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Doo bee doo ba ba da!
Danny Tanner would be proud
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: January 31, 2008
To say that digital art is a trend would be an oversimplification. With Kristin Lucas' work on display at the And/Or, and artists such as Miranda July and Sandro Bocola gaining...
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Global Drama
By Rich Lopez
Published: January 31, 2008
Other than my three-year stint as an ensemble actor, probably one of the best things to happen to Dallas theater would be the International Theater Festival. Now in its 13th...
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Brown At Once
Get Nancyfied at Mights Fine Arts
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: January 31, 2008
Artist Nancy Brown shares her name with a blond woman with a serious sunglass tan, who unfortunately beat her to the nancybrownart.com domain. Luckily for us, instead of the...
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To Start With
Langella lights up the Modern's screen
By Danna Berger
Published: January 31, 2008
The Magnolia at the Modern film series continues to offer a vital palette of moving pictures to broaden its contemporary art exposition. The series' works of solemnity or...
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Super Bowls and Plates
By GEOFF JOHNSTON
Published: January 31, 2008
If your Super Bowl party snack spread is anything like ours it most likely resembles a dietary timeline associated with massive coronary arrest: fried mozzarella sticks, hot...
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High (Art) Tech
Kristin Lucas exhibits at And/Or
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: January 31, 2008
Art has embraced digital technology more and more in the past 20 years in many new and inventive ways. That doesn't mean that there isn't still something to be said for...
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Color Play
Kids can sing along live with the Doodlebops
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 31, 2008
Like a dumb grown-up, I had the Doodlebops mixed up with another live-action preschool band, The Wiggles. The Doodlebops feature blue, yellow-on-orange and pink-on-purple...
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Big D Barbarian
Conan slays at the Inwood
By John Freeman
Published: January 31, 2008
It is a magic formula that could only have happened in the early '80s. The future Governator, a coked-up, pre-Scarface Oliver Stone and John Milius (Apocalypse Now) got...
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Popcorn Drunks
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: January 31, 2008
I've been waiting for an Alamo Drafthouse to open in North Texas for years now--there's really nothing as satisfying as watching a bad movie with a bucket of Lone Star in hand,...
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The Nearness of Ella
The DTC places Fitzgerald back in the spotlight
By S. Anne Durham
Published: January 31, 2008
"'S Wonderful," the George Gershwin tune often sung by Ella Fitzgerald, could be sung in tribute to her fans. "'S wonderful, 's marvelous, that you should care for me." Fans...
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What a Collection
UNT showcases four artists
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: January 31, 2008
What do you do when you're a reputable university with a permanent art collection that's been unstudied for years? If you're UNT, you get a bunch of art history grad students...
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Jazz It Up
By Mark Hughes
Published: January 31, 2008
Monterey has long been associated with music. To many it is because of a pop festival, but perhaps to more it is associated with jazz. Celebrating half a century of jazz...
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Odd Girls
The RTC shows what life is like as a different sort of Couple
By Merritt Martin
Published: January 31, 2008
The neat freak versus the messy one. OCD versus pack rat mound-making. Unger versus Madison. It's a pairing pop culture fans know better as The Odd Couple. The Richardson...
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Art On the El
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: January 31, 2008
I lived in Chicago for a summer once, so naturally I was expecting an exhibit called New Art From Chicago to feature all the staples: hot dogs, pizza, Old Style, Wilco, George...
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Medieval Woman
Addison feels the love
By Andrea Grimes
Published: January 31, 2008
It's another few months before Scarborough Faire gets started out in Waxahachie, and you can't keep watching Stardust every night or that poor DVD's going to be as worn out as...
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Laugh Laugh
Bruce Bruce hits Addison
By Merritt Martin
Published: January 31, 2008
You know Bruce Bruce. The doubly monikered comic has hosted BET's Coming to the Stage, has been in Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits commercials and that Ying Yang Twins video "Salt...
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Crossing Orbits
John Gray gets planetary
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: January 31, 2008
I'm stressed, you're stressed, we're all stressed. I miss the kindergarten days, when the only stress we had came from deciding which crayon to use or whether to play on the...
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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
By Elaine Liner
Published: January 31, 2008
Like Ella, this one-woman biographical musical, directed by Phyllis Cicero, allows for lots of songs, interspersed with personal monologues about the men that got away. Dallas...
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Ella
By Elaine Liner
Published: January 31, 2008
The First Lady of Song? How about Empress of All That Swings? Ella Fitzgerald comes to life again in the voice and “scat-itude” of Chicago actress E. Faye Butler. The...
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First Ladies of Jazz
Ella enchants at DTC and Billie swings at Contemporary Theatre
By Elaine Liner
Published: January 31, 2008
Things just got a whole lot cooler around here. At two Dallas theaters, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are back and ready to swing. Giving remarkably convincing...
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