Arts & Culture

Gender is a comedy mainstay for a simple reason: It can be boiled down, packaged into neat little stereotypes and fed to audiences anxious to validate their behavior in the name of inborn sex traits. Ha ha, ladies–men are stupid oafs unable to process any emotion more complex than hunger…

Who can resist a concert with rhythms that leave your heart and lungs trembling hours afterward? The Gipsy Kings will bring their epic beats to the Meyerson this Tuesday. Come armed with a tall pair of heels and a spicy dance partner. After more than 20 years of playing together,…

Dick’s Last Resort will be nothing but burgers, beer and balls, er…um, sports, from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Pick the brains of five of Dallas’ favorite sports media personalities headlining An Evening With the Sports Guys: Mike Doocy, Randy Galloway, Dale Hansen, Norm Hitzges and Brad Sham. While you’re…

It’s been impossible not to notice the flowers this year, from the bluebonnets that dotted the roadsides a couple months back to the hibiscus and coral honeysuckle we’ve seen blooming in abundance more recently. Artist Carolyn Brown has a similar affinity for these eye-catching reproductive structures, evolved over millions of…

Women want him. Men want to be him. He can conjure any emotion with just a few notes on the keyboard. He is Yanni, the uber-king of “new age” music. His compositions have infiltrated television and radio airwaves for years, becoming indelibly linked to the Olympics and other sporting events…

If your dad is one of those cook-in-his-soul-kitchen types–rhapsodizing about upright chicken roasting (the chicken looks as if it’s about to hop off its roasting seat and do “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Young Frankenstein-style)–or if he’s an avid fan of Wolfgang Puck and Iron Chef, then Williams-Sonoma’s Tool Time for…

Our fair city has long held a great relationship with the arts. Dance, museums, music of all kinds–the list goes on and on. So, really, the annual CityArts Celebration is a natural thing for Big D. For its sixth year, the Dallas CityArts Celebration comes as loaded as a Texas…

Do you want to combine your love of shopping malls and the ability to do downward dog? NorthPark Center has invited you to attend their summer-long yoga class for free–yes, for FREE. Every Saturday morning starting at 9:30 a.m., the Cooper Fitness Center will be holding a traditional yoga class…

According to Wikipedia, source of all wisdom in the universe, Jean Dubuffet was “one of the most famous French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th century.” Seems like a few too many prepositional phrases to me, but OK, sure. Also, the guy’s last name makes me…

Cork is that lovely little wine place in the West Village that’s pioneering the new genre of recession chic–hobnobbing high-style without spending more than a few dollars to taste the best French and Spanish wines–but on Saturday, Cork expands its reach to aficionados of all things Deutsch. Ten dollars at…

Decades before Michelle Obama took a trowel to the White House lawn, Lady Bird Johnson was heading up the beautify-the-world campaign by planting flowers and preserving wild spaces all over the country. And long before Bush 43 started mysteriously vanishing from the White House to do whatever it is that…

Not since Christina Crawford dropped her Mommie Dearest bombshell has a mother-daughter relationship been as testy as Tori and Candy Spelling’s. I don’t see Candy Spelling going all Joan Crawford on her blond progeny with a wire hanger or anything, but based on all of the tabloid back-and-forths, these women…

There’s something comforting and nostalgic about circus folk playing fast and loose with the truth. When a carnie claims the top half of a monkey skeleton sewn to the bottom half of a stuffed fish is a mermaid, you don’t think of it as fraud, just fast-talking showmanship. That’s why…

What does a beautifully landscaped garden full of unique sculptures and a variety of Mother Nature’s trees have in common with a green-colored ogre who loves the swamp and is maybe best friends with a talkative donkey? You. Yes, you. Only if you decide to attend Summer at the Nasher’s…

Think the country is divided now? You should have been around during the Civil War. That time period makes molehills of modern-day gripes. In those days, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee commanded American infighting of epic proportions. But they were both Americans and had more in common than…

It’s incredible that a bluegrass musical with such a countrified phrase as “cotton patch” in its title could be scandalous, but for some, Cotton Patch Gospel is a threatening retelling of the Greatest Story Ever Told even 28 years after its Off-Broadway debut. Not everyone accepts the play’s suggestion that…

We figured the cult of celebrity had reached new depths of obsessive behavior in December after Scarlett Johansson blew her nose into a Kleenex on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and the snot-rag was sold on eBay for $5,300. Seemed to top the salon owner who wanted to sell…

If you remember the days of poodle skirts, blue suede shoes, rolled-up jeans and dainty bows bobbing in curly ponytails, then you’ll remember the likes of The Drifters’ “This Magic Moment,” Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs’ “Stay” and probably an assortment of other doo-wop classics that make you wish you…

Every child has a dream. Some dream of becoming firemen battling raging fires and rescuing damsels in distress. Others dream of becoming doctors and saving lives. Still others dream of becoming famous actors, prima ballerinas, architects, singers and crime-fighting policemen. On Wednesday, let the inner chef in your children shine…

Over the years, lavish productions have come and gone, lighting up Broadway for the duration of their run with elaborate costumes and sets. But 30 years ago, a modest musical took the Theatre District by storm with its bare stage and simple cast of 17 dancers. A Chorus Line explores…

You know Eddie Griffin was probably picked on a bunch as a kid. Truth be told, he’s a funny-looking guy with a whacked-out sense of humor, so it’s only natural that he became the class clown who feels the need to teach the world about “Man Laws.” There’s just something…