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Dallas At Its Very Best F E B R U A RY 2 0 1 2 GALLERIES CONCERTS MUSEUMS CULTURE THEATER SOCIETY CINEMA EVENTS GALAS RSVP

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CONTENTS EDITION NO. 35 Publisher Lance Brennan Managing Editor Christopher J. Libby Advertising Director Brian Sides Advertising Managers Hedy Vanderheyden Max Ameastah Carolyn Carver Society Editor Sally Blanton Assignments Editor Lisa Gail Barnes Photo Editor Coco Mynoako Administrative Assistant Simone Garner Administrative Phone 214.887.0737

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SOCIETY• Page 12

CONCERTS • Page 18

MUSEUMS • Page 24

CITY Magazine is published monthly by The Turtle Creek News, LLC., 1812 North Haskell Avenue, Dallas, Texas 74204. The entire contents of CITY, is Copyright 2012 by The Turtle Creek News.

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CONTENTS GALLERIES • Page 30

THEATER • Page 36

CINEMA • Page 42

EVENTS • Page 48

PREVIEW • Page 54

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Puttin’ On The Riz

Boys and Girls Clubs of Dallas Benefit ✯

“Puttin’on the Ritz” is the theme for this upcoming fundraiser hosted by J.B. Hayes, and Rachel and Chris Trowbridge. On Saturday, February 18 The Ritz-Carlton ballroom will become a 1920s Speakeasy with billiards, big band tunes and more. Barbara and Steve Durham will receive the Robert H. Dedman Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy. Tickets begin at $250 and underwriting levels start at $ 2,000. Celebrating its ninth year, The Billiard Ball begins with a cocktail reception and features a seated dinner, silent auction and raffle, award presentation, then dancing to the big band tunes provided by Hunter Sullivan.

This is the largest fundraiser for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas raising over $1.9 million to date. It enables all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. The programs provide moral guidance, positive role models and life-changing educational programs designed to save kids from lives of crime and failure. It is an organization that stands for traditional values, while providing progressive programs that address the problems faced today including substance abuse, teen pregnancy, gangs and violence.

Thousands of boys and girls from lowincome neighborhoods benefit from the building-centered programs and services designed specifically for them at 13 local clubs. Past Honorees have been Ruth Altshuler, Norman Brinker, Linda Pitts Custard, Caren Prothro, Dee and Charles Wyly Henry S. Miller, Bill and Gay Solomon and Bobby Lyle. Past Honorary Chairs were Cary Maguire, Lydia and Dan Novakov, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Mayor Tom Leppert, Adrienne Faulkner and Ashley Akin. For ticket information, call Kari Brown, 214-821-2950 x721.

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VCD Leadership Awards

Benefit for Texas Woman’s University ✯

This year’s Leadership Award recipients are Kimberly Schlegel Whitman and Myrna Schlegel. The awards luncheon began in 2002 to recognize Dallas leaders. The Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award, established in 2002, is given annually to a Dallas leader(s) with a lifelong commitment to improving the quality of life in the community and to furthering the importance of education. The award also recognizes the life work of Virginia Chandler Dykes.

Where: The Belo Mansion When: February 16 Contact: rgibson2@twu.edu

Hope for the Homeless

Interfaith Housing Coalition Fundraiser ✯

Entitled “What Happens in Vegas Gives a Home and Hope to the Homeless,” this casino style event at the Belo Mansion serves all families of any faith or no faith at all through three holistic programs: Home & Hope Transitional Housing Program, EQUIP Homelessness Prevention Program and the Children & Teen’s Program. These three programs collectively serve approximately 220 families per year. Tickets are $100 each and underwriting is available.

Where: The Belo Mansion When: February 24 Contact: Lauren at 214-653-3900 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Fly Away with the bridge Bridge Breast Cancer Event ✯

The Fly Away With the Bridge Benefit will celebrate the Bridge Breast Network’s 20th anniversary. Beginning with cocktails and gourmet food selections from celebrity chefs, guests will peruse silent auction items, bid in the live auction and dance the night away. The Bridge Breast Network is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to save lives by providing access to diagnostic and treatment services for breast cancer to low income individuals. Tickets are $125 or $250 for VIP. Where: Million Air in Addison When: February 18 Contact: terry@bridgebreast.org

Junior League Ball

A Night at the Peacock Terrace ✯

“A Night at the Peacock Terrace, circa 1922”, the 50th Annual Junior League of Dallas Ball, will take guests back in time to the 1920s to the famous Baker Hotel. Demolished in 1980, the Baker Hotel was located in downtown Dallas where the AT&T building stands today.

The ballroom was wildly popular with debutantes, movie stars and swing bands in the Roaring Twenties. The elegant 50th Annual Ball will take place in a recreated ballroom. Tickets are $275. Late Night Party is $125.

Where: Hilton Anatole When: February 25 Contact: Bunny at 214-893-6633 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Valentine’s Day Luncheon

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Benefit ✯

This is one of the leading fundraisers for the North Texas Chapter and one of the top fundraising galas for the Society nationwide, the Saint Valentine’s Day Luncheon & Fashion Show (Stanley Korshak) draws an audience of more than 800 social and civic leaders in the North Texas region. Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. Lymphoma is the name for a group of blood cancers that develop in the lymphatic system. The two main types are Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. LLS is the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer.

LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services.

The organization’s key priorities are: to ensure that LLS helps blood cancer patients live better, longer lives; advance the diagnosis and treatment of blood cancers through continued funding of academic research, the therapy acceleration program and other special initiatives; proactively establish a research agenda and direct a portion of research spending to specific areas of unmet medical need for leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma; and participate directly in blood cancer therapy development by expanding research beyond academic collaborations and biotech partnerships to include pharmaceutical companies and/or venture capitalists. This year, they hope to raise more than $480,000 toward blood cancer research. The event is chaired

by Bunny Cotton, Angela Nash and Kristina Whitcomb. There will be a presentation of the Lynda Adleta Heart of Gold Award and Spirit of Tom Landry Character Award. Tickets are $175.

Where: Hilton Anatole When: February 14 Contact: michelle.northcutt@lls.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Karaoke Lounge

Benefit for Turtle Creek Recovery Center ✯

This event will be an exciting, high-energy, musical evening beginning with a cocktail reception and followed by karaoke entertainment. Local celebrities will warm up the microphones on the main stage. Then donors and guests can sing to popular songs of all genres and decades on the main stage. Turtle Creek Recovery Center is a nonprofit agency dedicated to restoring hope and opportunity to adults with cooccurring mental illnesses and an addiction. The center’s 32-bed residential program provides a safe therapeutic environment with room and board, dual diagnosis classes, recovery and relapse prevention components, counseling and case management services.

The focus is on assisting clients in managing themselves in the community. The average client stay is about 30 days. The center’s vocational program equips clients for successful job search and productive activity in the community. The housing program gives clients information and referrals to various housing resources in the community, with the aim of identifying available transitional, supportive, or permanent housing options. The Service Coordination Center provides information and referral to persons needing services, conducts clinical assessments, and assists in the seamless transition of clients from one program to another. Aside from karaoke, attendees can also participate in other activities such as a raffle, photo booth and fun games. Chaired by Danya Anderson and Cary Deuber. Individual tickets are $125.

