Sure, you could watch a basketball game at home on your HD TV while sitting on your brand new leather sofa and drinking your imported European beers. But maybe you’re like us, and you’re poor. Maybe you’re even a fan of D-League teams like the Texas Legends, who hardly ever…
The interminable gap between All-Star Weekend and the Western Conference playoffs must be a hellish version of Groundhog Day for Mark Cuban, watching his Mavericks fumble year after year as the Lakers (or Spurs) head to the Finals for yet another shot at yet another title. Zen master Phil Jackson…
If you’ve seen the classic movie, Goodfellas, you should already know that Tommy don’t shine shoes anymore. But that’s Tommy DeVito, and we’re here to talk about Tommy Tune, the timeless dancer, singer and choreographer. He’s won nine Tony awards, so please, don’t ask him to go home and get…
Spring break is supposed to be a break from the rigors of education, but if your kids go to DISD schools, that education probably isn’t too rigorous, mounds of rote homework notwithstanding. And with the budget crisis the district faces, the value of that education looks like it could plummet…
Nothing says love like reeling through the musings of the family table. The pokes, the prods and incessant meanderings about how things were “way back when” are enough to drive anyone back to the kids’ table. But despite all the annoyances, our family is ultimately what brings focus to our…
Regardless of what you may think, “Hecho en Mexico” is not the brand name of the 3-foot-wide sombrero you bought during a cruise to Cabo San Lucas last spring (Read: Made in Mexico). So before you write-in to Ask a Mexican to find out what Hecho en Dallas means, do…
When it comes to playwrights, few are bigger and better than Texas-born Horton Foote. Foote won all the big awards — two Oscars, an Emmy, a Writers Guild of America Screen Award, a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and a National Medal of Arts — and he was known for such…
Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries but rarely do, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol is something like a homegrown slice of Herzog oddness, complete with true-crime backfill and juicy metafictive upshot. It begins with context: In 2000, Mark Hogancamp, an Upstate New York…
In Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi’s directorial debut The Adjustment Bureau (an extremely loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1954 short story “Adjustment Team”), Matt Damon plays David Norris, a Brooklyn-born, bar-fight-prone congressman rocketing to the front of a Senate race apparently on the strength of his charisma and the…
Ink still wet on his MIT degree, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is back in hometown Los Angeles, waiting for his future to clarify itself while he loiters behind the counter at Suncoast Video, hawking VHSes of Harry and the Hendersons because it’s, like, totally 1988. Inspiration comes when Matt re-encounters…
In ancient times, there were “air hostesses.” If you have never been through an airport without being forced to remove footwear, you are too young to remember pretty armies of exotic airline goddesses in kicky miniskirts and calf-hugging boots. They were the go-go geishas of international travel, stirring cocktails and…
Think plastic is fantastic? If you’re a fan of Tupperware, the popular line of plastic storage containers and serving pieces, you’ve probably attended one of those legendary Tupperware parties and bought your fair share of pastel cake carriers and bowls with snap-on lids. Tupperware is still cool, and now you’re…
Ebby Halliday has become an institution as synonymous with the state of Texas as the State Fair itself…or even the Dallas Cowboys. In your mind, you are probably picturing the inimitable script used as her real estate logo, because if you have lived in the Lone Star State for even…
If you were a child of the ’80s, you might have spent some time watching men in tights on your tube television. You don’t have to be ashamed to admit a childhood fascination with wrestling stars Hulk Hogan, Jake “The Snake” Roberts or Randy “Macho Man” Savage. These muscular, excessively…
Dr. Seuss, king of kids books, had the formula down. Pair cute creatures with a couple of bad-ass rhymes, and boom: instant gold. It can’t be that hard, right? Here goes: Seuss is a pimp/ He ain’t no wimp/ That green eggs and ham/ Much better than Spam. Word. If…
Whether they’re tall and fluffy or short and stubby, they make your heart melt into a puddle of goo. From goldens to pugs to labradors to ones with mean mugs, yes sir, dogs are a man’s best friend. And what better way to show your furry friend how much you…
There aren’t too many ways to get a bunch of people together these days. School, work and life in general can make it almost impossible to go out on the town without feeling a little guilty about the growing to-do list at home. This year’s Raiser Grazer, Dames in the…
It’s that time again, revelers: The 29th annual North Texas Irish Festival runs Friday through Sunday at Fair Park. With St. Paddy’s Day coming up, what better way is there to break the seal than coming down to listen to some top-tier Celtic music? The event will feature dancing, traditional…
Whether you’re a runner, a walker or someone looking for some morning festivities, head over to the Bishop Arts District Saturday for the Dash for the Beads, the kick-off event for Mardi Gras Oak Cliff. On the schedule of activities are a 5K run, a 1-mile walk and a family-…
Natalie Portman may have pretty well convinced you with her Black Swan performance that ballet really does boil down to cracked toes, tortured bodies and psychotic ballerinas. And maybe it does–depends on the plot of the ballet, we suppose–but dance is also an art form that is at once athletic,…
Human bodies are so hip these days. Some people like to look at dead ones on display, once they’ve been preserved and posed with tennis gear. At fancy parties, people serve sushi on naked women’s bodies because A) it looks cool, and B) it encourages people to eat more sushi…
This Mardi Gras, why not stock up on beads and let the good times roll with a new burlesque twist? Just in time to celebrate one more guilty pleasure before Lent, Viva Dallas Burlesque will bring the Big Easy to Dallas March 4 at the Lakewood Theatre. 1825 Abrams Road…
