Surely whoever named “Hippiefest” intended some winking self-deprecation with such a dated and square-sounding moniker. It’s like a panic-inducing word that law-and-order types would pin on any gathering of nonconformists. Better yet, it’s what cooler-than-thou hipsters would condescendingly call a concert of half-dead relics from a less jaded era, an…
Let’s play a word association game. What word comes to mind when I say, “dance”? Do you think of “poise”? How about “leotard”? Or perhaps, “feet”? I’m no mind-reader, but I’m pretty sure your word had nothing to do with food. And yet, that’s the theme of Addison’s upcoming dance…
If you have a soft spot for honky tonk music but have outgrown the actual honky tonk then here’s a classy way to enjoy some quality country songwriters without having to deal with the obnoxious drunks and cigarette smoke of your usual watering holes. The artists on the bill for…
It has all the makings of perfect summer entertainment: romance, plastic surgery, thugs, mercy killings and bastards. Arsenic and Old Lace ran for 1,444 hysterical performances on Broadway during WWII, when the nation was obviously keen to find something funny about death. Frank Capra’s follow-up movie starring Cary Grant is…
Only a radio station like Jack FM could put together a show featuring Don Henley, The Pretenders and Stray Cats and make it seem like a match made in heaven. Sure, each band is good in their own way, but traditionally speaking, eagles and cats don’t travel well together, regardless…
From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, Demure Models is hosting a car wash at Sonic (America’s Drive-in!) on 8092 Ferguson Road. I’m sure that this is the most American thing happening anywhere on the planet all weekend. You got burgers, fries, sundaes, dirty trucks, six-packs (of the abdominal…
Who among us hasn’t caught a few minutes of a soap opera and fantasized just for a moment about being a soap star? Soap operas level the great acting playing field because you don’t have to be particularly talented nor particularly attractive to be a soap star. Sure, being hot…
Recent studies suggest that if your friends are fat, you’re likely to be a porker, too. No wonder. It’s much easier seat six for some tasty apps at Applebee’s than it is to cram them into a doctor’s exam room for some BMI analysis. So load up the whole crew…
Imagine going through life shunned by society, enduring drug addiction, homelessness or prostitution, just hoping the afterlife turns out better than this one. Jesus kicked it with hookers and tax collectors, and even told a crucified thief he’d go to Heaven, so surely he’ll accept you, right? Then you croak…
We say: “pink baby head.” You think: WTF? Us too, when we heard about the Pink Baby Head party-exhibit-art-installation-thing at the Pawn Gallery in Deep Ellum this Friday. We’d love to tell you more about Pink Baby Head, but all we found on pinkbabyhead.com was a pink baby head. Even…
It would be journalistically lazy, gratuitous, even, to reduce all of blues legend Johnny Winter’s accomplishments down to the fact that he was born a cross-eyed albino, but…the man is a cross-eyed albino! The mere percentages against this turn of nature are staggering, but when you factor in the fact…
The press release here before me the most build-up ever with lines like “Possibly the most performed Mexican theatrical production in the world” and “Brought to you by the Dallas Video Festival, Vistas Film Festival and the Asian Film Festival of Dallas.” My expectations are high for their subtitled silent…
It’s called A Brief History of White Music, and yet nowhere in the list of songs do I find any trace of tribute to the works of Michael Bolton or Wilson Phillips. If you’re going to do a history of white music, you should really include the cornerstones and at…
It’s the City of Light, and the City of Love. It’s a city on the other side of the world, yet we all still love Paris, and not just in the springtime. Paris, Je T’aime (Paris, I Love You), is a must-see film all about loving Paris and loving love,…
Yeah, yeah. Let’s skip all the usual Wizard of Oz blather–how the flying monkeys scared you as a kid, whether a munchkin actually died on the set, whether the original book was really a Populist allegory. Whatever. The movie’s been around forever. You’ve seen it before; you might see it…
Howard Stern fans might recognize the voice of Craig Gass from his call-ins as “Sam Kinison calling from Hell,” and. “Al Pacino” and “Al Pacino’s baby.” Gass, whose parents and sister are deaf, learned to speak by imitating television characters. See him at the Addison Improv, 4980 Belt Line Road,…
Grab your plastic sheets, your rain slickers and maybe an umbrella because things are going to get messy at the House of Blues on Saturday. That’s right, Gallagher is coming to town with his handy-dandy Sledge-O-Matic to smash some stuff. There must be something very cathartic about squashing fruit and…
Sadly, No Reservations is not the big-screen adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s snack-gulping, risk-taking Travel Channel show; you’ll find no monkey brains here, nor any attempts to party down in Beirut whilst Hezbollah and Israel blow each other to smithereens. This is just more of the same from the franchise factory—by-the-recipe…
Steve Buscemi the director is nothing like the art-damaged auteur Buscemi the actor played in 1995’s Living in Oblivion. No dry ice and dwarves for the victim of the cinema’s most celebrated wood-chipper massacre, who as a filmmaker inhabits tight spaces (an ice-cream truck, a prison cell) and trapped lives…
In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard round the world—or at least as far away as Washington, D.C. (which, given the unspecified coordinates of Springfield, might not be that far at all), where President Schwarzenegger and an overzealous EPA chief (voiced by Albert Brooks) rush to contain…
Hard Boiled: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition (Weinstein) The Criterion version of John Woo’s masterpiece, about two cops (the overworked Chow Yun-Fat and the undercover Tony Leung) gunning for the Hong Kong Triads, is still the “ultimate” edition. It has a better commentary track (with Woo and Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary,…
The less said, the better The Boxer is. The new play by Dallas writer and Bootstraps Comedy Theater founder Matt Lyles, who also directs this production, is a clear audience favorite at the current Festival of Independent Theatres at the Bath House Cultural Center. Its brilliance lies in how it…
