USA and Italy will set, bump, and spike it out at the Dallas Convention Center Arena, 650 S. Griffin St., at 7:30 p.m. Sunday as the FIVB World League brings the 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. Men’s National Volleyball Team to town along with teams from Italy, France, and Korea…
French composer Maurice Ravel reputedly described his famed work “Bolro” as “a piece for orchestra without music.” Apparently, it was not his favorite creation, but then he died long before Bo Derek introduced the piece (heh) to a whole new generation of classical music aficionados in the movie Ten. It’s…
Women learn the art of burlesque for many different reasons. For the highly extroverted it’s an opportunity to ooze sexuality and humor on stage. For the admittedly awkward and sheepish, it’s a chance to pull that emotional ripcord and loosen the hell up. Also it’s a chance to work out…
When Channing Tatum stood up and revealed his bare ass to the camera a minute or two into Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike — which the actor conceived of and produced based on his own experience as a teenage dancer in an all-male exotic revue — the audience in my screening…
While patriotism is the basic thread of July 4, the fuse wins out every time. Here in Texas, we take our pyrotechnics seriously because, let’s face it: Lighting things on fire and watching them explode is one of life’s greatest gifts. It’s science. Also, it’s childhood regression. Who cares? It’s…
Fans of Seth MacFarlane’s Fox mainstay Family Guy who wish he would run afoul of FCC regulations every week might be pleased with Ted, the story of a 35-year-old man and his foul-talking teddy bear. Plushies, too, might be turned on by the pot-smoking, whore-banging CGI toy ursus of the…
Apparently the Dallas of the early 1950s looked a lot different than it does today. Or maybe that’s just Dada. Maybe both? The Dallas Museum of Art is exhibiting Flowers of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, showing ’50s Dallas from the eyes of a German Dadaist. In 1952, the…
Lucian Freud is the grandson of Sigmund “the couch whisperer” Freud, but through art he found an identity that was perfectly his own. Known for his cool-toned, realism-based portraits, Lucian developed and defined his style well before passing away in 2011 at the age of 88. Earlier in his career,…
Straight outta … Israel? The MacGorman Performing Arts Center at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth (4616 Stanley Ave.) will open a new exhibit titled Dead Sea Scrolls & the Bible: Ancient Artifacts, Timeless Treasures starting Monday. The exhibit will display 16 fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including seven that…
Kent, you lost me at “and four.” Do you think you can dance? Do want to “co-star” in Dallas Theater Center’s just-opened production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Wyly Theatre? DTC posted a challenge this week on its Facebook page. Joseph director/choreographer Joel Ferrell is offering…
I have this theory that Dallas needs one great party to unite its creative classes. This Sunday’s RAW: Natural Born Artists seems like a page ripped straight from my dream journal. A new-to-Dallas showcase, RAW’s “Mixology” event features visual art from 20 local creatives, a spoken word poet, a band,…
Back in college, a “power hour” was a drinking game where two very drunk, and likely underage, idiots tried to drink one shot of beer per minute for a full hour. As an adult, we still rock that shit, but now we just call it “happy hour at Goodfriend.” These…
This evening, the MAC and the Writer’s Garret launch an exciting new series of panel discussions called Spin Off. Over the course of the next few months, topics like “What the #$%& do you do With an Art Degree?,” “The Anxiety of Influence,” and “Graphic Text” will all be covered,…
By now, most every paper that matters has thoroughly and appropriately eulogized feminist journalist and funny-woman, Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday evening at the age of 71. In fact, our even trying to characterize her life as beautifully or as intimately as The New York Times or The Atlantic –…
There aren’t that many young dancers anymore who cite the elegant 1930s Broadway and movie stars the Nicholas Brothers as inspirations. Or who even know who one-legged tap dancer Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates was. But Keira Leverton and Courtne Shed, the Dallas tap dancing duo known as the Rhythmic Souls,…
For the heartbroken masses who missed out on last night’s announced, then so quickly sold-out Dallas show, a late performance has been added. As of moments ago tickets were still available. Get them here or be sad forever. Update: The late show is now sold out, according to Louis’ site…
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Update 2:06 p.m.: A second show has been added, later the same evening at the Majestic. Last night Louis C.K. sent out an email announcing fall tour dates, which included a now sold-out stop in Dallas. The correspondence was, in-part, an alert for fans to act quickly. It was primarily…
For the uninitiated, Thunder From Down Under is not your standard male strip show. It’s a Vegas-based hunkathon featuring a pack of high-kicking, bump ‘n’ grinding, pectoral pulsating Adonises. Also, they take their clothes off. I know what you’re thinking: “But Jamie, strange men always offer to take their clothes…
Update 11:07 a.m.: Louis C.K.’s show sold out in nearly twelve hours. Read more in our followup: Louis C.K.’s Plan Worked, and You Can’t Buy Your Way Out Of It. Update 2:06 p.m.: A second show has been added, later the same evening at the Majestic. Awesome. The subject line…
If you rush, you might still make it. Walmart at Skillman Street and 75 presents The Tumbler — the armor-coated scaly ride from Batman Begins, and the Bat-Pod, the crazy motorcycle from this summer’s to-be blockbuster, The Dark Knight Rises, until 6 p.m. today (Monday, June 25). We’ve got photographic…
Those folks over at Dallas have added a new, interactive time-suck to the show’s TNT website. Plug in your information and allow the data harvester to mine through your Facebook profile, bam! You and your friends will replace JR, Sue Ellen and the rest of the cast in the show’s…
