It’s 1976, a year when all the groovy girls are traipsing around in tiny suede skirts and all the cool guys have Badfinger hair. One of those guys was English racing driver James Hunt, the charismatic rapscallion who won that year’s Formula One World Championship — the embroidered badge on…
As a big, important American classic, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun deserves every bit of the respect and care it’s getting in Dallas Theater Center’s latest staging (the third in the company’s history) at the Wyly Theatre. What a beautiful production, every moment crafted for maximum impact. An…
Peter Pan not only won’t grow up, he just won’t go away. We’ve had Cathy Rigby flying around as the little green elf for about half a century on national tours. More recently Dallas Theater Center’s new musical Fly let a young boy play the role in about as depressing…
Mild spoilers up to The Bridge’s ninth episode below. Artisanal murders are all the rage these days. On Showtime’s Dexter, NBC’s Hannibal, and Fox’s The Following, small-batch, labor-intensive, sold-with-a-story slaughters have become TV’s equivalent of the Cronut. Handsome, intelligent, and mannered as court eunuchs, serial killers have become the new…
To paraphrase the Bee Gees, Joseph Gordon-Levitt should be dancing. He’s already done it in (500) Days of Summer, where he led an exuberant ensemble routine that out-Dr Peppered any Dr Pepper commercial. Then there was his smashing Saturday Night Live re-creation of Donald O’Connor’s “Make ‘Em Laugh” — like…
The single biggest predictor of a child’s academic success is their exposure to reading at an early age. The single biggest predictor of a parent’s ability to make it through the 1,000th reading of Madeline is their access to the occasional alcoholic beverage. And so, by our math, Booktoberfest increases…
7 Deadly Sins Burlesque and Sideshow solemnly swears to be “dark, diabolical and dangerous,” and after seeing the promo pics there’s no doubt they’ll deliver. Perhaps you’ve heard of the DJ? Satan! He’s pretty hard to book what with that torturing souls in eternal damnation thing, but DJ Frausun, the…
There was a time when Dallas was more than an optional post-Austin stop for musicians. From the ’50s to the late ’70s, this city was the Southwestern hub of the music industry and every band worth its spit targeted the place. Dallas was where you went to get your name…
The “art” of Instagram has its admirers and its detractors. While some say it waters down the craft of photography, lowering the value of the medium as a whole, others would counter that availability creates a more photo-appreciative world. There’s a new show opening Friday that celebrates the filtered square…
Down in our neighborly city Austin, the comedians have taken over. Local radio programs, movie theaters and start-up venues blast the stuff out nightly, nurturing an increasingly rich talent pool that you should know about. Friday at Texas Theatre’s Behind the Screen Comedy series (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.), where folks…
Gentlemen, it’s unlikely you’ve given much thought to high heels before, let alone how you might be able to use them for the greater good. But it’s time you gave them some consideration. The Dallas County Sexual Assault Coalition is hosting the International Men’s March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault…
You can argue WWE’s golden age has faded with the departure of wrestlers like The Rock and The Undertaker. You can argue WWE’s golden age has returned thanks to personas like John Cena or C.M. Punk. What you can’t argue is the excitement and electricity in the air when a…
Jesse Pinkman pulls up to Walter White’s house, grabs the gasoline tank, pours it all over the inside … and the episode ends. You (mentally or physically) scream “Are you effing kidding me?!?” and text all your Breaking Bad friends about the possible scenarios. If the above sounds familiar, stop…
Sometimes we need to be reminded how much things suck. It’s a sad fact that getting too happy with our current situation is not only unhealthy but unwise. Which is why the sagacity of Lewis Black is so welcome. Black takes the stage at Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce St…
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were heavyweights of dance. Their routines are some of the least edited and most demanding in movie history, and for all the strutting they did backward, sideways and on roller skates, you never once saw them sweat. The Southwestern Invitational Dancesport Championships, at Westin Dallas…
Oh, Greece. As the birthplace of Western culture, you have a lot to answer for: Reality television is on you. So is Miley Cyrus, TMZ and every other scourge that has been born of your loins. Your parenting skills are questionable, but we can’t stay mad at you too long…
If the Internet has proven anything, it’s that each touch, taste, smell, sight and emotional and physical interaction has the ability to become fetishized. And for all you know, your grandma’s running a webcam business out of Shady Oakes. So where do all of these kinks get kinky in three-dimensional…
If you’re not in love with Nicole Stewart, then it’s because you haven’t seen her in action. The powerhouse behind Oral Fixation: An Obsession with True Life Tales has been finding the storyteller in all of us, and through some heavy-duty stage-side curation, she’s brought amazing and entertaining stories to…
Sure, it’s frowned upon to spy on your neighbors day and night. But when you’re stuck in a wheelchair with nothing but time on your hands and some fancy-schmancy photography equipment at your fingertips, what’s a guy to do? Or so we’ve discovered, thanks to some prime sleuthing by James…
I’m pretty sure we all know the story of the Lion King, but who couldn’t use a refresher, right? Hakuna Matata! The story starts out with Simba, the heir to the Pride Lands throne, disobeying his father, Mufasa, and visiting a graveyard. Mufasa saves Simba from the crapface hyenas that…
There’s a spookiness to Big Tex’s new persona. Since the great flambé, we’ve anthropomorphized him into a walking, bilingual, phoenix-like colossus — a super weird way to collectively cope with loss. His “footprints” have been left all over the state like those of some corn dog-divined Sasquatch and public relations…
Few things evoke Americana like a barbecue (though in fairness, pretty much every culture grills). It’s the setting for a very summery, suburban and 1950s idea of what America is. The play Detroit, by Lisa D’amour, focuses on Mary and Ben, a married couple in a suburb outside of an…
