Look beyond the politics espoused in the fact-based one-woman drama My Name Is Rachel Corrie, currently onstage at Second Thought Theatre at Bryant Hall. They’re dicey and have drawn controversy since the play debuted in London in 2005. Rachel Corrie, raised in a comfortable home in the Pacific Northwest, dropped…
Not even the title of Idols of the King makes sense. Ronnie Claire Edwards’ plotless script, onstage now at Theatre Three, features an Elvis impersonator, Jack Foltyn, performing “Hound Dog,” “Burning Love” and other Presley hits between sketches about a series of characters (all played by Michael Corolla and Morgana…
Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is really about have for years surged madly and memorably — especially online, where the Internet’s dead-ends, blind links and back-where-you-started arguments just might be another part of the…
Two sacred texts of the ’50s proto-counterculture have escaped the rapacious machine of cinema adaptation for a half-century. One is J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, which probably only would have worked starring Salinger himself, and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, that ecstatic recount of crossings and recrossings of North…
If you have 250 bones lying around, first of all, I’m surprised you’re reading this. Second of all, put it to good use and buy a ticket to the 2013 Fresh Faces of Fashion Show benefiting the Suicide Crisis Center of North Texas. Did you hear that? For $250, or…
While the Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) has 650 perfectly good seats in its time-trapped interior, you won’t be using any of them on Friday night. Nope. Instead, you’re invited to explore a less visited space. See, the theater has adopted a wonderfully innovative new monthly series that beckons…
It may not seem obvious at first, but drinking local brews can help the people of Rwanda have clean water. It’s sorta like that when-a-butterfly-flaps-its-wings thing, except totally different and much more deliciously charitable. In this case, the relationship between great beer and clean water isn’t just the science of…
Think you have an ear for talent? Check yourself against the pros at The Dallas Opera Vocal Guild’s 25th Vocal Competition. On Saturday, 19 hopeful young singers compete on the Winspear’s stage (2403 Flora St.) for $20,000 in cash prizes, bragging rights and a chance to launch their operatic careers…
You were terrified that you’d never again see a luck dragon on the big screen, and worried that The NeverEnding Story would be confined to the dusty recesses of your family’s totally righteous and completely useless Betamax drawer. There it would be forced, sadly, to coexist for eternity sandwiched between…
We like our cultural events and entertainment best when they’re free and fun, which is why we’re huge fans of this weekend’s Festival De Los Mavs. Now in its fifth year, the fest sprinkles our Dallas Mavericks community with a little Latino flavor for an afternoon of culture, entertainment and…
When you discover that Texas native Christopher Soden is a writer, teacher, critic and performer, you become acutely aware that it was only a matter of time before he threw all of his mojo together for one grand distinctly Soden event. Drawing from all of his expertise and relying on…
His delivery style rivals the late Mitch Hedberg, and his swagger is bold enough to sell cologne door-to-door. Tom Rhodes is a comedian who’s just as funny and comfortable on stage in Fort Worth, where he’ll play Hyena’s for a weekend run, as he is in Vietnam or New Zealand…
There’s a longstanding rivalry between the Dallas and Fort Worth arts districts. And you know what competition creates, right? Growth and improvements, which you, the aesthetically driven arts patron, get to enjoy. Take the Fort Worth Festival of the Arts happening this weekend in our neighboring ’hood. It’s the debut…
If you forgot to register for this year’s Rock n Roll Dallas Half Marathon, there’s still hope for you. Instead of figuring out how to take a 23-block detour to cross the street, we suggest you stop worrying and embrace the thing. Find yourself a nice parking spot by one…
You think you’ve seen it all by now. The Internet is chock-full of 9-year-old opera singers and 11-year-old breakdancing prodigies. The bar has been set pretty high by all those underage “Gangnam Style” impersonators on YouTube, so it’s going to take something pretty crazy to catch your attention. And really,…
Humans are a funny lot. We stage food-chain scenarios for our amusement that should never happen in real life. Take Monday’s Dogs and Cats Meet the Easter Bunny event, happening at the Parks in Arlington (3811 S. Cooper St.). If your boisterous hunter of a hound were able to visit…
What’s better than the intimacy of chamber music in a small, acoustically alive space? If the spot in question is the new Dallas City Performance Hall (2520 Flora St.), the answer is nothing. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Dallas Chamber Symphony continues its impressively diverse and limited season of concerts…
Dallas is used to being the brunt of jokes about its supposed superficial culture and lack of a coherent creative scene. But I’ll dare any Twitter-wielding smartass to make such a pronouncement after taking a look at the Big D’s spring calendar — a whirlwind of artsy, literate comings and…
He’s the head writer for the Academy Awards, personal friends with Whoopi Goldberg and began his career as a child model for Lane Bryant’s Charming Chub division. He tucks his signature T-shirts into pleated pants with a belt and Bette Midler still speaks to him. He’s been the center square…
Are you reading this while you slurp cereal? Do you have steaming pho to your front? Is tomato bisque your lunch jam? Well, then consider yourself exceptionally lucky. So many people have nothing on their plates, zilch in their bowls. And so Tom Thumb is presenting Empty Bowls — An…
Green Bandana Group has been throwing parties Dallas didn’t know it needed for a minute now, and it certainly carved out a spot in our hearts via last summer’s Thursday night Stoneleigh Hotel penthouse parties, featuring the Danny Church Band. Those hazy summer nights have given way to more art/fashion/music…
Cancer is a disease that everyone would like to see eradicated in the next week. Apparently, crawfish is also something people feel very strongly against — boiling them alive by the thousands, ripping apart their bodies to eat, and then actually sucking their brains. Admittedly, that’s a stretch, a really…
