Never underestimate the power of a well-placed flip of nipple tassel. That’s what my grandmother always told me, anyway. Grandpa always looked so happy … It’s okay if you don’t have the shimmy to shake or if your trunk junk drags deep. Burlesque is about celebrating what you got: You…
Rural Texas towns tend to have unusual names; it is a well-worn trope. You seen the Eiffel Tower (replete with its own cowboy hat)? Need to get ahold of somebody in Telephone, Telegraph or Dial? They’re locked and loaded in Gun Barrel City and Cut And Shoot. We could do…
Cowboys fans can admit it: We cried a few sports tears when our playoff dream evaporated on Sunday night. But so be it. We know must move past another dismal season of professional football and look forward to the remaining college bowl games. Sure, these guys aren’t making big money…
The first weekend in January, and the month as a whole, is traditionally known as a kitchen sink for theatrical releases…unfortunately, it’s typically stuff that, at any other time of the year, would end up in the garbage disposal. Instead of the studio flipping the switch on it and going…
Celebrity and consumerism build the flavor base for Decade of Aggression, the new exhibit by Austin street artist, Failure. Continue on to witness Failure’s gritty world of nipples and gas masks…
David Hirson’s tribute to Molière, La Bête, is the sort of play Theatre Three thinks they should be doing – but shouldn’t. The 1991 comedy, which has enjoyed a couple of decent Broadway runs, the latest starring the incomparable Mark Rylance, is written in rhymed couplets. Nobody wants to see…
Someday you’ll have a voice-recognition robot maid and she will treat you like her own, circuit-rich offspring. She’ll bake you motherboard cookies (so crunchy), and awkwardly fix your hair with her giant, clunky, loving claws. She’ll even read you the important feeds off of Twitter and Facebook while you’re in…
Hey hipster. Stop shooting shit with your iPhone and pretending you’re artistic. We’re over it — you and your incessant snapshots of your carefully laid out “best moment ever” scenario, replete with a “Toaster” or “Kelvin” filter. You too, Crafty Moms. Your baby isn’t any cuter in black and white…
The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees’ funny, moving, nuanced and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age and coming out are inseparable, sharply reveal the conflicts that 17-year-old Alike (Adepero Oduye) faces. At a lesbian club — maybe for the first time — she gapes in awe…
Pegasus Theatre does only one production annually. One of their “Living Black and White” plays has opened at the Eisemann Center on the first weekend of the year since 2005. So we’ve come to expect that show to be a doozy. Their latest, The Frequency of Death!, is good, but…
Many Westerners are familiar with the Kama Sutra, at least insofar that it’s one of the classier sexy guidebooks. But it’s more than the world’s oldest sexual how-to, dating from the days before Google and the Internet. It’s also a guide to spirituality, love and family life in Hindu culture…
Swirling skirts, live music and swords?!? Either The Transgendered Knife-Throwing One-Man-Band is back or we’ve got a belly dancing show on our hands. Well, not just any belly dancing show, but the belly dancing show. Third Coast Tribal Tribal Dance Festival Rose Showcase features performers from all over the country…
Last time we saw Kathy Griffin, she was doing stand-up in the Meyerson. It was cramped and strange and some of the people (possibly Meyerson regulars) were nowhere near prepared for her brand of comedy. And by brand of comedy we mean loud — especially given the acoustics of that…
There are stand-up comedians who manage to wring humor out of the darkest, ugliest elements of human existence, who make you question your basic beliefs or revisit some of the most uncomfortable, painful experiences possible and laugh while doing so. And then there are comics who can have an audience…
A popular perception is that a clean comedian is a boring comedian. That if you’re not in a constant state of duck-and-cover to avoid plummeting f-bombs, then you’re living in a less interesting, or dated, comedic sphere. Jake Johannsen breaks from that convention by replacing lascivious material with neuroses —…
The call of the wild beckons all you camouflage-wearing jungle lovers out there to run on over to this year’s Dallas Safari Club Convention and Expo: Out of the Wild. This event is the largest annual fundraiser for the Dallas Safari Club, an organization that supports conservation, education and hunter…
The war on drugs has been going on since the 1970s, and in that time it has seen a great deal of change, but what effect have those changes had, and are they enough? Mothers Against Teen Violence presents The Texas Conference on Drug Policy, a three-day event exploring what’s…
The real fairy tale in the Plano Metropolitan Ballet’s production of Cinderella isn’t that some pretty girl escaped a life of housekeeping by being, well, pretty … it’s that a group of 10- to 18-year-olds are realizing their dreams of dancing in a ballet production. It’s a beautiful thing to…
Poor Charlie Brown is always down on his luck, whether he’s attempting to kick a football and falling flat on his face or trying to get a girl to sit with him at lunch. But no matter how bad Charlie’s luck may be, Lucy, Linus and his other friends still…
Sure, we all enjoy a good superhero tale now and again, but one man’s idea of a superpower is another man’s WTF moment. Take, for instance, Marrow of the X-Men franchise: She can manipulate her own bones, grow new bones, project bones through her skin and use them as weapons…
Long erroneously depicted by Westerners as “evil,” the dragon is the metaphorical epitome of imperial authority, a symbol of good luck whose motto in the Chinese horoscope is “I reign.” This month, The Association of Oriental Arts at the Irving Arts Center asks you to channel your inner serpent at…
Since the music industry became flooded with auto-tune mixes (lookin’ at you, T.I.) and “entertainers” (ahem, Britney), we’ve wondered: Does anyone, you know, sing anymore? There’s a place where the singing never stopped, where the neon lights are bright — sing it with us — on Broadway! For proof, look…
