We know you’ve always dreamed of taking Fido to the waterpark, and now here’s your chance. On Sunday, September, 9 Hawaiian Falls Adventure Park in Garland will host its annual “Dog Day Swim” event benefiting pet rescue group, Pawsibilities. On this glorious day, pooches from all over town will pee…
How did Uptown Players prepare for the first local production of the hit Broadway musical The Producers? Step One: They snagged actor B.J. Cleveland to play the leading role of sleazy Broadway showman Max Bialystock. Cleveland is Dallas-Fort Worth’s Nathan Lane with one major difference: He actually shows up for…
It’s pretty Pollyannaish to complain when companies that are in the business of making money on movies make certain movies solely to make money. Yet it seems to be widely acceptable to be cynical about big-budget movies that are made, marketed and released in order to sate an appetite that…
Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has managed to fill the role of a grade-A male sex symbol without ever evincing anything like carnal energy, rising to top the Hollywood A list as a representative of the undead. Pattinson’s casting…
Popping in for a show at Dallas Comedy House already feels like an intimate experience. The charmingly minimal interior doesn’t allow for a bunch of fuss, and why should it? You’re there to fucking laugh. To laugh until you question if that fourth (fifth?) Bombshell Blonde was such a good…
When we last saw pomp drag superstar Sharon Needles, she was standing between that To Wong Fu knock-off, Phi Phi O’Hara, and the charming, Cher-conjuring Chad Michaels. Needles was poised in a see-through, skintight, floor-length, seaweed-green lace number with a giant brass guitar pick stuck to her forehead. Then RuPaul…
There’s a reason why you fall asleep with Blue Planet’s credit screen playing: The soundtrack is incredibly calming. It, and the score to Planet Earth, were done by film composer George Fenton, whose newest addition to the Earth Triology, Frozen Planet, is coming to Dallas. Kinda. Fenton conducts the Dallas…
The free family festivities offered by some of our vaunted cultural institutions in Dallas are a godsend: a total lifesaver for parents overwhelmed with Montessori tuition, crew lesson installments and gym dues. I mean, people told us that kids were expensive, but who knew that each activity came with such…
Isis Brantley fought a fight that few in Dallas even know existed. A leader in the underground hair-braiding movement, Brantley was arrested in ’95 for practicing her craft without a cosmetology license. Known throughout the international hair community as Naturally Isis, she refused to accept the charge, arguing that cosmetology…
Imagine if Dirty Dancing had a “slightly-less-dirty” but still totally cute, younger Australian cousin. Wait, don’t imagine that — just come on Saturday as the AT&T Performing Arts Center and Dallas Film Society pair up for another great Sunset Screening. Strictly Ballroom (1992, PG) is the tale of Scott Hastings,…
With the city on red alert due to the epidemic of chronic latenightous, most of us wake up feeling like the living dead … so why not exploit it? Every Zombie Stumblin’ is Saturday’s call to the undead. It combines the beloved zombie walk with a bar crawl, dancing and…
I’m not sure why the blues and barbecue go together so well. A big ol’ pile of smoky meat makes us so happy that you’d think it would pair better with something uptempo. But no. Those 12-bar progressions in 4/4 time really stoke the flames of the meat lover’s soul…
Here’s a fun idea — let’s pit a bunch of comedians against each other on a softball field. Because if there’s one thing comedians are known for, it’s their athletic prowess. Now let’s place bets on the number of wacky knee socks that take the field at the DFW Comics…
People are sick of big. Big business, big government and, yes, even big sports and the ticket prices that go with them. But fear not, cheapskate baseball fans. Independent league teams, like our own Grand Prairie Airhogs, don’t just put the hometown back in the hometown team, they also make…
The shit-talking comment section of Dallas AnimeFest’s website is already getting heated! Girls are calling each other out for wearing the same cosplay outfit two years in a row (for normal folks, that’s like re-wearing a prom dress). Gamers are threatening each other with avatar annihilation. Old dudes are slow-typing…
If you love the drama of Lifetime, but aren’t keen on the comfort of your own home, come check out the most angst-filled movie to never star Meredith Baxter-Birney. It’s called Cyberbully and not once does it suggest you save the drama for your momma. Mostly because, if you’re getting…
If we all had an evil twin, it would make being in two places at once so much easier or so much more complicated. For Eric Zimmerman, running concurrent exhibitions at The Reading Room in Dallas and Art Palace in Houston is simply an exercise in harmonious discord. Telltale Ashes,…
Among artistic media, video art is still a young tyke. It didn’t grow into a known and identified category until the late 1960s and early ’70s, so it’s still considered wild terrain. Dallas VideoFest is coming up, showcasing new and avant-guard work from the genre, so you’ll want to get…
Has it been a while since you’ve seen a proper bastardization of a classic? Then might we suggest an evening with Frankenstein, the Musical? See, we think that if you’re going to put a spin on something, then you might as well spin it till you’re dizzy, which is what…
We’re feeling so jacked about Dallas Handmade Arts Market, it makes us want to just … tip back our heads, belting “With Arms Wide Open” to the heavens. OK, nothing would make us do that. But we can hardly contain ourselves at Dallas’ first indoor art market, an ongoing weekendly…
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