Posts Tagged ‘events’
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 16 Back in the early days of cinema, special effects were nonexistent, so when shooting a film about World War I pilots, filmmakers had no choice but to send their actors up in real planes and film them. (Something to p...
Night & Day
Anthony MarianiWED ▪ 14 Tonight and tomorrow night only, Performing Arts Fort Worth will present the stage adaptation of Mel Brooks’ 1974 classic monster-movie spoof Young Frankenstein. Winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and th...
Boos
KRISTIAN LINMaybe it’s just us, but it seems like this year offers up more Halloween events than usual, not just in numbers but in variety. You can go the traditional route with haunted houses like Hangman’s House of Horrors and Texas ...
9/11/11
Big TicketAs the calendar would have it, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks falls on a Sunday. Not that there would have been a shortage of commemorative events regardless of what day of the week it fell on, but the coinc...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 13 Despite its cringe-inducing name, Tequila for Ta-Tas is nevertheless in service of a worthy cause. The Susan G. Komen-inspired event features music by Poo Live Crew, The Boobles (how appropriate), and DJ Christopher to...
Super 8: Lights, Camera, Alien!
This monster movie shows J.J. Abrams’ remarkable talent – and a few flaws.KRISTIAN LIN
I hate to be the dissenting voice on a movie everybody else seems to love, especially when I don’t think the movie’s bad at all. Super 8 is the first film J.J. Abrams has directed that’s from an original story rather than...
It’s St. Paddy’s Day, Y’all
Big TicketWith the sheer number of St. Patrick’s Day events going on in town, you’d be forgiven for thinking that everyone who lives here is from Ireland. What’s more likely is that the people in this town will take just about any ...
Queens of the Night
They don’t spare the rhinestones or role reversals at this charity ball.Photos by Byrd Williams IV
The Imperial Court web site says the same thing, but it’s best heard in person from the reigning empress: “We serve the community $1 at a time,” said Bubbles LaRue — or to give her her full title, “Empress XXXII Bubbl...
It Looked Like This
Big TicketOne of Fort Worth’s more interesting art shows is opening on Thursday evening at the Fort Worth Central Public Library. Hidden Views contains objects of particular note from the museum’s archives, and it’s all attractivel...
Mean Green Christmas
Big TicketThe colleges are offering a smorgasbord of events before the crush of finals and the winter break, but UNT has a particularly intriguing slate of things going on this week. The week is bookended by lectures about war zone exper...