On a typical Sunday morning, you’ll find joggers scattered around White Rock Lake, but this Sunday the tranquil area will be host to thousands of runners on a mission to win gold…and free Gatorade. It’s not the Olympics, but the Big D Texas Marathon certainly isn’t for amateurs. Runners would…
Do you like stories about a minority overcoming racial barriers to succeed in a particular field? Because that sounds sort of like Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, a documentary narrated by Dustin Hoffman that will be screened at the Jewish Community Center of Dallas Sunday. On the other…
Until relatively recently, being environmentally conscious meant that you were an earthy, crunchy hippie with earthy, crunchy Birkenstocks. It meant that for all of your composting, recycling and earth-friendly efforts, you were an object of derision on par with the crazy cat lady and her ilk. But unlike the cat…
It is a common fact that when iconic country music artists are considered, Hank Williams, Gene Autry, Johnny Cash and–heaven forbid–Rascall Flatts, always seems to get honored. However, one of the greatest pioneers of country music and an individual who constantly pushed the envelope and as a result, carved a…
The most culturally significant fair in the world, let alone this city, brings artists from around the world to display and sell their creative innovations for days on end. But alas, such performance art as Man Voms Nacho Cheese Post-Gravitron, such culinary masterpieces as deep-fried beer and the display of…
Surely you remember reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in high school, so we don’t need to review the plot. Wait, you skimmed the CliffsNotes rather than reading the book? Then you missed out on a mystery that’s spawned literary and…
While Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck squabble over whether it’s rabbit or duck season, Central Market’s Dallas Cooking school has already made up it’s mind, and will be hosting a two and half hour long class that’s, well, all about duck–sorry Daffy. The hands on class will explore the many…
Poor Southern belles always have all the problems. The women in Horton Foote’s plays are no different, usually encountering more drama than domestic bliss, and even a Mint Julep can’t cure their woes. Foote’s The Roads to Home, a series of one-act plays, is a glimpse into the lives of…
The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it’s a mixed blessing. In one corner, you’ve got the jailbait fantasies of Donkey Punch and Kick Ass, which eagerly trade on notions of naughty girliness rather than transcend or interrogate them. In the other,…
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly contemporary-sounding blue humor, blunt profanity replacing the naughty-naughty, tankard-sloshing, heaving-bosom ribaldry that goes with the period setting. The scene: a generic medieval realm from an EverQuest or Forgotten Realms module…
A splendid play happens offstage during Horton Foote’s Pulitzer-winning The Young Man from Atlanta, now running at Uptown Players at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. If only the action out front were as entertaining as the stuff we never see. Throughout this static little drama, the latest entry in the ongoing…
So much attention has been focused on John F. Kennedy’s death that his life is often forgotten, especially in the city where he was assassinated. Now Washington, D.C., psychiatrist Alen J. Salerian is putting the focus back on the man himself and his legacy through a collection of 200 paintings…
We always thought the greatest honor for a centenarian was a shout out from Willard Scott on The Today Show, but a bona fide Texas Historic Landmark marker is a far bigger tribute. The Sons of Hermann Hall (3414 Elm St.) is turning 100 this year and celebrating the milestone…
Stepping onto (that’s right, onto) one of Jim Lambie’s installations seems like entering a room where an optical illusion and a box of crayons had either a violent fight or incredible sex. Lambie’s recognizable creations use yards and yards of multi-hued vinyl tape in linear patterns on a gallery floor…
Nosy scientists, armed with increasingly complicated technology, are unearthing dirty little secrets sealed for millennia in the tombs of ancient Egypt. DNA tests, a staple on Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, also dug up skeletons in King Tut’s closet. In true Springer style, Tutankhamen married his sister and their parents…
If they could time travel to the current century, Renaissance sculptors would probably wonder if marble and iron were scarce resources. Contemporary sculptors have come a long way since their classical counterparts began rendering royalty into stone, and it’s almost as common for artists to use grass, hemp fibers and…
Moon director Duncan Jones’ sophomore feature, Source Code—a pseudo-cerebral, modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller with ambitions more Philip K. Dick-like in scope than the recent Dick adaptation The Adjustment Bureau—is a propulsive ride worth your popcorn dollar, not for its preposterous genre tinkering but for its refreshingly humanist take on a…
There is a great deal of prowling motion in Insidious: a recurring sideways dolly outside an ominous house, a trenchcoat-clad cacodemon pacing outside a second-story window. It’s the restless motion of a movie stalking its prey—you, dear viewer. A married couple, Josh and Renai (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne), are…
Last year, the question most often asked of Dallas International Film Festival artistic director James Faust was, “What’s this year’s The Hurt Locker?”—a reference, of course, to Kathryn Bigalow’s wrenching Iraq bomb-squad nail-biter that had one of its earliest screenings at the 2009 fest then called the AFI Dallas International…
Before the hunky undead teens of Twilight, there were the hunky immortal brothers of Tuck Everlasting, the 1975 young adult novel by Natalie Babbitt. The popular book was adapted for the stage by Mark J. Frattaroli and in the lovely production now running at Dallas Children’s Theater, the story focuses…
Most men don’t talk about circumcision candidly, but then again, there are a few who aren’t afraid to broach the touchy subject. Don’t worry, you probably won’t hear many foreskin jokes here, but you will find humor in Yisrael Campbell’s account of his multiple religious conversions in his one-man show,…
What do a trip to the Laundromat, a stuffed bunny and over-sized dancing laundry have in common? Well, nothing, except that they can all be found charming the pants off adults and kiddies alike at The Eisemann Center in Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical. The Kennedy Center Theater for Young…
