Online retailer Jo.Yon wants to show you how to work it. Also, how to conquer your fear of heights. Tonight the upper deck of the Roof Top Trinity Lofts (1403 Slocum St.) will bling and dazzle when Jo.Yon presents “Live from the Rooftop,” a fashion show catering to ladies of…
The Serengeti-style oasis of skin and swim The Fraternal Order of Eagles has a magnetic quality to it — one that lures you in with the smell of tanning oil and charcoal. As if the usual reasons for going aren’t enough — hot single dads, charitable donations, beach blanket bingo,…
Michelle Hailey, aka Hypnotic Diva, aka HD, is bringing her Las Vegas stage show to one of Plano’s most notable Caribbean restaurants. Throughout the evening she’ll razzle dazzle you with comedy, hypnosis, sequins and tight dresses. She’ll call on volunteers, hypnotize them and basically encourage them to make asses of…
About once per month, the Dragon rears its lustrous head with a boundless offering of artistic glory. Saturday marks one such instance when the Design District’s most ophidian street coordinates a number of gallery openings for the art lover’s pleasure. From fabulous fulmination at Mary Tomás Studio Gallery and Circuit…
Its high-maintenance name aside, there’s something pleasantly practical-seeming about the North Dallas Suburban Foundation for Life Development and Community Involvement Annual Fashion Extravaganza at the Brookhaven Country Club, 3333 Golfing Green Drive. Donning wearable pieces for ladies and men, too, models will strut their stuff in looks that range from…
Comedian Marc Ryan is the kind of guy you’d like to have a beer with. OK, a couple of six-packs of Keystone Light, topped off with a few shots of Jack Daniel’s. Preferably on the bank of a dried-up river. Shirtless, maybe. (Too far?) Raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Ryan…
The Texas Rangers and Detroit Tigers face off Monday, perhaps under a more dutiful gaze than their last showdown. When the Rangers and Tigers met at the end of last April, Alberto Gonzalez secured the lead for the Rangers in the 11th inning with a squeeze bunt, that is, bunting…
Tupac’s hologram walks into a bar and drowns its sorrows, wishing its latest performance were half as “bad” as what Mike is putting to us. Hitting Dallas Tuesday and Wednesday, Cirque du Soleil presents Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour, featuring the company’s signature acrobatics to expand upon and honor…
Everyone remembers the first time they saw the Nazi’s face melt. Or the time that giant propeller… well, never mind. It’s hard to believe there are people who have never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Those who don’t know that whip-smart Indiana Jones (the Harrison Ford) is terrified of…
What happens when somebody dies and you don’t feel particularly sad? We all know that it’s basic human decency to crumple a bit and mourn the loss of someone we know when they pass, but what if you just can’t muster those feelings? What if that person was kind of…
Sure, Bass Hall hosts masters of the musical craft on a regular basis, but rarely does that craft involve boxes of cereal, paint-drenched drums or even a giant percussive PVC slide whistle. Who else but The Blue Man Group has such oddball mastery? This bizarre musical performance troupe rose to…
Apocalypse movies are a venerable enough genre (and reliable enough as box-office cash spigots) to support a few lightweight, funny-sad-romantic entries every once in a while. Given the right touch, this approach can be just the antidote to the idea-free, effects-laden blockbusters and art-house pity parties that dominate the form…
Until now, having lustful feelings for our founding fathers was the stuff of fetishes. Then a little musical came along that made America get all tight in the pants. It’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a rockin’ tour of populism that modernizes our seventh president by stuffing him into a pair…
Beginning with a bilious toast and ending with a group hug, Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister, her fourth film, expertly makes us squirm for about half its running time only to soothe us with empty pop-psych declarations. In Shelton’s previous feature, the bolder Humpday, two straight guys, in a moment…
The logical outer limit of the whole horror-as-metaphor thing, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter shoehorns the entire personal history of the 16th president into mega-budget The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires chop-socky/grind house schlock, and casts the seditious South as a nation of slave-sucking undead. “History,” narrates Abe (Benjamin Walker),…
The first film from émigré director Pawel Pawlikowski since 2004’s dreamy My Summer of Love, this thoroughly odd and brooding psycho-puzzle trains in on Ethan Hawke’s displaced American writer-academic, arrived in Paris to see his ex-wife and young daughter despite a restraining order, a recent hospital stay and a history…
So much more than just a hotel, the Belmont has been doing a lot to push the arts in Dallas. Alongside its summer concert series, the Belmont continues to showcase local artist with its Art with a View series. This month brings us the photography of Lorie Leigh Lawrence. Lawrence,…
Andrew Lloyd Webber fans, let’s rap. The Dallas Theater Center is hosting ALW’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which is also known as a completely accurate telling of the famous Old Testament story. That is, if the biblical tale involved rock music, a children’s chorus and a Charleston number…
Photographs Do Not Bend has a new show opening Saturday. It’s a stunning pictorial titled “Big Bend,” and it documents the region through the mind and lens of photographer Jack Ridley. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, you can explore this gallery prior to the opening melee and spend…
Name: Candace Martinez Age: 32 Location: Deep Ellum Style influences: “I dress how I’m feeling. I like eclectic and vintage things but I don’t want to look like I’ve come straight out of a thrift store.” Style breakdown: GAP dress, bracelets from all over, Shi shoes, Anthropology necklace and Fossil…
“It’s my responsibility to pass on what I know,” says Tony-winning singer and actress Betty Buckley. The Fort Worth native pays it forward artistically with her series of Song Interpretation and Monologue Master Classes, focusing on storytelling through song. Taught by Buckley at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth…
Among some of his less-remembered acts as governor, George W. Bush declared June 20th an official Texas state holiday back in 1999, honoring Audie Murphy. From meager beginnings as a North Texas plowboy to World War II’s most highly-decorated American soldier, Murphy led a life of immense acclaim as a…