Where: Edison’s When: February 24 Contact: maggiemcooke@yahoo.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Cowboys and Cowboys Gala Benefit for Sky Ranch ✯

The 5th Annual Cowboys and Cowboys Sky Ranch Gala Committee is “saddling up” for one of the most exciting and entertaining chic western events in North Texas. The western chic affair set for Saturday, February 25 at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel. The gala committee, chaired by Mary Denton Meier and her team of volunteers and Sky Ranch supporters promise an incredible evening of wonderful dining and entertainment, along with exciting live and silent auctions.

Where: The Fairmont When: February 25 Contact: tamoram@skyranch.org

Eye Ball 2012

UT Southwestern “Prevent Blindness” ✯

The annual black tie “A Night for Sight” will take place at the Adolphus Hotel.

The evening benefits the OIphtalmology Department at UT Southwestern and also Blindness Texas. The benefit will help pay for research into agerelated eye diseases at UT Southwestern, and the education and screening programs at Prevent Blindness. UT Southwestern ophthalmologists treat about 2,000 patients with macular degeneration each year. Ticket price is $300 per person.

Where: The Adolphus When: February 25 Contact: Linda Ziegler, 214-528-5521 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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SOCIETY

Kids Just Wanna Have Fun Children’s Medical Center Benefit The Fairmont ✯

“An Evening with Cyndi Lauper” raised major funds for Children’s Medical in December. What a wonderful way to kick off the holiday season. Janelle and Larry Friedman, philanthropists, chaired the well-attended event while famed singer Cyndi Lauper entertained. Children’s Medical Center is one of the largest pediatric health care providers in the country.

About 570,000 patients visit every year; services range from simple eye exams to specialized treatment in areas such as heart disease and cystic fibrosis.

Top Co-Chairs Janelle and Larry Friedman with Performer Cyndi Lauper Center Title Sponsors Andrew and Erin Hillman Bottom Honorary Chairs Gregg and Molly Engles ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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SOCIETY Dinner in the Wild

Perot Museum of Nature and Science Fair Park ✯

More than 1,700 people turned out for the Museum’s biggest Dinner in the Wild fundraising event ever planned. Held at Fair Park, the event was chaired by Christy and Frank Scardino with Margot and Ross Perot serving as honorary co-chairs, and Highland Capital Management and Atmos Energy co-sponsoring the event. The Automobile Building had been magically transformed into an abridged version of the Perot Museum.

Guests enjoyed themselves as they viewed dinosaurs and had their photo taken alongside taxadered animals of evey kind.

Top Owen Wilson and Margot Perot Center Shelly Groves, Daryl and Diane Johnston Bottom Nicole Small, Forrest Hoglund

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SOCIETY

Cattle Barons

Holiday Party for Committee Townhouse Restaurant + Bar ✯

The Grand Opening for Townhouse Restaurant + Bar honored the Cattle Baron’s Ball committee. Townhouse is at the Galleria and opened with a lavish cocktail party in December. Skye Brewer and Kristen Johnston, Chairman of the 2012 Cattle Baron’s Ball, have announced that the 39th annual Cattle Baron’s Ball at Southfork on Saturday, September 29 will have the theme “Give Cancer The Boot!” The headline entertainment will be announced at a Reveal Party on February 9 at the new Omni Hotel in Downtown Dallas. The 2011 Cattle Baron’s Ball raised $2.9 million last Fall.

The Cattle Baron’s Ball is the largest American Cancer Society fund-raising event.

Top Sara Fay Egan and Samantha Horn Center Melissa deLeon, Susan Spain, Victor Lattanzi Bottom Co Chair Kristin Johnston, Roger Greenfield, Co-Chair Skye Brewer ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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SOCIETY Home Tour

New Friends New Life Four Park Cities Homes ✯

New Friends New Life hosted its 12th annual home tour featuring four homes on December 4th. Elizabeth Carlock Phillips chaired the event with the help of co-chairs Barbara Miers, Heather Roberts, and Leah Semones. Laura Carlock was Honorary Chair. The event raised record-breaking funds and helped bring awareness to their mission, which is to enable women to leave the degradation of the sex industry and build new lives for themselves and their children.

Top Director Katie Pedigo, Chair Elizabeth Carlock Phillips Center Kendall Schenkel, Brooke Kilburn, Pat Schenkel Bottom Elizabeth Carlock Phillips and Kevin Phillips

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SOCIETY Beat Leukemia Ball

Fab Four Provided Entertainment Hilton Anatole ✯

The Chantilly Ballroom at the Hilton Anatole, Dallas was filled to capacity as over 650 guests- many dressed in Sgt. Pepper chic- chatted with friends during the reception, enjoyed a fabulous dinner and literally stomped the packed dance floor to the rockin’ beats of The Fab Four at the 9th annual ball presented by McGladrey. The Fab Four - The Ultimate Tribute to The Beatles! is the spectacular musical show for which The Beat Leukemia Ball is renowned and patrons look forward to every year.

Top Chairs Kim Miller and Janie Condon Center Roger and Becky Hendren of McGladrey Bottom Honorary Chairs Julie and Jim Turner

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SOCIETY

Wednesday’s Child Luncheon Benefit for Foster Children Ritz Carlton Hotel ✯

More than 150 hundred guests attended the annual Hearts & Hands Alliance Luncheon. Last year the event raised $250,000 with speaker Leigh Anne Tuohy, who was portrayed by Academy Award winning actress Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. At this year’s luncheon, students from Booker T. Washington performed, and patrons bought an “Angel” to place on the designer-decorated Angel Tree. Each Angel provided a child with summer camp in 2012, a year of tutoring, or an educational scholarship.

Emcee Gloria Campos was presented with a surprise award for her years of service on behalf of Wednesday’s Child.

Top DeeDee Lee, Patsy Donosky, Holly Davis Center Naomi Pevsner and Emcee Gloria Campos Bottom Shelley Coxe and Amy Perry

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CONCERTS

they might be giants Granada Theater ✯

In support of their latest album, Join Us, They Might Be Giants bring their national tour to the Granada Theater with special guest Jonathan Coulton.

Known for their energized live show, They Might Be Giants’ tour, which kicked off in June of 2011, will span over six countries and more than 50 cities across the United states. Join Us finds John Flansburgh and John Linnell on a creative roll, making music that positively swarms with energy, invention, and an impeccable grasp of the miraculous synergy of words and music. To understand where this artistry comes from, it helps to remember They Might Be Giants’ beginnings: as a key part of the early ‘80s explosion of visual art, music, and performance art that put New York’s East Village on the cultural map. But while most cuttingedge rock at the time was bruising and nihilistic, the two Johns were making Dadaist, truly post-modern pop, forming a branch of underground music whose membership consisted entirely of themselves. “We’re fully aware of the musical worlds both to the left of us and to the right of us — we’ve heard avant garde music, we’ve heard popular music,” says Flansburgh.

“That’s given us the notion that we can be as original as we can be and still make worthwhile songs.” In 1990, They Might Be Giants created some of their greatest work and went platinum with the album Flood, containing the hit songs “Istanbul” and “Birdhouse in Your Soul.” In the ensuing 20 years, they’ve become a fully diversified institution, contributing to film and TV soundtracks, making hit DVDs, winning two Grammy awards, becoming Musical Ambassadors for International Space Year, appearing as cartoon characters, writing music for a robot ballet, topping the iTunes podcast charts, and being the subject of the acclaimed documentary Gigantic.

