Posts Tagged ‘dallas’
The Sleeping Beauty
Big TicketTexas Ballet Theater rounds out its season with four performances of Ben Stevenson’s sumptuous production of The Sleeping Beauty in Bass Performance Hall this weekend.
Oh, It Was Homage That Made Erykah Badu Drop Trou
Jeff PrinceErykah Badu is a marketing genius. Who knew getting worldwide press coverage for her new video and appearing on national TV was as easy as stripping at Dealey Plaza? Badu is facing a fine up to $500 for disorderly conduct. That...
Calhoun, Dove Hunter Recording
HearsayCalhoun is getting ready to record with James Barber, who produced Ryan Adams‘ critically lauded Rock N Roll album and also Courtney Love‘s America’s Sweetheart, as first reported on Blotch (Sun., Feb. 14, 201...
Putting the Spurs to Cowtown
JIMMY FOWLERMost Fort Worth citizens were introduced to Queer LiberAction, a lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender activist group, on the evening news last summer. Footage of the packed July 14 city council meeting was broadcast on TV stations ...
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 6 The lecture this afternoon at the Kimbell is entitled Private Obsessions and Private Collecting: A Look at Dallas, which doesn’t give any real indication of the focus of this talk by Dallas Museum of Art associate...
Hey, You, Get Off Of Your Cloud
Steve StewardI’ve been drinking in this town for about 10 years. I wouldn’t say I’ve been to every single watering hole, but I’ve been to a lot of them. After all this time and all those bars, the same thought crosse...
The Crash That Took Me
Anthony MarianiHuge, shimmering, occasionally fuzzy guitars. Pounding, splashing drums and syrupy atmospherics. Slinky, androgynous vocals that slowly transmit Beatles-esque melodies with lyrics about transmutation, self-reflection, and trans...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) If the word “squeakquel” is in the title, the movie must be good, right? The animated singing chipmunks return, to find their stardom threatened by a group of si...
Nutty
LEONARD EUREKAIt’s no secret that The Nutcracker‘s great box-office appeal is a fabulous boon for dance companies. In a recent newspaper interview, New York City Ballet director Peter Martins said that his company’s month-l...
A School for Peace
SUSAN COSTAMilitary schools have studied the science of war for hundreds if not thousands of years. Serious scholarship on how to stop wars or avoid them is a lot harder to come by – but a group of women peace activists and North Te...