Friday Alive, he’d be celebrating his 84th birthday this month. Dead, Elvis’ birthday bash continues with the look, the voice and the moves of tribute performer Kraig Parker, who has represented the King in more than 1,000 party, cruise ship, corporate and Las Vegas appearances since Presley’s death at 42…
The Dallas Cowboys are going to the next round of the playoffs Saturday. Only three victories stand in their way of another championship ring, and Cowboys fans everywhere are counting the hours until kickoff. Since the game is happening in Los Angeles, where they take on the Rams, people who…
The Dallas film festival scene has exploded in a short time. It’s gotten so big that occasionally they occupy the same space on the calendar. “A few years back, we had a situation where a couple of festivals fell on the same date, which of course is not great,” film…
Performing miracles at a rented duplex in Oak Lawn this week, ladies and gentlemen how ’bout a big round of applause forrrr … God? “No, I’m not God,” says Jim Weathers. “Just his big, ugly conduit.” Um, yeah, about that glaring lack of a miracle-worker denial. That’s because Weathers —…
Performing any of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies is no easy feat, as most musicians know well. While not a symphony in name, his Das Lied von der Erde (German for “Song of the Earth”) is no exception. Most consider the piece to be his ninth symphony, although Mahler himself didn’t want…
The cavernous Dallas nightclub Project AI will be transformed into a living art gallery later this month. Models with their bodies painted from top to bottom will be presented next to the artists who spent hours turning the visions in their heads into walking reality. The flashes of photographers will…
Wednesday Tiney Ricciardi, the beer editor at The Dallas Morning News’ GuideLive, has been doing the Lord’s work for years now, telling readers where to get the best beer. Now you can put a face to the name and ask Ricciardi all of your burning beer questions when you meet…
Kim Gatlin might have been the last person to learn Good Christian Books is headed back to TV. Good Christian Bitches is a book Gatlin wrote in 2008 about a divorced woman who returns home to a wealthy Dallas suburb after spending years in godless Southern California. In 2012, Darren Star…
While working in the electronics department of a North Texas Walmart, Brandon Lewis used his homemade comedy shows to lure customers. Now, his DVD is selling on Walmart shelves across the nation, and he’s working on a second one. “[My movies] helped me sell TVs,” says the 37-year-old Dallas filmmaker…
There’s no time like now to get a good laugh. Every time you turn on the news, it’s a horror show and your nerves are frayed from giving up smoking, alcohol, gambling and pornography. You need a release, so why not partake in the healing powers of laughter? Lucky for…
Friday Who knew? In the ’50s and ’60s, companies such as General Electric, Ford and Xerox were producing industrial musicals for their clients and employees featuring performers who would become stars — Chita Rivera, Bob Fosse, Florence Henderson. The documentary film, Bathtubs Over Broadway, revealing the history of these productions,…
It’s not uncommon to hear 50 jokes in one night at a stand-up comedy show. What is uncommon is to hear those 50 jokes spread across 50 different stand-up comedians. Stomping Ground Comedy Theater will be doing just that when they host 50 First Jokes on Saturday to ring in…
The Suicide Crisis Center of North Texas has been in operation since 1968, and it offers a 24-hour crisis hotline that receives about 1,500 calls per month, as well as trained counselors to serve in a suicide survivors support group. In 2007, Yvonne Crum met Margie Wright, the executive director…
Cigars have a bad reputation. Just Google “cigars FDA” and you’ll see that they’re being grouped with e-cigarettes in an attempt to stop underage smoking. Ignore the fact that cigars are probably less appealing to minors than even hookah. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy them. A cigar…
Something has haunted Dave Lieber ever since he came to North Texas. And now, he’s written a book about it. “I’d been to four or five newspapers, and I never really experienced a ghost like that,” he says of Amon Carter Sr.’s lasting impression while working for two decades at…
A night at the symphony is known for many things. But laughing until your sides hurt isn’t one of them. The crew at comedy powerhouse Second City aims to change that when they bring their traveling show, The Second City Guide to the Symphony, to the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony…
Now Broadway’s longest-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera is a classic that every theater nerd knows well. Revamped by Cameron Mackintosh, the musical theater-producing legend, this year’s North American tour is a fresh take on Broadway’s classic. The cast and 52-piece orchestra are here thanks to the Dallas Summer…
Friday Take your worried mind off those looming Christmas credit card bills with a little help from the Mesquite Championship Rodeo Winter Classic. After all, how bad could those bills be compared with the challenge faced by bull riders, barrel racers, bronc-busters and bareback riders competing at Mesquite Arena, 1818…
It was a terrible year in so many ways, but onscreen, with shows including Sharp Objects, My Brilliant Friend, Better Call Saul, The Americans and Atlanta, it sparkled
The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter
The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone
Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance
