“Tell your Momma something’s gonna get her” because Little Shop of Horrors is in town. The 1950s sci-fi spoof will be featured Tuesday through July 12 at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. Michael-Leon Wooley, who played the voice of the smooth-talking, blood-drinking Audrey II on Broadway will, once…
New York City has traditionally been a mecca of sorts for American artists. But more and more, you hear about artists settling in Texas. Marfa boasts a community of artist transplants. Austin and Houston both have a draw for creative folks looking for something a little different than the hustle…
An unremarkable, even unattractive Britain’s Got Talent contestant takes the stage. Simon Cowell licks his chops. The audience groans. Beautiful people are, as everyone knows, the only people with talent. But gosh, it’s been so long–a good 15 or 20 minutes–since we last saw a train wreck, and it’s getting…
Roughly one score and 10 years ago, the forefathers of big-budget Hollywood movies set forth to make even more millions of dollars by refusing to let America’s most beloved action heroes retire from the big screen. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg saw fit to turn storylines into sagas with sequels,…
Why going to the FC Dallas versus New York Red Bulls game at Pizza Hut Park on the Fourth of July is awesome: There are happy-hour dollar beers and $3 margaritas from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. There’s a patriotic and moving halftime show from the American Fallen Soldiers Project. There’s…
Kaboom Town is definitely an upgrade from lighting a string of Black Cats from a tree limb to celebrate Independence Day–though you can’t deny the hours of entertainment (or hospital trips) of lighting your own explosives on the Fourth. Hosted at Addison Circle Park for more than 20 years, Kaboom…
The longest-running American musical–original run or revival, we don’t care–just has something about it. Something that gets you tense, nervous, excited. When 17 Broadway dancers step up for an audition, they’re ready to show their talent…but are they ready to show themselves–down and dirty, emotional and raw–to get the part?…
Larry David and Woody Allen are a match made in heaven–both were standup comedians and are neurotic, self-involved, borderline misogynists who have made a career out of being neurotic, self-involved, borderline misogynists. David has made a fortune creating characters that are mean, selfish and just generally nasty. And Woody Allen…
Comedian Greg Warren has quite the background for a funny man, including stints as an All-American college wrestler and a West Point cadet. His comedy features everything from anecdotes about his colorful past to prank phone calls, including one where he calls Olive Garden and pretends to be an old…
There are probably more than two types of people who attend brown bag lunches, but the ones that come most easily to mind are bespectacled professors in baggy, wide-wale corduroy pants and sweater vests who munch thoughtfully on tunafish sandwiches, and fourth graders who scream raucously through crustless triangles of…
If you love cheesy, trashy, cult-inducing, B-rated horror films but can’t endure the anticipation of waiting for the next zombie chase or steamy sex scene, try Horror Remix at Studio Movie Grill in Addison. Horror Remix cuts out the filler and condenses the plot into 30 or 40 minutes of…
Though he’s most famous for a bit about the nightmare of shopping at Ross Dress for Less, Sebastian Maniscalco also wonders what happened to macho guys. “Look at what they’re ordering. Apple martinis? You’re walking around with a green drink! With a little apple floating on top! You go get…
Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I’d forgotten I’d seen The Proposal. Well, that’s not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in my memory with a thousand other films just like it—those in which phony lovers bound together by dubious circumstances become honest-to-kissin’ couples in just less than…
Enlighten Up! There are a number of tensions at play in Kate Churchill’s Enlighten Up!, a documentary about the proliferation of yoga as both spiritual path and commercial workout culture, and the vigor with which the believers will try to convert the skeptics. What’s frustrating about this otherwise friendly, lightweight…
With Romeo and Juliet, the problem is this: Cast seasoned actors who look a little too old for the title roles or use young ones who can pass as teenagers (Juliet’s barely 14 in the play) but might be too green to wrap their heads around the characters’ intense emotional…
Do you ever have those moments in church where the music is really bad and you’re so hungry that God can hear your stomach growling? Well, now you don’t have to be hungry or miss out on a religious experience; just head over to House of Blues to take in…
I remember being high in the sky, not giving a damn that it was 114 degrees in the basket (and even hotter in the envelope above me) or that the sporadic flames were singeing my scalp. I leaned over the edge as my knees shook, and I tried not to…
The Joker may have wondered where Batman got all his wonderful toys, but everybody knows the original king of grown-up gadgetry was James Bond. Self-destructing bags, tear gas disguised as talcum powder, ejector seats and built-in vehicular machine guns: These are a few of an international man of mystery’s favorite…
Yeah, yeah, I’m sure Iliza Shlesinger is a very funny gal. She’s won Last Comic Standing and hosts The Weakly News on TheStreamTV and that’s all well and good but that’s not what I want to address here, people. The thing that really interests me about Shlesinger? I know she’s…
If you’re not a film festival attendee yet, it’s time to get started. Each November, the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth offers an array of great feature, documentary and short films in a cozy, accessible setting. Now film lovers get a second chance to catch some of…
The most entertaining impression of that backpacking, pageboyed, ever-jubilant princess of interrogation they call Dora the Explorer! was created by Robert Smigel on SNL’s TV Funhouse. Little Dora-like Maraka and her pal Mittens saved a penguin baby, spoke in languages ranging from Mandarin-ish to faux-Xhosa (the African clicking language), questioned…
Tania Kaufmann is an amazingly focused artist with an incredible spirit. Or at least, she must be if we’re to assume anything from her work. I’ve never actually met her, but damn, her pieces have captured me. A series of tiny expressive blocks. Little round forms with toothy grins that…
