“My job quit me,” the Denton-based performer says, plenty of self-deprecation evident as he describes being let go from his nine-to-five gig in human resources and payroll services at a downtown Dallas office. It’s a side of Burr fans rarely see, but one befitting of his normal persona. Onstage, he…
Regular readers of DC9 and regular drinkers at just about any North Texas honky-tonk are likely familiar with Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos by now. Between celebrating a great victory in the 2009 Shiner Rising Star Contest (where they won a recording contract) and suffering unimaginable loss when…
My toddler doesn’t know who Elmo is. That isn’t because we’ve taken a holier-than-though stance on TV viewing, but rather because we are selfishly holding out as long as possible to avoid the influx of the high-pitched red devil into our tidy little home. Red isn’t really compatible with my…
In a piece that has to be seen to be believed, Canadian actor Charles Ross has wowed audiences around the world with his One Man Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Yeah, you read that right – Ross performs the entire LOTR trilogy by himself, in 65 minutes. He not only…
Many music fans in Dallas know guitarist Bugs Henderson for his influence on the international blues community. Local blues musician and historian Jim Suhler talked about how Eric Clapton and the late Freddie King would go see Bugs Henderson perform when they were in town. Sun., March 4, noon, 2012…
He’s rapped a hip-hop version of Alexander Hamilton’s life, performed at the White House in its first-ever poetry jam and became an instant sensation for writing and starring in a four-time Tony Award-winning musical. Lin-Manuel Miranda, a Puerto Rican-American composer and lyricist, is not your conventional entertainer. In the Heights,…
We love Texas artists, especially when they are as “Texas” as Bill Haveron, but don’t think for a second that he is a one-trick-Lone-Star-pony. While the Bryan, Texas native’s work has featured honkytonks and plowboys, the most critical element always remains that of narrative and storytelling. His newest exhibition, Optic…
Whether it’s Mark “The Bird” Fidrych from the ’70s, or William “The Fridge” Perry from the ’80s, we can not get enough of athletes that seemingly come out of nowhere. Before the season finally started, a game with the New York Knicks would’ve been circled on the calendar for the…
Sure, February’s over. Rent says the seasons of love last five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, so take that. Casa Mañana’s production of the four Tony Award-wining Broadway musical, takes you into New York’s Lower East Side to explore a pocket of young artists and musicians. Directed and choreographed…
What has 20 wigs, flying acrobats and incorporates 42 different types of cotton? Yes, you guessed it — Cirque de Soleil’s magical world of Quidam. Join the show’s central character, young Zoe, who’s pretty much had it with sitting on the couch while life passes by. The quickest escape is…
Lord of the Flies centers around the transformation of well-behaved mates to an expedition of vicious, bloodthirsty children. Director Andy Baldwin tackles the story in KD Studio Theatre’s newest play. For the unfamiliar the scene is set in the midst of wartime evacuation where a plane carrying a group of…
If Agatha Christie was alive today, her characters would likely fall prey to, or spend all of their time investigating, Catfish-like tales about fake profiles with murderous twists. Such is not the case in Love from a Stranger. Holding true to Christie’s form, this play is based on her short…
Congratulations Michael Martinez! You get to see One Man Lord of the Rings on Sunday, compliments of WaterTower Theatre’s Loop Festival. The festival kicks off tomorrow and tickets are still available for some of Mr. Ross’ performances; get them here. For a breakdown of other cool Loop plays, check this…
That cheese-ball slinging, peculiar craft stitchin’, hot fruit slurpin’ superstar is coming to Dallas and tickets are officially on sale as of now. Whether you adore her for her role as the underbite that launched a thousand detentions in Strangers With Candy or you pore over her freaky craft books…
Smoke and Mirrors Gallery is the type of space that you walk into and think “Am I still in Dallas?” Yes, ma’am you are. But it’s easy to forget that when an oil painting of Big Tex is staring at you with laser-beam eyes. This cocoon of the peculiar nurtures…
Authentic Entertainment, the company behind Flipping Out, Ace of Cakes — and yes, Toddlers in Tiaras — picked up the webisode White Collar Brawlers and is in the process of turning it into an AMC reality show. It is actively searching for cubicle-dwelling would-be stars so it can begin season…
I was starting to feel like Out of the Loop Fringe Festival would never arrive. The ten day, highly experimental outsider theater festival has been sitting on the timeline’s horizon; I nearly constructed an advent calendar to make the waiting more bearable. Starting tomorrow, theater-goers will pour into WaterTower’s multiple…
Here’s how small the Ochre House theater is: When the actors in Mean, Matthew Posey’s new musical about Charlie Manson, enter and exit, they use the front door of the place. A whoosh of wind comes in off the sidewalk on Exposition Avenue as actors two-step through the audience in…
The only thing better than a shopping success story is an autobiographical shopping success story. Welcome to mine. I popped into Dolly Python on my lunch break and heard them make the decision. Rather than bagging up all of those georgous coats and sweaters they are all marked down by…
What are my thoughts on Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff? Put a ring on it. Texas Theatre’s newest weekly installment, Tuesday Night Trash, is just another example of how this privately-owned venue is awesoming up Dallas. The series is designed to show the rare, under-exposed and peculiar footnotes in cinematic…
You’ve probably seen the photo (above) pinging around the Internet recently of the panel of old men making some pretty important decisions about women’s health in the ongoing fracas about contraception. Here are five men sitting at the power table, while the women watch, waiting for a decision that will…
Name (from left to right): Liz Reyna, Heather Hooper Occupation: Liz: Pet groomer Heather: Part-time dog groomer/part-time receptionist Location: Trees Style influences: Liz: “I just grab shit out of my closet” Heather: “It really depends on the event, I browse a lot online.” Style breakdown: Liz: Lip Service skirt, Demonia…