Genre: Alternative Rock Date: February 2 Details: www.GranadaTheater.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Riverdance

Music Hall at Fair Park ✯

Recently, the producer of Riverdance, Moya Doherty, announced that the United States touring production of the internationally-acclaimed worldwide phenomenon will close in June, 2012.

Riverdance, presented by The Dallas Pops, will play The Music Hall at Fair Park for three performances only for the last time. The show that started it all, Riverdance, has been performing in the United States since March, 1996 when it had its U.S. premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Genre: Dance Date: February 7 - 8 Details: www.RiverDance.com

Yesterday once more Meyerson Symphony Center ✯

Yesterday Once More: A Musical Tribute to the Carpenters, part of DSO’s Pops Series, is enhanced with behind the scenes stories and anecdotes of the pop culture of the ‘70s, along with the lush arrangements by Jim Brickman. Enjoy touching ballads such as “Close to You” and “We’ve Only Just Begun,” played by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The music of the Carpenters takes the audience back in time, recapturing the music an entire generation fell in love with.

Genre: Classical Date: February 9 & 12 Details: www.DallasSymphony.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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the isley brothers Music Hall at Fair Park ✯

The Legendary Isley Brothers featuring Ronald & Ernie Isley bring ‘A Night of Romance & Roses’ to the Music Hall at Fair Park with special guests Alexander O’Neal & Cherrelle. With a mix of R&B, soul and funk the Isley Brothers have been making music for decades, cranking out hits like “Shout” and “That Lady.” They are the only musical act to have at least one Hot 100 hit in each of six consecutive decades: the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

Genre: R&B Date: February 10 Details: www.TicketMaster.com

The Chieftains Bass Hall ✯

With a career that spans forty-eight years and forty-five albums, The Chieftains bring their style of Celtic music to Bass Hall. Not only are the Chieftains Ireland’s premier musical ambassadors but also the most enduring and influential creative force in establishing the international appeal of Celtic music.

The group’s first four albums, recorded between 1963 and 1974, established their worldwide reputation even as the group continued to perform on a semiprofessional basis.

Genre: Irish Folk Date: February 28 Details: www.BassHall.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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kelly clarkson Verizon Theatre ✯

Kelly Clarkson brings her highly anticipated Stronger Tour to Verizon Theatre in support of her fifth studio album, Stronger, which was released on October 24. The first leg of her world tour kicked off with a North American 40 plus city trek beginning in Mashantucket, CT on January 13, with special guest Matt Nathanson. The album, Stronger, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 and #2 on the Digital Albums Chart. All five of Kelly’s albums have debuted in the Top 3. The first single, “Mr. Know It All” has reached #4 on the iTunes Singles Chart and marks Kelly’s ninth Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Kelly recently won a Country Music Association award for Musical Event of the Year with Jason Aldean, for their hit single “Don’t You Wanna Stay.” Entertainment Weekly calls Stronger, “a breakup album for the ages” while Billboard states, “she’s in her strongest form yet on fifth album Stronger.” The New York Times claims, “Ms. Clarkson is turning into the Mary J. Blige of pop.” “The whole album is very much about strength and empowerment, so ‘Stronger’ felt like the perfect title,” Clarkson says. “Plus that song is just a gold mine — it’s a little bit pop, a little bit pop-rock, a little bit urban, a little bit dance, and it ties everything in. And everybody loves that message. ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ It’s a perfect representation of my life.” Since bursting onto the music scene 10 years ago, Kelly Clarkson has released five studio albums (Thankful, Breakaway, My December, All I Ever Wanted, Stronger), sold over 20 million albums worldwide, 10 million albums in the U.S. and has had nine singles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. She is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two MTV Awards, one Country Music Association Award and 11 Billboard Awards.

Genre: Pop Date: February 10 Details: www.Ticketmaster.com

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THE Band of heathens Bass Hall ✯

Austin’s popular alt-country outfit The Band of Heathens will play an acoustic concert at the intimate McDavid Studio. The band is celebrating the release of this year’s critically acclaimed album, Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster’s Son. Since emerging as a favorite new live band out of Austin, TX in the late 2000s, The Band of Heathens have taken that famous Austin quality and authenticity to the whole nation. The quintet has toured relentlessly and has been fortunate enough to land on some of the finest stages in Rock and Roll and roots music. Over three studio albums and hundreds of shows, they’ve evolved as a group and broadened their sound. Their most recent disc Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster’s Son spiked the already potent punch with a dash of jammy psychedelia. And the rich and righteous vocal harmonies that set TBoH apart from the beginning have just gotten better. The band got its start in late 2005 when a group of likeminded songwriters established residency gigs on the same night of the week at Momo’s, a club on Austin’s famous Sixth Street. Friendship, sit-ins and harmony jags gelled into something quite rare: a band with multiple front-men, each with enough humility and passion to invest in the larger project. The Band of Heathens were honored as Best New Band at the Austin Music Awards in 2007 and nominated as New and Emerging Artist or Group in 2008 and Best Duo or Group in 2009 by the Americana Music Awards. The Band of Heathens continues to be distinguished by creative collaboration and their epic live shows, which have earned them a strong fanbase of folks who appreciate a good jam, but crave a great song. It is truly a band that needs to evolve to survive, and the fans have rewarded that growth at every turn.

Genre: Alt Country Date: February 3 Details: www.BassHall.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Meyerson Symphony Center ✯

Sensational showpieces include Tchaikovsky’s most dramatic and deeply personal work in performances recorded live, adding to Jaap van Zweden’s impressive legacy of CDs featuring Tchaikovsky’s greatest masterworks.

“Short Ride in a Fast Machine” by John Adams and Prokofiev’s “Piano Concerto No. 3” played by Severin von Eckardstein are also included on the program. A Casual Fridays performance will have an early start time with no intermission.

Genre: Classical Date: February 16-19 Details: www.DallasSymphony.com

Chris brubeck’s triple play Eisemann Center ✯

Presented in partnership with the University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts & Humanities, Chris Brubeck’s Triple Play is the name given to three versatile musicians, Peter Madcat Ruth (on harmonica, guitar, jaw harp, percussion and vocals), Joel Brown (folk and classical acoustic guitar and vocals) and Chris Brubeck (electric bass, bass trombone, piano and vocals). Collectively, they bring virtuosity and joy to the folk, blues, jazz and classical music they perform.

Genre: Jazz Date: Febraury 17 Details: www.EisemannCenter.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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MUSEUMS

Vaquero

Genesis of the Texas Cowboy ✯

When Texas moved into the cattle business, its cowboy adopted many of the Mexican vaquero’s accoutrements and centuries-old methodologies of working herds in big country. Signing on in the early 1970s to witness one of the last traditional roundups on Mexico’s vast Rancho Tule, Bill Wittliff fixed the vanishing vaquero tradition forever in nearly 5,000 photographs taken over a period of three years. More than 60 of the sepia-toned prints make up this show. Drawn to this land-out-oftime again and again, Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse’s back. In the tradition of the great cowboy photographer Erwin Smith, Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the pages of this book. Here you’ll find photographs that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse to the saddle. Bill Wittliff, of Austin, Texas, is a distinguished photographer and writer whose photographs have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Cofounder, with his wife, Sally, of the highly regarded Encino Press, he is also a past president and Fellow of the Texas Institute of Letters and a recent recipient of the Texas Book Festival Bookend Award. As a screen writer and producer, his credits include The Perfect Storm, The Black Stallion, Legends of the Fall, Lonesome Dove, and others.

