If Willie Nelson is the king of the Texas-based country genre, then Robert Earl Keen is the prince behind the throne. Keen, who ranks high as a songwriter and performer, has penned boot thumpers like “That Buckin’ Song” and cry-into-your-beer ballads such as “Love’s a Word I Never Throw Around.”…
With a roster nearly identical to last year’s club, suddenly the Mavs look like a legitimate contender instead of the team ousted early the last four seasons in the playoffs, especially after nabbing big wins in November over the Spurs, Celtics and Heat on their way to a double-digit winning…
When you find out you’re having a kid, people tell you that you need a lot of stuff: bouncers, swings, activity centers, mobiles, soothers and other various and sundry Bright Flashy Things. We got all that stuff, and you know what my kid likes to play with? Dish towels. Obviously,…
If you’re in the mood for something festive to do that isn’t as conventional as looking at Christmas lights or fighting lunatic shoppers for the last Furbee at your local Walmart, you might try checking out Deck the Halls at Old Red, at The Old Red Museum of Dallas County…
The end is near. Of course, we mean the close of the holidays and the year 2010, and hopefully you have plans. If that sentence made you suddenly red-faced, flushed with frustration and fear, then The Grape (2808 Greenville Ave.) has a special for you. Chef and owner Brian C…
I’ve never been a big fan of the tuna sandwich–fish on bread has always struck me as, well, gross–but I love Tuna, Texas, the fictional third-smallest town in the Lone Star State “where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies,” and Tuna’s Christmas show is a…
SMU’s Meadows Museum presents–as a companion to the loan of El Greco’s Pentecost from the Prado Museum–Sultans and Saints: Spain’s Confluence of Cultures, an exhibition that brings together works created in Counter-Reformation Spain and the period of La Convivencia. La Convivencia, the coexistence of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Spain…
Some people confuse modern style with boring style, or, even worse, no style. The lines and shapes, unadorned, don’t draw them in as much as more decorative styles do. To those folks, we say, give modern another chance, and start with the works of Linnea Glatt. Subtle, yes; boring, no…
Typically, seeing the word “BUGS” in all capital letters would be a warning to us vertebrates that it is time to turn around, speed up and take cover. That’s what all-caps is for: to warn you that something’s about to go down, and it is your responsibility as a human…
An odd duck of a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks, How Do You Know strays as far from a barrel of laughs as a writer-director formed by network television can get without losing his grip altogether. The movie’s rhythms are loose, disjointed and peppered with strategic silences or half-finished…
Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s mega-million dollar reboot, Tron: Legacy. The notion of a tragically split persona might have been scripted to give the new movie a measure of emotional gravitas, but why bother with writing when…
The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Massachusetts, light welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward, but, starring Boston working-class hero Mark Wahlberg, it plays as a Rocky-fied fairy tale for our time: Consigned to Palookaville, a sweet, unassuming boxer with more heart than brains steps up—all the way…
A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King’s Speech is a well-wrought, enjoyably amusing inspirational drama that successfully humanizes, even as it pokes fun at, the House of Windsor. The story—shy young prince helped by irascible wizard to break an evil…
Rock-bottom expectations are rewarded, sort of, in this update of Hanna-Barbera’s necktied ursus, which hopes to outdo the live action/computer animation success of the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise by adding one more dimension. Yogi (who debuted in 1958 and was loosely based on The Honeymooners’ Ed Norton) is voiced…
“I hate theater,” a whiny voice in the dark says at the tippy-top of The Drowsy Chaperone. “Well, it’s so disappointing, isn’t it?” The Man in Chair, as he’s called in this creampuff of a musical, continues for a few more lines before the lights come up. He expresses his…
Santa and his crew aren’t the only ones running around this Christmas. That’s right; it’s time to throw on those hoodies, earmuffs and just about any other winter gear you own for this year’s annual Dallas Jingle Bell 5K Run. Sure, Christmas is all about family and food, but why…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and taste and feel and smell like it too. The lights are twinkling, the hot cocoa is extra chocolaty, and the cookies are gooey and fresh. There’s just one problem–silence fills the air. The sound of Christmas is missing. There are no…
Between all the working, shopping and family drama, the holiday season can be a beating sometimes, giving even the best of us a case of the bah humbugs. Luckily for you, Dallas Theatre Center has just the thing. They’re putting on a production of A Christmas Carol through December 24…
There’s nothing like living in a tiny-ass apartment and overhearing your neighbors going at it when their “love boat” docks on your shared wall. Last weekend, we schemed to kill the mood for our own next-door nymphos, pitting the not-so-sexy Pandora Christmas channel against their industrial techno mood music. Between…
Tired of seeing the same old sugar plum fairies and getting an eyefulla jangling Nutcracker moose knuckles? At 2 p.m. Saturday, see Barefoot Brigade (a group of area modern dancers working to make North Texas nationally-recognized for its “innovative dance works”) perform The NOTcracker: A Barefoot Brigade Holiday Dance Festival…
Texas high school football is more than an institution–it’s a religion. The football-flavored drama served up by the eerily on point TV show Friday Night Lights is repeated weekly around Texas in the fall. In December there can be only one winner, but that’s the beauty of competition. Texans worship…
Your kid is getting too old to keep giving you Popsicle stick snowflakes stuck together with Elmer’s glitter glue for Christmas. This year, stop hanging them on the back of the tree and check out Vetro’s Create Your Ornament glassblowing class. For $25 you pick color mixes, help apply them…
