Arts & Culture

1/11 If your New Year’s resolutions involve eating more, drinking more or finding a new excuse to get out of the house, then check out the Single Gourmet. Each month the club hosts five or more events for single professionals in their 30s through their 60s including dinners, cocktail parties,…

1/8 My mother can do an amazing Edith Ann impression. She’s got the 10-year-old’s lisp and the flawed, nasal pronunciation, and I thought it was so cool because the creator of that character was safely the funniest lady I’d ever seen. When I was little, I wanted to be someone…

The first week of the new year! Do something to jump-start those ambitious plans for self-improvement in 2006 before reality sets in. The Rotary Resolution Run in Addison is a two-fer. For your vows on physical improvement, run the 5K or 10K race for prizes. (More modest goals? Try the…

On Thanksgiving night 1976, the five men known as the Band—Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel—stepped off the stage at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, never to share one again. Originally, the show was only meant to put an end to the group’s touring days, with…

As Jennifer Aniston revisits The Graduate in the recently released film Rumor Has It, one might feel compelled to revisit its groundbreaking soundtrack as well. So why not join Simon and Garfunkel’s taller and more soft-spoken half at the Meyerson this weekend as he performs with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra…

We were already blown away that a Manchester native would make his living doing impressions of an American playing a zany Englishman. Then we did some reading up on comedian/Austin Powers impersonator Steve Hirst and found that he is often an opening performer for Kid Reid…that’s right, Kid Reid. As…

It’s our job to get excited about famous events with local ties. Sports teams winning championships, TV shows based on our city, JFK’s death–good or bad, we love it. That’s why we have a special fondness for former Poison lead singer Bret Michaels. Did you know he wrote “Every Rose…

The best NBA team that plays in a city you’d actually want to live in (yeah, Detroit, that was for you), the Dallas Mavericks, convene Saturday to take on the underachieving Minnesota Timberwolves, who may or may not have retained the services of disgruntled Pacer All-Star Ron Artest by then…

A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline Nobody can sing Patsy Cline the way Jenny Thurman can, and she gets to do it again in this two-hour musical tribute. All the hit songs are here: “Crazy,” “Walkin’ after Midnight,” “Leavin’ on Your Mind,” “Back in Baby’s Arms.” It’s like a living…

Back when women were dames and men were gents, people knew how to do New Year’s Eve right. Watch the black and white movies, and you’ll see what I mean: women in circle skirts poofy with crinoline, men in tuxedos with cummerbunds and matching bow ties, flutes of champagne, a…

Thursday 30 How thoughtful. You’ve decided to have your mates ’round your place for a little New Year’s Eve shindig. Be honest: It’s so you don’t have to drive anywhere, right? Whatever the motive, you gotta have some grub on hand to soak up the liters of libations that will…

New Year’s Eve is one of those holidays–all romanticized in legend, lore and on the big screen–that never pans out in real life. Think back on your past celebrations. Anything like a sublime, dressy affair where the love of your life swoops in, gets down on one knee and, well,…

SUN 1/2 The many violent and complex conflicts of the three major Middle Eastern religions regularly make banner headlines in the world’s major newspapers and create seemingly insurmountable tensions. But rather than focusing on who killed whom, who is occupying whose holy land and whose founding son was really chosen…

SAT 1/1 Used to be the Cotton Bowl Classic was a big deal and a hot draw–Fair Park on New Year’s Day with nationally broadcast football being played in The House Doak Built, always sold out and occasionally with national-title implications. Didn’t matter whether it was warm and sunny or…

THU 12/30 A clothing line needs your wisdom. The Engines of Elk will release its first line December 30 at the Whisky Bar and, not only are you invited, but in addition to paying five bucks you’re asked to bring your ideas to improve the clothes. Seems E of E–we…

WED 1/5 As much as we’re sure she’d like to distance herself from the sitcom Grace Under Fire, it was our first exposure to Julie White, who played supporting character Nadine. We like to think of her as “the cute one,” in our weird habit of comparing everything to the…

Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, the Art of Texas and Switzerland Why is it that regional art, from Texas to inner Pennsylvania, upstate New York to the hills of Tennessee, looks the same–all of it showing naturalistic panoramas of tumbling hills, arabesque trees and tumbledown, homey architecture? Perhaps this has…

There’s just nothing like a good old-fashioned virgin. It’s appalling that in this day and time, when in many ways we have come so far, we have abandoned the notion of sexual virtue. All anybody wants to do anymore is roll in the hay. Who likes hay, anyway? It gets…

You may recognize the star and writer of the comedy mockumentary Shtickmen, Dean Lewis, as the co-host of 102.1 The Edge’s morning show. Or you could have seen him in Vegas, winning his weight in hamburgers at the Wendy’s “Stand Up For Good Taste” Comedy Challenge. Now you can see…