FRESH FRIDAY FILM REVIEW: Kon-Tiki
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s 8,000-kilometer voyage across the Pacific Ocean on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 stands as one of the greatest post-World War II feats of exploration, and cemented his standing as a legendary adventurer. Heyerdahl’s book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in 1948 as “The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft [...]
Read MoreFRESH FRIDAY: Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical
It doesn’t matter that the plot is minimal, that the music is loud, or that the acting is rote. It’s the outrageous 500 costumes that are the star of the touring show, “Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical.” Easy to see why the designs won a Tony, and also an Oscar for the 1994 [...]
Read MoreFRESH FRIDAY: Kristen Cochran
Kristen Cochran wants to speak in tongues. This might not be apparent at first, but as you spend more time with her work you realize that she’s not merely experimenting with and synthesizing materials, she’s also intuiting a lexicon of private iconography. Her latest show, “stutter slip stack,” at Wanda Dye’s RE gallery, offered an [...]
Read MoreReview: Fela!
Raucous and defiant, electrifying and exhilarating, Fela! is a very different musical, blending a wide variety of attitudes and moods, sometimes angry, sometimes coy, sometimes soothing, sometimes sexy, sometimes groping for the mysterious and spiritual. Sprouting from the hybrid Afrobeat songs (jazz, funk, highlife, traditional Yoruban chants [...]
Read MoreViva! Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera has appointment a new music director—only the third person ever to be named to that position in the 56-year history of the company. Acclaimed French-born conductor Emmanuel Villaume will take over the baton to conduct the upcoming season-opener of Carmen this October. “Over the past year, I have actively sought input from [...]
Read MoreFilm Review: Renoir
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, “Renoir” (based on a book, “Le Tableau Amoureux,” by Jacques Renoir) is a beautifully shot film taking the viewer into the world of the renowned painter and impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his relationship with his middle son and his last model Andrée, a 15-year-old mouthy [...]
Read MoreReview: Henry Finkelstein
Explosions of color and expression are de rigueur for the work of painter Henry Finkelstein. His fifth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in north Dallas opened last weekend with their annual garden party and runs throughout May. What better place to see gorgeous art than Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden [...]
Read MoreEye of the Beholder
Cindy Sherman is arguably the preeminent living photographer in contemporary art history and, on March 17, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its latest blockbuster exhibition, a retrospective of Sherman’s work, which will run through June 9, 2013. Dallas is the final stop for Cindy Sherman, which premiered at The Museum of Modern Art, New [...]
Read MoreThe Race is On!
Local filmmaking contest at breakneck speed On Friday, May 10, as the clock approaches midnight, teens, businessmen, teachers, housewives and other professionals will converge in the heart of Dallas for instruction on their mission — at 11:59 pm, they will be armed with a theme, a prop, a location and a line of dialogue and [...]
Read MoreLinguaphile Line Up
A Way with Words Brings Whimsical Word Banter to the Lakewood Theater Lovers of clever conversation rejoice and shout Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. The popular public radio show A Way with Words is coming to North Texas for an evening dedicated to the exploration of [...]
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