Culture

June 3-5 : BooksmART

Meet Riordan, a San Antonio native, at Dallas Museum of Art’s BooksmART, a family-friendly festival celebrating literature. A passel of excellent children’s authors and illustrators will also be there, including Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth), Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak and Chains), Caldecott Medal winners David Wiesner (Flotsam, The Three Pigs, Tuesday) and Jerry Pinkney (The [...]

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Movie : Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen’s new film, “Midnight in Paris,” seeks to understand romance vs. reality, pitting fleeting relationships in golden era dreams against the reluctantly accepted crush of convenience and safety in modern times. Introduced to mismatched couples operating in different dimensions, the audience quickly sees that the antagonists, the harsh realists played by Michael Sheen and [...]

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June 3-5 : Magnolia at the Modern

Magnolia at the Modern is featuring critically acclaimed films that have not received widespread commercial attention, as well as restored prints of classic films, independent and foreign films, documentaries and short subject films and films that might not otherwise receive a play date in Fort Worth, advance sales two hours prior to show, see website [...]

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Book : Dressmaker of Khair Khana

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila’s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These [...]

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May 28 : 2nd Annual White Rock Rowing Sprint Championships

Start your Saturday early at White Rock Lake on May 28th with the 2nd Annual White Rock Rowing Sprint Championships. Grab a cup of coffee and a muffin and set your camp chair near Tee Pee Hill or the spectator’s lawn outside the Filter Building. Prepare to be wowed as the rower’s blaze down our [...]

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Restaurant : Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen

Rathbuns Blue Plate Kitchen, the newest restaurant creation of Abacus and Jaspers Executive Chef and Partner Kent Rathbun is inspired by traditional family recipes and the Chefs desire to establish a new conduit in food preparation and execution. A wide array of dishes such as the Dr. Pepper Mopped Rotisserie Chicken and MawMaw Buttermilk Pie [...]

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May 22 : Peace, Hope, and Butterflies 2011 @ Flagpole Hill

Join Miracle Players Foundation on May 22, 2011 at Flag Pole Hill in celebrating the strength and courage of children fighting cancer and help us find a cure for childhood cancer by attending the first annual Peace, Hope, & Butterflies butterfly release and family fun festival! The event, which will include the release of 500 [...]

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Movie : I AM

Armed with nothing but his innate curiosity and a camera crew, Shadyac embarks upon a journey to discover how he as an individual, and we as a race, can improve the way we live. Appearing on-screen as character, commentator, guide, and even, at times, guinea pig, Shadyac meets with a variety of thinkers and doers–remarkable [...]

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May 14-15 : Dallas Truck & Jeep Fest

Mark your calendar and get ready for the BIG TIME from the best truck, SUV and Jeep aftermarket parts manufacturers in the world. These two-day, FREE ADMISSION Truck & Jeep events are the perfect opportunity to talk one-on-one with the enthusiats about their vehicles. Over 100,000 s.f. of product displays & parts, product demonstrations, hourly [...]

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Restaurant : Meddlesome Moth Revisited

Shannon Wynne has done it again…His new restaurant in the design district is a must experience. Spacious, uber-cool, and very European… Meddlesome Moth is the beer connoisseur’s pub. If you appreciate eccentric, local, and large format brews (with a side of smooth ambiance), you’re going to love Meddlesome Moth. You have choices such as Local, [...]

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