Tis the season for mummies, werewolves and vampires, and thankfully, we have Teatro Dallas to help us along with our imaginations. Every year, Teatro celebrates the Day of the Dead with a creepy, scary show that works out oh-so perfectly with Halloween. Forget your usual trick-or-treating or block parties or…
Joan Rivers–the comedienne, red carpet fashion maven, QVC guest star and plastic surgery aficionado–lives to make fun of herself and pretty much everyone else. Joan was an instant fan favorite after her first appearance on The Tonight Show in 1965, and she’s been shoving irreverence and self-deprecation in our faces…
There are two types of sports fans out there–the fair-weather fan and the die-hard (we’ll put the bandwagon jumpers in that first category)–and Dallas isn’t lacking in either category. So which one are you? You can either head out and support Your! Dallas! Stars! as they take on the Columbus…
The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles’ mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago’s international best seller Blindness mixes the high-velocity pace and stylishness of the Brazilian director’s breakout City of God with the Portuguese author’s thinly metaphysical horror thriller. Unflinching at best and treacly at worst, the film…
There are copious ways to link How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Both are based on feather-light books that take a good hour to read for those who scan slowly; both feature actors on the cult side of stardom who do far better…
Here’s the scenario: You decide that you’re hungry, so you round up your dining pals and try to figure out where to go, an exercise in futility that can take upward of half an hour in some cases. Once a decision is made, the loser gets to collect the funds,…
Bob Lee Swagger returns in Stephen Hunter’s latest novel, Night of Thunder. It’s a lot like Days of Thunder, only with Bobby Lee Swagger instead of Tom Cruise. Also, Bobby Lee doesn’t race cars. He kills people. Back in Vietnam, people knew him as Bob the Nailer because of his…
Heroism is a complex phenomenon these days, when even those that we look up to the most are bound to have a few skeletons in their closets. The media circus around our “heroes” is almost surreal at times, worshipful in tone initially, and then suddenly cynical and nasty as the…
Any artist worth their easel pushes boundaries, but this region’s artists seem interested in borders. The latest example is Unified Field: The Border, by contemporary artist Beatriz Ezban. This exhibition addresses the physical line between nations and differences in culture. Ezban, employing an aesthetic based in existential philosophy, uses space,…
Reading about the imagined private lives and inner workings of historical figures is a lot of fun, and when I get that smidgen of doubt brought on by the literary disrespect of such work, it’s all OK, because these books may be bodice heavers…but they’re well-researched bodice heavers. And yes,…
I have some bad news for you: Your puppy is growing up. He doesn’t want to come home from a long, hard day at doggy day care just to share your pad. He wants his own place! Luckily, with Barkitecture Dallas right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to…
For me, there are three reasons to take the TRE to Fort Worth–The Kimbell, The Modern and Pizzeria Uno. But only one will be offering a well-rounded night of music, art and food this Friday, when The Modern will present a cocktail hour, guided gallery tours with live jazz from…
We all want a scientific cure for AIDS and HIV, but that seems to be a long time coming. The realistic cure is awareness, and with Dallas leading the state in new infections, our city is in need of some. Every year Lifewalk hosts a 5K in order to do…
If the thought of church has your lapsed Catholic soul squirming and scratching like itchy underwear, then this may or may not be the show for you. The WaterTower Theatre in Addison is opening its season with Doubt, A Parable, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley (you know,…
I’m normally pretty reserved, but by the end of the night I first met Scotty “Crazy Picture Guy” Mankoff, I was wearing a papier mâché goat’s head and holding a Ouija board in one hand and a walking stick in the other at a nightclub as he took dozens of…
Henry Rollins has led a somewhat chameleon-like existence. First, back in the old days he was a regular punk–pissed-off, getting in fights, playing in whatever bands he could. Then he became the singer for his favorite band, Black Flag, moved to California and became Henry Rollins. By that I don’t…
Poor Cinderella. She really had it rough. The mean, old stepmother, the bitchy stepsisters, the midnight curfew–cry me a river. She had a fairy godmother, people. Lady turned a damned pumpkin into a carriage. I don’t know about you, but my pumpkins don’t turn into anything but stale, stinky pumpkins,…
Many of you no doubt know pop artist Peter Max from his work on famous ’60s counter-culture posters and modern postage stamps. Dude’s famous. In the captions for a recent Newsweek slideshow of his late ’60s work, he recalls a time when he went out for some late-night Indian food…
When he’s not posing for pictures in turtlenecks and convincing photographers to use their mastery of Photoshop to make his blue eyes seem even more piercing, Michael McDonald is a purveyor of, well, blue-eyed soul. And that means that he’s a white dude who croons “R & B-tinged” songs that…
Given its status as one of the most revered fairy tales in history, I think it’s pretty safe to assume everyone knows the story of Sleeping Beauty by now–beautiful princess goes into coma courtesy of attempted murder by bitchy fairy, only to awaken in the arms of Prince Charming 100…
Dallas isn’t exactly the mecca of walking and window-shopping. Which is why the Design District’s Slocum Street soirees are so special. With the street closed off and store doors thrown open under the starry night sky, wandering from one showroom to the next in the open air is almost like…
“[Tom] Wilson’s comedy is not offensive.” So says the Web site for the Addison Improv, anyway. And it’s probably true, unless you’re easily offended by the term “butthead,” which Wilson–most famous for his turn as classic bully Biff in Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future trilogy–will no doubt use repeatedly…
