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Stupid F*cking Bird: Chekhov Cocktail
Judge not a millennial lest ye feel judged when watching American playwright Aaron Posner’s Stupid F*cking Bird, which opened at Stage West Theatre last...
Wild at Art
You might not expect to see a lot of graffiti in Keller. The once heavily agricultural town is now an affluent suburb, with housing...
Not Don Draper’s Nostalgia
As soon as fin-de-siècle technological innovation began to flourish – trains covering thousands of miles, photos in magazines and newspapers ushering the wide world...
Lorna Simpson: Head on Ice
The entry to FOCUS: Lorna Simpson is almost completely filled by a Madonna-esque diptych.
At 5-by-8 feet, “Famous Statue Damn” and “Famous Statue Volcano” depict...
La La Land: Dancing With the Stars
A movie that can blow the doors off the theater, La La Land is set in the present day, but in every other respect,...
Blue Texas
In light of lessons learned this political season, armchair analysts are reminded that change is a process, not a final destination. When in Texas,...
Moscow Nights
Author Nigel Cliff (The Shakespeare Riots, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama) is on well-trod ground here. More than a...
The Art of Beer
Artisan ales are not worth an acre of hops if the artwork doesn’t tell a good story. Craft beer logos and labels do the...
Escalator to Heaven
Allegheny Center was for losers. The shopping mall on the north side of the cold, gray, soul-destroying Rust-Belt city where I grew up didn’t...
Love Crises, Stage Surprises
Amorous relations inspired identity crises on two local stages last week. At Amphibian Stage Productions, local playwright Kathleen Culebro debuted her new play, Smart...
