Arts & Culture

So what’s worse than living in Oklahoma? Living in Oklahoma with a family like the Westons, the center of Tracy Letts’ Tony award-winning play August: Osage County. The play opens with Weston patriarch Beverly (who sums up his 30-year marriage at the play’s opening saying, “My wife takes pills and…

When I think of a “stewpot,” I think of a big pot full of lots of different vegetables stewing in juices, slow-cooking to delicious perfection. The Stewpot in Dallas, of course, is a bit different: It’s a resource center for homeless and at-risk individuals, and instead of being full of…

Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched? Do you want to? Because Surveillance, the exhibition opening this week by painter William Betts, is going to make it hard to go anywhere near a shopping mall, bank, truck stop or hotel room (really) without wondering what you look like…

From the early 1940s through the early 1960s, Danny Kaye was one of the best-known and best-loved names in comedy and music. His playful delivery and obvious love for his material translated on the screen and across generations. Through more than 20 movies and numerous TV appearances, including his own…

You know how radio DJs and music critics dub a hit “the perfect summer song”? Or you find a song that perfectly captures your “October mood”? Well, apologies to Grizzly Bear and Lady Gaga but someone got there first. Way first. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Baroque concertos for violin nail every…

My mom used to always refer to her woman’s intuition whenever she turned out to be right about anything. I’m not sure I ever really bought into that concept. Woman’s intuition seems to be the eventual emergence of common sense after you spend at least a little time in denial…

Is there something you love doing as a hobby? Would you like to do it on national television, in competition form, to be judged by professionals and generally be used and abused for all to see? Would you like your full human personality to be whittled down via a cutthroat…

Reminiscing about those Saturdays when you rolled out of bed at noon, scratched your belly and meandered downstairs for a bowl full of cereal and afternoon cartoons? Well, there’s no need to reminisce anymore. Throw on your onesie, grab your car keys and drive on over to Pajama Brunch Saturdays…

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC), 3120 McKinney Ave., presents its first 2010 exhibition: Mixed Media, featuring the works of Sedrick Huckaby and Anita Knox in the large galleries and Jack White in the New Works Space. All of the artists explore African and African-American textiles in the “New World”…

The holidays are over, and 2010 has begun. I’m guessing you have some crap to get rid of. That Christmas tree? It’s not taking on any more water, friend. And if you didn’t get a new cell phone/PDA from someone who loves you, just go get one. It’s not like…

Dinosaurs may not spring to life and exhibits may not run amok, but if you ever wondered what goes on after hours at a museum, this is your chance. Roll up your sleeping bag and head to The Museum of Nature & Science for Snore and Explore All Things Cold…

Jack Black once played “Mr. S,” a wannabe rock star who transformed a classroom into band practice. He won’t be a part of this battle of the bands, but that didn’t stop kids from getting together to form a band and compete in the Texas High School Rock Off. Selected…

Belly dancing is about more than just watching–half of the fun is in the doing. That’s why 3rd Coast Tribal 2010, the largest tribal belly dance festival in the central United States, has four days of events planned so that you can learn to shimmy and shake with the best…

Every comedy fan’s favorite whipping boy (besides Dane Cook) has to be Carlos Mencia. The Comedy Central alum has been accused of stealing material from several comedians over the years, but despite the accusations, Mencia still has traction. The formula of his lowbrow shtick is simple: make fun of pretty…

It’s about time someone took down the homeless. Todd Rexx–who isn’t vicious enough to live up to his “T-Rexx” moniker–has taken up this noble battle, joking about needlessly verbose cardboard signs and stepping over a panhandler lying on the sidewalk next to a sign reading “Will Work for Food.” “”Are…

There are just certain things you should never, I repeat NEVER, buy a kid for Christmas, a birthday, good grades or whatever other occasion you might buy a kid a gift for. Don’t buy them a motorcycle (for obvious reasons), don’t buy them a gun (again…you should know this) and…

Technically, the main character is a male. And a director. One left unable to see and heartbroken and sort of promiscuous. But, don’t worry, Pedro Almodovar is known for nothing if not his female-centered stories, use of color and open homage and reference to classic styles and films and his…

If you’re a baby boomer, or spent time watching reruns of 1970s Saturday Night Live episodes as a kid, you probably remember Robert Klein as the guy who sang the mock-blues “I Can’t Stop My Leg” while stomping his foot and playing the harmonica with the SNL band. But he…

Comedian Jim Norton is probably best known for his appearances on The Opie and Anthony Show, where he wastes his talents for the benefit of people listening from their mothers’ basements. He’s also apparently an occasional correspondent on The Jay Leno Show, but we avoid that comedic resting home, so…

At the time of this writing, your Dallas Mavericks are sitting pretty as the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference, ahead of the dreaded Nuggets, the surprising Suns, the scrappy Rockets and the elderly Spurs. But one team stands between the Mavs and conference superiority, and it’s a familiar…