**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.** Anna Mitchael grew up in the South, attended the University of Texas and after college moved to Boston, then New York, then Denver, then back home to Texas. But this was not a retreat; or if it was, at least it was a strategic one…
Come hear a true, original Texan voice speak when The Dallas Peace Center brings Jim Hightower to Irving Thursday. Hightower, “America’s most popular populist,” radio commentator, writer, public speaker, author and former Texas Agriculture Commissioner, believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom…
What do creme brulee and chicken cordon bleu have in common with hair pulling and nail scratching? Well, Richardson Theatre’s production of Kitchen Witches, of course! It’s Martha Stewart meets Jerry Springer when Isobel Loma and Dolly Biddle are forced to settle 25 years of confrontation on their brand new…
With the environment in the forefront of the nation’s mind following the oil spill, it’s only appropriate that another nature-inspired art exhibit opens, right? Birdsong: New Oils by Shari Hornish and Resonance: Watercolors by Billie Giese have arrived at the Norwood Flynn Gallery (3318 Shorecrest). Feast your eyes on Giese’s…
Before those fancy first-class seats on American Airlines were ever created, transportation pretty much sucked. You had your wagons, boats and, well, hot air balloons. You see, hot air balloons haven’t always been just a cool thing to see or a ridiculously expensive way to spend a romantic evening with…
You would think that after abandoning the intricate and highly prescribed world of corsets, bustles, waistcoats and top hats, getting dressed would be much easier. Nope. Despite more lax undergarments and less formality in dress, the mall–and the Internet, boutiques and discount stores–still overwhelm us with the tyranny of choice…
It’s tough to find a person who has never considered his or her own funeral. It’s kind of like trying to find someone who has never thought about hooking up with Angelina Jolie–pretty much everyone has considered that scenario in their heads a time or two. (Haven’t they?) Anyway, at…
No memory of a hot 1970s afternoon at the lake would be complete without a Heart song on the soundtrack. Seattle’s Ann and Nancy Wilson melded soaring, soulful vocals with proto-metal hard rocking guitar jams to create one of popular music’s most enduring brands. Bursting onto the mid-’70s scene with…
Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian folksinger who has had a number of hits in the charts, has penned several classic songs, and who I had never heard of until a couple of years ago. I’m not sure how that happened, but I don’t think I was alone in being able…
At 7:05 p.m. Monday through Thursday, you can see our Texas Rangers swing sticks and throw balls at the Minnesota Twins at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington (1000 Ballpark Way). Important information: Wednesday night is dollar hot dog night. So, either plan to show up and eat a ton of hot…
“If the money’s right, we don’t care where the job is.” So explains the leader of hired-gun task force The Expendables, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). This credo lands Ross and his team in the Gulf of Aden as our story begins. Somali pirate kidnappers staging a videotaped decapitation are pinned…
Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is every bit as faithful to its source material (Bryan Lee O’Malley’s six-volume series about a 22-year-old go-nowhere man-boy fending off his new girlfriend’s seven evil exes) as Zack Snyder’s Watchmen was to his (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ brooding comic-hero deconstruction). Both…
Sherlock Holmes as hottie? Theatre Three has him in actor Chuck Huber, starring as the title character in Sherlock Holmes in the Crucifer of Blood. With a seriously stylish steampunk-influenced production directed by Jeffrey Schmidt, Dallas’ oldest theater-in-the-round dares not to be square (for once). And at the center of…
Even if some of the most important artists (and musicians and writers, while I’m at it) in history struggled with mental illness, the concept of “outsider art”–which broadly defined, can include self-taught and folk artists, but especially connotes the work of the disturbed–has always made me uneasy. For every person…
As if the Magnolia Theatre weren’t art-house enough for you, it is also home to the Magnolia Bar Gallery, which constantly displays rotating exhibitions from some of Dallas’ best local artists. Whether you’re in the West Village to catch a movie or do some afternoon shopping, a stop at the…
South Pacific! Where the wind comes sweeping down the…no, that’s not quite right. By order summer lingers through September in…South Pacific? No, no, no. OK, so even if you’re not 100 percent conversant with the classic songs of South Pacific, the underlying story and themes are familiar. Girls meets boy,…
When we think of Mexico, we think of spring breakers doing tequila shots off each other’s bodies and attempting to swim in the ocean while wearing a sombrero. OK, maybe that’s just Cancun. Well, there’s much more to the country that is located south of Texas. From now until August…
Women in ancient Greece sure knew how to control their menfolk. Or, at least the fictional ones did. In the classic play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, the title character tries to end the Peloponnesian War by telling all the non-single ladies to withhold sex from their husbands, which was shocking back…
It’s a little ironic, don’t you think? Who would have thought that the most impractical of all pessimists would end up making all the money? Welcome to Leo Bloom’s world in The Producers. An anxiety-ridden accountant, Bloom makes a business deal with Broadway producer Max Bialystock in hopes that their…
The Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, 1202 Dragon St., will show its new exhibit, Tales from the Crypt, through the end of summer. Not to be confused with the HBO series hosted by the “Crypt Keeper,” the show features numerous photographs rescued from the gallery’s archives. It features dug-up work…
If you’re one of those people who loves musicals–you know what’s on Broadway, who’s in it and why the star of that one show wants to have the costar flattened by a piano–then go see Forbidden Broadway. The biting musical revue has been around since 1982, and the biggest hits…
When we’re in the mood to munch, we love to snack on our beloved Fig Newtons. But we’re a little hesitant to try the purple, squishy, turnip-shaped fruit in its pure form, even after years of watching our mother pop them whole into her mouth straight from the tree in…
