Rock-bottom expectations are rewarded, sort of, in this update of Hanna-Barbera’s necktied ursus, which hopes to outdo the live action/computer animation success of the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise by adding one more dimension. Yogi (who debuted in 1958 and was loosely based on The Honeymooners’ Ed Norton) is voiced…
“I hate theater,” a whiny voice in the dark says at the tippy-top of The Drowsy Chaperone. “Well, it’s so disappointing, isn’t it?” The Man in Chair, as he’s called in this creampuff of a musical, continues for a few more lines before the lights come up. He expresses his…
Santa and his crew aren’t the only ones running around this Christmas. That’s right; it’s time to throw on those hoodies, earmuffs and just about any other winter gear you own for this year’s annual Dallas Jingle Bell 5K Run. Sure, Christmas is all about family and food, but why…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and taste and feel and smell like it too. The lights are twinkling, the hot cocoa is extra chocolaty, and the cookies are gooey and fresh. There’s just one problem–silence fills the air. The sound of Christmas is missing. There are no…
Between all the working, shopping and family drama, the holiday season can be a beating sometimes, giving even the best of us a case of the bah humbugs. Luckily for you, Dallas Theatre Center has just the thing. They’re putting on a production of A Christmas Carol through December 24…
There’s nothing like living in a tiny-ass apartment and overhearing your neighbors going at it when their “love boat” docks on your shared wall. Last weekend, we schemed to kill the mood for our own next-door nymphos, pitting the not-so-sexy Pandora Christmas channel against their industrial techno mood music. Between…
Tired of seeing the same old sugar plum fairies and getting an eyefulla jangling Nutcracker moose knuckles? At 2 p.m. Saturday, see Barefoot Brigade (a group of area modern dancers working to make North Texas nationally-recognized for its “innovative dance works”) perform The NOTcracker: A Barefoot Brigade Holiday Dance Festival…
Texas high school football is more than an institution–it’s a religion. The football-flavored drama served up by the eerily on point TV show Friday Night Lights is repeated weekly around Texas in the fall. In December there can be only one winner, but that’s the beauty of competition. Texans worship…
Your kid is getting too old to keep giving you Popsicle stick snowflakes stuck together with Elmer’s glitter glue for Christmas. This year, stop hanging them on the back of the tree and check out Vetro’s Create Your Ornament glassblowing class. For $25 you pick color mixes, help apply them…
Since they married in 1996, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison have been the sweethearts of the Texas country music scene, with a string of critically acclaimed records, four kids and one adorable Claritin commercial to their credit. Kelly is definitely the better singer of two, but if you’ve listened to…
The world famous Shen Yun Dance Company aims to revive the spirit of Chinese culture and tradition by performing dances that showcase classic Chinese myths and legends, studying values and virtues found in said myths and legends, and utilizing an all-original score by an orchestra made up of Chinese and…
Greeting cards try to tell us the “reason for the season,” but we know the truth. The real reason for the season is the moment when the earth is tilted furthest away from the sun, resulting in the longest night of the year–otherwise known as the winter solstice. Even ancient…
Gigantic holiday light displays have become a popular novelty of the Christmas season in recent years, but back when we were young, we slummed it old-school and just weaved in and out of neighborhoods trying to find at least three houses in a row that had decided to decorate. For…
On a visit to Scardello’s website, you’ll be welcomed with a cheesy quote like, “Cheese is the biscuit of drunkards” (Grimod de La Reyniere), so it’s only fitting that they should be the fromagephiles you turn to when you need cheese advice for the biggest party of the year. In…
If we were homeless, we would definitely feel compelled to express ourselves through art, but it wouldn’t be the kind of work that gets snatched up by folk-art collectors. It would more likely be gathered as evidence of so-called “terroristic threats” or labeled “graffiti” than be seen as a legitimate…
The holiday season just isn’t the holiday season without at least one viewing of It’s a Wonderful Life. The film’s got guardian angels, soda jerks, broken banisters, people falling into swimming pools–what’s not to like? And, sure, you could rent a copy from Netflix and watch it on the ol’…
Folks up north get to have snow during the holidays, and they won’t let you forget about it either. Fine. Down here we get the Latin American tradition of holiday tamales, and stockings stuffed with tinfoil wrapped tamales is a fair consolation prize for when you can’t build a snowman…
How ironic that a Christmas-hating character and a destination so emblematic of the worst excesses of the holiday can, in combination, actually get us in the Christmas spirit. There are few places as hellish as a mall during the run-up to Christmas, but NorthPark manages to make the experience tolerable…
It boggles the mind when you think about the ways that American cinema is different from its European counterpart. Actually, counterpart may be too strong a word, as film produced in this country is by and large a completely different being than in most other places in the world, Bollywood…
It’s been a long time since we had our picture taken with the Stanley Cup the day the Stars came to the Fort Worth Convention Center. To be honest we didn’t really follow hockey much at that point in our lives–some thirteen-year-old kids just prefer football, or (God-forbid) soccer. It…
It’s always a little bittersweet for die-hard Mavs fans when Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns come to town. After all, once upon a time in the early ’00s, Nash was our guy, swishing threes, dishing out dimes and clowning around with Dirk at more than a few local watering…
Sheila Cunningham is a photographer who lives and works in Dallas. She experiments with various media to create installations, which she then photographs to create a final piece. Cunningham’s especially interested in the decline of books, the recent surge of interest in plants and the connection between them. In her…
