You have to say the timing is superb. Mr. Energizer Bunny of the ice-skating world, Scott Hamilton, sweeps into frigid Dallas with some of the world’s best skaters for an extravaganza called Double Exposure: The Many Lives of Figure Skaters. The show promises to give lots of insight into the…
I like cats…much the same way as I like having a clock radio. It gets me up in the morning. If it broke, I’d replace it. Same with cats. But I’m not one of those—ick—”just like my child” people, and I certainly wouldn’t invest money in a fancy cat. No,…
Did you know that there are circa 1970 nude pictures of Dr. Laura Schlessinger (aka Dr. Whore-a) on the Internet? (I’ll wait while you go fact-check that.) During her radio show on 100.7 The Jesus, she says sex before marriage is immoral. But those nekkid Internet hippie boobs of hers…
I gotta say, I love me some socks…almost as much as I love pants. So at last Saturday’s opening of Eric Trosko’s Synepet exhibition at Road Agent, 2909-A Canton St., as I gazed upon a pair of glazed canvases and a fine pair of furry socks, I got real stoked…
Despite its legendary reputation as one of our fair city’s “best fund-raisers,” Hooch and Pooch still sounds a little bit like something it’s not: like, they round up a bunch of dogs and get ’em drunk. Not beer drunk or wine drunk. Like, scotch drunk. And not just any scotch—really…
Remember SAT analogies? They were always the fun part of the test for me, like the testmaker had suddenly become that cool, laid-back substitute that ended up hooking up with some senior and getting fired—”Hey kids, let’s give the math a rest already. I’m gonna give it to ya straight…
Seems a bit like the title of an upcoming Texas-set dramedy at the Richardson Theatre Centre is a little outdated: Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will? Do people even pay attention to wills these days? Legal documents are, like, so 1983 or something. But now that everybody’s suing everybody for…
Richardson, Texas, might seem like a strange place for a Blues and Jazz Festival; with its wide streets, strip malls and business parks, it’s pretty much the complete antithesis of the crowded Deep Ellum street corners where Blind Lemon Jefferson and Leadbelly revolutionized country blues in the ’20s. But perhaps…
We all know the story of Helen Keller, how the three-legged little girl learned to say the quadratic equation under the watchful tutelage of Annie Sullivan, despite the fact that she had three legs. Magical. But the Dallas Children’s Theater makes bold assertions in their new production of The Miracle…
Any person can take brush, roller or aerosol can to canvas and produce a painting these days, so what makes a work of art actually art? Moreover, what makes paint paint? It’s a question not easily answered (unless, say, you pull out your Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary because you’re a smartass),…
We all know Shakespeare. The “thees and thous,” the Romeos, the Juliets. But the one-man show Shakespeare’s Keeper shows us a new side of the Bard. The award-winning play centers on life in the era of Shakespeare’s famous Globe Theatre. Told from the perspective of a sometimes caustic stage hand,…
Bruce Bruce is a large man. He’ll tell you so himself, in fact. He usually opens his stand-up routine stating his assumption that the people in the front row are hoping he doesn’t fall on them. He has been losing weight, though. According to some recent interviews he lost more…
Martha Stewart would vurp if she saw my house right now. My bed isn’t made, my desk is a total mess, half of the food in my fridge is furry and I haven’t dusted the baseboards in…well, ever. But according to Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman (writers of A Perfect…
King of the Road, a musical about a vaudeville family nearing the end of the line if they don’t step up and find a new act, reminds us of two things: Roger Miller (for obvious reasons) and The Aristocrats (because we’re really hoping this is not the sort of act…
Where do you recognize Brad Sherwood from? Perhaps his artful turn as “Team Agent #2” in the 1997 remake of That Darn Cat. How do you know Colin Mochrie? He’s the tutu-wearing “Snack Fairy” in those Nabisco commercials. More than likely, you’re most familiar with the duo’s work as cast…
At this very moment they’re ascending the frostbitten peaks of Park City, Utah: filmmakers and film-breakers, which is to say, in the latter case, movie execs and film critics who will decide what’s hot after spending a week in the bitter cold. Among those making the long trek to the…
For its first 20 minutes, Democracy painstakingly documents events surrounding the 1969 election of left-leaning politician Willy Brandt to the post of chancellor of West Germany’s democratic parliament. If that sentence bores you down to your lederhosen, just wait till you hear what’s in the rest of this 150-minute drama…
The Cowboys may be America’s Team, but is there a doubt that the Mavericks are Dallas’ team? The overwhelming favorite to return to the finals, if not win it all, the Mavs are sporting the best record in the NBA, and here’s what’s really scary: They’re not even kicking on…
Who could possibly be less Mexican than Charlton Heston? William Shatner (“Spock—pass me—those—churros.”)? Heidi Klum (“¡Nina Garcia!”)? How did Heston ever get cast as a Mexican official? Maybe Orson Welles was impressed by his chipotle-mayo gordita portrayal of Ben Hur. Or, perhaps he was taken aback by his extra hot…
Her infamous tenacity, notable (if slightly tarnished) résumé and James Bond villainess name may have helped establish NPR legal affairs consultant Nina Totenberg as the Lois Lane of the public radio airwaves. But it was her Peabody Award-winning coverage of the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment allegations that first brought her…
Even with the trendy Bishop Arts district and now the fancy Belmont Hotel, I still find myself defending Oak Cliff. And I don’t even live there. My Plano friend Klint had some reservations about a dinner outing down that way, but what do you know, I think he was pleasantly…
There’s a moment in Fearless Freaks, Bradley Beesley’s fine 2005 documentary about the Flaming Lips, when Lips’ multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd allows Beesley to film him shooting heroin. It’s a conflicted moment, part truly sad—it’s clear Drozd is resigned to his addiction—and also, truth be told, somewhat romantic, in that tragic,…
