The Texas Ballet Theater goes back in time in this month’s sumptuous presentation of The Sleeping Beauty. Premiered in 1890, the classic ballet was created by Russian choreographer Marius Petipa, who worked closely with composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Choreographer Ben Stevenson kept much of Petipa’s original work in his 1967…
What could be more romantic than hanging out in Richardson on a Sunday, drinking tea and talking about people who can’t read? Throw in some kids with terminal illness and crumpets, and I’m ready for love. But seriously, folks, the Buns and Roses Romance Tea for Literacy featuring best-selling romance…
There is no way of sidestepping the issue, so why not jump right into it: Infamous, this year’s retelling of how Truman Capote wound up in Kansas writing his nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, never comes close to approaching the quiet, devastating brilliance of Capote, last year’s retelling of how…
Barry Levinson hasn’t made a movie of note in almost a decade–since 1997’s Wag the Dog, to be precise, and even that was less a work of substantial relevance than a bit of lucky timing based on someone else’s better novel. Granted, it had its moments–at last, it seemed, Levinson…
You’ve seen Bob Ross — the afro-sporting TV artist who painted “happy trees”? Well, if he had redesigned Legend of Zelda, it would look a lot like Okami. That may sound like an unlikely premise, but this is no ordinary game. In Okami, to save the world from an ancient…
The Andy Milonakis Show: The Complete Second Season (Paramount) The A-Team: Season Five, the Final Season (Universal) Bloodied but Unbowed: Bloodshot Records’ Life in the Trenches (Bloodshot) Carlos Mencia: No Strings Attached (Paramount) Click (Sony) Don’t Go in the Woods Alone: 25th Anniversary Edition (Code Red) Everybody Hates Chris: The…
A Prairie Home Companion (New Line) This all-star sing-along — with Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Woody Harrelson, etc. — that wears its smile bright and wide looked for all the world like a summertime sleeper hit. Not so much, even though no movie this year…
How far will a man go to win back his own soul? That question drives the drama of two new productions, Jubilee Theatre’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Lyric Stage’s Cabin in the Sky. Each tells the story of a troubled man who finds himself driven to the hinges…
Jason Cohen has spent decades bringing counterculture to Dallas. The founder of Forbidden Books and Video and the subsequent Forbidden Gallery has been this city’s No. 1 collector/peddler of all things subversive, outsider, avant-garde or forgotten. From perverted plush to performance art, Cohen has twirled his sinister fingers in all…
Hey, how are you? Good. I’m fine. Thanks for asking. So what are you doing Saturday night? Going out, huh? Dinner and drinks with friends. Sounds cool. Real cool. But you and I both know you’re lying through your dirty, lying liar teeth. I know and you know that you’re…
So your dog’s been out of sorts lately, huh? You thought about calling Cesar Milan, but his behavior is fine—it’s his mood that needs a little pick-me-up. The second annual Mystics, Mutts and Moonpies Festival, benefiting Weimaraner Rescue of North Texas, could be just the place to get in tune…
The International Day of Peace, a day of non-violence and ceasefire, was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly, and it’s been pretty much war all over the planet since then. But we can dream, right? Peace—First Inward or First Outward? is the name of an art exhibit…
What music lover would miss a chance to hear Beethoven and Mozart play a double bill? On Saturday, a 21st-century version of this once-in-a-lifetime feast of instrumental finesse will take place right here at the Meyerson Symphony Center. For $150 or $250 a ticket, you will hear two of the…
Ever have delusions of grandeur about cycling with Lance Armstrong, the sweet Alps air blowing your hair back as you leave the rest of the pack in the dust? You’ll have your chance on Friday. Though in this case Fort Worth is the closest you’ll get to Europe, and Lance…
I may be one of the few that didn’t discover Rent until the failed movie attempt last year. I had low expectations of the film, and they were soon being met with the eponymous opening number. Fast-forward to two hours later, and I’m bawling into my popcorn. Soon after, I…
The Theater Fire’s cinematic aura is more than just a dubious connection based on the band’s name; rather, the quartet’s dark, often picaresque tunes lend themselves to a visceral and visual substance and loping storytelling on par with anything celluloid has to offer. Fitting, then, that the songs from TTF’s…
The undead walk among us. From Joan Rivers to Michael Jackson, they’re everywhere. And the only way we’re getting rid of them is by bludgeoning their skulls or burning their corpses—but don’t do it. Farrah Fawcett will go ape-shit on you if you come at her with a lighter. She…
There’s only so much you can say about Heart—”Barracuda,” “Crazy on You,” Ann and Nancy Wilson, “These Dreams,” “Alone.” You either have an appreciation for the band’s soft to edgy classic-rock stylings or you don’t. But the cool thing about this particular Heart concert is that it’s at Billy Bob’s…
Verdi’s third opera Nabucco put him on the musical map—and brought him scandal—when performed in 1842 Italy. Based on the biblical story of King Nebuchadnezzar’s banishment of the Jews from Babylon in 543 B.C., passionate opera-goers demanded a then-illegal encore. The “Va, pensiero” chorus—when Hebrew slaves cry out for their…
The Lee Blessing play Two Rooms is set in the 1980s, but its story is happening, at least for someone, even today. This politically charged love story simultaneously documents and humanizes the experiences of a man taken hostage in Beirut and his grieving wife in America. The two rooms—one in…
Looking for a great date night this fall? Sick of the same old dinner and a movie? Tired of getting hammered with your special someone at the same five bars over and over again and coming home to have the same drunken almost-sex before passing out in the kitchen on…
Rusty, Trixie, Geoffrey, Sugar Bear and Sweetheart need your help and a home, so through the month of October (Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Month), Operation Kindness, a no-kill animal shelter, is offering a tasty adoption special. Each adopted dog 40 pounds or larger will go home with 40 pounds of free Iams dog…
