lectric and more. And even if you don’t know them by name, rest assured they have…
