Local artist Mark Shane Nelson is a bit of a rock star. And that’s not just because he created the cover art for fellow Dallasites and indie nostalgia-pop darlings The Happy Bullets’ Hydropanic at the Natatorium. Nelson’s work is musical in its own right, mixing brilliant colors and subjects together…
When artists are described as the “artists laureate of Oak Cliff,” it gets our attention. We love Oak Cliff and its artistic sensibilities. So, we assume that Brian Jones and Brian Scott are real artist’s artists. And, with work that depicts the Carni-sutra (Kama Sutra with carnival people) and a…
Pegasus Theatre makes the fans of its “Living Black and White” comedies wait a year for a new show. This new one bears evidence that playwright-actor Kurt Kleinmann spent much of 2010 polishing the details. Script, sets, costumes and casting are right on the money in this latest in Kleinmann’s…
You can always count on a handful of things to never go out of style. These are the timeless items that, no matter the decade, can still put a smile on your face. Things like chocolate cake, oversized sunglasses, Paul McCartney, martinis or Young Frankenstein. If the latter seems a…
If you don’t want to party then you can go home. The ice cold beer is ready, the wings are extra sloppy and the fans are ready to hoot and holler at the TV screen. The Super Bowl is one of America’s most coveted sports spectaculars, and with the city…
If you don’t want to party then you can go home. The ice cold beer is ready, the wings are extra sloppy and the fans are ready to hoot and holler at the TV screen. The Super Bowl is one of America’s most coveted sports spectaculars, and with the city…
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of Becca (Nicole Kidman, who also produced) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), fortyish bourgie marrieds rattling around an East Coast dream house. In the film’s first scenes, the couple acts out…
Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers’ True Grit is well-wrought, if overly talkative, and seriously ambitious. Opening with a strategically abbreviated Old Testament proverb (“The wicked flee when none pursueth”), the film returns the Coens to the all-American sagebrush…
Just in time for the whole family to file into the multiplex on a silent Christmas night when there’s nowhere else to go: a return to the magnified dysfunction of the Focker household and the cozy holiday glow of some paychecking celebrities. This began a decade ago in Meet the…
For the past few months at Dallas Theater Center, Mark Hadley was forgotten but not gone. He announced last July that after 10 years as managing director of the city’s largest professional theater, he would be leaving for a new job. But he stayed mum about what the new gig…
How much has changed over the last century? Well, just take a look at the technology surrounding us, our extracurricular activities and the way we interact with others. History books can get a little boring, so how about a little striptease to take us through the ’20s, ’30s and today?…
We tend to like our holiday music the way it is. It’s hard to imagine improving such classics. Many have tried and failed miserably. But when students from For Those About to Rock perform their holiday hits, it may prove that even if their Rudolph isn’t your grandmother’s Rudolph, you…
The Jewish Community Center is presenting its annual Jewish singles bash on Christmas day, the Original Matzoh Ball. Now there is ample opportunity to start with the jokes, but we here at Night & Day are above such things. Wait–we’re not? All right, then, leave your yarmulkes at home because…
If you’re not one for cooking and the thought of trying to execute the preparation of a ham and all the fixings for holiday guests stresses you out, fear not. Nana at the Hilton Anatole has got you covered. Nana is open between 5:30 and 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve…
You swore it would be different this time. You’ve changed, really you have–or at least that’s what you want your friends and family to think. Yet here you are, stuck empty-handed at the giftiest time of the year. Forget about gift cards and last-minute gift sets that scream, “Yeah, I…
There may be a little bit of ugly American in us, still holding a grudge against the entire French people based on a single high school experience with a Grenoble cafe employee who pretended not to understand the word “croissant” until we finally exhaled it out in a spiteful overly…
Do you have kids who just can’t keep themselves from yelling advice, cheering or booing at the characters when you go to the movies, no matter how much the other patrons shush them or give them the stink-eye? Then you probably think there’s no chance they could handle live theater…
The holidays are as much about tradition as getting soused on brandy-spiked eggnog and passing out on the couch during the final minutes of the Rose Bowl. In our family, that’s actually tradition. You probably have fond childhood memories of decorating gingerbread houses or visiting that sketchy Santa at the…
In the midst of all the brouhaha surrounding former first round pick Rashad McCants and whether or not he’d report to Frisco–and once he did, whether or not he’d leave for China–the rest of your Texas Legends toiled in obscurity, taking six of their first nine games behind the solid…
Waking up to Santa’s leftover cookie crumbs is one of the best parts of Christmas morning. Just knowing Santa Claus himself has been walking around the living room is a Christmas present in itself. This Christmas, don’t just bake cookies at home–bring the kids to a Christmas cookie celebration. Central…
Psst. Hey, kid. Yeah, you, the one sneaking a peek at that naughty Observer. So, the parents want to get a picture of you with the Jolly Ol’ Elf at NorthPark Center, eh? Well, listen, peewee: Skip the wish list. We never got a pony, a shotgun or a lid,…
Just imagine yourself standing outside a doorway. You aren’t sure what country you’re in or how you got there but you can smell herbs, peppers and other powerful seasonings in the air. You can hear the chopping of onions, the hustle and bustle of the restaurant staff and the bubbling…
