CentralTrak keeps doing its damndest to educate you chillun, and tonight is the fifth of six Thursday night Texas film screenings in “the Cage” at 800 Exposition Ave. They’re offering popcorn, cult celluloid and some serious nerdery — in addition to a Q&A with John Slate, who portrayed a Kennedy…
Turns out Green Day and Molly Ivins had a lot in common. The musical American Idiot at the Winspear Opera House and the one-woman play Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Fort Worth’s Stage West both let their central characters rage at the rodeo clowns who…
When is revisionist history ever a good thing? Well, when artist Betsy Williamson is the one making the cuts and pastes. Williamson’s Rewriting Art History re-imagines the field by reappropriating historically significant works in a way that challenges and surprises the viewer. On exhibition at the Mercantile Coffee House, in…
The title of Dallas-area resident’s Jennifer Porter Kennard’s play, A Big Girl’s Guide To Love, wouldn’t have exactly been an appealing name had her production been a plain, old how-to book. Come on, do most of us, regardless of body mass, really need any help dealing with bad dates, nosy…
An Iraq War veteran is brought home from combat to take part in a morale-boosting tour, with a stop at the bizarre, full-fledged extravaganza/political theater at a Cowboys half-time show. A brilliant high school teacher succumbs to temptation and existential confusion in 2002 Paris. Duty, violence and morality twist and…
If you’ve spent any amount of time in Addison at all, you know that it’s a perfectly nice town with a lot of office buildings, apartments, and a ton of restaurants — chain restaurants, to be more specific. Of course, there’s a lot of backlash around the chain restaurant these…
Fortunately for you, Escapades isn’t the latest unisex fragrance from Calvin Klein that one guy bathes in before he gets in the elevator. Your elevator. Every damn day. Instead, it’s a dance performance that explores male and female relationships through a series of modern, jazz and ballet movements. And since…
Leave it to those scamps at Oliver Francis to come up with tonight’s feat of endurance meets performance art spectacle: Hands On An Art Body. Done in the style of ’60s endurance phenomenons and the documentary Hands on a Hard Body, in which competitors kept one hand stuck to the…
Tropic of Cancer is one of those watershed books. You hear about it in high school English class from some know-it-all literary snob who tells you how it is stuffed full of sex scenes and was banned in this country for years. And then you procure a copy and read…
Hold up, ascot wearing yacht-clubbers. You’re not the only boaters out there. The Fourth Annual DFW Dragon Boat, Kite and Lantern Festival is taking to the water once more with more exotic fare and flair than the average Western-styled boating event. The organization expects as many as 50 dragon boat…
Comedy often requires hyperbole, using statements and situations that are so over-the-top and absurd that they cannot possibly be serious, but there’s little doubt that aptly titled The Super Humor Funny Time Happy Show takes its own name seriously. Hosted by Dominic Harris, a finalist of last year’s Improv’s Funniest…
The Fort Worth Opera Festival is now in full effect, and it’s kicking off the series with Puccini’s famous Tosca. Filled with some of classical music’s most famously soaring arias, Tosca is a story of love, politics and loss. Moreover, it’s the story of a gal with a whole lotta…
If you reference Hoth when it’s too cold out and X-Men when it isn’t, you have no excuse to miss Dallas Comic Con. Possibly the largest assemblage of nerd celebrities ever to gather in this great state, Comic Con lasts two, glorious days. Hell, Stan Lee is going to be…
Hah, did you know? When black women get angry, they get their heads bobbing up and down. White women, meanwhile, are like superheroes, whose uptight, controlled rage keeps the world moving. Yes, indeedy, the differences between white and black folk, as revealed circa 1995, are miiiighty hilarious, as comedian Tommy…
The Canadian’s sure know how to turn in some decent sketch comedy, eh? For the many American comedy fans who have missed it on PBS, The Red Green Show is a treasure trove waiting to be unlocked. Veteran actor Steve Smith, who plays the titular character, comes off as a…
Few historical figures are as polarizing as Christopher Columbus. Yeah, he kinda got us here — even though others had discovered this patch of dirt before he did. He was also a dude with S.J.P., or Strong Jerk Potential — taking the victory, enslaving whoever crossed his mighty path and…
When you hear “Flesh World” you probably morph into a teenager and shout, “BEWBS!” in your brain. But don’t. Seriously. In this case Flesh World is less about nakedness and more about life on Earth. (As opposed to the great beyond.) Flesh World is an interactive-art-performance-play about K-Low, a lost…
Ditch the juice boxes, jump ropes and jawbreakers for a daytime playground brawl. The jagged claws are out and the petite pearl earrings are off. All systems are a go for a knockdown, drag-out fight in Dallas Theater Center’s presentation of the Tony award-winning comedy God of Carnage. It’s a…
In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional North African nation Wadiya. Under Aladeen’s rule, oil-producing, uranium-enriching Wadiya is a hostile threat to global peace and capitalism. And yet, Aladeen himself is so attracted to Western culture…
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that’s so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg’s Battleship, which I swear to God is described in its Wikipedia entry as an “American science fiction action naval war film,” is one such movie. Over the past few…
“I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don’t really know it.” So says “biological anthropologist” Helen Fisher, speaking in Mansome, Morgan Spurlock’s anecdotal pop documentary about masculine self-presentation in the 21st century, which allegedly attempts to define that crisis. Mansome is divided into chapters — “The…
Again, this isn’t safe for work. If you don’t already e-stalk Hennesy Youngman, awesome-up your life by getting hip to him. He has an answer to every artistic dilemma. This new video gives solid advice for anyone giving a tour of their work space, namely: Serve quesadillas. Follow the Mixmaster…
