Before you attend the Live Raptor Presentation at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Sanctuary, remember that these 6-foot-tall beasts with retractable claws and mouths full of razor-sharp teeth terrorized young children in Jurassic Park and have a reputation as vicious and cunning killers. So when the Heard says its…
Sorry to tell you this, dudes, but the Girl Show isn’t what the title implies. But just because it isn’t yet another burlesque show doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy it. Female artistic expression doesn’t always have to involve tasseled pasties, you know. This ArtLoveMagic (wasn’t that a Chili Peppers album?)…
It must be something about too much makeup and leopard print that makes cross-dressing men some of the most fabulous divas around. Steven Jay Crabtree’s one-man show, featuring half a dozen of his inner divas, is no exception. These girls sing songs, sip cocktails and sass it up, all the…
Art Conspiracy’s annual event has become one of those things that you mark on your calendar every winter, RSVP to on your Facebook page, and then actually make the effort to show up to. It’s one of the most talked-about events in Dallas arts–a guerilla art affair where artists produce…
If there’s anything that’s still ripe for parody no matter how many times it’s been done before, it’s boy bands and contemporary Christian music–and there’s no local group more up to the task than the fine people at Uptown Players, who present Altar Boyz starting Friday at the K.D. Studio…
The one time I visited FunAsia, 1210 E. Belt Line Road in Richardson, it was a magical evening. I watched a film about a special little dyslexic boy who talked to dancing cartoon fish while I feasted on vegetable samosas and mango ice cream. Plus, the films have an intermission!…
Who would have ever guessed the son of a potato chip factory worker and a forklift driver would end up rolling around half-naked on a beach with supermodel Helena Christensen? Well, anyone who has ever laid eyes on that tall drink of water Chris Isaak would. Of course, this rock…
I half expected The Girl From Monaco to be a documentary on the lovely Princess of Monaco. Wrong! Don’t expect to find Grace Kelly “gracing” this foreign flick. She’s too classy for the role of Audrey Varella, a sexy TV weathergirl with an edge for the wild. When famous French…
The most ridiculous television show ever created was Cop Rock. Police officers–the people who bust up beer parties, respond to noise complaints and enforce drug prohibition–co-opting the music of youthful rebellion is inherently laughable. But lawyers rocking? Slightly absurd, but it makes a lot more sense than cops. Arguing a…
Noted photographer Diane Arbus once said, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” Chew on that for a while, and while you are chewing, head to Garland to test out the theory. Through August 30, the Granville Arts Center Gallery,…
Recently, some movie critic went on a tirade about the increasingly popular “movies under the stars” concept. It’s an idea that’s really been taking off in the past few years thanks to better audio/visual technology, and now many parks, museums and urban centers offer movie nights where you can spread…
As an adult with a two-and-a-half-year-old niece and no children of my own, I dig The Wiggles. Compared with the awkward questions of Dora and the goofy voice of Barney, I’m down with the real humans having fun. Along with Gustafer Yellowgold and Yo Gabba Gabba!, they’re making the baby-sitting…
Woody Guthrie saw The Grapes of Wrath and said it was “the best cussed pitcher I ever seen.” A lot of people agree, and now we’ve got the chance to see it up on the big screen just like he did when it shows for free at the Nasher Sculpture…
There is a prima facie case that Legally Blonde The Musical, the latest Broadway tour to roll through the Music Hall at Fair Park this summer, is an equal opportunity offender. Nobody comes off looking good in this lead-feathered movie-to-musical adaptation: not lawyers, not law students, not sorority girls, not…
I n the Loop doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in the know. In Armando Iannucci’s movie, a satire of the run-up to war with a Middle Eastern country, it means that all the poor bastards are stuck in a loop, making the same bad decisions and tragic mistakes over and over…
After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids, respectively, Judd Apatow brings the circle of life to a close with Funny People, which stars Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a popular, Sandler-esque movie star diagnosed with a rare…
Given that we fought a war a couple hundred years ago to free ourselves from the rule of a monarch, we as a nation will let just about anyone take on a “royal” title. We had the Prince of Pop, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and everyone’s favorite chameleon,…
Taste Dance: Addison Style! might just be the most misleading name for an event, ever. First of all, starting it with “Taste…” is clearly a cheap ploy to sucker in all the food-festival fans. Then there’s the implication that Addison has its own dance style. The LeasaBeemer, perhaps? That’s when…
Hello, country music fan. I sense that you are also a patriotic citizen of the United States of America, and I am also relatively certain that you have an excellent memory for tragic events in our country’s past. Ah, wait. Perhaps I am not coming across to you properly. Allow…
Although intimately familiar with the bar mitzvah coming-of-age ritual in Jewish tradition, I’ve witnessed only one quinceanera–the coming-of-age ritual for 15-year-old Latinas–and that was in a George Lopez re-run when his daughter Carmen commits social suicide by publicly professing her love for her boyfriend. Another opportunity will arise Saturday, at…
Philippines-born Ryan Ong Palao, also known as Ongina, is her own kind of drag queen. Best known for her stint on RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality drag competition that aired on the Logo network earlier this year, Ongina is unique in that she doesn’t stuff, tuck or wear wigs, yet…
Anyone who’s ever seen The Lion King knows that “Hakuna Matata” is Swahili for “no worries.” But we’re not going to be snippy if an aide society wants to use the phrase to help out impoverished kids in Chhattisgarh, India. If you, like us, think all people–no matter what language…
