How exciting could a play about marathon runners be? That was my first thought after hearing that the stage production of Nipples to the Wind was heading this way. A play about chafing areolas just wasn’t ringing my bell. Come to find out, comedian Paula Coco’s play is about 14…
I don’t know a whole lot about taking care of children, but I’m pretty sure I’m capable of getting one to go to sleep without cheating by using ether blunt objects or “Daddy’s special medicine.” Yeah, I’ve got the secret: Make bedtime a quiet time, filled with love and hugs…
The Kitchen Dog Theater can do no wrong. Any place that lets a dog run around amidst throngs of gallery patrons and theatergoers is A-1 in my book. Oh, and they put on some great shows too. KDT probably offers some of the most challenging theater in Dallas, and they…
In a simpler time, long before musicians stole bass lines and choruses from Sting to create hooks, there was doo-wop. The vocal style was popular in the ’50s and ’60s and was characterized by its signature harmonies—sometimes including the syllables “doo-wop.” Pull up The Five Satins’ “In the Still of…
My first concert ever was Van Halen in 1982. I was 13 and almost definitely wearing feather earrings, with bandannas hanging from my belt loops and wrapped around my wrists. The show was at The Capital Centre (where, four years later, the legendary Heavy Metal Parking Lot was filmed) in…
You have to hand it to Brad Ford Smith. The sculptor/artist/artist-sculptor makes no bones about his latest exhibit, the aptly titled So…what the hell is it? A collection of works on paper and sculpted figures that use “organic, abstract forms to focus on how the eye and mind translate information,”…
An object in motion stays in motion, and that’s the case for artist Augie N’Kele, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, now resides in Dallas and whose exhibitions have graced Iowa, Tennessee and a handful of galleries in Norway. With that trajectory, it’s appropriate that his…
Dmitri Shostakovich was not an auto mechanic from Philly, but rather a renowned Russian composer of the 20th century. Like many Russian artists of his time, he had a somewhat tenuous relationship with the government, as evidenced by his Tenth Symphony—released in 1953 after Stalin’s death, it features a violent…
Comedian Henry Cho claims that he could do his show in a church. Big damned deal! I could do my show in a church too. It’s not like there’s some law that says you have to wear pants to church. Except for that public lewdness stuff, but I really doubt…
Crimes of the Heart, a touching play chronicling the lives of three Southern sisters living in a tiny Mississippi town, exposes us to the joys and warmth of sibling togetherness: gunshot wound to the gut, failed showbiz career, inability to find true love and the lurking, sick smell of death…
Most of the time you’d be well advised to stay away from an event titled Gaps, Sinkholes and Chasms. Sounds like the kind of thing that would only appeal to the most avid spelunker or, for the more brave at heart, to those souls who dont fear a particularly skeezy…
Love a good romantic comedy? A sucker for a happy ending? Well, they don’t come much better than in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. I know, its not exactly a Meg Ryan film, but, give it a chance and it will jerk the tears right out of you. And,…
I do it every time. I start a series of something and I obsessively watch or read it with this insatiable urge to finish. (Yeah, sometimes even if it starts to suck really hard, as in the case of Scrubs.) It’s a compulsion. I must know every detail. I must…
Theater buffs know Tony winner Patti LuPone from her legendary Broadway career, as she effortlessly inhabited some of the Great White Way’s most memorable performances in everything from Evita and Anything Goes to Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. Lawyers know Patti LuPone as the actress who sued Andrew Lloyd Webber 15…
Because most people are too lazy to exercise and stop stuffing food into their stupid fat faces, we’ll always need more pitchmen trumpeting magical new weight-loss solutions. According to one new diet fad, the answer to the obesity epidemic has been available all along. No, it’s not the occasional walk…
Aside from her prolific career as an award-winning gospel singer, a charitable woman and a family gal, Vickie Winans is one of those rare birds that is a “I lived through all this, baby, you’re fine” sort of inspiration. Don’t believe me? A glance at any of her assorted Web…
The rodeo is a quintessential, stereotypical Texan activity—one that I’m not really going to pretend to understand. Fort Worth is actually built around the event, with the stockyards remaining a big part of the town’s infrastructure. Countless films and books have been valentines to the lifestyle of the rodeo, as…
Now that Disney no longer owns them, it’s a lot harder to bag on the Anaheim Ducks these days, especially considering their Stanley Cup win last season. In fact, since they finally won the big one, it’s highly possible you’ll be seeing other professional sports franchises named after children’s films…
How exciting could a play about marathon runners be? That was my first thought after hearing that the stage production of Nipples to the Wind was heading this way. A play about chafing areolas just wasn’t ringing my bell. Come to find out, comedian Paula Coco’s play is about 14…
Not everyone gets to live in a world with a videogame musical score. If that’s your thing, then I guess I’m one of the lucky ones—my day job keeps me constantly surrounded by the musical accompaniment of animated missions and boss battles. But for those of you who only get…
To this day I remain amazed that Bucky Covington made it to 8th freaking place on American Idol. His disdain for hitting any ol’ note and his aw-shucks attitude posed a quandary for me: I wanted to punch him in the effed-up teeth but alas, one hand was on the…
After seeing The Ten (2007) a few months back, my perception of ventriloquist dummies changed forever. I used to think of them as sad relics of a dead art, but now I see them for what they really are: sexy objects of desire. Come on, 30 other people in America…
