In the middle of bustling and sometimes gritty downtown Dallas is the world-class Crow Collection of Asian Art. And in the middle of a busy Tuesday, the Crow offers noon gallery talks—the perfect foil to a day that’s usually too far from Friday to even think about fun things such…
Recently in this section, I mentioned my country and western music phase, which played a crucial part in my greatest heartbreak. Just before that, I went through a whole smooth jazz/New Age stage that was brought on by my discovery of the Oasis radio station. Why I latched onto that,…
Last year, my painfully enthusiastic roommate handed me a dollar-store eye patch and forced me to participate in Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day. A few months ago, my little brother had a pirate-themed birthday party, complete with temporary skull-and-crossbones tattoos…and he was turning 19. Pirates are everywhere these days, whether we like it…
We’ve never been accused of being sophisticated, so it should come as no surprise that the phrase “Delicately Dirty” takes our minds directly to the gutter. What might it mean? An online store selling pre-owned lingerie? A fetish shop focusing on leather and lace? An indie doc exposing the innermost…
Bees and black holes. Sounds like a bad summer vacation, but the WaterTower Theatre “shows us the honey” in Charlotte Jones’ award-winning British play Humble Boy. In her “Hamlet Light,” dysfunctional family ties tangle in the string theory following the death of astrophysicist Felix Humble’s bee-keeping father. This smart comedy…
Much like Bo Jackson’s dual membership in the Los Angeles Raiders and the Kansas City Royals, or Jared Leto’s mediocre turns as an actor and a member of the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, Henri Matisse traveled many avenues of the art world. He may be best known for…
Much like Bo Jackson’s dual membership in the Los Angeles Raiders and the Kansas City Royals, or Jared Leto’s mediocre turns as an actor and a member of the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, Henri Matisse traveled many avenues of the art world. He may be best known for…
How do you tell your real friends from the fakers? You know, which are the ones that would take a bullet—or at least, tell you they would—and which are the ones that smile, nod, agree with you to your face and then remove that smiling mask like a villain in…
Watch out, Shakira: Kathryn Evans is in the house. And I hear she’s got a mean set of pipes. Sure, you’re great at shaking your hips in the desert, and you do a spot-on impression of Kermit the Frog. But Kathryn’s renditions of those old-school 19th-century Spanish hits are off…
The work of painter, photographer and printmaker Chuck Close is constructed on a grid, so it can be “interrupted repeatedly without…damaging the final product.” An artist who accommodates interruptions? Sounds like a realist to us. But the grids, which remain visible in the finished product, comprise Close’s trademark style, which…
Henry Cho knows how to make the most of who he is. An Asian-American born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, he sounds very Southern, but looks very Korean. As he says himself, that right there is enough to make people laugh. (Fortunately, that joke is just a fall-back, as his…
Behold! He who has ears to hear, let him hear: The Doodlebops cometh. The peppy trio, armed with guitars, keyboards and drums, are coming to save the immortal souls of your children in the blessed name of music education. Gather ’round the Doodlebops and be amazed by their costumes of…
Ah, modern civilization. Could any of its wonders and technological advancements have been possible if people hadn’t forged great alliances? What if nacho chips and cheese had never come together? Imagine the horror we would endure every day if someone, somewhere, hadn’t realized that Wendy’s chocolate shakes and french fries…
Ah, yes, GayBINGO Dallas…just like your grandma’s bingo, if your grandma enjoyed all the bodily pleasures of Sappho. Now that’s a door prize! OK, seriously, hosted by Patti LaPlaeSafe and a number of drag queens on skates (!) working the floor, GayBINGO may just be the most entertaining way ever…
If I were an artist, my canvas would be unique. Perhaps even sand—like that guy in South Beach who creates intricately designed sandcastles that sprawl across the beach and come complete with bridges and chambers and even little candles peeping through the windows. Local artist Scott Barber also had an…
I remember watching a lot of movies multiple times during my elementary years, with Star Wars, Spaceballs and Top Gun chief among them. How my dear mother watched Spaceballs so many times without killing herself I will never know. ( Not that Spaceballs isn’t amazing, of course…) This weekend the…
I’ll have to admit, your Dallas Stars are doing pretty well this season. Better than my team, but that’s beside the point. With the 55th NHL All-Star Game rolling through town at 8 p.m. Wednesday, we’re going to share a team when the Western Conference takes on the Eastern Conference…
Ella Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and in 2005, nearly a decade after her death, was inducted into Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Hall of Fame. This week, she won another posthumous honor when her image debuted on a new 39-cent stamp. The U.S. Post…
If you have a rock act, you can only squeeze in a couple of brothers, or maybe a brother and sister every now and then. Cherryholmes, the “First Family of Bluegrass,” is an act consisting of a dad, a mom and four (yeah, four) children. While most families can barely…
Yes, it’s true. I thought Hall and Oates’ “Private Eyes” was a warning that my parents (and everyone else’s) had hired, well, Magnum-like employees to follow my actions so they could ground me at any moment. In my case, I was totally boring and only hoping for activities that required…
Ready to work out outside? Be sure you… Dress in layers during cold weather. Wear hat and gloves to prevent heat loss. Invest in a good pair of walking, running or cycling shoes right from the start. Bring plenty of water. It’s easier to get dehydrated outdoors. Do a thorough…
In the new Clint Eastwood movie, ordinary young men—husbands and fathers, artisans and aristocrats—are drafted into a war whose motives many of them do not fully understand. There, on an island called Iwo Jima, they fight against an enemy who has been demonized by wartime propaganda—a supposedly brutal oppressor with…
