Remember the episode of Friends where Monica is at a bridal trunk sale and fights another woman for her wedding dress? Or surely you’ve seen an episode of Bridezillas where the bride is screaming at the top of her lungs. Planning a wedding is stressful, and the bride needs all…
What can be more confusing than whipping up a nice meal? Perhaps whipping up a nice meal that also tastes the way it’s supposed to? Sure, anyone can boil a few noodles and drench ’em in marinara, but it can’t be considered spaghetti unless it tastes like spaghetti. Just in…
At 8 p.m. (or 10:30 p.m.) Friday see Hal Sparks perform his stand-up act, Charmageddon, at the Arlington Improv, 309 Curtis Mathes Way, Suite 147. You might remember Hal from the time he spent hosting Talk Soup, or from those five seasons he was on that show Queer As Folk,…
Writer and director Harmony Korine is perhaps best known, at least by me, for his 1997 film, Gummo, which is now a cult classic among indie kids and hip sociopaths everywhere. Korine’s latest, Trash Humpers, caused a stir at SXSW this year and has been described by Dallas film reviewer…
Chinese food is not the same the world over. If you go to China, don’t expect to get pork fried rice and General Cho’s chicken, because Americanized Chinese food doesn’t translate back. Other Chinese things, whether it’s Bruce Lee movies or traditional music and dance, do translate, and if you…
Nothing’s worse than planning something extensively, then having said plan implode right before your eyes. It’s especially frustrating when that plan is a homicide, and all that time spent to meticulously plot every detail of the grand scheme goes down the drain. In Kiss the Boys, a gay couple’s plan…
So after 70 years of flying around in a bustier and red knee-high boots, Wonder Woman finally gets a new outfit. How’s that for a feminist superheroine? Rising Gallery is coming to the rescue of area teen mothers and their children with its exhibit, I Am Woman, featuring 18 prominent…
In-laws always seem to get a bad wrap. Specifically, the mother-in-law always seems to be an adversarial figure in just about any situation, real or fictional, you could think of. I blame plays like Once Upon A Mattress, currently running at the Runway Theatre, 217 N Dooley St. in Grapevine…
Hypothetically, if you decided to get yourself some culture, and took someone to the theater festival at the Bath House Cultural Center on White Rock Lake, and you, hypothetically, left your wallet at home, then you wouldn’t be completely out of luck, thanks to some generous folk at the Bath…
Everyone knows Saint Mary Magdalene, the follower of Jesus (and his purported wife, according to a certain terrible book series). But you don’t hear a lot about her sister, Martha. That’s probably because she was too busy fixin’ tasty eats in the kitchen while everyone else was out spreading the…
At some point in elementary school you probably made a rose out of construction paper…or at least a paper airplane. Now’s your chance to channel your childhood and unleash your closeted creative side. Paper Nerds, a company dedicated to making art with paper, will be hosting a workshop to teach…
Most everyone who is a horror-movie junkie saw The Ring in 2002…and didn’t fall over dead seven days later. Then after that, the even braver ones experienced Ringu, the original 1998 Japanese version of the film, and were left with nightmares of Sadako (Samara). Those into the foreign originals of…
Joan Rivers is not a likeable lady. She’s a comedic mastermind, with brilliant timing and a cutting wit. Often hilarious and self-deprecating, she’s also a classic over-sharer. But she is frequently mean, setting her sights on a target and cutting loose with a fury few people understand. A recent tirade…
What loves wood, is more comfortable when it’s wet and is mainly active at night? Need another hint? They used to be prized for their fur, but nowadays people aren’t so much into their pelts. Also, their musky secretions can sometimes add an unpleasant taste. Give up? It’s the American…
Lubbock legends The Flatlanders released one quietly revolutionary eight-track in 1972 before scattering to the wind, with Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock all going on to successful solo careers. Rounder’s 1990 reissue of the band’s sole album coincided nicely with the rise of the alternative country movement,…
The naked truth is, The Full Monty is a cock tease. You won’t see the full anything in this gently ribald musical, now onstage at Addison’s WaterTowerTheatre. The working-stiff characters who band together for a one-night-only all-male strip act promise to take it all off, but the big finale of…
Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic equivalent of the 19th Amendment: finally, a level playing field for female action stars! This is mostly bullshit, of course—Jolie’s Evelyn Salt is not the first action hero to be…
Agora: Not lacking for conviction or cojones, Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora is a big, broad, stridently atheistic sword-and-sandals entertainment that recounts a tragic turning point in world history. Rachel Weisz plays Hypatia, a brilliant astronomer in 4th-century Alexandria whose life and work is increasingly threatened by a bloody societal shift toward…
The Nature of Existence: We’d all like to get to the bottom of the titular conundrum posed by Roger Nygard’s The Nature of Existence, but traveling around the world asking religious leaders, skeptics, scientists and a few ringer celebrities “life’s big questions” is probably not the best way to pursue…
Ramona and Beezus: Despite the presence of Mouse House starlet Selena Gomez, Ramona and Beezus is less Disney than Hallmark Channel, a loose adaptation of Beverly Cleary’s first novel in her beloved kid-lit series that’s wholesome to the point of dull. Elizabeth Allen’s innocuous film charts Ramona Quimby (Joey King)…
Going to the annual Festival of Independent Theatres is a bit like tumbling down Alice’s rabbit hole. You jump in and hope for amusing diversions on the way to a soft landing. For four weeks, eight small theater companies, so small they don’t have their own home spaces in which…
For those who grew up skanking through Sublime’s records, here’s a chance to do it in person…kind of. Sublime with Rome, the reincarnation of your Sublime youth, plays at the Superpages.com Center Wednesday. After the brief scuffle in 2009 with original Sublime frontman Brad Nowell’s estate over the use of…