Museum: Irving Arts Center Exhibition: Closes February 26 Details: www.IrvingArtsCenter.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Geometric Artists Circle Internationally Focused Exhibition ✯

This internationally focused exhibition will feature the works of seven geometric artists who collectively represent seven different areas of the world, including works by: Muneki Suzuki, representing Japan; Linzee Inkster, representing the art of New Zealand; Hernan Jara, showing works from Ecuador; William Barbosa, Venezuela; Joao Galvao, representing Brazil; Ines Silva, who will be representing the United States; and Josef Linschinger of Germany.

Museum: Geometric Madi Museum Exhibition: Recently Opened Details: www.GeometricMadiMuseum.org

Qiu Anxiong

Animated Narratives ✯

This exhibition of work by emerging Shanghai-based artist Qiu Anxiong includes acrylic paintings and video art.

Qiu’s videos are created by a stop-motion animation technique in which he brings to life images from his paintings.

Together they offer insight into Qiu’s process. They illustrate how he creates an image in paint, how it evolves, is recorded and its final result as part of an ever-changing series of images. The result is a series of hauntingly beautiful images.

Museum: Crow Collection of Asian Art Exhibition: Closes February 5 Details: www.CrowCollection.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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At the Controls

A Smithsonian Institution Exhibition ✯

From the simplicity of the 100-year-old Blériot Model XI to the complex flight deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia, Museum visitors can get a pilot’s-eye view of the world’s most significant aircraft and space vehicles through 22 images of the most famous cockpits in flight history. Measuring approximately 4 by 7 feet, the images depict in rich and precise detail the evolution of the controls, instruments and displays used to fly a variety of significant airplanes and spacecraft.

Museum: Frontiers of Flight Exhibition: Closes March 31 Details: www.FlightMuseum.com

Changing the Face of Power Women in the US Senate ✯

This exhibition features a series of photographs by Melina Mara, who began photographing the thirteen women in the U.S. Senate in 2001. She continued to document these Senators as their number grew to fourteen in 2003.

At a time when access to national politicians was increasingly controlled, Mara persuaded a majority of the senators to allow her to document the unprecedented role of women in the Senate, both behind the scenes as well as public appearances.

Museum: Irving Arts Center Exhibition: Opens February 4 Details: www.IrvingArtsCenter.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Nigel Cooke Solo Exhibition ✯

The solo show by the prominent British artist Nigel Cooke consists mainly of works that belong to the Goss-Michael collection and local collectors. Cooke’s paintings construct a dark and melancholic world. At its core, Cooke’s work is an allegorical conception of creativity and production as ambivalent human traits, played out in a deeply psychologized landscape populated by disaffected artists, philosophers, and a host of anthropomorphized and dejected foodstuffs. Throughout all Cooke’s work, this sort of foolish characterization embodies a ridiculing of the vanities of artistic production, while at the same time celebrating its creative capacity for intellectual renewal, visionary thought and self-criticism. Throughout all Cooke’s work, this sort of foolish characterization embodies a ridiculing of the vanities of artistic production, while at the same time celebrating its creative capacity for intellectual renewal, visionary thought and self-criticism.

Yet with all the sense of uncertainty and incapacity that Cooke describes in his paintings, their coming to be is the result of his own tireless grappling with the material and conceptual dimensions of painting. Cooke demonstrates a technical faculty and deftness of painterly touch that is at complete odds with the pathetic, hackneyed paintings, books and sculptures created by the subjects and characters, which appear in various guises within the paintings themselves. Cooke’s restless intellect has always fed continuous progression, and this exhibition presents an opportunity to survey key points in the different developmental phases of Cooke’s image making, conceptual structures, and narrative world.

Nigel Cooke was born in Manchester in 1973 and lives in London.

Museum: Goss Michael Foundation Exhibition: Closes February 18 Details: www.GossMichaelFoundation.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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MUSEUMS

The Invention Of Glory

Alfonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries ✯

This exhibition is comprised of a set of four fifteenth-century tapestries that have been preserved since at least the seventeenth century at the Collegiate Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Pastrana in the Spanish province of Guadalajara. Known collectively as the Pastrana tapestries, these masterfully woven creations were produced in the Tournai workshops in Belgium during the last quarter of the fifteenth century. It is not known for certain how these tapestries made their way to Pastrana; the leading theory is that they were given to King Philip II of Spain by Rui Gomes da Silva (151673), prince of Éboli (and later the first duke of Pastrana), around the time of the union of the kingdom of Spain and Portugal. Prized for their technical execution, the sumptuous materials employed in their creation, and their monumental scale (reaching to 36 feet in length and 13 feet in height), the Pastrana tapestries are above all rare in terms of subject matter. While most tapestries of the period featured biblical or mythological subjects, the Pastrana tapestries are some of the few extant examples that depict contemporaneous events – the conquest of the North African cities of Asilah and Tangier by Afonso V (1432-81), King of Portugal. Commissioned by Afonso V, the Pastrana tapestries must have been created soon after the victorious Portuguese expeditions into North Africa from drawings based on oral or written descriptions of the events.

The tapestries display in magnificent detail the multitude of soldiers, carracks, armor, cannons, and firearms.

In the three Asilah cycle tapestries, ubiquitous standards pay homage to Portugal, while the banners bearing the rodízio espargindo gotas [the wheel spraying drops] are the personal emblem of Afonso V. Museum: Meadows Museum at SMU Exhibition: Opens February 5 Details: www.SMU.EDU/Meadows ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Fabled Journeys Three-Part Exhibition ✯

The first section of the East Asian portion of the exhibition presents selected paintings, carved jades, and porcelain sculpture inspired by Taoism, which developed in China. Another focus of the exhibition is journeys figured in images of women. The third section features large ceramic horses and camels made for journeys into the afterlife in burial tombs. They are emblems of China’s expansion into Central and western Asia during the Han and Tang dynasties.

Museum: Crow Collection of Asian Art Exhibition: Closes August 5, 2012 Details: www.CrowCollection.com

Planet Shark Predator or Prey ✯

This exhibition takes you through the myths and facts which have surrounded sharks for centuries. Every aspect of the shark, from evolution and biology to popular culture, are examined.

You’ll gain a whole new level of respect for the ocean’s oldest and deadliest predator. One of nature’s oldest and most feared creatures, the shark is also one of the most misunderstood.

This informative exhibition attempts to illustrate why these predators are necessary for life on Planet Earth.

Museum: Museum of Nature and Science Exhibition: Closes September 16 Details: www.NatureAndScience.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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GALLERIES

Charles Cramer Illuminated Prints ✯

Charles Cramer is one of the finest contemporary photographers in the world and has been photographing the landscape for over 30 years. In the estimation of many critics and aficionados he is one of the top photographers in the world today. Only when you see his prints in person, and experience their brilliance and sharpness, do you fully appreciate them. Cramer was one of a select group of photographers chosen to photograph the Australian island of Tasmania in 2008 as part of “Adobe Lightroom Tasmania Adventure!” He has been profiled in View Camera, PhotoTechniques, and Photo Vision Magazines and is featured in the books “First Light: Five Photographers Explore Yosemite’s Wilderness” and “Landscape: The World’s Top Photographers.” Cramer is universally recognized as a master printer and his exquisite prints are held in collections throughout the world. In addition to being an outstanding photographer, he is in great demand as an instructor, presenting interactive lecture and demonstration, and teaching on topics such as the optimization of images for printing for the prestigious Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops and many others.

