Something Borrowed is based on a 2005 work of chick literature by Emily Giffin. It was directed with extraordinary impersonality by Luke Greenfield (Rob Schneider’s The Animal), and produced by Hilary Swank in collaboration, apparently, with the restaurant Shake Shack—one of the lifestyle brands prominently featured in this tale of…
Can you imagine walking the streets alone at 15, 16 or 17? Can you imagine yourself on a dark, damp night with nowhere to go, nowhere to run? You don’t know who your father is or where you come from. Can you imagine sticking out like a sore thumb? You’re…
Editor’s Note: This event is not intended to treat or cure any disease. With all the self-endowment and entitlement they can muster, 4 Out of 5 Doctors recommend this event to the public for any malady, real or imagined. Or, at least they do if they want to pay the…
Is your astral projection not quite stellar? Are your chakras out of whack? Do you need a psychic tune up? The Manifestation Celebration might just be what the shaman ordered. Self-described mystics, writers, neo-shaman and musicians gather together in the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science to share their art…
Dallas Roars is about to soar away, but on Mother’s Day, there’s one last chance to catch the festivities. Party down with Mom at the Dance Party Disco, the caterpillar bounce house or carnival games. Or for just $5 extra, families can tramp it up on the bungee trampoline, zip…
Mother’s Day celebratory activities usually go as follows: maybe church, maybe brunch (or one of the three squares) at a pricey steak house, or, if your mom is anything like mine, open-to-close shopping at DSW. If you are looking for something different to do this year to celebrate the most…
Is that it? Another Mother’s Day, and you’re again taking your aging mom to lunch at Luby’s and handing her yet another bouquet of soon-to-be dead flowers? How nice. After all, she only carried you for nine months and passed your bulbous noggin through her birth canal. Luckily, if yours…
Dogs wearing curly twirly mustaches? Cats wearing cherry red lipstick? Have the animals taken over Dallas? They may not be roaming the streets with their human-like attire, but they’re definitely sprucing up for one special night out on the rooftop. That’s right, the animals have hit the roof. East Lake…
The Cottonwood Art Festival has been ranked one of the best art festivals in the Unites States, and provides art lovers a chance to not only look at, discuss and purchase art, but also meet each artist in person. This year roughly 1000 artists submitted their work for consideration, out…
Sidewalks are social spaces native to the urban landscape. Cafes spill out upon them; busking musicians claim their corners. They’re also shared turf, used for an infinite number of purposes; walking, running or biking are among the more mundane. One might dance upon them, if so inclined. Contemporary Ballet Dallas…
Do chickens really plot elaborate escapes from chicken farms, a la Chicken Run? What was on the other side of that road that inspired a clucker to risk death in a cloud of feathers? Why do so many things “taste just like chicken?” Sadly, answers to these questions won’t be…
Some would find it a little presumptuous for a forty-something non-celebrity everywoman to write five, yes five, memoirs, but Jen Lancaster has something to say and she’ll be damned if anyone is going to stop her. Her tales have run the gamut from unemployment to weight loss to reality television…
Jerry Seinfeld is coming to town and he’s bringing a big bag of jokes with him. Well, not a real bag, just a metaphorical one that he keeps in his mind. Who keeps jokes in an actual bag? That’s just weird. But that’s neither here nor there. The important thing…
Cinco de Mayo originated as a celebration of the Mexican army’s underdog victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. So to commemorate the holiday, Bailey’s Prime Plus, 8160 Park Lane, Suite 130, hosts a panel discussion of the French occupation and its repercussions on the United…
For a lot of gringos, Cinco De Mayo exists as little more than an excuse to go out and hit up the bars, in which case the most culture they’ll get out of the event is ordering a cheese-infused chimichanga at a Tex-Mex joint. Do yourself a favor, put down…
There’s one thing the chaps around here can’t live without, and that’s the brew-kettle. Without tea our coverage of nightlife in this town would cast about like a ship lost in the drink. Though, that’s not all that true because we aren’t British. In fact, we only raid the tea…
Pretty in Pink is one of a handful of movies I will watch anytime. I mean, I would watch it every day if it presented itself every day. There is something so very comforting about it, and I can’t put my finger on it. Is it just because it was…
Denmark seems like such a peaceful, harmonious place that it’s hard to understand where Danish filmmakers get all of their angst. But time after time, the country’s cadre of talented directors find and examine the darker side of life, making what seems like an idyllic culture appear rife with drama…
Tim Hetherington, the photojournalist and documentarian who was killed in Libya on April 20th, was scheduled to speak at tomorrow’s Oak Cliff Texas Theatre screening of his Oscar-nominated Afghanistan war documentary, Restrepo. Following the tragic and untimely death of the photographer who literally risked his life to bring all aspects…
Don’t go looking for Liza Minelli, now, but the stage version of Cabaret is chock full of the sex and songs that made the decadent cabaret scene of 1930s Berlin a fun place to be. The musical, written by Kander and Ebb (the duo that came up with the smutty,…
When Old MacDonald had a farm, he didn’t have many problems to worry about, other than the constant quacking and mooing. In Giggle, Giggle, Quack, the sequel to the popular children’s musical Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Farmer Brown has plenty to worry about when he leaves Bob, his…
Balanced, not boring. That’s Robert Rector’s work, boiled down to three words. But although it’s easy to condense the description, the work itself is far from simplistic. While the contemporary Southern painter seeks to maintain a sense of symmetry and cohesiveness in his work, the visual tension, use of color…
