It’s a jungle out there, a jungle full of Prada-packing future divorcees, cheating husbands and grape juice-sucking toddlers already feeling the mounting pressure to succeed in the hallowed halls of academia. The Bradley Family is no exception in Circle Theatre’s production of Eric Coble’s Bright Ideas. Father Joshua Bradley puts…
The latest exhibition at Gallery 76102 is just as simple as its name. Nicholas Wood’s Flats and Rounds is pretty much just that: capsule-like forms, most of which have a flat side or two, drawn in charcoal and pastel on square sheets of paper, along with sculptures of similar shapes…
See a solo exhibit of 31 paintings by surrealist Cliff Snell III Monday at the Granville Arts Center, 300 N 5th St. in Garland. Known for his “distinctive swirling nature paintings,” Snell became uber popular with the cool kids this year by opening a Facebook fan page. He currently has…
Just so you know, Mexico and Asia have more in common than their brilliant uses of rice and peppers. Take, for instance, their art. While worlds apart, the Kuroshiro, or “Black Current,” connected the traders and artists of Mexico and Japan as far back as the 16th century. With its…
“Screw ‘art for art’s sake.’ We want art for social purpose.” That’s what artists of the Constructivist movement said. Or, something like that. Probably not exactly that, as the original Constructivists were Russian and surely had different colloquialisms, but that’s not important right now. The Museum of Geometric and MADI…
Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever. Not the best. Just the classiest—Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich and Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfuss) can spruce up any pulp. As far as comic-book adaptations go, though, Red is a little closer to the bright side of so-so—somewhere between, let’s say,…
Movie stars make a living peddling distinct, definable personalities. Edward Norton, a movie star who might have enjoyed the comparative anonymity of a character actor if not for the gossip-media market value of a few of his habits (an aggressive perfectionism that has earned him a “reputation” for “being difficult,”…
The Edward Albee one-acts that WingSpan Theatre Company is doing right now taste as bitter and icy as dry martinis. The American Dream and The Sandbox, both directed by Susan Sargeant, are bracing cocktails of absurdist humor. The production at the Bath House Cultural Center serves them with great style…
Horror Remix takes out all the B.S. story lines and lame dialogue leading up to the stabbings and scariness that we all want from a horror movie and distills each film down to 30 to 40 minutes of pure gore, sex, cheesiness, stabbing and awesome. This week, Horror Remix focuses…
Generally speaking, football and art go together like orange juice and toothpaste. It’s not that you can’t appreciate both, it’s just that it’s not really appropriate to pound back a beer, scream at Jason Garrett for another screwy passing game, and then settle back into your chair to discuss how…
There seems to be a new trend: overachievers who decide to participate in marathons. As someone who generally avoids any kind of working out or physical exertion in the presence of any other living soul, I have not come around to this new trend. However, I make one exception to…
Top three rocker dads? Easy: Bono, Slash and Mick Jagger. Unless we count dressing up as Gene Simmons for Halloween or being a world-class steering wheel thumb-drummer, my dad is out of the running (sorry, Pops). While being a father is a full-time job, it’s important to remember to put…
I’ve never personally owned a greyhound, but they run so fast they have a bus line named after them, and that’s good enough for me. This Saturday, the Deep Ellum Foundation and the Greyhound Adoption League of Texas (GALT) are teaming up to bring you the Deep Ellum Pup Crawl…
After a successful friendship lasting more than 50 years, Texas gents George Arnold and Ken Squier decided they’d test their bond and try writing a book together. Arnold already had seven books under his belt in “niche” genres like colloquial humor, but he wanted to branch out. Both he and…
If you like jokes about broken-down cars in the yard, beer and NASCAR, you might be a redneck. But even if you’re not, there is plenty of entertainment in store at this triple-shot of blue-collar comedy. The godfather of this genre is without a doubt Jeff Foxworthy. He has turned…
Have you ever head the phrase “Everything is bigger in Texas”? From the food portions to the parties, to the thick pageant hair, it’s a fairly accurate Texan stereotype. Well, Contemporary Ballet Dallas is no exception to the rule. Join the company in celebrating the opening of its 10th season…
The Weasel’s coming to Texas. No longer sporting the curly long hair, the raging ’90s grunge-tip clothing, but probably still looking for the worm in the tequila bottle, Pauly Shore brings his stand-up comedy to the Improv Comedy Club in Arlington Thursday through Sunday. His flamboyant rise to fame through…
When the usual spate of sub-par horror movies clog theaters in the weeks leading up to Halloween (Saw 36, anyone?), there’s a certain comfort in knowing the classics will never die. Such is the case during Hitchcocktober, a month-long celebration of Alfred Hitchcock, the unmatched master of on-screen suspense, dread…
Donna Brazile is a Democrat’s Democrat. She has worked in politics since the 1970s, and she became the first African-American woman to manage a presidential campaign when she led Al Gore’s team for the election in 2000. Mountain View College in Oak Cliff is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year,…
What could be cheddar? In an hour, Central Market Dallas will not only teach you what a fromagier is but how to be one. For only $20 the Central Market Cooking School staff will walk students through the basics of a cheese plate and offer techniques on how to create…
Most folks queuing up to see Mao’s Last Dancer will do so because of the dramatic and romantic story–a young Chinese ballet dancer, hand-picked to be a part of a foreign-exchange dance program, falls in love with his beautiful company member and his new country and ultimately defects via a…
Photographer Carolyn Brown has explored the intersection between faith and art for years, largely by documenting the ancient sacred places of the world, from cathedrals to mosques to temples and everything in between. Dialogues: Where Iberia and the New World Meet, a new exhibit at the Afterimage Gallery, collects her…
