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Dallas At Its Very Best MARCH 2012
The 2012 Dream Gala
Fashion Forward!
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CONTENTS EDITION NO. 36 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
RSVP • Page 6
SOCIETY• Page 12
CONCERTS • Page 18
MUSEUMS • Page 24
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CONTENTS GALLERIES • Page 30
THEATER • Page 36
CINEMA • Page 42
EVENTS • Page 48
PREVIEW • Page 54
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The Dream Gala
Benefiting Juvenile Diabetes ✯
The headliner for the Saturday, March 1st Black Tie Dream Gala this year is Bret Michaels. The exciting evening is chaired by Minnie and William Caruth, III, and will honor Stacey and Dave Johnson. The emcee is Steve Eagar. The JDRF Dallas Dream Gala is a high-profile event that attracts more than 1,200 guests, including many of Dallas’ elite philanthropists and corporations. One of the highlights of the evening is the cocktail reception and silent auction preceding dinner. The Auction Angels have been hard at work procuring and collecting auction items including jewelry, experiences, vacations, children’s items, hotel stays, gift certificates for retail stores, services and restaurants, and tickets to sporting events, concerts and live shows. All proceeds for the event support research to improve the lives of people with diabetes and work toward a cure. Diamond Sponsors are $25,000. Individual tickets are $250. Major sponsors are American Airlines, Dr. Pepper, Aimbridge, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Gold Medal Recyles. Bret Michaels, entertainer and keynote speaker, was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes at age six, and has raised hundreds of thousands for the American Diabetes Association. Mary Tyler Moore is the International Chairman. She says, “With your help, we are moving research from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside, translating scientific advances into longer, healthier lives for those with diabetes. With your help, we are moving closer to our goal ... a cure for diabetes and its complications.” Other Ways To Support The JDRF Dream Gala ·Fund A Cure - All of the donations to Fund A Cure go 100% directly to diabetes research. --Sally Blanton
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Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Opening Celebration ✯
Bridging the Trinity for the Love of the City will be a three day celebration for our newest landmark, the Santiago Calatrava designed bridge. Festivities include Lyle Lovett, bands and celebrity chefs. Committees lead by Lynn McBee have planned the event for several years. The Friends Committee Chairs are Ruth Altshuler, Gene Jones and Billie Leigh Rippey. The event is produced by The Trinity Trust Foundation. Tickets for the Friday night celebration are $200. Where Woodall Rogers Extension Bridge When March 2 - 4 Contact 214-740-1616
Raiser Grazer
Benefit for Les Dames d’Escoffier ✯
This event includes a silent auction on all things foodie, wine pulls, and food and wine served by the top female chefs in North Texas. Some members include Paula Lambert, Sharon Hage, Joanne Bondy (Old Hickory), Janice Provost (Parigi), Jill Bates (Fearing’s), Andrea Hagar, Michelle Hudson, Terri Sugamoto (Food Company), Liz Baron (Blue Mesa), Sharon Van Meter (SVM Productions) and many more. Dress is business casual. They have raised well over a million dollars for scholarships. Where Union Station When March 4 Contact karolwilson526@aol.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Attitudes & Attire Luncheon 15th Annual Fundraiser ✯
The 15th Annual Attitudes & Attire Luncheon and Fashion Show will be held on March 2, 2012 in the Grand Pavilion of the Dallas Trade Mart. This year’s fashion show will feature the latest designs and trends. The Kim Dawson Award recipient is Sarah Losinger, one of our city’s most dedicated and active philanthropic leaders. Anna de Haro, Public Affairs Director at Clear Channel Dallas/Ft. Worth will serve as Mistress of Ceremonies. Tickets are $125. Sponsorships available. Where Dallas Trade Mart When March 2 Contact Angelina at 214-746-4219
Empty Bowls
Benefit for North Texas Food Bank ✯
Dine out with friends or colleagues and enjoy the best lunch deal in town. Discerning diners can sample soups, breads and desserts from local restaurants and food purveyors in North Texas, plus select a handmade bowl created by an area artisan and listen to classical music by Young Strings. All proceeds benefit the Food Bank. Be the first to get your bowl! Tickets are $20 to $100. Tom Thumb is the presenting sponsor. Empty Bowls events are held all over the world. Where Meyerson Symphony Center When March 9 Contact kristen@ntfb.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Valentine’s Day Luncheon
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Benefit ✯
