Dallas Theater Center has done the only reasonable thing it could to make that nuttiest of old chestnuts, Joseph Kesselring’s 1941 comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, bearable. In the leads are two big Broadway stars, Tony winner (and Fort Worth native) Betty Buckley and four-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh. That…
The late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, best known south of the border for the film version of his 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in the manner of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, with a mad helping of Joseph Heller. The joyfully…
The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, a bestselling tale of second-century Roman legions and youthful derring-do on the far side of Hadrian’s Wall, is a thunderous boys’ adventure of the old-school type—there’s not a female speaking part…
In past years, the theatrical release of the Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts has provided a fun peek into intriguing bite-size cinema from across the globe. But for the 2011 edition, the series is at last making room for the five nominated documentary shorts as well. Unfortunately, this year’s nonfiction…
Like many of you, I missed the one-day-only “soft” opening of The Eight Track Museum because I was knee-deep in family, fruitcake and festivities on Christmas Day. Thankfully, our own Robert Wilonsky was there to document the historic day that Dallas became home to the coolest concept for a museum…
For $35, you could probably buy your sweetheart an assortment of gourmet chocolate–or about four of those heart-shaped boxes full of wax-flavored disappointment from Russel Stover. Here’s a better gift that you’ll both enjoy: the Beer and Chocolate tasting 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Plano Ginger Man Pub, 7205 Bishop…
Don’t get your hopes up, Dallas–ArtLoveMagic’s Underground event isn’t a secret Red Hot Chili Peppers performance (the album was called Blood Sugar Sex Magik, remember?). Instead, you’ll find dozens of artists and musicians at the event, happening from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. this Saturday in the Janette Kennedy Gallery…
Dallas Children’s Theater hosts its TEEN SCENE Festival through February 20. Unlike the after-school specials of yesteryear, TEEN SCENE is unrestrained in order to create meaningful works that raise awareness to the issues that teens currently face. The 2011 festival will include a quartet of plays written by playwright in…
A time-honored tradition–there is nothing like rounding up the family and killing a few weekend hours wondering who the hell can afford a new boat in this economy. But, since 1955, the Dallas International Boat Show has brought the largest collection of watercraft imaginable to North Texas and this year…
Back in the ’80s, The Dallas Museum of Art replicated several rooms of the art-packed French Riviera villa of Wendy (Texan and fashion model) and Emery (Hungarian writer and art collector) Reves to display the couple’s dizzying collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art including pieces by van Gogh, Monet and…
There are many sites upon which we budget-minded fashion freaks can find a name brand deal, but let’s be honest, if you sale-surf online you don’t get to touch the clothes, to hold them up like a human paper doll, to see how your calves will look sticking out of…
Spend Valentine’s Day with your sweetie gliding to dinner aboard the McKinney Ave. Trolley with only a dollop of irony: The McKinney Ave. Transit Authority named its Valentine’s deal “Streetcar Named Desire,” though the namesake play has absolutely nothing to do with romance. Quite the opposite, in fact. But if…
Let’s face it; Valentine’s Day can be super depressing. But if you’ve got a love bird, Valentine’s Day is quite possibly one of the best days of the year; at least, for the ladies. This year, don’t just exchange chocolate and teddy bears; take a ride on the 4th Annual…
If you are one of those people that scoffs at all of the love sick idiots who waste money celebrating a holiday almost completely manufactured by card and chocolate companies (and your lonely, bitter rant is just as obnoxious as all of those rose-wielding couples) then Valentine’s Day at Backdoor…
Valentine’s Day is currently recognized by most people I know as nothing more than a nasty ploy by greeting card companies to get us to spend our hard earned dollars on their sappy, one-size-fits-all sentiments. To me, though, the real problem with the holiday is the chocolate. I could see…
Is there anything more romantic than Rick telling Ilsa, the love of his life, to get on the plane at the end of Casablanca? Maybe the part where he holds his hands in his heads and says, “Of all the gin joints in all the world, she walks into mine.”…
Intimate? Check! Dimly lit? Check! Located in a happening part of town? Check! With these romantic pieces in place, its no wonder that The Grape is at the top of the list for special dinners out. Valentine’s Day is one of the most special occasions of the year, and Chef/Owner…
There are only so many times a person can sit through yet another production of a classic or one of the Broadway hits, so it’s always a special treat when a theater company dares to take on a new play. Billed as “a dark comedy about love, family, loyalty and…
The plot of the The Sugar Bean Sisters hinges around two sisters in the timeless pursuit of escaping their lots in life. What would you do if you wanted to change your life? We’ll bet you didn’t say “Why, I’d hop on the next spaceship outta here and leave planet…
Isabelle Huppert is one of those actresses that you know is a force to be reckoned with the second you set eyes on her. I first saw her in Hal Hartley’s The Amateur with a pageboy haircut I promptly copied and a sophisticated intensity that should have made her a…
In 1952, artists including Jackson Pollock and Clifford Still were introduced to American art lovers in the Museum of Modern Art exhibit Fifteen Americans, and this was just one of curator Dorothy Canning Miller’s landmark Americans exhibitions. Taking inspiration from the series of exhibits, the Barry Whistler Gallery presents a…
Long before Kim Cattrall portrayed vixen Samantha on Sex and the City, there was Blanche Devereaux, the senior siren whose voracious appetite for men made viewers tune in weekly. It’s been two decades since smartass Dorothy Zbornak, flirtatious Blanche Devereaux, naive Rose Nylund and wisecracking Sophia Petrillo first appeared on…
