This week, John Adams conducts the Dallas Symphony in a weekend of concerts. Next month, Adams turns 72. For decades, he’s been practicing — and excelling at — one of the world’s most endangered professions: composer of classical music. And, against the public perception of a field led by dead…
If you purchased tickets for comedian Amy Schumer’s show back in November, you’ll get the chance to finally use them in March. The AT&T Performing Arts Center announced that the stand-up comedian and star of the hit Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer rescheduled the show she planned to perform…
The 91st Academy Awards are a month away, but this is still barely enough time to plan the perfect viewing party. Only 30 days to buy a sheet of poster board and create a betting bracket for categories, like longest political acceptance speech. A mere 720 hours to buy snack…
Friday Ella is a girl with a dopey fairy godmother who “blesses” Ella with obedience, which means whatever anyone tells her to do, she does. Even worse, she ends up with a stepmother and stepsisters who know about her quirk and are happy to take advantage. Throw in a handsome…
Local sports radio titan 1310 The Ticket will celebrate its 25th birthday in much the same way it celebrated its very first birthday back in 1995 — in front of thousands of its most devoted listeners for yet another edition of the station’s signature event, Ticketstock. This year’s two-day event…
Dallas visual artist Said Abusaud believes that art should never have an answer and that it should always be in the form of a question. He carries this theme in all of his work, lacing hidden messages in each piece. Viewers would be smart to keep that in mind when…
An upcoming Dallas ticket lottery means that some can watch The Book of Mormon while hanging onto a bigger chunk of their cash. Ticket prices at The Music Hall at Fair Park run the gamut from $46 to hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars. But the lottery will allow a…
Wednesday Need a ladies night? Or a men’s night? Or just a night to get totally wasted and scream and holler when you see men taking off their clothes? Chippendales is coming to town just in time for bachelorette party season. Or a way to unwind after the stress of…
Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is about to film his 10th comedy special, and he’s decided to film it in the place where he got his start in show business. “It’s a homecoming for me,” Dunham says from his home in Los Angeles. “It’s like, ‘Why in the world have I…
New venues are laying roots around Downtown Arlington, and a few older ones have switched saddles. Steven Morris, Lamar High School’s former theater director, is now Theatre Arlington’s executive producer, while over at Arlington Music Hall, formerly Johnny High’s Country Music Revue, Mark Joeckel has taken the lead as general…
About 30 people, mostly Native American youth, filed into a small, upper room of an unassuming building in Oak Cliff. A drum began to beat. Members of the Soar Beyond Youth Mentor Organization were there to practice for the Dallas Women’s March, where they drummed and sang for missing and…
Passing by the bars and restaurants that line Parry Avenue facing Fair Park, it’s easy to miss a new addition hiding among the old buildings. White with bold black trim, the outside of the building resembles a sketch of a storefront, and a quick peek into the window offers no…
As you step up to the line, ax in hand, you stare down the wooden target in front of you. With a powerful swing, you launch the ax into the air and watch as it lodges as closely as possible to the painted bull’s-eye you aimed for. This is the…
Two Dallas Zoo staffers won big for conservation after receiving a grant of roughly $70,000 from the National Geographic Society. Supervisor of Birds Kevin Graham and Curator of Ectotherms Ruston Hartdegen will join the ranks of renowned conservationists like Jane Goodall and Jacques Cousteau, all while working on personal field…
Since 2001, the Radio City Rockettes have hosted the Rockettes Summer Intensive, a weeklong camp at which dancers get to train like Rockettes in the same space where the Rockettes rehearse for their annual Christmas Spectacular. In those 18 years, 75 women have been hired as full-time Rockettes after completing the…
Friday The annual Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo kicks off its three-week run with the Best of the West Ranch Rodeo at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, 3401 W. Lancaster Ave. (The big All-Western Parade through downtown Fort Worth will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday,…
There are countless things you can buy in a Walmart. TVs, dishwashing detergent, all the modern creature comforts are a few crowded aisles away. But since November, a Walmart in DFW has added one item to the list: therapy. Beacon Care Services, an offshoot of Boston-based behavioral health services company…
Ask any hardcore gamer who grew up in the 1980s to name what they believe to be the first portable gaming console. They’d probably answer with the Entex Electric Baseball game or those tiny, white Tiger Electronics LCD games that their parents thought were just as good as a Sega…
When filmmaker Todd Jenkins released his independent horror comedy film Cherokee Creek last summer about a group of horny bachelors whose party in the woods gets crashed by a furious Sasquatch, he released it on his terms. He controlled the script, filming and editing process. He chose the premiere date and…
A new year, for some, may mean extreme change and a mad dash to The Container Store. When Marie Kondo’s Netflix series Tidying Up kicked off Jan. 1, the show brought new meaning to the phrase “thin is in” as the tiny, Japanese decluttering guru coached distraught couples into getting…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s annual SOLUNA International Music and Arts Festival is back for its fifth iteration, and with it comes some intriguing programming as always. In years past, SOLUNA has given us a mixed bag of sorts as it’s worked toward finding a true purpose within the DSO. Odd…
In a few short weeks, the iconic blue-and-yellow tent announcing the arrival of Cirque du Soleil and its show “Amaluna” will be raised at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie. For fans of anything Cirque du Soleil, they can expect the same lavish costumes and haunting art design that’s made…