The 7th Annual Life Lessons Luncheon to benefit The Elisa Project will take place on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at 11:30 am, at The Hilton Anatole Hotel. Chaired by Robin Bagwell and Jan Osborn, this much-anticipated event helps to raise awareness about the problem of eating disorders and provides funds to support the programs and services provided by The Elisa Project, which touched the lives of more than 30,000 people in 2011. The speaker for the luncheon is noted author and educator Brad Lamm, best known for helping people make life-enhancing changes on The Dr. OZ Show. In long-term recovery from crystal meth, drug and alcohol addiction, Brad has struggled with binge eating and bulimia as well. According to Brad, “My family foundation was a mom struggling with … bulimia for four decades. I fell fast and hard into my own eating disorder while in college. Finally breaking free from it led to healing and wholeness.” Brad believes that human beings are constantly changing and remarkably resilient – no matter how broken or discouraged they may feel. Brad is Founder and CEO of Change Institute & Intervention Specialists, a crisis intervention group. For those with serious addiction problems, including compulsive overeating and obesity, Brad has found that a circle of family and friends is uniquely poised to offer support, accountability and structure from a beginning point of love and honesty. With the consent of the addict, Brad works with family members, co-workers, partners, employers and friends to develop and implement a plan of change and recovery model. Tickets for the luncheon are $150. Where Hilton Anatole When March 28 Contact tep@theelisaproject.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Curtain Call
Dallas Summer Musicals Gala ✯
The Curtain Call Gala, Dallas Summer Musicals’ premiere annual fundraiser, is a spectacular evening of entertainment preceded by an elegant seated dinner and an exceptional live and silent auction. Expect fine dining, outstanding entertainment, and elegant ambiance, then cap off the evening by dancing the night away at the Curtain Call Cabaret late night party. This year’s featured entertainer will be Multiple Grammy-nominated singer, Broadway, television, and film star - Vanessa Williams. Vanessa Williams is one of the most respected and multi-faceted performers in entertainment today. She has sold millions of albums worldwide and she has achieved critical acclaim as an actress on stage, in film and on television. Her albums “The Right Stuff,” “The Comfort Zone” and “The Sweetest Days” have yielded such classic hits as “Save the Best For Last,” “Dreamin,” “Work To Do” and “Love Is,” and the Academy Awardwinning single “Colors of the Wind,” from Disney’s “Pocahontas,” among many others. Proceeds from Curtain Call support Dallas Summer Musicals’ mission to bring the best of Broadway to Dallas and provide for children’s education and outreach programs. Sponsor’s support will bring the magic of musical theater to so many children who otherwise would never experience it — magic created through programs such as DSM High School Musical Theatre Awards, Seats for Kids, DSM Academy of Performing Arts, Kid’s Club, and Stage Right. Individual tickets are $500 each. Where Music Hall/Fair Park When March 31 Contact mogden@dallassummermusicals.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Smoking haute
The DIFFA/Dallas Collection 2012 ✯
In 1966 Yves Saint Laurent introduced Le Smoking, a tailored fitted tuxedo jacket for women. A revolutionary idea that brought traditional male tailoring to the feminine form. DIFFA reinvents this fashion classic in 2012 with top name designers from around the county interpreting the Smoking Jacket with one-of-a kind couture designs for both men and women. This is a black tie celebration of fashion and design, with proceeds benefiting area HIV/AIDS charities. Tickets are $300.00 Where Hilton Anatole Hotel When March 31 Contact www.DiffaDallas.org
Fresh Faces of Fashion Suicide and Crisis Center ✯
In its sixth year, a dazzling dozen of Dallas’ most fashion savvy young women will be presented on the runway at Stanley Korshak. The benefit includes a cocktail reception and fashion show plus a Gala Dinner at the Crescent Hotel. Again it will be chaired by Yvonne Crum and Jill Rowlett. Sponsors are Park Place, Dallas Modern Luxury, The Crescent Hotel and Stanley Korshak. Proceeds will be given to the Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas. Where Stanley Korshak/Crescent Hotel When March 23 Contact yvonnecr@flash.net ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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SOCIETY
Chick Lit Author
Community Partners of Dallas Event Trina Turk in Highland Park Village ✯
Trina Turk in Highland Park Village was the site for the kick-off of the 6th annual Chick Lit Luncheon, benefiting Community Partners of Dallas. Event chair Mary Gill welcomed over 75 members and sponsors there to hear the announcement of this year’s speaker. Paige McDaniel, CEO of Community Partners of Dallas, welcomed everyone before thanking presenting sponsors Dr. Robert and Lara Tafel and announcing Jan Miller as the 2012 Honorary Chair and Lynn McBee as the Partners for Children Award recipient. Paige revealed New York Times Best Selling author Allison Winn Scotch as the author/speaker. Top Cara French, Luncheon Chair Mary Glll, Nancy Gopez Center Anne Stodghill, Rhonda Sargent Chambers, Holly Davis Bottom Lynn McBee, Paige McDaniel ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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SOCIETY Stars of Texas
