It’s almost time to send the kids back to school, and we’re sure their favorite part isn’t getting a new locker or pencil bag. When we were kids, “back to school” meant a trip to the mall for new shoes and a snazzy outfit for the first day of school…
At the beginning of the summer, I made a meticulous schedule of activities to get Baby out of the house and expose her to a bit of culture. After all, summer is the time where all manner of cultural activities move outside and encourage kids to explore, play and learn…
Dallas Theater Center is cutting tickets prices for its season-opening production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. All main floor and lower balcony seats in the 600-seat Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre will be uniformly priced at $25. Top balcony, as always, is $15. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m., Thursday,…
Of the women I grew up idolizing in the ’90s, only a few have had a lasting effect on my personal style, and Lisa Loeb (her eyeglasses, specifically) is very near the top of that list. But, associating this Renaissance Woman with that decade alone is woefully myopic. Since she…
On August 6, Andy Warhol would have turned 83, and to commemorate the iconic artist’s life, LuminArte Design Gallery installed a collection of works from modern artists inspired by Warhol. What Would Andy Do? is an exhibition of works from local, national and international artists who apply Warhol’s pop stylings…
If The Weather Channel is to be believed — Delkus is on vacation and CBS 11’s Larry Mowry thinks it could be Friday — we could have rain today. RAIN, people. In honor of and in hope of this forecast, we’re taking a cue from DC9 (even though Pete is…
It’s been a while since we’ve thrown a big party. Sure, we have awesome Tweet Up Parties every month (don’t miss tonight’s mixer at House of Blues), but it’s time for a big blowout, the kind your friends talk about for days or even weeks if they didn’t leave the…
I first spoke to Jesse Eisenberg, on behalf of Gordon and the Whale, two years ago at Comic-Con when he was promoting Zombieland. He was polite, said thank you and answered all my questions with witty and comical honesty. A few weeks ago I spoke with him again when he…
More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big Scene in which to prove it. Stone doesn’t need this kind of relic of old-school Hollywood to show off her chops. But this is…
Is there such a thing as a sincerely calculated naiveté? Or, put another way: Does Miranda July have any idea of how annoying she is? On the basis of The Future, writer/filmmaker/performance artist July’s second feature, I’d guess that she must. A fabricator of her own screen image, July —…
Money-back guarantees feel like such a remnant of the old economy. Does the depressed consumer class even expect companies to make good on their advertised word anymore? But maybe the dream of free slices scammed from over-promising pizza parlors springs eternal. At least that’s the game being run on Jesse…
The stage version of the 1982 Blake Edwards movie Victor/Victoria takes what was a B-level screen farce and makes it into a C-level piece of musical theater. Uptown Players is doing the show at Kalita Humphreys Theater right now and if it weren’t for a bunch of fine actors pouring…
Delaney Vineyards, a Grapevine-based winemaker, is hosting four consecutive weekends of harvesting, tasting and grape-smashing for the entire family. It’ll essentially amount to a free Winemaking 101 class, as for the 20th time in as many years the folks at Delaney (2000 Champagne Blvd. in Grapevine) will teach the fundamentals…
John Frost, Ryder Richards and Eric Eley have many things in common. They’re artists, have a place in their heart for the Big D (they’ve all managed to drag themselves back here) and want to introduce you to some killer drawings and sculptures. The import exhibition combines these three artistic…
The first year of motherhood is a learning curve. So much gets thrown at you that you can barely keep your head above water. Every cliche is true: You have no time, no energy and no money. You’re tired and you’re worn down, and if you can’t have a sense…
Even if you didn’t major in math, this is an easy equation: Gourmet food at a discount plus a tax write-off equals what? A no-brainer. Fancy Dallas-area restaurants with names that roll off the tongue, like Abacus and Sullivan’s Steakhouse, have signed up for KRLD Restaurant Week. For the next…
Several months ago LuminArte Design Gallery put out a call for artists, posing the question “What would Andy Warhol do in today’s information age?” with the intention of putting together a contemporary pop art exhibition in honor of Andy Warhol’s 83rd birthday. The gallery held the opening reception of its…
It can get trashy at times, and we’re not about to swim in it anytime soon. But White Rock Lake is still one thing Dallas has managed to do right, a manmade oasis of natural beauty that doesn’t need Calatrava string art or concrete fake rapids to attract joggers, bikers,…
Owen Wilson will probably not attend The King James Bible Exhibition on display now through October at the Museum of Biblical Art, 7500 Park Lane. However, if we play a quick game of six degrees of separation, it’s easy to connect the two: Mr. Wilson starred in the film Behind…
Watching them detox on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab 5 with Dr. Drew, it’s sometimes hard to remember what the twitching, vomiting, weeping, roof-climbing celebrities did before they succumbed to the addictions that landed them on a cable-TV reality show. Some were one-shot wonders, like Amy Fisher, aka the Long Island Lolita,…
Totally blown away. I mean, I can’t even believe how incredibly detailed and accurate this puppet is. Designed by DeviantARTist TRP-Chan, this creation successfully takes Portal 2’s Wheatley, masterfully voiced by the amazing Stephen Merchant, off the screen and into the world. Good thing, then, he’s just a puppet, I…
The concept of a dive-in movie seems pretty straightforward. You bring the main necessities — swimsuits, floaties, snacks (safely waiting 20 minutes after you eat before entering the water) and a positive mind-set — and the owner of the pool provides a winning flick. Throughout the summer, various water parks…
