Do you hate working at a job that discourages heckling potential customers? Is the only thing that bothers you about working in a uniform the question of its historic authenticity? Would you gladly trade your air-conditioned office for a bad case of bodice burn? If you answered “yea” to any…
Dallas-based Nivram Productions brings Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, the self-described “hottest event of 2012,” to the Addison Theatre Center. Love Don’t Live Here Anymore tells the turbulent story of Tyra Michaels, played by local actress Misty Riggins, a woman torn between the parallels of right and wrong. After Tyra…
For every eight-foot party table demolished through a sweaty collision and every figure-four leg lock gripped around a neck, we raise our hands to the heavens and thank the gods of wrestling for all they’ve given us. Also, that it is entirely authentic. Monday’s WWE Live performance at American Airlines…
Don’t worry if you happened to miss the MAC’s initial Spin Off panel back in June — there’s more where that came from (and it can be viewed in full online). In partnership with The Writer’s Garret, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary brings you the second of four multidisciplinary panel discussions…
The members of the Extreme Midget Wrestling team don’t need your politically correct tiptoeing. They don’t care that the Little People of America organization are a bit dismayed at their insistence on using the “M” word. They just want to get in the ring, bounce off the ropes and beat…
Dive into a glittery vat of Prohibition Tuesday and experience one of Broadway’s steamiest and longest-running musicals, Chicago. Gals, glitz and greed — along with the occasional homicide — will all keep you glued to the stage. The story revolves around headline hunters Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly who are…
Known for its unexpected music/film mashups, it seems all-too-fitting that the Texas Theatre would round out the summer with its just-announced “Dark Side of the Rainbow” screening on August 24. If you somehow missed this party in college, here’s your chance. We’re assuming that everyone discovered the alleged phenomenon when…
Michaela Meyer didn’t trace those pictures of famous cartoon cats that you see at right. She drew them “free hand.” “Free hand:” That’s a phrase that takes me back to her age. The summer before sixth grade, to be precise. Certain kids just hit an artistic growth spurt, the same…
Jeremy Renner has been mighty busy of late: Already a two-time Oscar nominee for 2008 Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker and 2010’s The Town, the 41-year-old actor most recently costarred in Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol and was the purple people shooter Hawkeye in one of the biggest movies of…
Back in March, Six Flags introduced the Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast, which is not, contrary to popular belief, an adult film version of Batman & Robin. It’s actually the fastest reverse coaster in Texas, and, as the press release specifically pointed out, Missouri. The press release also promised riders would…
Ever do a search for “movies opening this weekend” only to find that none of the good ones are actually playing in Dallas? We’re here to save you from that disappointment. The Bourne Legacy This freestanding installment in the Bourne series has a new plot line and hero with actor…
Sex. Politics. Religion. All are safer topics of cocktail chatter than the current battle between Museum Tower and the Nasher, especially within the arts community. And still, nobody can stop talking about it. Is there a responsibility for an architect to work with a skyline, rather than flexing on its…
Last year, Dallas’ own Goss-Michael Foundation — the Turtle Creek 501(c)(3) founded by Kenny Goss and George Michael (yes, the Wham! one; no, not the Michael Cera one) — hosted a benefit for MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation that banked more than $700,000 toward “empowering young people engaged in fighting the…
Art and Seek reported this morning that DSO Pops conductor Marvin Hamlisch died yesterday, reportedly after a brief, undisclosed illness. He was 68 years old. Hamlisch was one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. He was one of only two EGOT artists to…
Plans for the swimming pool are still being kicked around at Pooch Hotel, Dallas’ first boutique hotel catering exclusively to dogs. Its sister location in Hollywood has one that’s detailed like a Miami Beach condo, right down to the one-inch glass tile squares reflecting off the pool’s interior walls. In…
See also: Jennifer Moreman, a Tyler Artist Who Made Her Name Painting Longhorns, Has Gone Global Leonard Volk’s upcoming exhibition at Samuel Lynne Galleries is not his first — in fact, he’s shown publicly in one other solo exhibition at Brookhaven College back in 2005 — but it is a…
West Village, man. It’s all Brooks Brothers and Cru Wine Bar, right? We were about to drive over for lunch but remembered that it’s all “No Corolla Parking” by city ordinance. But revolution is afoot — at least for a couple of days this fall — when local artists and…
If you tuned in to last season’s land of up-and-downs and barracuda smiles, then you know there’s a new addition to the cast of Big Rich Texas. And boy does she have a laugh. DeAynni Hatley doesn’t look or act quite like the other women on B.R.T. A little rough…
What do you get if you mix rainbows and sprinkles, unicorns and starbursts, with a little country-and-western Texas realism? Well, Jennifer Moreman is the woman to ask. Now living in Tyler, Moreman grew up in Dallas, where she graduated from Trinity Christian Academy before taking a BFA from Baylor. She…
Saturday’s opening at W.A.A.S. Gallery had all of the components of the perfect party. Seriously. They went as fire as bringing in a remarkably nimble and still unsinged fire dancer, and liquid BLT shots from the Glut Life that came with a meat straw. (For the uninitiated, a meat straw…
See also: The Rise of the Understudies Over the next five years, the AT&T Performing Arts Center and Shakespeare Dallas will present all of William Shakespeare’s work, including every one of the plays and sonnets. If he wrote any mash notes or shopping lists, they’ll do those, too. The Complete…
You have until 6:30 p.m. to convince your wife that she would be happier with another family. That’s when Wife Swap producers will interview potential subjects for next season. The once-popular, then canceled, ABC program has been exhumed, dusted off and sanitized for another go — but they need fresh…