Racing Against the Odds for Diabetes Lone Star Park ✯
National sports personality Randy Galloway and his wife Janeen joined Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie and Global Gaming Solutions on Thursday, January 12 to host 400 VIPs for a special preview of the newly renovated “Bar & Book” simulcast building. The multi-million dollar renovation was designed to enhance the visual experience of patrons of the 36,000-square-foot Las Vegas-style simulcast Racebook, sports bar and casual dining restaurant at Lone Star Park. The preview featured celebrity entertainment country singer Sonny Burgess, a sampling of the new Bar & Book menu, hosted beer and wine offerings as well as signature drinks in the newly renovated VIP suites. Top Amy Brunger, Holly Jeffery, Vi Tran Center Dave Kroencke, Therese Rowe Bottom Shannon Jackson, Tom Fireoved
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Living Legend
M.D. Anderson Fundraiser Hilton Anatole Hotel ✯
Sir Richard Branson, global entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Group, shared his unique business perspective in an interview with Miles O’Brien at A Conversation® in January. The 22nd annual luncheon, supported by business and community leaders in Dallas, benefits research and patient care initiatives at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Underwriters of this year’s event were Andrews Distributing Company and AT&T. Luncheon chairs were Stephanie and Hunter Hunt. Honorary chairs were Ana and Don Carty. Since its inception in 1990, A Conversation With a Living Legend in Dallas has raised more than $10.5 million. Top George and Amanda Bush Center Hunter and Stephanie Hunt Bottom Dr. Raymond DuBois and Lisa DuBois ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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SOCIETY TACA Grant Awards
One Million Dollars To the Arts Charles & Dee Wyly Theatre ✯
Dallas’s premier umbrella arts organization TACA, The Arts Community Alliance, distributed a fifth consecutive $1 million in grants to 41 diverse and deserving North Texas performing arts organizations. The largest amounts, ($100,000) were given to The Dallas Opera, Dallas Symphony and Dallas Theater Center. Funds are raised through three signature events: the TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon, TACA Party on the Green and the TACA Custom Auction Gala. Founded in 1966, TACA’s (The Arts Community Alliance) mission is to provide financial support to the arts. Top Del Frnka and Caroline Rose hunt Center Kate Juett, Donna Wilhelm, Nick Even Bottom Hal & Diane Brierley with Barbara and Don Daseke
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SOCIETY BLINK
Opening Art Exhibition Hotel Za Za ✯
With an opening reception in January, Hotel ZaZa Dallas celebrated its sixth collaboration with Turner Carroll Gallery and Art Advisors. The exhibition currently entitled “BLINK,” features artworks by internationally acclaimed artists whose works address transitions of perception occurring in minute changes in time. The exhibition will be open through March 31, 2012. Guests sipped cocktails and enjoyed hors d’oeuvres by Dragonfly’s Executive Chef Dan Landsberg while interacting with the works. Gallery owner Tonya Turner Carroll was present at the January opening to visit with guests about the artist’s creative processes. Top Anne Stodghill, Kristina Wrenn Center Riley and Kristy Nail Bottom Darian Honigsfeld, Ashley Elder
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Greer Garson Gala Preview Party Bachendorf’s ✯
The Greer Garson Gala Preview Party was held in January at Bachendorf’s in Preston Center. Generously sponsored by Bachendorf’s, Ristorante Nicola and Gold Crown Valet, the Preview Party featured sneak peeks at some of the most glamorous silent auction packages that will be available at the April 21 event. “The Golden Age of Hollywood,” will be held at Union Station. The evening will feature an auction full of treasures, charitable casino, dinner by Wolfgang Puck, and a 1940s style floor show. It will benefit Women and Infant Services at Texas Health Presbyterian. Those interested in attending the gala may purchase tickets at www.texashealth.org/greergarsongala Top Chairs Brooke and Aaron Shelby Center Chris Brooks and Zarife Deulofeut Bottom Tricia and Randy Touchstone ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CONCERTS
Elmo Makes Music Verizon Theatre ✯
