What To Expect At This Year’s Festival Of Independent Theatres

The Bath House Cultural Center will be swimming with talent next week with the opening Friday of the 13th annual Festival of Independent Theatres. The four-weekend event features eight small theater companies doing one-act plays under one hour each, in rotating repertory and for budgets averaging under $2000. Playwrights represented…

This Photo Of Willie Nelson’s Son Looks Eerily Familiar

Thousands of country-music-lovin’ Americans came out Monday to celebrate the most patriotic of holidays at the most patriotic party this side of the Mason-Dixon Line: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic. The crowd at Billy Bob’s braved the heat for some honky-tonk from Willie and his friends, but it truly…

The Wiz: By The Numbers And Behind The Scenes

Some stats you should know before you ease on down the road to the Wyly Theatre for Dallas Theater Center’s musical The Wiz, opening 8 p.m., Friday, July 8, in a pay-what-you-can preview, before the official opening night on July 15…

On John Wiley Price’s Strange Land(mark) Dealings

​There’s nothing more fun than putting people’s faces in places where they don’t belong.Wait, let’s rephrase that. Maybe it’s more fun accumulating so much cars and cash that the FBI raids your offices and home. Or maybe obtaining some land in the most bizarre manner possible, with the help of…

Jay Pharoah in Arlington: What You’re In For This Weekend (Video)

Last season was a strange one on Saturday Night Live: a lot of repeat sketches, some lackluster hosts, the usual misfires from the Lonely Island crew, some new cast members clumsily finding their way, and the continued strange existence of Abby Elliot, who, outside of her opening-credit sexy-hair tussling thing,…

Best Of Dallas 2011: Help Us Help You Decide On Dallas’ Best

Yep, we’re already there again. Venus temperatures are officially upon us. Oh, and we’re gearing up for our big ol’, bad-ass issue: Best Of Dallas. If the Rapture goes on as predicted, we’re looking at one of the last Best Ofs ever. So, naturally, we want your feedback. It’s taken…

Horrible Bosses Sings the White Man’s Lament

There’s a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word “pussy.” Her character is trying to intimidate his, while the filmmakers attempt to shock the audience with the spectacle of this lady rom-com…

Storm The Bookstore

If you’re worth your salt when you lose your mind, you couldn’t do better than to get institutionalized at McLean Hospital. The famous psychiatric hospital has played home to everyone from John Nash to Frederick Law Olmstead to David Foster Wallace, and the list of literary works set at McLean…

Walt’s Last Waltz

Growing up, most kids wanted to be doctors. It’s a profession that helps out others as well as your pocket book. However, sitting through eight years of college is brutal, so what’s the next big thing? Lie and tell everyone that you got your medical license. That’s what the ensemble…

A Dose of Adrenaline

Sure, the life of a real CIA agent is probably filled with more paperwork than espionage, but we’re still convinced it’s the most badass government job you could have. Jeff Abbott would probably agree with us. His thrilling novel, Adrenaline, is about a CIA agent whose definitely no pencil pusher…

No Archetypal Artist

New York City based freelance photographer Andrew Williams says that Archetypes, his current exhibit at The Magnolia Gallery, was inspired by a dream he had. According to Williams, the exhibit of photographic art is “based on geometry within architecture” and the “images have a formulaic feel and are meant to…

Dig The Wiz

Hey, all you cool cats. Can you really dig it? Are you ready to ease on down, boogie woogie and shake your ruby red groove thing to some funkadelic sounds while you follow the yellow brick road? Join in on the dynamite and out-of-sight story of Dorothy and her psychedelic…

It’s Not A Party Without Paella

Instead of traveling on a plane for 12 plus hours to Europe while sitting next to someone who has breathing and personal space problems, enjoy the delights of Spain at Central Market. Learn how to prepare a classic Spanish dish, paella, four different ways at the Paella Party. The cooking…

A Reel Dance Fest

Once in blue moon, a much-hyped film about dance reinvigorates interest in the art. A recent example, Black Swan, explores the dark underbelly of professional dancing, and it’s probably (hopefully?)more fiction than fact. Let’s Dance!, a film festival at The Modern, is a collection of short films, documentaries and feature…

Our Kid Can Do That

Perhaps we’re biased, having a child who has learned some badass moves in three years of dance class. But we’ll go ahead and say that watching kids dance is far more entertaining than we’d have ever expected, whether they’re adorable toddlers cracking up the audience or teens awing us with…

Batters Up For Charity

Where can you see Mavericks, Stars and Cowboys on one field? It’s not some super-new sports mash-up. That would be risky. It’s baseball! Which considering the lack of baseball players involved, may also be risky. So why are these sports behemoths risking their reputations playing a game outside their job…

But Are You Into Him?

For any and all familiar with (first a book, then a movie) He’s Just Not That Into You, you might not guess (or maybe you did, depending on whether you are from Mars or Venus) that one of the co-authors, Greg Behrendt, is also stand-up comedian. The man who can…

A Sizzlin’ Workout

Run On!, organizers of this Sunday’s 5K and 15K, are not trying to fool anyone – they’re keenly aware of the weather this time of year, how brutally hot it often is and how undesirable that can be. However, rather than running from it in a mad dash to obtain…

Contort Through Kundalini

You may go to The Kundalini Yoga Experience to build character and all that sort of thing, but, I guarantee, you’ll stay for the panting. Kundalini yoga is supposed to build oneness with nature. We’re not sure if you really get closer to God through stretching and panting, but you…