It’s not just the flawlessly coiffed hair or the submit-to-me-now eyes. It’s not the silky ties or the impeccably tailored suits. No, in the case of Michael Bublé, it’s truly the entire package: honey smooth voice, sultry smile and a cocksure stage presence to make Sinatra take note. The 30-something…
If you were one of the brave few who sat through all 12 hours’ worth of Best Picture nominees at your local AMC theater, I salute you and your numb ass. In the interest of being able to tell everyone at your Oscar party that you’ve seen them all, and…
Anymore, we celebrate a gallery, or a venue even, for making it longer than a year. Three is amazing. Ten is unheard of. For such an art-oriented city, we find it hard to keep awesome galleries thriving and available for the ample talent on our streets. But sometimes we get…
“Give peace a chance.” John Lennon preached this gentle message from a famous white bed in ’69 back while our nation danced the death “tango” in Vietnam. You know how that one turned out. Troops pulled out early; Vietnam took 30 years finding its way into the world economy…after cleaning…
If you’ve ever watched Fox NFL Sunday and thought, “Gee, I’d like to see a whole lot more of that guy who does the John Madden imitation,” you’re in luck: Frank Caliendo is on tour. Maybe it’s unfair to reduce him to that. After all, Caliendo is a remarkably versatile…
With the plethora of newfangled toys and characters for kids these days, the timeless appeal of Winnie-the-Pooh—first created by A.A. Milne in 1926—is pretty impressive. My nephews have admittedly watched their fair share of SpongeBob Squarepants and Dora the Explorer, but the characters that populate the Hundred-Acre Wood are undoubtedly…
It’s kind of like a real-life School of Rock. High school rockers have a chance to make a splash at the North Texas Battle of the Bands, courtesy of UNT, Denton Record-Chronicle, the Texas Music Project and Lone Star Attitude Inc. The contest accompanies a visit from the John Lennon…
For a couple weeks leading up to St. Patrick’s Day, many Caucasians aren’t just white—we’re Irish! In the wake of Black History Month, we long to have a culture worth celebrating, even if the only thing we know about our heritage is that Irish people drink Coors Light with green…
Hey, Neil Sperry, Texas horticulture guy, do you have an evil twin brother? Maybe, in producing your annual All Texas Garden Show, coming Friday through Sunday to the Arlington Convention Center, you’ve run across some shady types? I don’t mean a tree here. I need a plant hit man. Oh,…
“Good teenagers, take off your clothes.” If that sentence sounds familiar, you may have spent time trying to find creepy messages in Disney movies, or you may be a pervert whom we all hope is reading this while tucked safely into your maximum-security cell. Animated Disney hero Aladdin is suspected…
George Gershwin’s aria “Summertime” is covered so often that there’s actually an international group devoted to collecting recordings of the song. (I like Janis Joplin’s and Billy Stewart’s covers the best. So sue me.) But enjoying newer versions is no reason to forget where “Summertime” originally came from: the self-proclaimed…
All I know about the Jonas Brothers is what the 4-year-old living in my house tells me about the Jonas Brothers, which goes a little something like this: Hey, Harry, why do you like the Jonas Brothers? Aren’t they a little, ya know, old for you? “I like their music…
Hard to say if the Dallas Architecture Forum is happy about all the pre-fabricated condos going up in town. The latest boom of cookie-cutter buildings probably rubs the scholars the wrong way. They might distract themselves by inviting badass architects to school this town. The Forum brings in Brazil’s Milton…
If you’re interested in fame, wealth and art then the NasherSalon Lecture Series is right up your red-carpeted alley. Every month the Nasher Sculpture Center offers you the opportunity to kick back and enjoy hearing famous rich people talk about art, dance and theater. They even talk about the culinary…
You know what would spice up this presidential election? The Spice Girls should join the race to be President of the United States. If the Spice Girls were president, this world would be a better place and you know it. They’d be all, “So, tell me what you want, what…
The British birthright brings with it a love of bland food and sugary sweets, twee Scottish pop outfits, frothy beer, gory serial killer dramas and tacky Brit-coms. And no Brit-com is tackier than the gloriously politically incorrect Are You Being Served?, a celebration of double entendre, lewdness and general lascivious…
Those blackbirds are mouthy little broads, aren’t they? Yammering and stammering, hiring PR folks to contact famous songwriters and convincing them to write classic acoustic guitar tunes about them. You thought Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird” was a touching metaphor about the state of race relations in America? You thought wrong. You’ve…
Attention all nerds! Your tribe will congregate this weekend at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison for the weekend of fantasy, costumes, cosplay and general nerdery known as All-Con. Foremost among the festivities will be the appearance of Aaron Douglas of Battlestar Galactica fame. This is Chief Petty Officer Galen…
Although it’s early in the year, I hereby proclaim Fort Worth Community Arts Center’s Sight and Sound 2008 fund-raiser as the best event of the year. Anybody who combines three dance floors (disco, classic country and rock) with a food selection that includes pizza, barbecue and Mexican food wins hands…
It would be wrong to find it funny that a theater festival called “Out of the Loop” will be held in Addison this week. Wherefore? Because it’s not merely funny. It’s also incredibly appropriate that anything involving being out of a loop takes place not only north of the Interstate…
Art. Huh! Good God, y’all, what is it good for? Come to the McKinney Avenue Contemporary and find out. The MAC will display the work of three talented local artists Saturday through April 25. David Dreyer, who earned his BFA and MFA from SMU, will have some recent paintings and…
My, how Savor Dallas has declined. For example, they charge $135 for the Reserve Tasting at the Nasher, in which wines and spirits are served in Riedel stemware. Riedel crystal? I wouldn’t pour my dog’s Fiji water into a Riedel bowl if he gnawed my face off. Anything less than…