Mark your calendar for a musical event like no other—monsters making music! Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and all their Sesame Street friends are taking to the stage to share their love of music in Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music, now featuring the allnew Play Zone, at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie from Thursday, March 1 through Sunday, March 4. Come and play before the show! VEE Corporation introduces Play Zone at Sesame Street Live – a fun new way for children to experience their favorite street! Imagine your child sitting in Big Bird’s nest, popping up in Oscar’s trash can, twirling in Zoe’s dance studio or visiting Elmo’s World. You never know who’ll make an appearance! Families won’t want to miss a single picture-perfect moment. Jenny, an enthusiastic new music teacher, arrives on Sesame Street only to discover that her instruments are missing. Jenny’s new Muppet friends quickly come to the rescue and discover ‘instruments’ they never knew existed…rubber duckies, trash can lids and even cookie jars. Elmo, Abby Cadabby and friends teach children that everyone can make and enjoy beautiful music together. Like television’s Sesame Street, each Sesame Street Live production features timeless lessons for all ages. Through the razzle-dazzle of this Broadwayquality musical production, children learn about patience, acceptance and teamwork. The universal appeal of a Sesame Street Live production continues long after preschool. Adults will appreciate the high-tech stagecraft, cleverly written scripts, and music they’ll recognize and enjoy sharing with children, such as “The Hustle,” “You Should Be Dancing” and “Rockin’ Robin.” Elmo Makes Music features nearly two dozen songs, including classics that children will love to sing along with such as “C Is for Cookie” and “The Alphabet Song.” Genre: Children Date: March 1 - 4 Details: www.VerizonTheatre.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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DOC SEVERINSEN
Meyerson Symphony Center ✯
Band leader of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, trumpet player Doc Severinsen leads one of today’s best big bands for an exciting evening of jazz live at the Meyerson. With big band classics by Ellington and Basie and pop, jazz, ballads and The Tonight Show Theme, Doc Severinsen is an audience favorite who will blow the roof off with his trumpet solos. Relive the late-night memories with one of today’s finest entertainers, Doc Severinsen and his Big Band. Genre: Jazz Date: March 5 Details: www.DallasSymphony.com
RadioHead
American Airlines Center ✯
It has been 20 years since the debut of Radiohead’s hit single “Creep,” and their emergence onto the alternative rock scene with the album Pablo Honey. More than two decades and eight studio albums later, Radiohead is still going strong with the release of their latest album, The King of Limbs. The band is currently on a ten date U.S. tour, with the American Airlines Center being one of those stops. It will be their first U.S. tour in four years. This show is sold out. Genre: Alternative Rock Date: March 5 Details: www.TicketMaster.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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earth, wind & fire
Meyerson Symphony Center ✯
The legendary Earth, Wind & Fire combine soulful R&B with jazz-driven pop for two evenings of unforgettable music and memories. Experience the hits that re-defined the 1970s when Earth, Wind & Fire reunite at the Meyerson with the DSO. EWF has won six Grammy Awards and Four American Music Awards and have sold more than 90 million albums to date. Their style covers a wide range of musical genres including soul, pop, funk, rock, R&B and jazz. Genre: R&B Date: March 6 - 7 Details: www.DallasSymphony.com
cirque dreams Verizon Theatre ✯
Pop Goes The Rock presented by Cirque Dreams features a variety of acts and acrobatic feats to popular songs and chart topping hits spanning the decades. This one-of a kind variety show unites generations through a mash-up of celebrated pop and rock tunes. Cirque Dreams’ daring aerialists, gravity defying balancers and powerful strongmen are accompanied by a dance crew, singers and a jammin’ band performing over 20-chart topping hits live on stage. Genre: Musical Acrobatics Date: March 23-25 Details: www.VerizonTheatre.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Cowboy mouth Granada Theater ✯
Cowboy Mouth is New Orleans rock n’ roll. Annually presenting roughly 200 shows per year, releasing nearly a dozen records, and featured on TV shows and radio stations everywhere, Cowboy Mouth has been seen and heard by millions of fans worldwide. For more than 15 years, the members of Cowboy Mouth have preached and shouted at the top of their lungs the joys of being alive and the joys of being in and from New Orleans, sharing a slice of Mardi Gras heaven with fans around the world. As frontman Fred LeBlanc said, “If The Neville Brothers and The Clash had a baby, it would be Cowboy Mouth.” The band’s 11 album releases include two records on MCA, one on Atlantic And several on their own Cowboy Mouth Records label. So far, the band has enjoyed domestic sales of over 450,000 units. The album sales pale in comparison to the number of tickets the band sells to their live events. Cowboy Mouth shows are legendary, and have been witnessed by more than 8 million fans to date. Always on the road, they’ve toured several times with their friends BareNaked Ladies, Sister Hazel and Better Then Ezra. Crowd participation is a must at a Cowboy Mouth show. Led by Fred’s larger-than-life presence, the band’s performances are high-energy and extraordinarily intense, usually leaving audiences as drenched and spent as the band. Cowboy Mouth fans range from ages five to age eighty-five, but they have one thing in common - as Fred confides to the audience, “Cowboy Mouth is about pretending that you’re five years old, naked as a jaybird and about to turn the hose on your parents, and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.” A Cowboy Mouth show is always full of surprises, and have included guest appearances from Steve Van Zandt, Rob Thomas, John Popper, and Tom Arnold- to name a few. Genre: Rock Date: March 22 Details: www.GranadaTheater.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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do you hear the people sing American Airlines Center ✯