Gallery: Sun To Moon Exhibition: Closes February 11 Details: www.SunToMoon.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Sublimation Simulacrum Angel Fernandez and Kit Reisch ✯

Angel Fernandez draws inspiration for art from religion; both Catholicism and Jehovah’s Witness. According to Fernandez, the work “is a sublimation of the repressed aspects of the artist’s childhood. It narrates a personal mythology of self-fulfillment and creation composed of childhood and adult experiences through the use of festive forms and colors.” Installation artist, Kit Reisch, practices the art of simulacrum by pairing real objects with artificial contexts.

Gallery: Cohn Drennan Contemporary Exhibition: Cloese February 11 Details: www.CohnDrennanContemporary.com

Bryan Florentin Inscrutable Evidence ✯

This exhibition examines the contradiction between that which is incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized and that which tends to prove or disprove something. Through photographs and objects, he confronts the possibilities of containers and their contents and the instances in which one becomes the other or at least the difference between the two is blurred.

Both container and contents are subject to various forms of damage.

Gallery: Kirk Hopper Fine Art Exhibition: Closes February 11 Details: www.KirkHopperFineArt.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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GALLERIES

Hathorn, McCall and Kary Trio Exhibition ✯

This trio exhibition features works by John Hathorn, Linda McCall and Norman Kary. Hathorn creates oil and charcoal on canvas works that speak to the significance of writers and artists who serve as mentors and in many cases, offer a response to their work.

McCall focuses her works on figures in gathering places in an attempt to capture a feeling of intrigue or mystery.

Kary creates works that were inspired by dreams as well as works of art that center around the theme of “balance.”

Gallery: Craighead Green Exhibition: Closes February 11 Details: www.CraigheadGreen.com

Eric Eley

Coincident Disruption ✯

This large scale installation employs historical camouflage strategies and impromptu construction techniques to create an aerial landscape. A network of patterned skeletal structures will be suspended from the ceiling, supporting an expanse of hand-made twine and fabric nets. Its improvisational architecture is a means to obscure what happens in the space beyond, rather than below, the surface. In doing so, the visual is explored as an act of faith.

Gallery: McKinney Avenue Contemporary Exhibition: Closes February 18 Details: www.The-MAC.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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GALLERIES

An Archive Of Shadows Andrew Douglas Underwood ✯

Andrew Douglas Underwood is among a new wave of artists pioneering the act of research as a means to creation.

His first solo exhibition, Archive of Shadows, utilizes his unique approach to research and unifies it into a compilation of folio boxes, books and framed works of photographs, maps, drawings, texts and diagrams as discrete dossiers. The archives provide fragmented historical and literary vignettes that are arranged to suggest that there could be a mystery to solve or a story to uncover. His research-based artistic practice explores historic vignettes, examines the notion of perfection, and questions the possibility of objectivity.

The museum-esque presentation of the work intrinsically implies, “The mementos collected here are of historic significance.” Also, like a museum, the act of collecting naturally integrates with a practice of creating archives of information. Where this collection diverges from the institutional and the quantitative is in the emotional reaction to the vignettes. For those willing to slow down and engage with the work, the reward is an involvement with a romantic moment from history.

Gallery: Mildred Hawn Gallery Exhibition: Closes February 5 Details: www.SMU.edu ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Inch By Inch Du Chau ✯

Noted Space introduces Du Chau’s selected works. Du Chau was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1981. He pursued a medical career in laboratory medicine and is currently a Pathology Technical Coordinator at Methodist Hospital of Dallas.

After taking art classes at Brookhaven College, he took a sabbatical from his medical career to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and a Master of Fine Arts at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York. Du Chau’s works are in the collections of the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, Alfred, New York; the Dallas County Community College District Service Center, Mesquite, Texas; Mountain View College, Dallas; and Brookhaven College, Dallas. Du Chau has been a lecturer at Southern Methodist University and at The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art. He has also been a visiting professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. He participated in selected exhibitions such as the Brookhaven Faculty Exhibition and the Fosdick Nelson Gallery in Alfred, New York. The artist says of his work, “Repetition is a way of learning, a way of life and a will to live. I commit to the same activity in order to see different parts of myself.

Just as the ground nurtures the seed until it sprouts, my mind holds onto a feeling until it grows and deepens.”

Among others, Chau has been awarded with a Fellowship from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, a Presidential Scholarship, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and the Marianne Maple Miller Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.

Gallery: Kirk Hopper Fine Art Exhibition: Closes February 11 Details: www.KirkHopperFineArt.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Walter Nelson

Graffiti on Aspen Trees – Nature vs. Man ✯

This exhibition of photographs by Walter Nelson, investigates man’s presence and effect on nature. The act of scaring on aspen trees, inflicted by nature or man, begins with the slightest scratch. Arboglyphs, the images found on the bark of an Aspen tree, were first produced by Basque sheepherders in the 1800s. During the life cycle of an Aspen tree, any scaring brings about a mutational healing process that continues until the tree beings to deteriorate C and die.

Gallery: McKinney Avenue Contemporary Exhibition: Closes February 18 Details: www.The-MAC.org

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Poster and Collage Exhibition ✯

Austin-based artist Failure presents his first major exhibition at Dallas Contemporary. Failure has been painting grafitti outdoors since 1993 and began with the Failure poster imagery in the early 2000s in Houston. He presents an exhibition of wheat paste posters with spray paint and collage. Failure is the founder and Editor of PureFilth Magazine, a quarterly fine art photography journal and also currently serves as the Art Director for MadGods clothing.

Gallery: Dallas Contemporary Exhibition: Closes March 18 Details: www.DallasContemporary.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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THEATER

bring it on: the musical Dallas Summer Musicals ✯

Bring It On: The Musical is the explosive new musical comedy that raises the stakes on over-the-top team rivalries. Set against the world of competitive cheerleading, this powerhouse new show hilariously proves that winning isn’t everything when it means losing something - or someone - you really care about. Bring It On: The Musical unites some of the freshest and funniest creative minds on Broadway, including Tony Award®-winning writer Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q); Tony Award®winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights); Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning composer Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) and lyricist Amanda Green (High Fidelity); Tony Award®winning orchestrator Alex Lacamoire (In The Heights); and Tony Award®winning director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler (In The Heights). The production is produced by Universal Pictures Stage Productions/Glenn Ross; Beacon Communications/Armyan Bernstein and Charlie Lyons; and Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson, Executive Producers. Beacon and Universal have partnered over the past decade to produce the popular series of Bring It On films. This new musical comedy combines an exciting fresh sound, gravity-defying choreography, and a thrilling story to create a show worth cheering for.

Theater: Music Hall at Fair Park Performance: February 14-26 Details: www.DallasSummerMusicals.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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THEATER

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE Theatre Too ✯

Celebrating its 10 year anniversary, Theatre Three’s mega-hit production returns for a limited engagement with all performances in Theatre Too, Theatre Three’s intimate downstairs playspace. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is the hilarious musical revue about all of love’s greatest challenges: dating, sex, marriage, and family life. The theater is happy to have original cast member, Carrie Slaughter, reprise her role.

