From Tad Friend’s New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline “Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates Women”) to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned to last month’s Bridesmaids (which has thus far outgrossed every previous Judd Apatow project since Knocked Up), a case could be made that 2011…
The documentary Audience Award winner at this year’s Sundance festival, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly astounding methods in four-day clinics around the country. If that sounds as exciting as watching hay turn yellow, director Cindy Meehl finds the real story…
“I am angry,” Conan O’Brien admits in Rodman Flender’s tour doc Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop. “I’m trying not to be…but sometimes I’m so mad I can’t even breathe.” Prohibited from appearing on television for six months after his early 2010 break with NBC, Conan hit the road, capitalizing on his…
Pixar’s Cars franchise takes a sharp turn from NASCAR mayhem and red-state-targeted ’50s nostalgia to 007 espionage with the upgraded sequel Cars 2, though in its delivery of Matchbox-machine superheroics for its young male demographic, it stays true to its prime function as an advertising vehicle for merchandise. Nonetheless, if…
Who knew? Sometime during the 8th century, between bouts of famine, scurvy and smallpox, dynastic conflict and bloody religious war, the Franks invented “jazz hands.” And when they weren’t hacking away with broadswords, or hacking up a lung, they took time to create bouncy, light pop. It’s amazing what one…
Forget about the scrapbooking this weekend and create your own unique fabric instead. Sure, it’s easy to find some pretty nifty pillows at a department store, but it doesn’t beat the ones you’ll create on your own. Join instructor Shannon Driscoll as she teaches Cyanotype Photograms on Fabric with botanical…
Everybody loves a bad boy, especially one who dazzles you by flying you to Havana and getting you drunk on tropical cocktails. And especially, that is, if you are a female missionary dedicated to saving the soul of said bad boy. This love story is just one thread in the…
The Nasher Sculpture Center continues its 360 Series this Saturday, bringing in a one-two punch of gifted sculptures, painters, and collage-ers in Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago. The 360 Series represents a conversation with featured artists about the ever-expanding world of contemporary art, while Curry and Houseago represent two bad-ass…
White Rock Lake is turning 100 and you’re invited to the centennial party. Originally constructed in 1909 to meet Dallas’ growing water needs, the lake was completed on April 24, 1911. Since then Lewisville Lake has come to shoulder the city’s water needs but White Rock Lake has remained the…
Rowdy enthusiasts, fishnets and total ass-kicking: The Assassination City Roller Derby is in its sixth season of competitive, fierce and unconventional mayhem. The women of the league are divided into six teams, each decked in team colors. All teams welcome daring, untamed women to prove they have what it takes…
Are you jealous of all the carefree youngsters who are grabbing their pretty paint palettes and heading off to summer arts camp? Then today is your lucky day! Ink on Your Fingers, Color on Your Soul is a grown-up-friendly creative lifestyle and art workshop that will fuel your creative mojo…
Imagine you are a 14-year-old girl on a school trip to Washington, D.C. You hail from a very conservative Baptist section of Texas. As a part of the “educational” trip, your teacher has scheduled a dinner theater performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The churchgoing chaperones approve. But…
I’m not really a fan of popular fiction. As a librarian on the front lines at a public library, this can be problematic. A patron will approach the reference desk, looking for suggestions, and I have very little to tell them off the top of my head, having to revert…
Josh Howard is back in town, but he’s not, like, playing us or anything, so welcome back, Josh Howard. My, my, my, your head looks funny without a blue sweatband and yes, we will stand on a stack of 18 chairs and say that to your face. Speaking of, did…
Love to head out on the town to partake in the operatic arts, but hate jumping into that ill-fitting formal wear? And what about waiting till halfway through The Ring of the Nibelung for bread pudding? Unacceptable. But there is an alternative. Thanks to NCM Fathom and The Metropolitan Opera’s…
Of course Dad didn’t like the grooming kit you got him for Father’s Day. Why would you expect him to like something that involves grooming? Make it up to him with a laugh or two along with some fatherly observations from Craig Shoemaker, whose comedy ranges from imitations of the…
The next evolution in technology is smell-o-vision, but until we can take in the aromas of what’s being cooked on the screen, celebrity chef Stockton Briggle offers up a delicious silver-screen distraction: Briggle is demonstrating the late Rock Hudson’s favorite meal. Yep, the real deal to eye, smell, and, if…
If y’all ain’t from around here, you should know that people in these parts have their own way of doing things. But if the local Lion’s Club is considered liberal, you’re probably in a town like Tuna, Texas. It’s the small-town fictional setting for a series of satirical plays about…
It takes an elite brand of nerd to walk away from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and say, “Nine hours was not nearly enough.” Fathom Events is answering that plaintive, geeky wail with a three-night theatrical event that brings even more fur-footed folks and elf-on-orc action to the silver…
If ’80s movies taught us anything, it’s that out-of-town cops like visiting sunny California to wreak a bit of havoc and save the world. Some of them did it by partnering up with the local good guys and others did it with the aid of an awful laugh (yes, I’m…
I thought I had a pretty straightforward relationship with Woody Allen. He made movies and I hated them. This was the way it worked for many years, until I saw Match Point and I liked it. And then I saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona and I loved it. Very confusing. But…
When we go to Texas Ranger games, we typically sit in seats that are the same price as our parking spot. At that distance, there’s no reasonable fear of being struck by a bulleted line drive, but with the Rangers’ batting, it’s possible. We bring our old baseball glove for…