The show Do You Hear the People Sing featuring the music of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, and more, will be a Broadway-style concert on a scale seldom seen. This arena spectacular show is modeled after the 25th Anniversary concert of Les Misérables held earlier this year at the 02 Arena in London. The American Airlines Center concert will feature a two level stage with larger-than-life video screens and state-of-the-art sound system. The show follows the sold-out run of Les Misérables at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Do You the People Sing is a musical celebration of the legendary creative team Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. The concert will feature songs from Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, The Pirate Queen, Martin Guerre and La Revolution Francise. An endeavor of this size can only come from a collaboration of the major arts and entertainment organizations in Dallas including Dallas Pops Orchestra and American Airlines Center with marketing support from CBS Radio, the Lexus Broadway Series and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The headlining cast includes Lea Salonga and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Lea Salonga, the lead in the O2 London production of Les Misérables, is a Filipina singer/actress best known for originating the role of Kim in the West End production of Miss Saigon and bringing it to Broadway, winning the Tony, the Olivier, and many other awards. She was the first Asian to play Eponine in Les Misérables on Broadway, returned to the show in 2007 as Fantine, and recently reprised the role for the sold-out 25th anniversary concert at London’s O2 Arena. Actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell has performed in many television and Broadway productions, including Les Miserables, Man of La Mancha and Kiss Me Kate. Genre: Musical Date: March 23 Details: www.DallasPops.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Stories with music Meyerson Symphony Center ✯
Acclaimed narrator, broadcaster and writer Jamie Bernstein will delight audiences of all ages as she joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Stories in Music with Jamie Bernstein. Together they will bring to life the classic tales Dot and the Line and The Phantom Tollbooth by famed children’s author Norton Juster, as well as favorite numbers from West Side Story and Candide. Jamie is the daughter of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Genre: Classical Date: March 25 Details: www.DallasSymphony.com
sinbad
Eisemann Center ✯
Known for finding humor in telling reallife stories, Sinbad’s comedy is larger than life, energetic and spontaneous. His television career began with standup appearances on Star Search. Soon after, he landed a guest-starring role on The Cosby Show, which spunoff into a starring role on A Different World. He later became the star of his own series, The Sinbad Show, which earned him a nomination for “Favorite Television Actor” at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards. Genre: Comedy Date: March 31 Details: www.EisemannCenter.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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MUSEUMS
Texas in the Twenties
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs ✯
To complement the exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, the DMA presents Texas in the Twenties, an exhibition featuring images of Texas during the 1920s made by Texas artists. Gathering drawings, etchings, prints, and photographs loaned by local collections, the exhibition highlights scenes of Texas as well as the transitional time in Dallas history when it was on the verge of becoming one of our nation’s largest and most vibrant cities. Showcasing approximately thirty works by L. O. Griffith, Mary Anita Bonner, and Eugene Omar Goldbeck, the exhibition will be on view through July 1, 2012. Indiana native Louis Oscar (L. O.) Griffith moved to Dallas with his family as a child and studied art in St. Louis and Chicago in the early 1890s. In 1926 he executed a suite of nine drawings with corresponding etchings, which are featured in this exhibition, recording Dallas in the years leading up to the Great Depression. The award-winning Texas artist Mary Anita Bonner (1887–1935) grew up in San Antonio, where she observed ranch hands and cowboys who inspired many of her works. In the early 1920s, she studied lithography and printmaking before she moved to Paris, France, in 1922 to train with French artist Édouard Henri Léon. While in Paris, she was praised for her Texasthemed prints depicting a cowboy’s working life, including Circular Cowboy and Les Cowboys, and was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Acadèmiques in 1924. Eugene Omar Goldbeck was born in San Antonio in 1892 and became a photographer at a very early age. His photography captures sweeping views of cities, events, and Texas landscapes. Goldbeck is known for his panoramic photography, and Texas in the Twenties presents four of his photos, including Third Annual Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Texas. Museum: Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition: Opens March 4 Details: www.DallasMuseumofArt.