Theater: Theatre Too Performance: Closes February 14 Details: www.Theatre3Dallas.com

GIANT

DallasTheaterCenter ✯

A sprawling love story as big as Texas in the form of a musical. In 1922, Bick, a rich cattleman, marries Leslie. Bick is focused on working the family ranch, Reatta, but exhibits bigotry against Mexicans. Leslie and Bick have a son who grows up and marries a Mexican woman. Meanwhile Leslie has become involved in trying to help downtrodden Mexican American workers while Bick struggles to accept both his son’s choice and his wife’s desire to help those he dislikes.

Theater: Charles and Dee Wyly Theatre Performance: Closes February 19 Details: www.DallasTheaterCenter.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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THEATER

Time In Kafka Undermain Theatre ✯

When an American college professor is visited by the spirit of Franz Kafka, he is launched on an international adventure in search of a lost manuscript. His pursuit takes him on a hurtling journey, slipping back in time to a mysterious sanatorium on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy. There he must confront a shadowy parade of uncanny figures from a wandering military general to a tarot-reading princess. It’s a fantasia of literature, dreams, obsessions and Kafka.

Theater: Undermain Theatre Performance: Opens February 18 Details: www.Undermain.org

Death By Chocolate Garland Civic Theatre ✯

Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are dropping like flies from poisoned chocolate delights. It’s not the best advertisement for the eve of the resort’s grand reopening. It’s all up to manager John Stone and amateur sleuth, mystery writer Ed Parlor, to save the day in a wacky race against time! The sinister, sweet chocolates are at the center of the murders surrounded by outlandish suspects. This comedy will hold audiences all the way to its finish line!

Theater: Garland Civic Theatre Performance: Closes February 11 Details: www.GarlandCivicTheatre.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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THEATER

Tristan & Isolde The Dallas Opera ✯

Love and death are inexorably intertwined in this opera based upon an ancient Celtic legend. In Tristan & Isolde, Richard Wagner, through music, shaped radical philosophical ideals about desire, sacrifice, and redemption into a groundbreaking work of art that continues to influence composers, worldwide. This intense drama is sparked by a chance meeting and a powerful potion that drives a Cornish knight and an Irish princess, the wife of his mentor and king, into each other’s arms, creating a fiery love triangle that can only be consummated in death.

The opera was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on June 10, 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting. Widely acknowledged as one of the peaks of the operatic repertory, Tristan was notable for Wagner’s advanced use of chromaticism, tonality, orchestral colour and harmonic suspension. The opera was profoundly influential among Western classical composers and provided inspiration to composers such as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Karol Szymanowski, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. Many see Tristan as the beginning of the move away from conventional harmony and tonality, and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20th century. The Dallas Opera has assembled an extraordinary cast for this once-in-a-lifetime concert experience, featuring projections by Elaine McCarthy, the creator of special video effects for the critically acclaimed world premiere of Moby-Dick. The Joy and Ronald Mankoff Pre-Opera Talks for Tristan & Isolde will be given by Christopher Anderson one hour before each performance in Hamon Hall at the Winspear Opera House. Each performance is sung in German with English supertitles.

Theater: Winspear Opera House Performance: February 16-25 Details: www.DallasOpera.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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THEATER

WOMEN FULLY CLOTHED

Eisemann Center For Performing Arts ✯

Robin Duke, Jayne Eastwood, Kathryn Greenwood, and Teresa Pavlinek make up this unique comic collaboration. Whether exploring mother/ daughter relationships, cross-border shopping, board room banter or craft shows, these women treat their audiences to uproarious sketches and razor-sharp songs. Robin Duke is best known for her work on the comedy series SCTV and for her three years at Saturday Night Live. She has appeared in many films, most notably Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, and Club Paradise. Jane Eastwood got her start in performing after being cast in the cult Canadian film Going Down the Road. Jayne continued to make a name for herself in the theatre scene in Toronto, and became one of the founding members of The Second City Toronto. Kathryn Greenwood has enjoyed sold out houses across the globe as co-creator/writer/performer of the critically acclaimed stage show Women Fully Clothed. On television she starred as Grace Bailey on Wind at My Back and had the good fortune to be a recurring guest on ABC’s hit, Whose Line Is It Anyway.

Teresa Pavlinek was a member of The Second City for four years during which time she wrote and performed in three Dora-nominated shows. Her first two plays, Dumplings and Death, and Hot August Night have been produced in Toronto and New York.

Theater: Bank of America Theatre Performance: February 9-12 Details: www.EisemannCenter.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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THEATER

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Kitchen Dog Theater ✯

Hannah is trying desperately to hold the facade of her perfect life together, even as her husband mysteriously calls in sick to work day after day. The couple struggles with infertility and Hannah, herself, is on the verge of being laid off. When her sister appears on their doorstep, she brings with her a feisty, renegade attitude and an illicit package that sends the family on an odyssey into some of the quirkier corners of Minneapolis and into the heart of their deepest fears.

Theater: Kitchen Dog Theater Performance: February 3-March 3 Details: www.KitchenDogTheater.org

The Farnsworth Invention Theatre Three ✯

The year is 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called “television.”

Separated by two thousand miles, each knows that if he stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge. Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy? The answer comes to life in this new play from Aaron Sorkin.

Theater: Theatre Three Performance: Closes March 17 Details: www.Theatre3Dallas.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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CINEMA

journey 2

Dwayne Johnson / Vanessa Hudgens ✯

In this follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit Journey to the Center of the Earth, the new 3D adventure begins when 17-year-old Sean Anderson receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. Unable to stop him from going, Sean’s new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island.

Director: Brad Peyton Rated: PG - Language Opens: February 10

the vow

Rachel McAdams / Channing Tatum ✯

Paige and Leo (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum) are a happy newlywed couple whose lives are changed by a car accident that puts Paige in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, Paige has no memory of Leo, a confusing relationship with her parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange), and an ex-fiancé (Scott Speedman) she may still have feelings for. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

Director: Michael Sucsy Rated: PG-13 - Partial Nudity Opens: February 10 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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ImPaCtfUL. SOLiD. aRTIStiC.

big miracle

Drew Barrymore / John Krasinski ✯

Inspired by the incredible true story that united the world, the rescue adventure Big Miracle tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter (played by John Krasinski) and an animal-loving volunteer (played by Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Local newsman Adam Carlson (Krasinski) can’t wait to escape the northern tip of Alaska for a bigger market. But just when the story of his career breaks, the world comes chasing it, too. With an oil tycoon, heads of state and hungry journalists descending upon the frigid outpost, the one who worries Adam the most is Rachel Kramer (Barrymore). Not only is she an outspoken environmentalist, she’s also his ex-girlfriend. With time running out, Rachel and Adam must rally an unlikely coalition of Inuit natives, oil companies and Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales. As the world’s attention turns to the top of the globe, saving these endangered animals becomes a shared cause for nations entrenched against one another and leads to a momentary thaw in the Cold War. Big Miracle is based on the book Freeing the Whales by Tom Rose. The film also starts Kristen Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Tim Blake Nelson, Vinessa Shaw and Ted Danson. This heartwarming rescue/adventure film is written by Jack Amiel (The Shaggy Dog) and is directed by Ken Kwapis (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants).

Director: Ken Kwapis Rated: PG- Mild Language Opens: February 3 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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SAFE HOuse

Denzel Washington / Ryan Reynolds ✯

Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds star in the action-thriller Safe House. Washington plays the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he’s remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (played by Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead. For the past year, Matt Weston has been frustrated by his inactive, backwater post in Cape Town. A “housekeeper” who aspires to be a full-fledged agent, the loyal company man has been waiting for an opportunity to prove himself.

