The historic Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, which opened its 116th year on January 13, runs through Friday, February 3, but the sights, sounds, smells, and, yeah, occasionally stains tend to make for unforgettable memories. Especially, the “World’s Original Indoor Rodeo, which kicks off in the Coliseum tonight at…
When Augustus Gloop was fatefully inhaled into the bowels of Willy Wonka’s factory, kids around the world learned their favorite decadent sweet had a dark side, and not just the semisweet variety. This month, Garland Civic Theatre invites you to further explore the pernicious confection via their performance of Death…
Pop culture thrives on stereotypes like the nagging wife and the harried, pot-bellied husband who populate nearly every tired family sitcom. Long-suffering couples see a glimpse of themselves in Peg and Al Bundy, the poster couple of modern TV marriage. We’ve all been there, done that, and are secretly relieved…
I was reprimanded recently for misusing the word “epic”. I said something to the effect that my Buffalo wings were epic, and my dining companion pointed out that my Buffalo wings were not in any, way, shape or form related to long-form poetry and that if Homer (the poet, not…
Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV’s A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. Plays. Long interviews…
Artist and musician Sally Ackerman was spotted yarn bombing trees along N. Bishop Avenue last Sunday afternoon. She explains that what started as a “love bomb” for a friend at Artisan’s Collective turned into a gig when TV producers from the show Dallas hired her to knit up four more…
How badly do you want to live in these freaking amazing houses? High ceilings, fine lines, and light — oh, sweet beautiful light — pouring in through abundant oversized windows. You and your houseplants would live perpetually invigorated, both the philodendron and your joy quadrant would quadruple in size. Lovely…
The cozy little shop called The Shabby Sheep, an Uptown emporium of supplies for knitters and crocheters, is now the home of the Jane Austen Society, which will meet at 11 a.m. on the second Saturday of the month, beginning February 11. Encouraging “knitting, spinning, crocheting, snacking, chatting, movie watching…
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Everyone’s favorite brassy Golden Girl Betty White turns 90 today! In addition to squeezing in every cameo and roast that can possibly be wrinkled into a schedule, she’s also managed to helm the new (gotcha!) prank show Betty White’s Off Their Rockers. In it, rehearsed sketches are interspersed with spontaneous…
There’s been a lot of talk about tassels around here, so it stands to reason that your own nips might feel a little neglected. Well, fortune favors the bold (and the voluptuous, wink wink) and you too can show off that bad bod, and all the miraculous things it can…
Kicking off Fashion Week Dallas 2012 is best done with an oversized jeweled anklet, a note proven last night as collections by SOCIAL List and Carolina Herrera shared the runway at the Adolphus Hotel, outfitted with jewelry by local companies Body Elements and BootGlams. Dallas designer SOCIAL List assembled a…
The other night at the end of a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank at WaterTower Theatre, the lights went down on the final scene then came up with the cast assembled for bows. Instead of applause, the actors were met with complete silence. The lights went down again…
We still have an hangover, art and otherwise, from Saturday night’s gallery hopping marathon, but luckily we were still upright and mostly cognizant by the time we made it to 500X where whiffs of Chris Tennen and Scott Hilton’s collaborative installation, “The Society for Olfactory Preservation,” wafted among the gallery’s…
What’s better than big tits and good spelling? That’s right: nothing. Only problem is, there aren’t many opportunities to mix the two, which is why God made stripper spelling bees, and is why the Observer jumped at the chance Sunday night to see the inaugural stripper spelling bee at Baby…
Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother-in-law’s life. Millions of dollars in counterfeit…
It’s a severely underrepresented holiday, this most darling day of haunting. Typically used as a punchline to explain the tragic behavior of those around us (“Did that creep at the bar really suggest a three-way? Well, what do you expect? It is Friday the 13th.”) it once held meaning. There…
I knew a girl in South Florida with a highly unfortunate tattoo. The over-sized, Old English back piece read: “MOEW.” I asked her about the word’s significance and she replied, “It’s supposed to say ‘MEOW.'” Ouch. The artist, she explained, put the letters on individually and showed ’em to her…
If there’s ever a zombie attack or outbreak of some mutated virus that turns most of the population into blood-thirsty cannibals, we hope we don’t survive because we’re not equipped to kill the undead. Plus we’ve learned from movies that no one usually lasts too long. Who knows how many…
Oh. My. God. Becky, look at this art. It’s just so big and so small. It’s just, like, opposites, like, a study in “differences in scale and color.” A vocab word you may have missed on the GRE, “Dimorphism” is a biology term referring to dual variations within a species…
If there really were such a thing as magical power, wouldn’t it be a waste to use it on card tricks? Or trying to break the record for consecutive minutes not breathing without dying? But that is what magician, illusionist and “endurance artist” David Blaine does and he did some…
Brace yourselves and keep your daughters away from the voicemail because everyone’s favorite Hollywood charismatic, Alec Baldwin, is coming to Dallas on March 2. From his role as Joshua Rush on Knot’s Landing to Liz Lemmon’s platonic comedic foil in 30 Rock, Baldwin has remained a powerhouse for more than…
