There is a holiday story that’s bigger than Santa’s bag of toys. That blows the nose off Rudolph. That melts Frosty and burns Alfie the Christmas tree…no, never mind, no one messes with Alfie (regardless of his association with John Denver). This legendary tale travels through reality, Nod and a…
New York artist Kate Gilmore’s Girl Fight isn’t about ripping someone’s weave out or clawing runs into someone’s clothing and/or face. It’s more like a commentary via video installation on the sometimes laughable struggle within one’s self and with society when it comes to just being a girl. Exhibition curator…
Redistributionist-In-Chief-Elect Barack Obama will soon rescue us from the horrible poverty created by the evil Bush regime. But until January 20, 2009, we’ll need charities like North Texas Food Bank. The Meadows School of the Arts, SMU-in-Legacy and Resounding Harmony choir will help restock the pantries at the NTFB through…
The Church of Scientology has shown its willingness to bully critics in the courtroom, and because I could no sooner afford to defend myself in a lawsuit than I could afford my own personal E-meter, I’ll just say that any religion that offers protection from spirits trapped on Earth by…
The word “genius” tends to be thrown around loosely these days, but Charlie Kaufman might actually warrant the label. Like a modern-day bard, the prolific screenwriter tells original, inventive stories that cause people to think and feel in delightfully different ways. He’s paired his brilliance with some of today’s most…
Who doesn’t love them some show tunes? Neil Berg’s really hoping a big bunch of you do with his show Neil Berg’s 101 Years of Broadway. Featuring local vocalists, composer Berg and producer Adam Friedson have compiled a show of fabulously fun musical tidbits from productions like Phantom of the…
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where to place it among the series’ finest. Was it better than Goldfinger? Probably not, but close. The Spy Who Loved Me? Maybe so. From Russia With…
I’ve Loved You So Long Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember the actress got her big break as a wistfully amused friend in Mike Newell’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, or that she played Plum Berkeley on Absolutely…
On November 4, Topdog/Underdog became a period piece. Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer winner about black brothers named Lincoln and Booth—their father’s idea of a joke and Parks’ method of foreshadowing their fate—is only 7 years old. But in our post-election Age of Re-Enlightenment, the play’s nihilistic view of the thwarted status…
We’ve heard a lot about change over the past year. In fact, with all the presidential campaign promises, one would expect that America will soon be ushered into an age of unparalleled peace and prosperity. Yes, my fellow Americans, this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Until then,…
Old Red’s getting into the spirit of things, though they’re doing it a little late by modern standards. After all, everybody else had their halls decked the day before Halloween. Better late than never as they always say–of course, we don’t know who they are exactly, but we’re told they…
If you’re someone who enjoys a good laugh picked out for you by television viewers then go see the finalists from the sixth and most recent season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing perform live at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. If you haven’t seen it, Last Comic Standing is…
Commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art, Mary Lucier’s 18-minute, five-channel video work The Plains of Sweet Regret depicts the rapid depopulation of the northern plains, where large-scale agribusiness has steadily forced independent farmers, ranchers and cowboys to move on. Through stark images of the barren landscape and abandoned…
In this ever-expanding globalized world, with our ever-homogenized views and cultural reference points, it’s pure magic when someone declares that they’ve got their own world, full of wacky points of view and crazy high jinks. Like Bobby’s World. Or Boy Meets…world. Or Tom Cruise. Or a guy named Ralph with…
They’re doing The Marriage of Figaro! For those who groan at the mention of the word opera, let me just add to your misery by assuring you that Mozart did write it and it’s in Italian. I know, now you really don’t want to make the trek all the way…
This year marks the 32nd annual Lakewood Home Festival, which provides an opportune time to see what the Jones’ have, even if keeping up with them can prove to be rather difficult. This time around, the Jones’ live in a Spanish Mission-style home. It was originally built in 1922 and…
When I was a kid it was pretty simple. We had turtles and bears that possessed awesome skills like eating pizza while doing roundhouse kicks and shining light from their bellies. We didn’t care about flimsy dialogue or plots. Their ability to blow our minds with little effort made them…
The first thing that strikes me about the artist behind Super Market is that he was born in 1985. In 1985, I was angling for a Spuds McKenzie T-shirt for Christmas and obsessing over Depeche Mode. Brent Ozaeta, however, was being born. This piece of knowledge has the effect of…
You gotta love those theater peeps. Their resilience to adversity merely to provide stage works to the masses can always be counted on. Despite losing Bootstraps Theater earlier this year and a not-so-subtle economic collapse, some crazy artists went and opened a new company this fall. Upstart Productions begin their…
An evening of shopping and socializing sounds like a very Dallas night, even if supporting unknown artists might not. Hatch, an event put on by Texas’ Next Top Designer, offers silent auctions and live music and allows some 20 artists and designers to sell apparel and furniture to fashion industry…
Released in 1920, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the earliest and most influential of all the German Expressionist horror films. The psychological shocker’s chilling visuals, sharp contrast of light and shadows, and ending twist have been hugely influential on generations of filmmakers from Orson Welles and Alfred…
I’ve decided that what separates award winning filmmakers from the rest of us is their willingness to do absolutely asinine things in the name of truth. OK, so maybe that’s not the only thing, but it definitely worked for Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock. You may not know the…
