Most classical music organizations are on summer hiatus now, which means concert offerings in Dallas this month are slimmer than usual. That being said, there are a handful of concerts coming up over the next few weeks that feature an interesting break from the norm and a chance to explore…
Your week has begun. Get cultured. Monday, June 2 Andre Watts André Watts’ big break came when he was just 16 years old. In 1963, Leonard Bernstein invited the tall, lanky teenager to make his professional debut with the New York Philharmonic. Almost overnight the young African-American/Hungarian pianist was a…
Matthew Mahon had his first sexual experience with a prostitute at the age of 14, an encounter that was paid for by a friend’s uncle. At the time, he couldn’t have imagined that his career would someday take him to seedy motel rooms, where he would spend hours working with…
In 2012, CBS canceled Rob Schneider’s self-titled sitcom ¡Rob!. Rather than wait for another network to give him a shot at his own show, he decided to give himself one instead. “We averaged 11 million viewers and the premiere had 13.5 million viewers and it wasn’t enough for them,” Schneider…
Friend. Brilliant choreographer. Tenacious. Humorous. A fighter. Stubborn. Advocate for dance. Committed. Collaborator. There are not words to adequately and appropriately describe the man who helped to usher in this new era of dance in Dallas. Bruce Wood was a tidal force in the city’s culture, a man born to…
The beautiful thing about living in a conservative city like Dallas is that being a freak is still a subversive act. Pure, unforced weirdness sticks out like a dog turd on a well-manicured golf course or — in the case of Thursday night’s John Waters show at the Kessler –…
Chances are that your high school prom was so full of sadness and regret that it still comes up in dreams brought on by alcoholic blackouts and crying therapy sessions that can drive up the stock price for Kleenex. The Dallas Comedy House offers a chance to replace that memory…
The Western genre isn’t entirely comprised of spaghetti or John Wayne talking out the side of his mouth: From its earliest days, filmmakers were putting a comic spin on stories set on the dusty trail, with the genre hitting its apex between the mid ’70s and mid ’80s. We’ve gathered…
Sure, it started late, but this week has felt like a never-ending hangover from the three-day weekend. Maybe I’m just getting too old for Memorial Day Jell-o shots. It’s been a slow slog to Friday, but it’s finally arriving. You’ve barely touched your work this week, why start now? Let’s…
Bruce Wood, founder of Bruce Wood Dance Project and perhaps one of the areas most esteemed choreographers and advocates for the Dallas dance scene, has died of complications from pneumonia and heart failure. He was 53. His death was extremely unexpected. I just saw Bruce a couple of weeks ago…
The story of how the Meadows Museum came to host its current exhibit starts somewhere in the 17th century when a group of Spanish artists decided to establish an academy in Seville. Or perhaps, it would be more accurate to begin the story in the 18th century when the academy…
Closing out their first year as a company, Pedestrian Dance Movement will be moving into the Courtyard Theater in Plano for two shows of their original production, Acceptance. Pedestrian Dance Movement is a contemporary dance company based in Dallas with the mission to connect with audiences by bringing a human-like…
It’s not the end of the world if your dinner party is a bust. Or is it? In the smart new comedy Barbecue Apocalypse by Matt Lyle, a big city husband and wife struggle with adulthood. “We are in our 30s and have movie posters thumb-tacked to the walls!” wails…
The staging of Booth, the world premiere drama by Dallas actor-writer-director Steven Walters at his Second Thought Theatre, is small. Just 60 seats in Bryant Hall. The main acting space is about 12-feet-by-12 of wooden planks. But the scope of this historical tragedy is huge, covering events leading up to…
We’re still adjusting to Seth MacFarlane as a big-screen star. Not just because his breakneck absurdist humor often demands viewers pause and rewind, but because the man himself looks like a hand-inked cartoon, with his black hair, pupil-less eyes and an alabaster baby face that, lacking cheekbones that could carve…
Boil Maleficent down to one newt’s nose-size piece of advice and you’d get this: Don’t dump Angelina Jolie. It’s not a problem most mortals will face, but as seen through director Robert Stromberg’s lens, the antlered arch-villain of Sleeping Beauty is a sympathetic scorned woman, equal parts Gloria Gaynor, Princess…
Attention Yankee transplants, snowbirds, corporate carpetbaggers and assorted other Texas immigrants: Do your adopted state a favor and go check out the free concert by the Quebe Sisters Band at 8 p.m. at Klyde Warren Park. Hulda, Grace and Sophia, the fiddle-playing, three-part harmonizing trio from Denton, have won awards…
In a world where a raging torrent of filth is available to anyone with an Internet connection, where coprophagia goes viral and the hopelessly banal are awarded TV shows, it’s inevitable that people would begin to question the value of being willfully offensive. Some would posit that it comes down…
Can you name the seven deadly sins? Furthermore, are they really that deadly? Sure, gluttony will kill you, but so will starving yourself. Besides, aren’t we all on a slow path to death anyway? On our way to hell, why not stop by the Wits End (2724 Elm St.) for…
Need a bit of a karmic adjustment? Sometimes, no matter how kind you think you’ve been, it still doesn’t hurt to tip the scales a little in your favor. Do just a little something good and net a little extra currency in the karmic checkbook by spending some time at…
There comes a time in most men’s lives when they realize they will never front a rock band, never dunk a basketball, never engage in witty banter with Penelope Cruz, never own a European sports car capable of hitting 200 mph. New ships are sailing every day, and that’s too…
He’s been the star of major motion pictures. He’s had his own CBS sitcom. And yet he still does stand-up. You can take the comedian out of the club but you can’t, well, you know the rest. Rob Schneider, former Saturday Night Live cast member and star of Deuce Bigalow:…
