Celebrating its 51st anniversary, The O’Reilly Auto Parts Autorama celebrates its 51st anniversary this year with a little something for everyone, bringing cars, girls, and celebrities to Dallas Market Hall this Friday through Sunday. The show will include more eye-candy than Tim Allen could ever grunt at as Market Hall…
Even though Chinese New Year started a couple of weeks ago, don’t worry–there’s still time to party like it’s 4708. Chinese New Year is traditionally a 15 day long celebration that lasts until the first full moon of the new year, so if you haven’t had your fill of sweet…
Friday night the Texas Theatre hosts the official premiere of Bryan Poyser’s film Lovers of Hate, a tale of two brothers that seems packed with drama, resentment, tension and sibling rivalry. Adult brothers Rudy and Paul recreate the torturous feelings that arise within a family when siblings see differing levels…
In case you’re wondering why Bob Nelson is wearing boxing gloves, sparring headgear and a dazed expression, it’s because his routine includes a long imitation of some punch-drunk palooka’s tips on how to become a professional fighter. That’s just one of many routines poking fun at dumb people that the…
For the most part, figure skating has received a raw deal over the years, often being either parodied (Blades of Glory anyone?) or entirely ignored as a professional sport. Yet it seems that every four years as the Winter Olympics rolls back around, America rallies behind the skaters representing the…
Japan’s preeminent performing arts ensemble, Kodo, integrates taiko drumming–a uniquely Japanese style of percussion played with uniquely Japanese drums–singing and dance to put on a show that is as powerful as it is traditional. The group visits Dallas this week as part of a tour celebrating its 30th anniversary and…
There’s a saying that politicians are much like diapers: they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Is this because we tend to elect people that are easily corruptible and are ethical vacuums from birth, or is it because once in office, even the people with the…
If you aren’t using this publication as a makeshift blanket, chances are you aren’t too familiar with real hunger. Not the munchies you get after cashing a bowl, but the gnawing at the stomach that comes when you don’t know where your next meal will come from. That’s a very…
Paul Giamatti. The instantly recognizable actor can prove to be a polarizing dude, no doubt about it. You could find him to be quite loveable–channeling Pekar and Adams–or you may find him to be downright blood boiling–spitting pinot and Pig Vomit. No matter how you find him, he’s a champion…
Everybody needs a mentor from time to time. Someone who can step in and say, “I’ve already walked this path. Let me show you how.” Even fictional princes of make-believe lands need mentors. Prince Caspian of Narnia, whose throne was usurped by his uncle (familiar story, that), finds a magical…
Just as Three’s Company explored the potential for knee-slapping when three dynamic personalities come together in close quarters, the play Travesties pulls the same punch, but in World War I era Zurich. The 1970s comedy, written by Tom Stoppard, came from the realization that three of the 20th century’s most…
Coffee and art, Uptown and Downtown–these are pairings that we love. And Reflection, a collection of paintings by Denton artist Jennifer Leigh Jones, is an inspired opportunity to check out the new collaboration of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC) and the Mercantile Coffee House. Personal and engaging artwork meets highbrow…
We’ve all done it. Whether we didn’t want to hurt our friend’s feelings or just didn’t feel like crawling out of bed to go to work that one morning–we’ve all fibbed at one point or another. Luckily our noses are intact, even though we’ve all been pulling a Pinocchio for…
If you’re an avid reader of this publication, you might remember our Masterminds competition from a couple months back. If so, you’ll recall that actor/playwright/director/theater dude Matthew Posey was selected for an award among the 70 other artists/nominees that were submitted. Posey operates the Ochre House Theater, and this month…
What’s scarier (or more hilarious) than a couple of old ladies in the habit of poisoning their male boarders? If you answered Betty Buckley, you’re right (watch M. Knight Shyamalan’s The Happening–the woman is terrifying in it). If you’ve got a taste for real terror (and belly laughs), you’re in…
History buff or not, century-old manuscripts are pretty cool, especially you’re talking about the only remaining set of codices from the Sacristy of the Sistine Chapel. Remember Napoleon? Well, these codices were taken from Napoleon’s armies, only to be rescued by the Archbishop of Toledo. Thanks to their discovery in…
Dallas photographer Laura Wilson–AKA as the football mom for brothers Luke, Owen and Andrew (yes, those Wilsons)–trekked around Texas documenting the sport on its smallest scale: six-man football. The six-man tradition, a faster and higher scoring adaptation of the 11-man lineup, emerged from the Great Depression, when many smaller schools…
Dallas Theater Center has done the only reasonable thing it could to make that nuttiest of old chestnuts, Joseph Kesselring’s 1941 comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, bearable. In the leads are two big Broadway stars, Tony winner (and Fort Worth native) Betty Buckley and four-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh. That…
The late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, best known south of the border for the film version of his 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in the manner of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, with a mad helping of Joseph Heller. The joyfully…
The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, a bestselling tale of second-century Roman legions and youthful derring-do on the far side of Hadrian’s Wall, is a thunderous boys’ adventure of the old-school type—there’s not a female speaking part…
In past years, the theatrical release of the Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts has provided a fun peek into intriguing bite-size cinema from across the globe. But for the 2011 edition, the series is at last making room for the five nominated documentary shorts as well. Unfortunately, this year’s nonfiction…
Like many of you, I missed the one-day-only “soft” opening of The Eight Track Museum because I was knee-deep in family, fruitcake and festivities on Christmas Day. Thankfully, our own Robert Wilonsky was there to document the historic day that Dallas became home to the coolest concept for a museum…