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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MUSEUMS
Toward Kasuga Shrine David Gibson ✯
The lanterns on the approach to Kasuga Shrine were offered over centuries by the faithful, who kept them illuminated. Now the lanterns are lit only at the onset of spring at the time of Setsubun, or “The Bean Throwing Festival,” and again during the Obon Festival, when ancestors return to visit the living. Over the centuries moss and lichen have covered the lanterns, creating a patina reflecting their age. Remnants of paper are attached to the stone lantern windows. Museum: Crow Collection of Asian Art Exhibition: Recently Opened Details: www.CrowCollection.org
The Invention Of Glory
Alfonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries ✯
In the spring of 2012, the Meadows Museum will offer visitors the opportunity to view a set of four fifteenthcentury 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. Museum: SMU Meadows Museum Exhibition: Closes May 13 Details: www.SMU.EDU/Meadows ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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MUSEUMS
Mark Manders Parallel Occurrences ✯
The exhibition is the first major exhibition of work by acclaimed Dutch artist Mark Manders. It features new sculptures and works on paper and will include roughly fifteen new sculptural works and three loaned works, one of which is from The Pinnell Collection of Dallas. His installations employ everyday objects as narrative subjects from which he creates mysterious sculptural tableaux. In doing so, he creates a physical and mental space for the viewer to interact with the objects. Museum: Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition: Closes April 15 Details: www.DallasMuseumOfArt.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: Recently Opened Details: www.IrvingArtsCenter.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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MUSEUMS
Elliott Hundley The Bacchae ✯
The first touring exhibition of the distinctive “bulletin board” collages and sculptures of Elliott Hundley is the debut exhibition of the new year for The Nasher Sculpture Center. Over the past decade, Hundley has developed a multifaceted, intricate art using paint, photographs, and organic and found materials ranging from bamboo, goat hooves, and pine cones to pins, magnifying lenses, and gold leaf. The mythic world of ancient Greek tragedy becomes vividly contemporary as Hundley reimagines Euripides’s last play, The Bacchae, in twelve works presented in one of the Nasher’s street-level galleries. The Bacchae is a tale of familial betrayal and divine revenge set in the ancient city of Thebes. The god Dionysus (Bacchus to the Romans) has decided to punish its citizens when they refuse to accept his claim that he is the son of Zeus. After bringing the women of Thebes under his influence, Dionysus leads them out of the city and into the wilderness where they join his followers, the Bacchae, in worshipping him in ecstatic rituals. The god then convinces the king of Thebes, Pentheus, to spy on the women, who, upon discovering him, mistake him for a wild beast. Led by Pentheus’s own mother, the women rip the king limb from limb. When Dionysus’s influence on her finally loosens, she discovers that she has murdered her own son. Mining the sentimental qualities of his eclectic materials, Elliott Hundley collages create condensed dreamscapes, entwining the personal and symbolic into friable mythologies. Born in 1975, Hundley lives and works in Los Angeles. The exhibition runs through April 22. Museum: Nasher Sculpture Center Exhibition: Recently Opened Details: www.NasherSculptureCenter.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Word Spirit
Calligraphy, Paintings and Photographs ✯
