Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet. They never hit the big leagues until after they kicked the bucket. Ah, yes, that’s usually the way the life of the starving artist goes. It can be a struggle sometimes, if not all the time. Just ask Jean Francois Millet. In WaterTower Theatre’s production…
Want more butterflies in your garden than there are BMWs in the SMU student parking lot? Come to Texas Discovery Gardens for their Butterfly Gardening 101 series. They’ll teach you about the butterfly lifecycle (from caterpillar smoking a hookah to flutterby), native species and what to plant in your own…
When you stop to think about holiday traditions, they just don’t really hold any water. What’s going on with waiting patiently for an obese man in red to wiggle down the chimney or looking for eggs hidden by–not a chicken, of course–but a rabbit. Well, it’s all in good fun,…
“Cinderelly, Cinderelly.” Beloved fairy tale. How you enthrall us, with your pumpkin chariots and bird wardrobe stylists. And yet, you engage us with your love story. Not to mention the fact that you make us wish for a fairy godmother of our own. It’s a fairy tale classic for a…
If someone asked me if I wanted to attend BloodaPalooza, then I would automatically assume the cast from True Blood (that other, non-glittery vampire hit on HBO) was holding a convention for all their fanatics, but I would be completely wrong. BloodaPalooza happens to be a tattoo, arts and music…
Worm charming, air sex, extreme ironing–you name it, and folks are out there somewhere competing to be crowned its champion. So, if you’ve never heard of the United States Barista Championship, big whoop. It and other barista competitions are out there, and baristas with mad drink-concocting skills from right here…
If the thought of watching your friend get her ears pierced makes you squeamish, it’s a good idea to sit this one out. The Church at the Lizard Lounge hosts Freaks and Fetish, a night that will push the global limits on bizarre and unthinkable acts. From Norway, The Headmaster…
What happened in Rwanda in the mid-1990s is almost beyond comprehension. An estimated 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in a genocide that somehow managed to fly under the radar of public consciousness (at least in the U.S.). It boggles the mind that so many people were systematically wiped out during modern…
The Dallas art scene has been steadily growing for the last decade, and the development of Dragon Street and the AT&T Performing Arts center has helped catapult the city into a real artistic contender. If you haven’t yet gotten involved in the growing art scene–for shame–head over to Holly Johnson…
Those of us who predicted that burlesque would go the way of the swing-dance craze are officially wrong. The tassels-and-ta-tas trend is here to stay, as The Ruby Revue is now a monthly showcase. April’s edition features Miss Eva Strangelove, a slinky, tattooed brunette whose glowing smile makes her striptease…
Finesse Mitchell may be the most forgettable black Saturday Night Live cast member ever. Remember Starkeisha, the stereotypical mean ghetto gal? Didn’t think so. How boring do you have to be that you’re overshadowed by the Good Burger dude? Of course, during Mitchell’s 2003 to 2006 stint, the memory of…
There is something undeniably inspiring and unifying about dance films. Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, You Got Served (that last one is obviously a joke…hopefully)…you get the idea. A film deserving classification amongst these on the great list of moving dance films is Dancing Across Borders, a film that will…
The second chapter in South Korean director Chan-wook Park’s vengeance trilogy, Oldboy(2003) follows a man held captive for unknown reasons and then released after 15 years, only to be thrown into a labyrinth of violence and mystery. Equipped with money, a cell phone and expensive clothes, Ho Dae-su (Min-sik Choi)…
The 1980 movie Xanadu is legendary if only for being ridiculously bad. That qualifies it for inclusion in the pantheon of ’80s movies that have been turned into Broadway musicals. Snuggling up cozily right next to Footloose, this refugee from the VHS days has found new life on the all-singing,…
Sad, funny and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach’s new movie is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine was common in the ’70s. Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature an impossible protagonist—I’d be hard put to name one as maddening as the eponymous antihero unless…
Lost boy John Hughes was inducted into the pantheon this month, when the Academy devoted a moving Oscar-night tribute to the departed writer-director. But do you actually remember being a teenage moviegoer in the 1980s? It wasn’t all some kind of wonderful. Hughes movies came out twice a year, if…
Meet the burnouts of Burnfield, USA. The young adults of Eric Bogosian’s play subUrbia, now being done by Upstart Productions at The Green Zone, have turned the curbside at their local convenience store into an ersatz salon. They hang there every night and sometimes on toward dawn, drinking, smoking and…
While Edinburgh comic Danny Bhoy has a unique worldview thanks to his half-Indian and half-Scottish heritage, his comedy has more in common with the harmless, lighthearted observational comedy of fellow Scotsman Craig Ferguson than anything politically or racially provocative. For instance, at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, he…
The J. Erik Jonsson Central Library seems like a strange place to exhibit the wares of a secret society, but that’s just what the mysterious craftsmen of the Dallas Spinners and Handweavers Guild will do there through May 2. See handmade objects made by members of this mysterious group from…
25 years ago, Life magazine immortalized a stretch of U.S. Route 50 than runs through Nevada as “The Loneliest Road in America.” The nickname stuck. Ghost towns, cemeteries, mountains, railroad tracks and remnants of the Pony Express Trail flash by drivers headed along Route 50. These images burned themselves into…
There’s a new exhibition on display now at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive, and it goes by the name of Sweet Acrobatics: An Artistic Study of Motion. For you old-timers out there, let me explain: the “sweet” in the exhibition’s title does not refer to anything…
This week, Michael Ian Black’s gonna be speaking at the University of North Texas. The press release says Black’s most famous for his commentary on VH1’s I Love the ’70s/’80s/’90s series, but I recognize him as “That Dude From Stella,” “The One in the Super Short Shorts in Wet Hot…
