If there’s one thing we’d like to see flown off the radar, it’s breast cancer. If we could pick another thing, we’d add sub-par health insurance. The special event Fly Away With The Bridge doesn’t eradicate those things, but it puts wings under them in a more uplifting way: raising…
The days of mint juleps and long Sunday lunches have faded into history, and despite the objections of Paula Deen, refined Southern cuisine offers more than the deep-fried options of years past. Martha Hall Foose’s cookbook, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, encourages cooks to modernize Southern favorites without sacrificing flavor…
Supposedly Prince tribute act 1999 does a fine imitation of His Purpleness, but so far the signs aren’t pointing to a carbon copy of the original. As far as we can tell, the band hasn’t changed names a single time during its existence, unlike the artist formerly known as The…
Everyone knows the only thing better than a sweet voiced tenor is a sweet voiced tenor who happens to be Australian. Now, let’s up the ante, because the Ten Tenors are coming to town, and there are, well, ten of them, and they’re all Australian. Even if opera isn’t your…
With a career spanning over four decades, Diana Ross is one of the most beloved figures in pop music history, thanks largely to her work with the Supremes, who scored 12 No. 1 hits in their day. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn’t heard their signature song,…
Good grief. While Charlie Sheen still struggles to figure out what it takes to be a good man (rehab might be a good start), Charlie Brown has it down. The wholesome kid that children of all ages have grown up with since the Peanuts strip first ran on October 2,…
The thwack of the bat, the roar of the crowd or the screams of the cheerleaders–games and sports permeate our culture, and in our art no less than anywhere else. Dunn and Brown Contemporary’s Ball Game group exhibition explores sports imagery. The renowned artist Damien Hirst, photographer Luis Gispert and…
Iceland is perhaps most famous in this part of the world for exporting musical talent with hard-to-pronounce names, but those more aware of the island’s economy probably know that it also boasts aluminum as a chief export. Austin-based artist Amy Revier recently spent 9 months in Iceland on a Fulbright…
Now that the confetti has settled and the Packers are the official Super Bowl XLV champs, it’s time for JerryWorld to play host to a plethora of different live events until football season rolls around again (whether or not that will actually happen anytime soon is another story altogether). First…
Sometimes, when we feel a little Irish, we’ll go over to the pub, drink some Tullamore Dew, imitate Thomas Mitchell’s thick Irish brogue in Gone With the Wind and talk about how precious land is to an Irishman. Other times, we’ll just put on a Chieftains album and start dancing…
If you’ve been dreaming since early adolescence of making tea time with your teddy bear a reality, now’s your chance. Dallas Arboretum’s Friendship Tea couples gourmet food from the Arboretum’s Restaurant DeGolyer with the aroma of flowers at 11 a.m. this Thursday through Sunday. And what would tea be without…
The Academy Awards are the number one awards show you really don’t have to sit through start to finish, unless you’re generally interested in the politically correct quips of whatever A-list host they have as the emcee of the evening. All of the awards in the middle of the broadcast…
There is a hazy, oppressive boundary between awake and asleep that many of us struggle through each morning, whether it’s the groggy, pre-coffee sleepwalk or the stubborn fight between a person’s obligations and his under-rested body. This half-awake state is the subject of Houston-based Italian artist Nicola Parente’s series of…
In the name of clarity, and before anyone gets their hopes up, Kids from Commerce isn’t a goat show, but an art show. That’s good news to most of you. Better news is what the Kids from Commerce bring to town. The exhibit features the newest work in paintings and…
The Black Architecture Project–running through March 26 at CentralTrak–is a multi-media event surrounding the work of Dr. Darell Fields, a lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas and architectural/design theorist. Fields, a Dallas local, earned his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has lectured there since…
When it comes to sports, boxing has got to be one of the most intense. Boxers have to maintain a specific weight, train pretty much every day and take quite a beating just to get in the ring. Even if you haven’t been to an actual match, Hollywood has probably…
Planning for parenthood takes a lot of prep work. There are, of course, frequent visits to the obstetrician or midwife, frequent bathroom breaks and frequent “eating-for-two” reminders that allow moms-to-be to claim the last piece of pecan pie. Apparently it’s tough work putting together a whole human from just a…
It would be unwise to consider Four Lions a movie that has much to say about radical Islam or the threat of terrorism. Instead, think of Four Lions as Airheads, except that instead of the idiots wanting to get their song played on the radio, the idiots want to blow…
Fifty years after Kim Ki-young’s postwar hothouse original, Im Sang-soo attempts a sleek, breathless update to The Housemaid, the tale of a household riven by a sexy domestic. This time around, instead of a family-man music teacher getting ensnared, a bored, feckless maid (Jeon Do-yeon) is seduced by a rich…
For a country that boasts one of the oldest civilizations and the biggest population of any nation on Earth, China somehow remains a mystery to many Americans. It’s understandable, really, as the country maintains a bit of a split personality. Its communist government makes many think of an austere, agrarian…
Rule of law scarcely discourages the endless reprisals in Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian War–era family-ties drama Outside the Law, which shows the FLN’s militant campaign for Algerian independence, as fought on French soil, through the experiences of three brothers. Reuniting in a Nanterre shantytown, this tattered family brings with it the…
Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and starring sitcom secondario Ed Helms (The Office’s obnoxious angry salesman Andy Bernard) as Tim Lippe, a prematurely middle-aged man-child. Taking an airplane for the first time in…
