With spring upon us, local landscapes are shedding their drab browns of winter in favor of the lush greens and bold colors that we’ve come to know and love in gardens. For those of us whose gardens have yet to bloom, the acrylic garden scenes of Sharen Chatterton’s The Nature…
In the great flood of the Noah’s Ark story, animals were saved two-by-two. Not so with the great floods of Hurricane Katrina. There were no arks; there were no clear directives from a higher power. It was a time of literally sinking or swimming, and it’s nearly impossible to swim,…
The Dallas Comedy Festival will show off the improv skills of comedy troupes from across this great nation–including Gangs of Recess (Fort Worth), Back to School Night (New York City), Chris and Tami (New Orleans/Austin), The Ones (Oklahoma City), Jill Bernard’s Drum Machine (Minneapolis) and Scram (Minneapolis/Chicago), as well as…
We’ve always kind of wanted to go to Antarctica, especially when the summer heat comes to call. However, we hate ice and really don’t like to be cold, and Antarctica is on average the coldest, driest, windiest continent in the world. Yuck. Plus 98 percent of the continent is covered…
Philanthropy doesn’t have to mean tuxes and ball gowns. Casual dressers can help AIDS Services of Dallas raise money at their No-Tie Dinner and Dessert Party on Saturday. It’s dinner with a twist–call 214-941-0523 to be added to a dinner party at one of dozens of private venues. After dinner,…
Rockers Vs Mods isn’t actually about rivalry. Well, OK, it is a little bit about the rivalry between those who ride and those who scoot, but mostly, the weekend-long two-wheeled rally is about tooling around, listening to rock music, eating good food and drinking (post-ride, of course). The packed itinerary…
Pot humor can hardly be called a universally enjoyed subject of comedy, as there will always be abstainers who don’t get the joke. But comedians who make the occasional 420 reference will always have a built-in audience of stoners–and that sucks. Because, as much as it pains me to admit…
In high school, our favorite part of economics class had nothing to do with learning about supply and demand. It was sitting in the back of the room and making a flip book out of our SpongeBob SquarePants mini notebook keychain (don’t even act like you didn’t own one; SpongeBob…
Along with her father Pops, Mavis Staples helped revolutionize R&B in the ’60s and ’70s with the Staple Singers, the family band that produced some of the best socially-conscious anthems of the era. You might remember her best for her impassioned plea on “Respect Yourself”–“If you don’t respect yourself ain’t…
Were you ever looking forward to attending a talent show as an adult? Probably not. Did you ever think to yourself: “Man, I wish that just once there’d be a televised program that showcases my country’s creativity, but also employs the entertainment expertise of David Hasselhoff as well as Sharon…
Attention: Complex math formulas do matter. Who would’ve thought math problems could be incorporated into art? Not me, but it sounds pretty cool. Boolean Valley features collaborations between potter Adam Silverman and architect Nader Tehrani, who marry the intuitive and tactile process of ceramics to the stringency of Boolean logic…
It seems the real Patch Adams was somewhat disappointed in the 1998 film of the same name, mostly because it jumbled the facts. For instance, the film claimed that Adams’ Gesundheit! Institute had already built the free hospital Adams had planned for years, while in reality the hospital is still…
Ever been so down in the dumps you think you’ll never laugh again? Don’t worry. When something is really funny you’ll laugh. Just ask Bill and Bob. They’ll know what you’re talking about. In Theatre Three’s production of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Bill Wilson becomes a drunk when his…
The best thing about Brazilian music is that even the most mainstream of tunes is so much more sonically complex, lyrically intricate and generally experimental than American popular music could ever be. Even the seemingly droll intonations of Astrud Gilberto were part of a jazz/bossa nova revolution. And speaking of…
By now we all know better than to trust a vegetarian, but 20 years ago it took a visionary Italian director named Claudio Fragasso and a little movie shot in rural Utah to set us all straight. Like zombie-movie indictments of corporate greed or the slasher flicks that warned us…
What better way to launch a nonprofit campaign in Dallas than with a rock show? Even if you’re not sure about the “mosh[ing] with old friends” that Mercy for Animals touts in its online event description, surely you can get behind music with a cause. The show aims to raise…
Matisse called the Barnes Foundation “the only sane place to see art in America.” But the clamor over moving one of the world’s foremost collections of impressionist, post-impressionist and modern art from its home in the bucolic suburb of Merion, Pennsylvania, to center city Philadelphia (4.6 miles away), has been…
There’s an obvious stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and a still underage, barely dressed Dakota Fanning begging for street cred by playing dress-up as, respectively, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, front girls of the oversexed ’70s-era teen proto-punk sensation, The Runaways…
A slab of Velveeta with Miracle Whip on a slice of white bread. For 90-year-old Grace, that’s a happy meal. That’s also a pretty accurate description of Tom Ziegler’s two-hander play Grace and Glorie, a soft, bland sandwich of comedy and pathos, and the latest effort by One Thirty Productions…
Haute-chef Marie-Antonin Careme may have classified all sauces into four groups of “mother sauces” in the early 1800s, but as far as I’m concerned–when done right–there’s only one category of sauce: More, please. If you’ve ever hankered to learn the ins and outs of prepping bechamel or hollandaise like a…
I’ve always wanted to go to the highlands of Scotland, but on those days when I find myself trapped at work and staring down a very blank computer screen, I start wishing a place like Brigadoon really did exist. In the classic musical Brigadoon, the eponymous Scottish village has been…
Entertaining kids is not as easy as it used to be. I remember playing with blocks and spending whole afternoons making an elaborate game out of pulling pots and pans out of the kitchen cabinets and pairing them with life partners that truly suited their needs. Stockpot, this is your…