When the first and only occupant he’s had proves to be the most dangerous man he’s ever met, Weston readies for duty. Tobin Frost has eluded capture for almost a decade. One of the best ops men that the CIA’s known, the ex-intelligence officer has given up assets and sold military intel to anyone with cash since he turned. From trading secrets to North Korea to aiding splinter cells, the damage he’s done to the U.S. is immeasurable. And he’s now back on the reservation with a secret. As soon as Frost is brought in for debriefing, mercenaries come and tear apart Weston’s safe house. Barely escaping, the unlikely partners must discover if their attackers have been sent by terrorists or someone on the inside who will kill anyone standing in the way. Now it’s up to Weston to figure out who he can trust before they’re both eliminated from the game. Safe House is directed by Daniel Espinosa and written by David Guggenhiem.

Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Ruben Blades, Robert Patrick and Nora Arnezeder also star in this action/thriller.

Director: Daniel Espinosa Rated: R - Violence Opens: February 10 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Ghost Rider: Spirit of vengeance Nicolas Cage / Idris Elba ✯

Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze in the sequel to Ghost Rider. Johnny is still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter and is hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe. The opportunity of saving a young boy from the devil presents itself, and Johnny must make the decision to embrace the power of the Ghost Rider. He soon realizes that it is the only way to save the boy and rid himself of the curse forever.

Director: Mark Neveldine Rated: PG-13 - Violence Opens: February 17

THIN ICE

Greg Kinnear / Billy Crudup ✯

Mickey Prohaska (Greg Kinnear) is a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission.

But Mickey’s attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith (Billy Crudup) with a volatile temper dramatically ups the stakes, trapping him in a madcap spiral of deceit and double-crossing.

Director: Jill Sprecher Rated: R - Violence Opens: February 17 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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in darkness

Robert Wieckiewicz/ Benno Furmann ✯

Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland, struggles to make ends meet for his wife and daughter. His friend, Bortnik, a high-living Ukrainian Officer, dangles the promise of a better life: all Socha has to do is find Jews hiding in the sewers. After all, no one knows the system better than Socha, who uses it as a hiding place for his loot.

Soon enough, Socha comes across a motley group of Jews trying to escape the upcoming liquidation of the Lvov ghetto by hiding in the sewers.

They offer Socha money to protect them. Although he is aware that helping a Jew could mean immediate execution for him and his family, Socha sees this as easy cash and they strike a deal. One of the group, Mundek Margulies, a con man who hides deep reserves of courage under a breezy manner, deeply distrusts Socha. Nevertheless, when the Nazis strike, Socha helps the Jews, including two young children, escape into the sewers. Socha’s challenges are just beginning, as he tries to stay one step ahead of Bortnik’s growing suspicions that he is hiding a secret. Before long, his fragile tightrope begins to fray. His charges start to crack under the immense strain of life underground. Socha weighs the money he’s receiving against the threat of certain death to himself and his family. Buckling under the pressure, he abandons them. However, powerful circumstances intervene. Socha saves Mundek’s life by helping him kill a German soldier. Then, stumbling upon the two children wandering lost and dazed in the sewers, he realizes that he cannot desert these people.

Inevitably the Jews’ money runs out.

But now there’s no turning back.

Socha buys them food with his own money, moving them from one chamber to another, protecting them.

Director: Agnieszka Holland Rated: R - Violence Opens: February 10 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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CINEMA

this means war

Reese Witherspoon / Chris Pine ✯

The world’s deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends (played by Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) until they fall for the same woman (played by Reese Witherspoon).

Having once helped bring down entire enemy nations, they are now employing their incomparable skills and an endless array of high-tech gadgetry against their greatest nemesis ever each other. This Means War is directed by McG (Terminator Salvation and We Are Marshall).

Director: McG Rated: PG -13 - Violence Opens: February 17

good deeds

Tyler Perry / Gabrielle Union ✯

A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done what’s expected of him, whether it’s assuming the helm of his father’s company, or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiancée. But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey, a downon-her-luck single mother. When he offers to help her get back on her feet, the chance encounter with someone so far outside his usual circle ignites something in Wesley.

Director: Tyler Perry Rated: PG-13 - Language Opens: February 24 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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EVENTS

mardi gras parade Lake Dallas ✯

DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY

A Gershwin Valentine PRESENTS

Jeff Hellmer, Piano & Conductor George Gershwin, Piano

Tuesday, February 14 8:00 pm Meyerson Symphony Center

For more information,

call 214-428-2263 www.dws.org

A ‘Big Easy’ style parade will roll down the streets of Lake Dallas and the distinctive sounds of New Orleans jazz will fill the air on ‘Fat Tuesday,’ February 21, 2012. Lake Dallas City Hall will transform its grounds into a family-friendly town party beginning at 5 p.m. The Nawlin’s Gumbo Kings will be the headline evening entertainment with their New Orleans style of jazz that’s a local favorite to cut loose and enjoy. Lake Dallas is the birth place of the Gumbo Kings and the City anxiously awaits their annual return back home. Mardi Gras costumes and crawfish eating will be a crowd favorite as well as the announcements of the parade and youth Mardi Gras mask contest winners during the evening.

The Lake Dallas 2012 Mardi Gras Mask Contest challenges youth to design their own Mardi Gras mask. Top three selected winners will receive a cash prize, certificate and an invitation to ride with Lake Dallas’ Mayor Tony Marino in the ‘Big Easy’ parade. Contest entry is free and open to all ages that mask their identity in a family-friendly costume exhibiting the Mardi Gras spirit. Judging is based on creativity, style and how well your identity is concealed. A vendor market, great food including Cajun favorites and fun for the children are all planned for the 2012 Mardi Gras carnival.

Venue: City of Lake Dallas Events: February 21 Details: www.LakeDallas.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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What Is a Girly-Girl Lecture / Symposium ✯

Author Peggy Orenstein will discuss the “girly-girl” culture aimed at preschool children and how it has morphed into something much more allconsuming and aggressive than many former girls may remember from their youth. “Girls are being encouraged to embrace this culture with an unprecedented amount of sophisticated marketing at a younger and younger age,” said Orenstein. “When we talk about body issues and self-esteem issues, the girls are getting younger.”

Venue: The Dallas Institute of Humanities Event: February 1 Details: www.DallasInstitute.org

Dallas Winter Boat Show Watercraft Exhibition and Trade Show ✯

The Dallas International Boat Show is a place for Texans to shop a comprehensive selection of boats and well as fishing, hunting and camping equipment. A wide array of exhibitors will be on hand showing the latest styles of fishing boats, cabin cruisers, catamarans, yachts, sailboats and personal watercrafts such at Jet Skis. In addition to vessels, boating enthusiasts can also view boat lifts, designs from dock vendors, compare boating resort and marina properties.

Venue: Dallas Market Hall Event: February 3-5 & 9-12 Details: www.DallasBoatShow.net ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Valentine’s Cruise Lake Lewisville ✯

Couples are invited to celebrate their love on this romantic cruise around Lake Lewisville aboard the Star of Texas. This two and a half hour evening cruise will feature live musical entertainment and live a comedy performance. A formal three-course dinner will be included in the package as well as a cash bar, onboard gift shop for last minute Valentine’s gifts, a photo studio and a chance to serenade your loved one while performing with the band.

