Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is not just the year’s most impressive first feature but also the strongest new movie of any kind I’ve seen in 2010. Actually, Lebanon—which won the Golden Lion at Venice, after being rejected by Berlin and Cannes—hardly seems like a debut, perhaps because…
Massage Envy will be lending a helping hand, or two, to Susan G. Komen for the Cure with Massage for the Cure, an all-day event with specially priced one-hour therapeutic massage sessions for $49. Each of the 27 DFW locations will donate $15 per massage to support breast cancer education,…
If you want to see some badass piano playing then get yourself a ticket to Haochen Zhang’s performance in Fort Worth stat. Zhang became the youngest and the first Chinese competitor to win the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in…
It’s a good thing we’re all robots — human beings were too fragile anyway. Things sure got a little more interesting the day those scientists mindscanned us and launched our feeble bodies to the moon so we could live on earth as androids controlled by our minds, huh? Sure, people…
The yellow jersey of the Tour de France has long been synonymous with Lance Armstrong, and rightly so. No one else can say they’ve won the biggest cycling race seven consecutive years AND beaten cancer. And though he returned from retirement to win third place in the race last year,…
Remember what it was like when you were young? Your father was always ragging on you about cutting the grass, pulling up your pants and hanging with the wrong crowd. Well, William Shakespeare knows how you feel, or he wouldn’t have written an entire play about it. Reminisce about those…
If Esther Ritz paints to “express her freedom of imagination,” then we naturally have the undeniable right to “express our freedom of interpretation” when looking at her colorful, abstract paintings, right? For instance, when we look at Ritz’s “It’s a Long Long Road,” we see a horse trotting through the…
If your nanny made kickass matching outfits for your seven kids out of nasty curtains, you’d probably bone her. Especially if all your other bone-able options were super scary Nazi chicks. But, would you be a total douche and make her call you “Captain” like that bag o’ dongs Georg…
Maggie the Cat, the character responsible for thousands of overwrought Southern accents in high school drama competitions every year, is one of the most iconic parts in modern theater. The overheated, frustrated and passionate creature was embodied by Elizabeth Taylor in the film version of Cat on a Hot Tin…
Mineko Grimmer isn’t screwing around with existential quandaries when it comes to naming her latest exhibit at the Irving Arts Center. No, sir. It’s called Gongs.Wires.Bamboo. Guess what it’s made of. Grimmer’s work is an aural and a visual experience, with ice pyramids suspended above bronze, bamboo and wire (ahem)…
If you’re getting tired of the old “dinner and a movie” routine, then Fort Worth’s Stage West may have the perfect treat for you this weekend. They’ve recently started Prix Fixe Fridays, a special deal where you get admission to the current show and a meal (with dessert!) from the…
It is commonly accepted wisdom that all good things must come to an end. And they do. It’s just that some of them are reborn and begin again, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, or the renovation of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Center for Creative Connections, 1717 N…
Sometimes the things we’ve lost come back to us. A favorite lipstick tucked away in a forgotten coat pocket; a family heirloom rescued from a pawn shop; a pet that, against all odds, traveled hundreds of miles to find its family. But what about something we’ve destroyed? Can those things…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is hosting a black-tie night of Beethoven for its annual gala, themed “Of Life and Love.” Music director Jaap van Zweden will lead the DSO in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica–Italian for “heroic.” Beethoven originally wrote the symphony for Napoleon, but changed the title after Napoleon…
It doesn’t take much concentration to conclude that our minds are overworked. To-do lists, stress from traffic and constant “what’s for dinner” plans fill our heads even when relaxing. If you’d like to learn how to control your scattered thoughts and clear your mind through meditation, check out a workshop…
In just a few more months, thousands upon thousands of NFL fans, celebrities, dignitaries and the prostitutes and strippers that serve them will descend upon our fair metroplex for the media zoo that will be Super Bowl XLV. It remains to be seen whether our own Dallas Cowboys will have…
Maria Bamford has an incredible gift for doing impressions of members of her family, as well as the many varied characters she runs across in her life. She’s a bit of a surrealist, and openly talks about her own depression and OCD. As part of the “Comedians of Comedy” tour,…
If there’s one thing that can bring people together, it’s food. Think about it–what do friends and families do together during every important holiday? They eat! So it should come as no surprise that this year’s Taste of Watters Creek will celebrate a wide range of food, wine and beer…
On the first anniversary of 9/11, we mourned the tragedy. On the second, we wrote about Bush callously invoking the victims and notions of “freedom” to create new victims in a pointless war, and laws that represented anything but freedom. Now that we’re all 9/11-ed out, we don’t mark the…
The owner of Scardello Artisan Cheese, 3511 Oak Lawn Ave., might be named Rich Rogers, but Scardello is indeed a family name (his grandfather’s) and clearly, Italy is in his blood. This Thursday, Rogers wants to share some of the Old World’s bounties with Dallas’ cheese fans, wine drinkers and…
Xanadu just might be the most “seventies” of all ’70s movies. The fact that it was actually released in 1980 doesn’t disqualify it, either, since that year was still nursing a ’70s hangover. Olivia Newton-John stars as a singing, rollerskating Muse straight from Mount Olympus (no, really). She and her…
As a recent devotee to Entourage and all of the Hollywood drama and stereotypes (and well primarily just Jeremy Piven in general) it entails, I am convinced that if Vincent Chase really did exist, he and E would have fired Ari for not getting him the lead role in David…
