I was 8 years old in 1977, when Star Wars came out, and it was everything. Who could have foreseen that, at least for the girl half of us, the next year would hold such incredible treasures as Saturday Night Fever and Grease? Fever’s soundtrack, mostly songs by The Bee…
Wednesdays are suppertime at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary. The Heard boasts the most comprehensive public collection of Texas-native snakes including rattlers, racers and water snakes. Between bellowing, “Ew, gross! COOL!” and bawling, “Poor wittle mousey,” you’ll get an up-close look at what these serpentine creatures prefer…
With vinyl records, tie dye, acoustic music and campfires, SonsStock 2009 sounds like an offbeat way to spend a Saturday. And dig this: It falls on the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. This free, all-day event benefits the Sons of Hermann Hall Lodge 66, a landmark in Dallas since 1911. Head…
When you think Nerd Bar, don’t picture LAN parties and Star Trek viewings. Think three women–Pumpkin, Pooble and Phancy–connected to Denton’s scene, discussing everything from scientific theories to celebrity gossip, maybe drinking a little and…perhaps some unmentionables. They’re completely revamping the Nerd Bar podcast, hence an official launch party. Dan’s…
Huggy Lowdown is best known as the “Celebrity Snitch” on Tom Joyner’s syndicated morning show, on which he gives daily gossip updates cracking himself and the other hosts up with obvious innuendo and catty insults. The jokes aren’t that clever, but he’s got an enthusiastic, kinda-swishy delivery that makes them…
From respectful, traditional stage performances to Baz Luhrmann’s “hip” modernization, Romeo + Juliet, to the violent gross-out parody Tromeo & Juliet, Shakespeare’s tragic tale of “star-cross’d lovers” has been adapted so many times that it seems unlikely that yet another performance of the play could add anything to it. So…
Hate to break it to you, girls, but there is some truth to the freshman fifteen. This may surprise you, but dorm food is typically 90 percent carbs and 10 percent pesticides, and after four or five beers and a few cranberry chasers, the calories add up. But you can…
I never saw Mamma Mia! onstage, but I did enjoy Meryl Streep’s performance in the movie (which, since it was filmed in the Greek islands, is chock-full of amazing scenery that will make you want to hop on a plane to get the hell outta Dodge and into the Greek…
With your own Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox in the heat of a wild-card race, this weekend’s three-game series is huge. With less than two months to go, that long baseball season starts looking awfully short. When they faced off last month, the Rangers knocked the Red Sox…
It seems like in the old days, institutionalization was the cure-all to life’s little problems. Just take a look at some Hollywood classics–One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Suddenly, Last Summer, A Day at the Races. If someone seemed a little zany back then, well then you just had to…
Powerful gusts of fabulosity must whip around the stage to blow the scent of mothballs off a comedy like The Royal Family. It’s an antique by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, one that doesn’t hold up as well as some of its contemporaries. Any successful revival had better be…
It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There’s half of a great movie in Julie & Julia—but since Meryl Streep has already starred in one titled Julia, perhaps it was merely necessary to tack on the “Julie” half to distinguish Nora…
As Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola’s baroque genealogical melodrama, reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young co-star Alden Ehrenreich and reassures him that “it’s going to be OK—we’re a family.” Gallo’s warmth is not altogether convincing, but for writer-director Coppola, Tetro is a cri de…
Honestly, we are poor military historians, so what little we know about the Dallas Artillery Company–which eventually became Battery A of the Texas National Guard’s 133rd Field Artillery Unit–comes courtesy of intense Googling. Luckily for you, local historian Ed Owens knows quite a bit more than we do, seeing as…
Anyone who’s ever borne witness to a particularly taut Speedo, watched a gratuitous ’80s metal video or seen anyone other than an American Apparel model actually wearing American Apparel knows: Spandex doesn’t have the world’s best reputation. Perhaps its most redeeming quality is that it is the preferred fabric of…
Calling all winos! The Pinot Noir tasting at Charlie Palmer at the Joule may be just your glass of wine. Is the wine buttery? Acrid? Attractive? You get to decide as you sip various Pinot Noirs from around the globe from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. Exude your inner connoisseur…
Even parents with the most discerning taste in film have been known to sit through mindless movies where animals make fart jokes through their computer-generated mouths. Forget culture, you just want your kids to sit still long enough to justify the 20 bucks you spent on tickets. Or you could…
Are you a speed, steam or double oven kind of person? Do you desire warming capabilities where your junk drawer currently resides? When you watch the Food Network, does your heart race at the thought of replacing your ancient electric with an induction cooktop? Fortunately for you, the Miele Dallas…
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been called the greatest love story ever written. The tragic tale of forbidden love has found its way into many modern-day renditions, translations and big-screen cinematic achievements, but none can parallel the Broadway hit that took New York City by force more than 50 years…
We’re healthy. We’ve watched television shows, read magazine articles and counted footsteps and calories in pursuit of a better us. Now, we’re ready to commune with like-minded individuals. The Health & Fitness Expo features fun, family-friendly activities with health and fitness organizations, free health screenings from medical professionals and a…
Chihuahuas are odd little creatures. They have personalities the size of Andre the Giant, but they usually travel around in purses or under the arm of their owner. At first I thought that the little “dogs” were just hitching rides with the rich and famous, but then I realized something–…
Back in the ’80s, if you were a member of a hair band (and don’t act like that’s terribly difficult to imagine, daydreamer of spandex fantasies) it’s very possible that you’d have picked up the phone (after tossing off whatever lithe, coke-dusted groupie had fallen asleep strewn across the nightstand)…
