There are myriad moments during Get Him to the Greek—the roller-coaster spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall—when it feels as if the thing will jump the rails and smash to the ground in a thousand pieces of what-in-the-fuck. It’s a complete and utter mess from the big-loud-dumb start to the awwww-that’s-so-sweet…
Though Sundance-screened and sporting an upscale cast, writer-director Vincenzo Natali’s Splice has a mad science quality. He has crossbred a self-serious psychodrama and a queasy creature-feature and unleashed this malformed freak on the world. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley are Clive and Elsa, a married couple of “rock star” genetic…
The most moving of three musicals that have just opened on Dallas stages is the little one with no orchestra, only two characters and a collection of songs, performed mostly a cappella, that never won a single Tony. It’s Black Pearl Sings!, now playing at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre. More than…
Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature, Please Give, is a notable rebound from the insufficiently examined self-absorption of her last, Friends With Money. Please Give is not quite Lovely & Amazing—Holofcener’s mordant, quasi-autobiographical “three sisters” spin—but it is, for the most part, witty and engrossing. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt)…
Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm offers 52 acres of shopping, restaurants and green space at U.S. highway 75 and Bethany Drive in Allen. Those of you in the real-estate biz might recognize it as a “mixed-use development,” or, more colloquially, an “apartment mall.” See what the Creek has to offer…
Two of the best classes we ever took at the University of Texas were The Age of Dinosaurs and The Age of Mammals. Both were pretty fascinating, but amazingly, the mammals class pretty much owned the dinosaurs class, not only ’cause our professor was so cool–if you put 10 bearded…
Imagine gazing at a surreal painting of an island, a field full of tulips or perhaps the endless waves of an ocean. Do you ever wish you were actually inside that painting? If only wishes came true, right? Super Nature, a new exhibition featuring Dallas’ own Douglas Leon Cartmel, collects…
Henry Cho freaks my stuff out. If you sit down to do the math, the man’s successful career shouldn’t make sense. Thankfully having no relation to Margaret Cho, the Korean-American comedian grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee (wha…?) and has the twang to prove it. He starred in would-be career killers…
Pink will forever be associated with not only the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, but the entire full-fledged fight against breast cancer. But let’s be honest: A pink ribbon only spreads the message to the people who see you wearing it. Plants and flowers can spread a message…
Thursday through Saturday, the gang at Q Cinema presents the 12th annual Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, spotlighting the latest and greatest in gay cinema. Featured films include the opening night Southwest premiere of Violet Tendencies, a rom-com starring The Facts of Life’s Mindy Cohn as a thirty-something “fag…
In late 1972, Hollywood released one of the greatest films in history. It’s a tale of triumph and tragedy. It’s a hero’s journey in the tradition of classic works of literature such as The Odyssey. It is called The Poseidon Adventure. Most of you who have seen it may dismiss…
Dating blows. You never know if the other person is actually into you or if they just want to update their late-night booty-call contact list. Yeah, dating blows. Good thing we have friends to be our buffers on double dates. And good thing we have Lone Star Park (1000 Lone…
Have you met them before? Do you know the women with perfect posture, pouty lips and pretty jewelry? Have you seen the brawny men with their starched-collar shirts, fancy sports cars, greasy hair and brown cigars? Well, if you haven’t, they’re easy to find, and almost every suburban neighborhood is…
Valley House has shown the work of Brian Cobble five times now, and one look at his impressive pastels is all you need to see why the gallery books him so frequently. His landscapes are almost photo-realistic, yet still capture something soulful about the settings. Or maybe he’s got compromising…
Artists are pretty gutsy folk. Basically, they hang out and make a thing, and then when they get done, they call up all their friends and a whole bunch of strangers and say, “Hey, you guys, you should totally come look at this thing that I just made. It is…
Dallas artist Cathey Miller says she’s painted on a variety of surfaces, including naked ladies. Unfortunately, no babes in the buff will be included in Miller’s Trigger Happy, an exhibition featuring vintage Hollywood starlets packing heat. However, you’ll come face to face with a crazy-eyed Jane Russell armed with a…
British metal band Iron Maiden has been together almost as long as I have been a person, having formed in 1975. But only one member has been there from the beginning to now, and that is not the iconic and always interesting vocalist Bruce Dickinson, but bass player Steve Harris,…
Why take the Girls Night Out to another stupid Ozona happy hour when you could drive out to The Mound and get all crazy? At 8 p.m. Friday, see A…My Name Is Alice at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre, 830 Parker Square in Flower Mound. It’s a lady musical that’s…
Have you seen the sketches and notes of the writer or director of a movie you truly love? It can make the movie deeper, clearer or more personal. The same goes for a song and its songwriter, or in this case, sculptures and their artist. Rachel Whiteread is a contemporary…
It’s common to celebrate life changes in song–“Happy Birthday,” “Hava Nagila,” “We’ve Only Just Begun.” So it only makes sense that someone (in this case, writer/producer Jeanie Linders) finally decided to put together songs about a big transition in a woman’s life: menopause. Menopause the Musical has been running for…
The Oak Cliff Foundation has scheduled a cinematic fundraiser with connections to the two events that arguably opened and closed the tumultuous period in this country’s history that we now think of as the ’60s. The setting will be the Texas Theater, which is best known for being the spot…
Everyone’s scared of something, be it death or public speaking, but some little fears are silly. For instance, I don’t get it when people are afraid of public restrooms. No, you’re not the first person to ever utilize this space. So what? But we can all agree that some fears…
