From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, take the 37th annual Swiss Avenue Historic District Mother’s Day Home Tour, where you’ll explore the 22-block area, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and recognized as a Texas Historic Site. The 200 preserved and…
Who knew Dutch oven cooking was so cool? Well, besides our grandparents… Apparently, the cooking style has a local and international following complete with fan pages and book series; there was even a television show back in the late ’90s hosted by Cee Dub, a Dutch-oven cooking master. Well, you…
There’s a day that caters to just about everything these days. Talk Like A Pirate Day, National Hugging Day, National Barefoot Day — we could go on and on. So why not dedicate a day to trains? National Train Day invites history enthusiasts to check out train displays including the…
Do you like your mom? Do you enjoy putting things in their proper place? Then boy, is there a perfect Mother’s Day event for you! From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, folks at Texas Discovery Gardens, 3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, will celebrate all things mom…
Who doesn’t love baseball? Furthermore, who doesn’t love a good movie about baseball? The Natural, The Sandlot, Rookie of the Year (Come on, who didn’t think Henry Rowengartner was precious? And it’s probably the last sane thing Gary Busey ever did.), Field of Dreams–I could go on forever. It’s easy…
My mother always told me that it’s not polite to talk about politics in certain circles. I feel that my mom taught me well, and I’ve spent many an evening on the patio of the Lakewood Landing sitting in a corner, watching friends duke it out over healthcare reform while…
Good news for those stuck on what to get Mom for Mother’s Day: Wendy Fahle’s ink cartoon series–I Do. I Did. I’m Done.–will be on display at Kettle Art this weekend, and limited edition prints and notecards featuring Fahle’s whimsical takes on love and commitment will be on sale 7…
The Texas sun can be a beat down, and not just any old shrub or succulent can withstand its heat. That’s why the Dallas Arboretum’s Senior Director of Gardens, Jimmy Turner, is hosting “Lone Star Greats: Texas Tough Plants,” a class designed to show you the perfect plants for our…
If you were to brainstorm all of the possible festivals TXU would sponsor, an art fest probably wouldn’t make the top of the list. Or maybe that’s just us. Either way, it appears that the energy company wants to keep all of us guessing by presenting the seventh annual CityArts…
An English playwright who wasn’t Shakespeare once wrote “all’s fair in love and war,” but a French guy deserves credit for taking it to extremes. Psychological warfare outweighs true love in Cruel Intentions, the decade-old movie adapted for the stage by the Collin Theatre Center. The story–based on a scandalous…
This isn’t the first time Andrea Rosenberg has flied solo. She did it before in this fair city, two years ago, in fact. It was then that she seduced audiences with paper works that were emotive and sensual, floral and warm. And this time, she offers her fibrous artistry again,…
There are certain films that influence your life whether you know it or not. For example, Rudy makes every underdog feel like they can rule the world, Jaws makes you want to live as far inland as possible and, well, this week’s midnight movie playing at Inwood Theatre (5458 West…
Animated films (not to be confused with that Pixar noise) have seriously been upgraded since we were kids. We were satisfied with a simple story about a lion cub that loses his dad and has to grow up fast to save his family and friends (with lovable sidekicks in tow)…
What do an Irish village, a priest and a string of murders all have in common? Usually, not very much, but they all factor into the plot of Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West. When Father Welsh moves to Leenane, a tiny village in the County of Galway, a supposed accidental…
Bull Durham just might be the most overrated comedy ever, and it made minor-league baseball look about as fun as a tiddlywinks tournament. The Frisco RoughRiders games I’ve seen were far more enjoyable than that pile of celluloid crap, and you can get in for less than the cost of…
What would you say to risotto with wild asparagus and pecorino? And how would you like some pan-seared scallops with fregula pasta and roasted vegetables? Sound good? Of course it does. So make it and five other dishes — including pork tenderloin with Saba glaze — for your Italian food-loving…
Ok, I admit it. The first non-soundtrack record that I ever bought was Styx’s Paradise Theater–the one with the hologram on the vinyl. I already had the 45 of “Babe,” which was one of my roller rink favorites. So, yeah, I confess, I was a Styx fan. What of it?…
Dallas Opera’s triumphant world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick is so un-opera in the traditional sense that it’s easier to describe it as new epic cinema in 3-D. With live actors. And lots of singing. About three hours’ worth, all aboard the Pequod in search of the mythical Great White…
“Give Them What They Want” is the first number in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and the current entertainment model of Uptown Players, the company presenting the area’s first local production of the show. Giving the Uptown audience—a mostly middle-aged, predominantly gay male crowd of dedicated theatergoers—what they want means the occasional…
I took the 6-year-old who lives in my house to the Sunday-afternoon sneak preview of Furry Vengeance. The boy’s a savvy consumer of kids’ popular culture—my greatest parenting triumph thus far. He knew from myriad Disney Channel commercials (the movie stars Matt Prokop of High School Musical 3) that Furry…
Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt’s second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces) as a swaggering, neck-tattooed macho who will finally realize the damage his rock-hard masculinity has caused during a funeral for a teenage gangbanger, his tears mixing with the rain as he flashes…
I’ve never really thought of mash-ups as more than a DJ novelty trick, something to make people on the dance floor pause for a second and say to themselves, “Huh, I guess those songs kind of do fit together.” But somehow combining various collages from existing works of visual art…
