Fair Park will burst with multicolored sequins, lace and tulle this coming Sunday, during the Latino Bridal & Quince Girl Expo. The expo boasts nearly 200 vendors, all advertising the pricey bells and whistles that accompany the rites of passage ceremonies. Vendors will line the hall, transforming fold-out tables into…
Look. We can’t all bring it on. We can’t all sit in the back of the bus with the football studs. Some of us have to haul the water bottles and sweaty uniforms and then sit up front with the coach and his spit cup. Lucky for those of us…
They may lack the hot females and new-agey synth of those Celtic Women, or the leggy high-stepping of Riverdance, but to that we say “thank you, God.” No one’s ever going to give Paddy Moloney and the rest of The Chieftains a beauty prize, but they did manage to collect…
He’s just a bang-beat, bell-ringing, big-haul, great-go, neck-or-nothin’, rip-roarin’, every-time-a-bull’s-eye salesman. That’s Professor Harold Hill, Harold Hill. And like robins in spring the good professor and his con make regular returns to Dallas with performances of Music Man — not that anyone is complaining. Who could be grumpy about a…
Can you judge character traits like dignity, pride or selfishness by appearance? That’s the question director Alan Shorter examines in the play The Elephant Man. Originally penned by Bernard Pomerance, Shorter reveals the callous and challenging life of Joseph Merrick. Growing up during the Victorian era wasn’t easy for Merrick,…
Did you know that Tuna, Texas, once was a real place? The great and mighty Texas State Historical Association posits that indeed, it was a lively little town “six miles south of Cotulla on the International and Great Northern line in west central La Salle County.” I made up the…
Long before the Super Bowl appended that long string of Roman numerals, before televised football was an industry all its own, the local newspaper with its team of dedicated sports writers was the go-to for the breakdown of the most recent games. Larry Herold’s The Sports Page takes a look…
The old saying suggests that bad things come in threes, but that couldn’t be less true at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary this week. The MAC invites you to join them at 3120 McKinney Ave. for an opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday to celebrate the opening of three exhibits…
Chihuly, Central Market, that crazy bridge — they’re all being billed as the saving grace of Dallas, or rather stuff that makes our already valuable stuff more valuable. Fine, you can have your bridge and your heart-healthy prepared meals and your blown-glass chandeliers, but none of those things will get…
Tennessee Williams had a weird thing about hotels, beaches and death. In his play The Night of the Iguana, currently onstage at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, the rundown Costa Verde beach resort in Mexico acts as the holiday getaway for the Grim Reaper. Every guest who checks in is on…
Let’s face it, Lula B’s is Dallas’ mecca for living room necessities. They’ve got all the basics covered, from a suspended round TV to a ’70s disco light that flashes to the beat of the stereo it’s connected to. While wandering the aisles of Lula B’s West on a lazy…
When cartoonist/illustrator/story teller Don Hertzfeldt spoke at Texas Theatre last Friday, he mentioned what he likes to watch at film festivals. Surprisingly, it isn’t other animated shorts or even feature buzz-heavy full-lengths; he watches the documentaries. His logic was sound: “You realize that if you watch a feature film and…
Act of Valor is a fictional film that uses currently serving U.S. military to express the daily struggles endured by our camouflaged men and women through dramatic reenactment. It premieres this evening at Cinemark West Plano and will be presented by Congressman Pete Sessions, Councilmember Sheffie Kadane and U.S. Navy…
In his new solo show Beyond Words, Bill Bowers combines mime, music and text to tell stories from his life growing up in Montana. He also shares some stories from other lives, including one about a small-town boy from Sherwood Anderson’s short fiction collection Winesburg, Ohio. Beyond Words is one…
This Friday you’ll crave one. That’s just what happens when America’s favorite gas-fueled hot dog comes rolling into town. (If the sight of it doesn’t make you salivate, the theme music will.) Between 3 and 8 p.m. on Friday, February 24, you can visit a modern Wienermobile at the Irving…
Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez! It’s the last day before repentance, how are you going to spend it? If you feel like getting sauced and earning those eight cent strings of plastic beads, you’re in good company. A whole gaggle of nightclubs are featuring DJs, shirt lifting and drink specials,…
Reigning MVP, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Hart Trophy Winner, and J-Lo’s current boy toy: These are a few of the more coveted titles in the world of pop-culture today. None of them, regardless of the spoils that come with such a victory, sound anywhere near as cool as Adventurer of the…
The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park has a new resident, a big fat alligator snapping turtle that remained nameless until this morning. Thanks to the Carey family from Lewisville, the ancient reptile now goes by Spike and because of some very cautious handling at the Children’s Aquarium we now know…
Of all the things those deal of the day sites have gotten me into, Neema’s Body Wraps was perhaps the most confining. Quite literally. On Saturday I headed off to Irving, home of Neema’s Body Wraps, a place billed to pull out toxins while melting away inches. Confession — I…
Every year, you enter your office’s Oscar pool and carefully select the major categories while haphazardly guessing the minor ones (Animated Short, Makeup). Every year, you lose. Why? Because you’ve got it backward: Oscar pools are always decided on the margins, where information is sketchier and outcomes are harder to…
If there’s one thing I love, it’s a man who goes by his initials. If there’s another thing I love it’s anyone who will re-create Anthropologie furniture for a fraction of the price. I found both in a local woodworker named Khaki Caekaert. But you can all him K.C. My…
I made my first trip to the Frisco IKEA yesterday. In the course of my journey I saw families ripped apart, friendships tested and entirely too many things promising to solve my organizational dilemmas. Yes, I left disorientated with two carts of “AUSKS” and “FULKVIKS.” The problem with IKEA is…