In Japanese martial arts, belief in kotodama gives rise to the kiai, or “battle cry,” in aikido; language power is called upon to harmonize mind and body to the task at hand. This alignment of force and technique is also referred to as a “spirit meeting.” Chaco Terada learned calligraphy sitting next to her father, a distinguished Japanese calligrapher. He did not teach her with words but in silence. He instructed her to watch his gestures, to sense speed and hesitation, to feel pressure on the paper or the lift of the brush, and to follow the forms with her own tama, or “qi,” flowing into the brush. He taught her the art of calligraphy by movement of spirit, by issuing the sound of spirit in action. Terada’s own calligraphy, represented in the exhibition by Exercise I, is accomplished and spirited, and it remains her understanding of art, although her media have assumed new roles. Wanting to explore possibilities of ink, paper, and silk, she moved from calligraphy to couching ink-strokes between layers of silk and paper, revealing the gesture through translucent materials—like thoughts recalled from memory, feelings tinted in another place of awareness. In another group of works on view, she focuses on the character itself, feeling its interaction with space, its flight into being, its lifespan as gesture as limited and unique, a lifespan like our own. One group of photographs follows the trajectory of words written on tightly folded paper as the tension of the folds is released and the paper springs to life to permeate space in dizzying spirals and wacky conversations. In the most recent group of works, she reenacts the horizon between water and sky through layers of silk over ink—sky never quite begins, sea never quite ends. Museum: Crow Collection of Asian Art Exhibition: Closes April 29 Details: www.CrowCollection.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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MUSEUMS
Young Masters 2012
High School Juried Art Exhibition ✯
After twelve years of recognizing outstanding artistic expression of AP studio arts students, the exhibition expanded in 2011 to celebrate all three fine arts programs, reflecting a mission to develop participating high schools as self-sustaining national models of creative excellence. Students submitted an original essay in response to a work in the DMA’s permanent collection, an original composition, or an original two-dimensional or three-dimensional art work. Museum: Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition: Closes April 8 Details: www.DallasMuseumofArt.com
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’seye view of some of the world’s most significant aircraft and space vehicles through 22 large-format images of the most famous cockpits in aviation and space 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. Museum: Frontiers of Flight Exhibition: Closes March 31 Details: www.FlightMuseum.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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GALLERIES
William Powhida Seditions ✯
This exhibition of work by Brooklyn artist William Powhida features a combination of original and editioned pieces in the artist’s well-known trompe l’oeil style. Powhida uses a combination of graphite, gouache and colored pencil on panel or paper to create these illusionary images. For several years, Powhida worked as an art critic for The Brooklyn Rail, a non-profit art journal, while developing his own artistic practice. Powhida’s work, reflecting his critical background, concentrates on the politics of access and the powers that control the assignment of value in the contemporary art world. All roles are fair game from hot young artists and the market-setting collectors that buy them, to the branded dealers that sell the work and the critics paid to provide intellectual justification for price points. To soften what might appear a direct editorial voice, Powhida projects his commentary through the lens of an alter-ego, one with whom he shares a name (William Powhida). This alter-ego closely resembles any number of young art stars, though Powhida’s character happens to exhibit all of the worst traits imaginable in any coddled ‘genius’. The fictional Powhida expresses himself by documenting his manifold frustrations, frequently in lists, which Powhida the artist channels into his legendary drawings. William Powhida (born in 1976) who lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, earned his Bachelor of Fine Art in painting from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York and his Master of Fine Art in painting from Hunter College in New York, New York. Powhida has exhibited solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally with galleries such as Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, Platform Gallery in Seattle and Marlborough Chelsea in New York. Gallery: McKinney Avenue Contemporary Exhibition: Closes March 31 Details: www.The-MAC.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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GALLERIES
Jeff Gibbons
Humming Music and Grinding Teeth ✯
This exhibition of work, which features both an art installation and a video presentation, focuses on an individual’s life long search for identity. Gibbons is interested in the many layers of selfidentity, how it is formed and how it is, or is not, understood by the individual. This concept manifests into a visual exhibition of various objects that serve as metaphors for the passage of time. The video component is a psychological exploration into memory and states of being within the banality. Gallery: McKinney Avenue Contemporary Exhibition: Closes March 31 Details: www.The-MAC.org
Bryan Florentin Inscrutable Evidence ✯
