The difference in perception between Irish and Italian food is made quite distinct by two classes Wednesday at Central Market (5750 E. Lovers Lane). The hour-long noon “Learn at Lunch: St. Paddy’s Day” class costs just $20 and teaches three stereotypically Irish dishes: corned beef and cabbage sliders, shepherd’s pie…
For teenagers in the mid-’90s, Richard Linklater’s immortal Dazed and Confused was about the coolest movie you could rent. (And if, god forbid, it was checked out, we’d even settle for The Stoned Age, a horrible rip-off centered around finding chicks and the transformative experience of a Blue Oyster Cult…
Everyone loves a good deal, and you’re sure to find one this weekend at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art (3109 Carlisle St.) as they kick off the spring season with a double exhibit. Shine On, featuring the works of local artist Pamela Nelson, and RE: Constructions, by former…
After a few days it seems your liver is finally recovering from Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. But then the realization hits you: St. Patrick’s Day is actually Wednesday. You thought you were done drinking green beer and listening to bagpipe music? Wahahahahaha–no way are you done drinking green beer…
Between its folky Thanksgiving soiree and now-legendary winter dance party, Spune Productions is developing quite the reputation for throwing the area’s most epic seasonal shindigs. And with a bill that boasts eight touring bands–as well as two local acts–for just 10 bucks, this week’s Rite of Spring Fling at Hailey’s…
Katie Jarvis, who makes her acting debut as a rabid teenager in writer-director Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, was discovered on an English railway station platform, yelling at her boyfriend. Whether Jarvis is a natural-born actress or is simply playing herself as Mia, a foul-mouthed, 15-year-old child of the Essex projects…
Cop Out establishes its movie lineage right away, with a slow-motion toe-to-head tilt up, set to The Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” of black-cop/white-cop buddies Jimmy and Paul swaggering stone-faced toward the camera. Director/editor Kevin Smith immortalizes his heroes as stock crime-flick badasses in their very first frame. So…
Theater provides its own version of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. By observing an actor in performance, we, the audience, unwittingly change the behavior of that actor as he or she plays the part. It’s an apt metaphorical fit to the experience of watching Michael Frayn’s dazzling, difficult play Copenhagen, currently running…
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, a florid art shocker that Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby’s parents, begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet. The film is his prolonged purging, with Daniels coughing up chunks of his back…
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what used to be called “the German problem” while dodging the filmmaker’s own likability issues, it’s his best ever. A period piece set on the eve of World War I in an echt…
Where would you rather be at the end of the world? In an underground bunker with a nervous gay biologist and not quite enough food? Or in a living room with Stephen Hawking and a plate of pastrami? We get the lighter side of Armageddon in two small, odd, funny…
As personal assistant to the U.S. ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his terrific-looking kittenish girlfriend (Kasia Smutniak) in a nice Paris apartment. This is the basis for director Pierre Morel’s delicate study in trans-Atlantic manners, From Paris With Love,…
Sometimes the sweet nobility of a heartfelt community theater production can make its flaws forgivable. At all-volunteer playhouses such as Richardson Theatre Centre and Onstage in Bedford, where this week’s shows were reviewed, they do it all for love. Nobody receives star treatment. There’s no complicated scenery, and they sport…
Legally Blonde meets Glee meets Xanadu in Dallas Theater Center’s latest, the world premiere of the hyperactive musical Give It Up! (forced exclamation point theirs). The show reflects obvious influences of those and other pop-infused Broadway and TV phenoms, but its actual source material is Lysistrata, a comedy from 411…
“Did you shoot my daughtah?” is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved and much-vengeful, from Hamlet to Ransom to Revolutionary America, sets out to settle another score. Gibson is Thomas Craven: veteran, homicide detective, lonesome widower. His daughter, a…
Was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Au contraire. You’re not talking about Clue Jr. here, especially if an audience member ends up being the murderer. In the Murder Mystery Players’ Shooting at Southfork, participants will have to put their game faces on when eight of them…
Typically we celebrate New Year’s with drinking copious amounts of booze, wearing funny hats and counting down to midnight with Dick Clark. Not so much for the Chinese New Year. Their main traditions are cooking a family dinner and cleaning the house from top to bottom to make room for…
If you really want to disappoint your wife or girlfriend this Valentine’s Day, get her a Russell Stover box or, better yet, an even cheaper generic variety pack. Then sit back and watch as she eats and exclaims, “Ooh, this one tastes like wax. Hmm, this one must be toothpaste-flavored…
You know when someone is talking about a movie and you say, “Hmmm–I’ve never seen that,” and they shriek, “WHAT? YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THAT??!!? OH MY GOD, you HAVE TO see it!!”? And it’s really annoying? You know how sometimes you are the person on the other side of things?…
I’ll admit it. When I first heard the Dallas Opera was putting on Cosi Fan Tutte, I was unaware A) that it was an opera at all, and B) that it was composed by Mozart. Having now figured this out, my high opinion of Wolfgang has begun to wane. Cosi…
If you thought journalists and biotechnology wouldn’t be caught dead in the same room, boy…were you right. Except in the case of Boom, a story that takes a marine biologist and a journalism student on the journey of their lives, perhaps changing the fate of the entire human race. Beginning…
Documentary addicts and hippies alike will be in good company when the Thin Line Film Festival hits the eclectic and artsy Downtown Square in Denton this week. Now in its third year, the Texas filmmakers’ festival will kick off on Wednesday with an appropriately blistery screening of Josh Fox’s Gasland,…