Venue: Sneaky Pete’s Event: February 11 Details: www.ArisPop.com

Arts and Letters Live Richard Mason & Amor Towles ✯

South African–born writer Richard Mason’s fourth novel, “History of a Pleasure Seeker,” is set at the height of Europe’s Belle Époque in bourgeois Amsterdam. He tells the story of Piet Barol, a handsome young man in his twenties who secures a position as a tutor in a prominent household, and his entry into a world of moneyed glamour and dangerous temptations. Longtime New Yorker Amor Towles’ first novel, “Rules of Civility,” begins in the final hours of 1937 on New Year’s Eve. Venue: Horchow Auditorium Event: February 17 Details: www.DallasMuseumOfArt.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Dallas Autorama

Vintage & Collector Car Show ✯

The 52nd annual O’Reilly Auto Parts AutoRama® of Dallas will host some of America’s finest hot rods, customs, trucks and motorcycles at the Dallas Market Hall from Friday, February 17, through Sunday, February 19. Enthusiasts will be greeted by local and national celebrities, a unique collection of custom-built cars and a dynamic action arena. The O’Reilly Auto Parts AutoRama is sanctioned by the International Show Car Association (ISCA) and is part of the Summit Racing Show Car Series. Movie buffs will have the chance to check out the Chevrolet Transformers 3 Camaro, that was custom built for the filming of ‘Transformers 3.’ Other celebrities making appearances at this year’s AutoRama include WWE World Champion Rey Mysterio, Billy Bretherton from “Billy the Exterminator,” and Texas Rangers mascot, Rangers Captain. Dean Jefferies’ Mantaray, an iconic bubble top form the 1960s with a revolutionary frame, and the BASF 1957 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, redesigned by Chip Foose, will also be exhibited. An exciting addition to this year’s event is the Pinstriper Panel Jam & Charity Auction. Auctions will take place on Saturday at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., as well as on Sunday at 2 p.m. All proceeds will benefit the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. “We’re proud to dedicate a section of this year’s event to help raise money for children,” said Bob Larivee, CEO of Championship Auto Show, Inc. “Attendees can purchase pinstriped panels, bowling pins and other unique items at the auctions on Saturday and Sunday, while supporting outstanding medical care for children in Texas.” Enthusiasts can also explore exhibits such as Motorama Traditional Rod & Custom Exhibit presented by Ol Skool Rodz and DRAG CITY USA’s selection of vintage racecars.

Venue: Dallas Market Hall Event: February 17-19 Details: www.AutoRama.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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DASH FOR THE BEADS Bishop Arts District ✯

The 3rd Annual Dash for the Beads will continue the tradition of supporting the beautification of the Oak Cliff area.

Dash for the Beads will consist of a 5K run, 1 mile walk, and costume contest on the morning of Saturday, February 18, 2012 in the Bishop Arts District in north Oak Cliff. This will be an outrageous and exciting event that you will not want to miss. It is dog, stroller, and family friendly! Registration begins November 1st. All proceeds from the 2012 Dash for the Beads event shall go towards FIDO Oak Cliff and their efforts to establish north Oak Cliff’s first dog park. FIDO has surveyed Oak Cliff neighborhoods to determine interest and support for a local dog park.

FIDO’s mission is to improve quality of life for Oak Cliff dogs and their owners.

Their number one objective is to create a local, community oriented dog park. It will be local gathering place, where residents can connect and build a sense of community say the group’s founders. By building a strong network of responsible dog owners and offering a local forum for posting lost and found dogs, the group hopes to curb the number of loose dogs on the streets and offer information on adoption and rescue agencies that can help.

Venue: Bishop Arts District Exhibition: February 18 Details: www.DashForTheBeads.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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AdventureAsia

Family Days at the Crow ✯

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with your family. Entertainment will be provided that is suitable for the entire family, including: feeding the dancing lion a red envelope, creating a lantern, having your face painted to look like a dragon, and trying new yoga moves with Yogiños: Yoga for Youth® family yoga inspired by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Family Days at the Crow are free and open to the public.

They typically feature live performances, story-telling, art activities and more.

Venue: Crow Collection of Asian Art Event: February 4 Details: www.CrowCollection.com

The Challenger of Dallas

Professional Men’s Tennis Tournament ✯

This year, the 13th Annual Challenger of Dallas will be awarding $100,000 and will host the top 50 players in world. This event, which attracted such international tennis champions as James Blake and David Nalbandian, has received national television coverage and all center court matches are broadcast worldwide on the web. This Pro Tour stop has become a breeding ground as 26 players who have competed in the Challenger of Dallas competed in the 2010 U.S. Open.

Venue: T Bar M Raquet Club Event: February 4-11 Details: www.TBarMTennis.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Dream Gala

March 31, The Omni Hotel

This annual benefit gala supports the programs of The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Greater Dallas. More than 800 guest are expected at this black-tie event.

Contact: 214.373.9808

Cinema 4438 mckinney ave dallas tx 214.443.0605

The Raven

March 9, John Cusak, Alice Eve

When brutal murders begin to take place in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Fields discovers that the crimes resemble a collection of stories penned by Edgar Allan Poe. This film is not yet rated.

Concerts

Doc Severinsen

March 5, Meyerson Symphony Center

Once the band leader of “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” Doc Severinsen will lead the DSO in classics by Ellington and Basie and The Tonight Show Theme.

now open Lunch on Weekends!

parking available in back

www.sushionmckinney.com

www.DallasSymphony.Com

Theater

Superior Donuts

Opens March 16, Theatre Too

This story takes place in an old lunch-counter venue, in Chicago’s Uptown section, where Mom-andPop shops end up consumed by the likes of Whole Foods and Starbucks. www.Theatre3Dallas.com

Events

Margaret Hill Bridge Celebration March 2-4, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

Party guests can experience the beauty of Santiago Calatrava’s design up close as they enjoy local foods, specialty drinks and headlining entertainment. www.MHHbridgeCelebration.com

Galleries

Bill Haveron

Closes March 31, McKinney Avenue Contemporary

Bill Haveron is an artist residing in the piney woods of East Texas. He produces both works on paper and works on wood, with raised pieces that represent pop culture. www.The-MAC.org

Museums

Youth and Beauty

Opens March 4, Dallas Museum of Art

This nationally touring exhibition features over 130 paintings, sculptures and photographs that demonstrate highly distilled images of American places and things. www.DallasMuseumOfArt.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com

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Gaga for Gaultier See it NOW—the exhibition that reviewers call

“astonishing”—Dallas Observer “magical”—“Departures Dispatch,” Departures magazine

“innovative”—“Carry On,”

Travel & Leisure magazine

“audacious and more fun than Madonna’s cone bra” —Pauline Frommer, King Features Syndicate

EXTENDED HOURS CLOSING WEEKEND Friday, February 10–Sunday, February 12 11:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.

DallasMuseumofArt.org The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk is organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier.

The exhibition in Dallas is presented by Cadillac. Additional support is provided by the DMA’s Junior Associates Circle with funds raised through An Affair of the Art 2011: Maison de la Mode: House of Fashion; NorthPark Center, Forty Five Ten; BBVA Compass; Beauté Prestige International; and Roche Bobois. Air transportation in Dallas is provided by American Airlines. Promotional support provided by Catwalk by TIGI.

Through February 12, 2012

The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Image (detail): Lady Gaga wearing Jean Paul Gaultier, Flare Magazine, 2009, © Max Abadian