It’s the age-old question—are you a rocker or a mod? OK, maybe it’s not “age-old,” but this weekend it’s not going to matter anyway, because the city will be brimming with both at the Rockers vs. Mods Second Annual City of Hate Rally. The three-day event will be packed with…
It is about damned time somebody did Dallas other than Debbie. Actually, ol’ Deb was just a tease, anyway, as she never did Dallas or anyone in it for the entirety of the classic porno film. Broken promises. Broken hearts. Broken VCRs, tossed across shag-carpeted living rooms in moments of…
Been going to Theatre Three productions since I was big enough to say, “No, don’t make me!,” and I have never known why Theatre Three calls itself Theatre Three. Turns out, its name is derived from the three human elements that comprise the theatrical experience: author, actor and audience. Fair…
Just who do those Turtle Creek Chorale singers think they are? They keep trying to push the conventional chorus concert to the edge by performing some elaborate concert opera. And to top it off, it’s a huge to-do about 1895 England where 600 men got the heck out of Dodge,…
By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon, the Great Salt Lake, to the coast of Oregon—as author Hampton Sides noted, it seemed as…
At first I thought Smoke On The Mountain Homecoming was a play about Deep Purple’s last reunion tour, but then I realized I was thinking of “Smoke on the Water.” Turns out it’s the Reverend Mervin Oglethorpe’s last sermon at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, and we’re all invited to watch…
What is it about flowers that is so damn sexy? Is it that hot pistil? That crazy nectar or those scented petals? Why is it that examining the sexual nature of flowers—both implied and physical actualities—is artistic and never lewd? No fair. How is it that looking at the flower…
Morrissey said it well, “To someone, somewhere, Alma matters in mind, body and soul.” That someone is SMU’s professor of art history, Dr. Alessandra Comini. In the latest of her Comini Lecture Series, the good doctor examines the life of Alma Mahler. During her lifetime, Alma’s own talents as a…
With almost daily casting news for the 2009 movie and a new batch of 25th anniversary action figures selling out on toy aisles, G.I. Joe mania is gaining steam, and the Great Texas G.I. Joe Show IV is where collectors will revel in miniature guns, tanks and camouflage fatigues. The…
I have, on occasion, been accused of being a music snob. Sure, I’ve spent most of the last five years on a crusade for a rare Bedhead 7-inch. And maybe I choked up when I heard that My Bloody Valentine was reuniting (whatever that means). However, I really consider myself…
With almost daily casting news for the 2009 movie and a new batch of 25th anniversary action figures selling out on toy aisles, G.I. Joe mania is gaining steam, and the Great Texas G.I. Joe Show IV is where collectors will revel in miniature guns, tanks and camouflage fatigues. The…
By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon, the Great Salt Lake, to the coast of Oregon—as author Hampton Sides noted, it seemed as…
I have, on occasion, been accused of being a music snob. Sure, I’ve spent most of the last five years on a crusade for a rare Bedhead 7-inch. And maybe I choked up when I heard that My Bloody Valentine was reuniting (whatever that means). However, I really consider myself…
There’s something to be said for the ability to take on a task and turn it around quickly. In the real world that gets you promoted. In the performance sphere, it gets you One Day Only. That’s the name of the recurring Rover Dramawerks project that assembles a group of…
Remember how totally lame it was last year, when Dallas’ only sold-out game (thanks to Mr. Posh Spice) was a surreal experience in sports-watching? A sold-out, standing-room-only spectacle turned into just another disappointment, ending in a score I shudder to think about, and it earned Landycakes Donovan a permanent place…
Do you need someone to tell you how to create an eco-friendly landscape? The people selling you a class on it sure think you do. I prefer to go with my gut when it comes to taking care of the planet, rather than clutter my head with information. For example,…
Moulin Rouge! is the worst date movie of all time. Not because it isn’t entertaining or because it doesn’t appeal to a wide variety of movie-goers, because it is, and it does. Moulin Rouge! is a bad date movie because whatever you do, Romeo, you’re not Ewan McGregor, you can’t…
My afternoon drive home lasts all of about 15 minutes every day, but that 10 minutes is usually spent flipping between All Things Considered and the Russ Martin Show. One side of the dial keeps me informed while the other side keeps me entertained. I can’t help it—the man and…
Back in the 1940s, a small group of creative types called themselves the Fort Worth Circle Artists. Started by a mere four students from the FW School of Fine Arts, they probably had no idea that Cowtown would be kicking Dallas’ ass in the arts and museum scene the next…
Whether you’re a douche, a thug, indie or goth everybody loves a lovely lady. So it’s a can’t-lose proposition when The Lollie Bombs hit the scene with Cult Fiction, a burlesque show of singing, acting, dancing and striptease for contemporary audiences that pays a sexy tribute to nerd-dom. Yep, there…
Le Violon rouge is a 1998 Canadian film aboot a haunted violin and its passage from owner to owner through the centuries. And this effin’ violin gets around, man, landing in Italy, an Austrian monastery and China before winding up in present day Montreal, where one would assume it belongs…
Must…not…make…Brokeback Mountain…joke. Listen, Dallas Arboretum: You have one the coolest places in the city. Your annual Dallas Blooms festival, now in its 24th year and continuing through April 13, is a truly amazing event. Crowds flock to see a breathtaking array of more than 400,000 blooming bulbs on 66 acres,…
