In the original story, Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten by the wolf, and the fairy tale ends there. It’s really a pretty scary tale. The Dallas Puppet Theater version, Little Red Riding Hood: The Melodrama, has a slightly different storyline, as Red must stop the wolf’s antics from ruining…
This September, you can participate in the Lone Star Ride, a two-day, 150- to 175-mile fund-raising bike trip to benefit local AIDS resources. Feeling a tad less charitable? You can still help despite a lack of time, stamina or even a bicycle. Pride Radio DFW will raise funds for the…
Dreading the death of summer and the dawn of classes? Get motivated! Kids Who Care will present its summer musical District XI–Believe in Me! inspired by 10-year-old Dalton Sherman’s 2008 keynote speech to Dallas ISD teachers and staff. “I can do anything, be anything, create anything, dream anything, become anything,…
Warning: This play is NOT Hester Prynne’s comeback. In fact, it doesn’t even take place in the 1700s, or involve immaculate (or, rather…maculate) characters of Puritan descent. Written by two Dallasites, local favorite Porn for Puritans is an eclectic commentary on the vicissitudes of modern relationships between men and women…
Pete’s Dragon, Sword in the Stone and Quest for Camelot were just a few of the (now almost forgotten) kiddie videos that would occupy my time on hot summer days. Those were the days when renting a video meant spending a dollar for three days of blissful entertainment while chomping…
Y2K came and went, computers upgraded, the Internet replaced life as we once knew it and the whole world went digital. Now jobs are scarce, money’s tight and iPhones are expensive. Dull, oppressive cubicle jobs are starting to look kind of appealing, right? Wrong! It’s time to channel your inner…
With every movie, there is always an underground movement to love on the underdog. It’s that peripheral character who is attractive in his own unique way, who doesn’t take over screen time but has an offbeat appeal that often supplements the front and center personality of the main character. Example–the…
Why is it in almost every fairy tale that the lady is always the one in distress, and Prince Charming has to ride up on his white horse to save the day? How about the other way around, where the man is captured by brain-eating zombies, and the woman rides…
Some random person on the Internet once said, “Grad school is like poker. If you don’t know who the patsy is, it’s you.” Well, I know who the patsy ain’t. It ain’t any of the studio art grad students whose art is being displayed as part of the new exhibit…
Do you have the Sunday night blues? The hellacious work week is about to begin again, and well, you don’t want it to. I have just the cure for you–watch out, though, it has a lot of flavor. Kiki Melendez, the creator of Hot Tamales Live, will be in town…
There’s plenty of shooting and fishing to be done at Rough Creek Lodge & Resort in Glen Rose–lots of trails to ride, an enormous swimming pool, and a climbing and rappelling tower. Oddly, though I’ve been there a few times for weekend getaways, I’ve never done much of the outdoorsy…
Central Market’s cooking school won’t be doing much cooking on Thursday, July 30. Actually, the lesson focuses on a new trend in healthy eating: raw food. Gather up all your foodie friends and learn to prepare zucchini hummus, garden scrabble (are Qs and Zs still worth 10 points?), Greek salad,…
William Kentridge is not an artist you would expect to see as part of a large-scale installation. It’s not that he’s not worthy of it–the South African has been hailed for decades for his politically themed work and for his ability to be self-referential without being a total navel-gazer. But…
There are more than a few contradictions with comedian Ralphie May, like the fact that he’s a white guy born in Tennessee with a southern flair for “Da Hood.” With a career that’s been on fire ever since he became runner up in the hit show Last Comic Standing in…
After sweeping the Tampa Bay Rays sandwiched in between two important series wins against the Los Angeles Angels, the Rangers seemed destined to head into the All-Star break on a serious roll, especially as the team finished up with a four-game series in Seattle. Texas already had a 5-0 record…
In the lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly uptight TV producer who is also perpetually single. Ever efficient, Abby does background checks on the men she meets and takes along on the first date a 10-point checklist…
Lynn Shelton’s Humpday, a sexual sitcom, opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (Mark Duplass) and Anna (Alycia Delmore), confess that they’re too tired to procreate that night and then confess their mutual relief. As if in response, the doorbell rings at 2 a.m…
The slightly scaled-down Festival of Independent Theatres is the tapas bar of local theater, a chance to spend just a few dollars to sample offerings by new and small companies sharing the stage at the Bath House Cultural Center. It’s the 11th year for the month-long “FIT fest,” as it…
Honor the influences of black filmmakers in the Southwest area at the 7th annual Dallas Black Film Festival. The weekend event appears promising considering past winners, including 2008’s Circle of Spiders: the Deliverance by Clifton McCurry and 2007’s Hustler’s Guide to the Entertainment Industry by Hotep. The festival begins with…
You know what they say in The Sound of Music about how when God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window? That’s a very nice thought. And the And/Or Gallery and House of Dang’s Show #24: Rave Simulation is a perfect example of that principle at work. Doors are…
When I think of the song “Kumbaya,” I think of a nerdy guy with a guitar, trying to be all over-the-top fake nice. But the song actually has its roots in an important culture–Gullah. And I’m not talking about a fictional place that’s home to giant yellow frogs named Binyah…
Despite the best efforts of Jerry Jones, the hottest ticket in town this summer is not a concert or sporting event at the Enormodome. It’s a conference. An actual “pick out your workshops and be sure to bring a cardigan” conference. A literary conference. But I make no apologies for…
