You’d think Subaru would distance itself from anything rock ‘n’ roll-related for the rest of the company’s existence after those disastrous commercials in 1993 wherein a compact car was likened to punk rock. But, it’s been 16 years since that inadvertently hilarious ad–time enough to forgive, right? From 1 to…
When Skynyrd recorded “Double Trouble” 30 years ago they may not have had Johannes Wunner and Sallie McIlheran in mind, but all you visual artists had better watch out when this husband and wife photo-and-paint team comes around to your gallery. You want color? You want ironic compositions snared by…
Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo started off as a professional wrestler, but it was his art that finally took him around the world–from Mexico to New York City to Paris–before finally landing back in his hometown of Oaxaca, where he built his Museo Rufino Tamayo. Through November 1, the Amon Carter…
Sometimes, just seeing is enough. It’s the heat and energy of voyeurism without the sneak and the sordid. It’s looking past a fence, into someone’s yard, onto a lot, down a train track. There’s a restricted area, sure, but you’re body’s not in it, and yet you’re venturing past what’s…
Walmart may be a conglomerate shopping center full of the “lowest prices guaranteed,” but greeting card aisles are just more conglomerates hoping to woo customers with their versions of the same cheesy lines. I mean, how many cards one can get at a wedding saying, “Best wishes!” or “A toast…
Craig Nelson, the award-winning historian and author of Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, tells the heroic story of the space race and the Apollo 11. The former vice president and editor of Harper & Row, Hyperion, and Random House will be in Dallas…
The whole burlesque revival thing leaves me conflicted. On the one hand, it is yet another format for showcasing women as men’s playthings. On the other, the women performing said burlesque exude a power, finesse and humor that I can respect and–even more important–it is exceedingly more aesthetically pleasing than…
You could be forgiven for thinking that America is no longer proud to be the land full of gun-toting, flag-bikini-wearing dipshits the Euros have been reckoning us for all these years. After all, Barack Obama is president, FoxNews is a running joke for anyone who can read above a first-grade…
It’s 1990. A little girl sits in front of her television smacking gum. On the screen a man in a white hat walks up to a door, opens it and is flooded with white light. The little girl’s eyes widen. She leans in closer and watches in awe as he…
Apparently the new song of the summer is “I’m on a Boat” by SNL funnyman Andy Samberg’s group Lonely Island. I would sing a few lyrics for you, but I can’t in case there’re children reading this (no time for angry parents), and well the title is pretty self-explanatory. Just…
The Festival of Independent Theatres kicks off its 11th annual, four-week play festival featuring new plays and local playwrights in eight one-act performances starting Friday and running through August 8. Located at the Bath House Cultural Center on Lawther Drive, FIT offers drama to all levels of theater fans. Plays…
For some unknown reason, I have had the song “I’m a Lumberjack” from Monty Python’s Flying Circus going through my head for the last several days. I don’t mind it, especially, although even the best of songs can become grating and fill me with dread after more than a couple…
Things made in Dallas, past and present: Mrs. Baird’s bread, Robocop, integrated circuits, Barney, 11 Robert Johnson 78s, Fletcher’s Corny Dogs, Walker, Texas Ranger, microprocessors, the growing fetus in Cristal Taylor’s womb, Dr. T & the Women, oil fortunes, the first frozen margarita machine and seasons two and three of…
The most well-known western movies typically idealize the taciturn, humble lives of their cowboy leading characters. Lonesome Dove, No Country for Old Men, even Brokeback Mountain–these movies offer the stereotypically western images of sheriffs, calloused men of reticence staring off into open, dusty spaces, horses silhouetted against a melting horizon,…
It’s a known fact that some clothing stores hold back the best stock for V.I.P. customers. But did you know that some art galleries do? Now you don’t have to be a V.I.P. to get some for yourself. Cash and Carry is a rotating show of various artists, whose works…
Some people have a certain obsession with perfection, and as artist Polly Lanning Sparrow likes to examine with her painting installations, perfection is pretty hard to come by when the human is involved. Sparrow may lean a painting on the ground, or put it’s nose to the wall–not for being…
Some people have a certain obsession with perfection, and as artist Polly Lanning Sparrow likes to examine with her painting installations, perfection is pretty hard to come by when the human is involved. Sparrow may lean a painting on the ground, or put it’s nose to the wall–not for being…
Remember that icon of Sesame Street-inspired critical thinking, “Which one of these is not like the others?” One could spend all morning trying to apply it to Philip Haas’s video installation, specially commissioned by the Kimbell Museum of Art for a free summer exhibition entitled Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons…
The title character in Mame is a wild, liberal, rich, eccentric, irresponsible, artistic type who when her brother dies and she becomes guardian to her young nephew. The musical, based on the book by Patrick Dennis, goes from the end of the 1920s to the Great Depression and beyond, as…
Comedian Tom Rhodes hasn’t gone on to the success of ’90s contemporaries like Janeane Garofalo and Dave Chappelle, but he’s nevertheless kept at it, weathering short stints on his own NBC sitcom and a Dutch talk show in the process. With an easygoing stoner-redneck shtick, his comedy touches on everything…
Unnecessary Fart…whoops! I mean Farce. Either way, they both have something in common: a good laugh. The differences? Smell and the obvious fact that one is a bodily function, while Unnecessary Farce is, in fact, a play. Set in two adjoining rooms in a cheap motel, a crooked mayor meets…
I remember when Legally Blonde came out in theaters a several years ago, and the movie’s heroine, Elle Woods, became a cultural phenomenon for putting her perky little nose to the grindstone, suiting up in pink, and doing something that most women could never dream of…being feminine and succeeding in…
