Humans have celebrated and feared fire since the moment that Prometheus brought it down from Mount Olympus. Like the other classical elements (earth, air, water), fire has the power to sustain life or destroy it, and it’s only in the last 400,000 years that humans have learned to control it…
Think long and hard about this: Why the hell wouldn’t you want to compete in a 21-and-up scavenger hunt/pub crawl benefiting a worthy artistic organization? There’s absolutely no reason. Scavenger hunts are bad-ass. They provide ample opportunity to own on your friends, and someone always ends up in a photo…
It’s about that time again. You know, that time of the year when just about every weekend centers around a barbecue by the pool, a few beers and, well, basically just an excuse to let loose and have a good time. Journeys Backyard BBQ Tour will bring one of those…
The Winter Olympics seem to rule our lives for two weeks every four years, and no matter how hard we try to stick to the “cool” events like luge and snowboarding, it always seems that we eventually get sucked into the soap-opera-on-ice that is figure skating. Surely there’s plenty of…
If you want to know what a real Frank Sinatra fan looks like, don’t bother with American Idol and last week’s Sinatra tribute shows. Don’t get us wrong, Harry Connick Jr. is great, but he’s a little, well, large-scale, for our blood. We like an homage to be intimate and…
Oklahomaisn’t just a state; it’s the name of a musical that revolutionized musicals after its Broadway premiere in 1943. The story’s pretty simple–Curly the cowboy loves Laurey, and she loves him, but goes to the dance with sinister hired hand Jud instead. It all turns out pretty well in the…
If you’re on President George W. Bush’s mailing list, you’re probably already familiar with James Blake’s work. The Fort Worth artist had the honor of designing Laura and Dubya’s 2006 Christmas card–if having one’s work appreciated by a president not exactly renowned for discernment or intelligence can be considered an…
Did you ever hear the tale of the Irishman who spent 16 years working the same late-night job with the promise he would soon get a promotion when another fellow (who happens to have a half moon-shaped face) would retire? Well, that day came when the half moon-shaped face man…
If architecture is a dialogue with the forces of life, Rafael Vinoly, the upcoming lecturer at the Dallas Architecture Forum, is multi-lingual. The leading architect, with buildings ranging from large cultural projects to educational and commercial projects, will speak in the 14th season of the Architecture Forum in the Magnolia…
Do you ever think to yourself that you want to dedicate a night to helping out young, aspiring fashion design students while enjoying music from a pianist that once toured with the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and possibly purchasing artwork from local artists? You do! Great! This Thursday, Tre…
Popping pimples, cracking voices, growing facial hair and yes, even a Bar Mitzvah. What do changing physical features and a Jewish celebration have in common? Well, they’re all a right of passage into the wonderful world of adolescents, of course. You remember those days don’t you? Or maybe you’re still…
Texan Richard Linklater’s 2006 movie A Scanner Darkly looks unlike almost any other film, having been shot and originally edited like any live-action film, and then “animated” by computers, with lines drawn over lines already filmed to make everything and everyone look like a cartoon. The result is pretty amazing…
Based on a true story, North Face is a suspenseful man-vs.-nature film about a competition to climb one of the most dangerous rock faces in the Swiss Alps. Set in 1936, the film follows the paths of four climbers–two German and two Austrian–as they take on the north face of…
This Wednesday, for a measly 10 bucks you can see Ozzy Osbourne, Rip Torn, Peter O’Toole, Sean Connery, Vince Vaughn and tons of other celebs makin’ jokes. No, Addison Improv isn’t hosting Celebrity Open Mic Night. But, close–8 p.m. Wednesday, comedian and voice actor Mike MacRae (you might know him…
Screw Zales. Jewlery is not what the Diamond Ring at 500X Gallery is about. See, this is an exhibition of paintings created from 1970s Topps baseball cards and a wrestling match pitting Captain Kiser against Nick “The Roughneck” Halliburton. For serious. When was the last time you saw an art…
The great boundary-crosser of Iranian cinema, Bahman Ghobadi, purposefully steps over the line with No One Knows About Persian Cats—a quasi-documentary, highly unofficial panorama of Tehran’s tenacious underground music scene and a movie that has accrued additional urgency since its first public screening at Cannes last May. Ghobadi’s co-writer, journalist…
As Iron Man 2 begins, Tony Stark—mechanical genius, Forbes 400 perennial, the pop-star CEO of Stark Industries—has dropped any pretense of a secret identity. Stark is garishly “out” as Iron Man, performing a one-man air show before touching down to host his Stark Expo, which transforms the World’s Fairground at…
Sure, you take your car in for regular tune-ups. But what about you, man? Who’s taking care of your maintenance? Maybe it’s time you looked into a tune-up yourself. “Tune up the Whole Man: Mind-Body-Spirit,” a men’s health conference for ages 12 and up, is the perfect opportunity. The event…
As kids, we were obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Being eight-year-olds, nineteenth-century life on the prairie complete with Indians, wolves and a snug little house to keep the family safe looked pretty good to us. There were 10 books in the series…
Ask five people what they think of when they hear the word “India” and you are sure to get five drastically different answers–a group of women peddling embroidered silk scarves on a cobblestone street, Hawaiian retirees eating a bhut jolokia chili pepper, maybe even Paul McCartney practicing transcendental meditation with…
Photographer Terry Falke has spent four decades exploring what makes a landscape particularly American, and his career is a document of how that definition has changed. He began shooting black and white landscapes with Ansel Adams’ California collective, the Friends of Photography in Carmel, in the early 1970s, but over…
Just the possibility of uncovering a lost treasure, a bag of gold coins or a huge precious stone leads people of all ages and income brackets to spend hours down on their knees, digging in the dirt at different sites around the world. One of the most popular sites is…
