Good grief. While Charlie Sheen still struggles to figure out what it takes to be a good man (rehab might be a good start), Charlie Brown has it down. The wholesome kid that children of all ages have grown up with since the Peanuts strip first ran on October 2,…
The thwack of the bat, the roar of the crowd or the screams of the cheerleaders–games and sports permeate our culture, and in our art no less than anywhere else. Dunn and Brown Contemporary’s Ball Game group exhibition explores sports imagery. The renowned artist Damien Hirst, photographer Luis Gispert and…
Iceland is perhaps most famous in this part of the world for exporting musical talent with hard-to-pronounce names, but those more aware of the island’s economy probably know that it also boasts aluminum as a chief export. Austin-based artist Amy Revier recently spent 9 months in Iceland on a Fulbright…
Now that the confetti has settled and the Packers are the official Super Bowl XLV champs, it’s time for JerryWorld to play host to a plethora of different live events until football season rolls around again (whether or not that will actually happen anytime soon is another story altogether). First…
Sometimes, when we feel a little Irish, we’ll go over to the pub, drink some Tullamore Dew, imitate Thomas Mitchell’s thick Irish brogue in Gone With the Wind and talk about how precious land is to an Irishman. Other times, we’ll just put on a Chieftains album and start dancing…
If you’ve been dreaming since early adolescence of making tea time with your teddy bear a reality, now’s your chance. Dallas Arboretum’s Friendship Tea couples gourmet food from the Arboretum’s Restaurant DeGolyer with the aroma of flowers at 11 a.m. this Thursday through Sunday. And what would tea be without…
The Academy Awards are the number one awards show you really don’t have to sit through start to finish, unless you’re generally interested in the politically correct quips of whatever A-list host they have as the emcee of the evening. All of the awards in the middle of the broadcast…
There is a hazy, oppressive boundary between awake and asleep that many of us struggle through each morning, whether it’s the groggy, pre-coffee sleepwalk or the stubborn fight between a person’s obligations and his under-rested body. This half-awake state is the subject of Houston-based Italian artist Nicola Parente’s series of…
In the name of clarity, and before anyone gets their hopes up, Kids from Commerce isn’t a goat show, but an art show. That’s good news to most of you. Better news is what the Kids from Commerce bring to town. The exhibit features the newest work in paintings and…
The Black Architecture Project–running through March 26 at CentralTrak–is a multi-media event surrounding the work of Dr. Darell Fields, a lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas and architectural/design theorist. Fields, a Dallas local, earned his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has lectured there since…
When it comes to sports, boxing has got to be one of the most intense. Boxers have to maintain a specific weight, train pretty much every day and take quite a beating just to get in the ring. Even if you haven’t been to an actual match, Hollywood has probably…
Planning for parenthood takes a lot of prep work. There are, of course, frequent visits to the obstetrician or midwife, frequent bathroom breaks and frequent “eating-for-two” reminders that allow moms-to-be to claim the last piece of pecan pie. Apparently it’s tough work putting together a whole human from just a…
It would be unwise to consider Four Lions a movie that has much to say about radical Islam or the threat of terrorism. Instead, think of Four Lions as Airheads, except that instead of the idiots wanting to get their song played on the radio, the idiots want to blow…
Fifty years after Kim Ki-young’s postwar hothouse original, Im Sang-soo attempts a sleek, breathless update to The Housemaid, the tale of a household riven by a sexy domestic. This time around, instead of a family-man music teacher getting ensnared, a bored, feckless maid (Jeon Do-yeon) is seduced by a rich…
For a country that boasts one of the oldest civilizations and the biggest population of any nation on Earth, China somehow remains a mystery to many Americans. It’s understandable, really, as the country maintains a bit of a split personality. Its communist government makes many think of an austere, agrarian…
Rule of law scarcely discourages the endless reprisals in Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian War–era family-ties drama Outside the Law, which shows the FLN’s militant campaign for Algerian independence, as fought on French soil, through the experiences of three brothers. Reuniting in a Nanterre shantytown, this tattered family brings with it the…
Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and starring sitcom secondario Ed Helms (The Office’s obnoxious angry salesman Andy Bernard) as Tim Lippe, a prematurely middle-aged man-child. Taking an airplane for the first time in…
To age brutishly is Liam Neeson’s apparent career goal—with Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, and now Unknown, the actor continues to follow the Nicolas Cage path from respected thespian to big-budget ass-kicker. In this tepid thriller from Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan), Neeson is Dr. Martin Harris, who, after arriving…
Once, on a family vacation at South Padre Island, we woke up at 4 a.m. and went down to the beach, hoping to catch a glimpse of sea turtles hatching and flopping awkwardly toward the ocean. Long story short, despite the rumors we’d heard, we never saw any hatchlings making…
Turning 30 certainly calls for a beer or two. But 30 is a whole different animal for a brewing company! Share a beer with one of the pioneers of the American craft brew movement–Sierra Nevada founder Ken Grossman–at the brewery’s 30th anniversary “beer dinner” 6 p.m., Monday at the Meddlesome…
Toby Keith, meet PBR–no, not Pabst Blue Ribbon, the Professional Bull Riders. If you think football is the toughest sport on Earth, you’ve got another thing coming. Just when you thought Jerry World was done hosting violent collisions and power exhibitions, think again. The Dickies Iron Cowboy Invitational will host…
Hey bicycle riders, who built the basket on the front of your bike? Chances are you either don’t know or don’t have a basket, but don’t be ashamed, you can fix that. A lot has changed in the world of bicycle basketry, so you shouldn’t worry about looking like Miss…