This exhibition features New York artist Rob Pruitt. The exhibition made specifically for Dallas Contemporary is his largest exhibition to date. Pruitt’s interests lie in creating environments where participants feel free to improvise and experiment outside of their comfort zones. In his signature style, Pruitt’s installation of glitter panda paintings has never before been shown and is the largest number of panda paintings to be shown together. Gallery: Dallas Contemporary Exhibition: Closes March 18 Details: www.DallasContemporary.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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GALLERIES
Hammack, Tejada and Mason Trio Exhibition ✯
This exhibition features works by three artists. Jackson Hammack’s recent works are exploring different surface techniques of the canvas using a diverse mix of oil, latex, pencil, and marker. Leslie Tejada’s work consists of paintings in oil and alkyd on canvas that slightly resemble landscapes, but free of any specific narrative. Chris Mason creates sculptures using wire as a medium with only a pair of wire cutting pliers and his bare hands to form the pieces. Gallery: Craighead Green Exhibition: Closes March 24 Details: www.CraigHeadGreen.com
Leigh Anne Lester Family Portraits ✯
Artist Leigh Anne Lester was born in Louisiana, but has been living in San Antonio for a number of years. She won the prestigious Hunting Prize in 2011. Her work examines a new facet of family portraiture associated with the advancement of genetic testing. By referencing family portraits these pieces investigate the idea of living with a disease and the inheritance of the disease. Lester received her BFA in painting from the UTSA. Gallery: Kirk Hopper Fine Art Exhibition: Closes March 24 Details: www.KirkHopperFineArt.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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GALLERIES
AC/OC
Rusiloski, Menza, Drennan ✯
This is a trio exhibition of new paintings by Winter Rusiloski, Carmen Menza and Cathy Drennan. Winter Rusiloski’s early influences of the Pennsylvania landscape, and her current inspiration with the Texas horizon and big sky, have led her to a fusion of landscape painting and abstraction, creating a dynamic spatial relationship. Rusiloski actively shows her work in both solo and group exhibitions and has won awards including the Hunting Art Prize Exhibition finalist twice and the Texas Oklahoma Art Prize in 2010. With an emphasis on gestural abstraction, Carmen Menza’s original works of art capture life’s fleeting moments in bold, rich colors and texture. Carmen shows her work in group and solo exhibitions and her pieces are held in private collections throughout North America. Cathy Drennan, continuing her long interest in the world of cultural symbology, is focusing her new work on specific symbols and their broader meaning. She appropriates known symbols then deconstructs and simplifies the form to offer her own visual statement through color, pattern, texture and repetition. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in Washington, D.C., and Texas. Gallery: Cohn Drennan Contemporary Exhibition: Closes March 24 Details: www.CohnDrennanContemporary.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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GALLERIES
Baptism By Fire
Retrospective on Works of Bill Haveron ✯
This is a retrospective exhibition of Bill Haveron’s artistic career in Texas. Haveron, a true Texas original, works out of his studio in Bryan, Texas where he was born and raised. Haveron’s artwork is influenced by his experiences as a young child growing up in rural Texas. Undertones of folk and popular culture create a visual language that conveys vignettes of good and evil, imaginary worlds and various mythological interpretations. Masterfully rendered, these works immediately invite the viewer to decipher reality from fiction. Bill Haveron has a long history of exhibiting in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Solo exhibitions include Gerald Peters in Dallas, Texas and the Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas. Group exhibitions include the Museum of San Francisco in San Francisco, California and the Meadows Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas. Haveron has work in the permanent collections of museums such as the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Austin and the de Young Art Museum in San Francisco, California. Gallery: McKinney Avenue Contemporary Exhibition: Closes March 31 Details: www.The-MAC.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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GALLERIES
Natural Glowing Skin Markho Kratohvil New Sculpture ✯
Sculptor Marko Kratohvil has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1991. He graduated with an Master of Arts in sculpture from the University of Belgrade in 1991 and has exhibited his work extensively throughout Europe, with work being held in many corporate and private collections. His sculptures are constructed out of welded steel. Many of his recent works have been increasingly spare and sitting on a wall or simply appearing out of the floor. Gallery: Cohn Drennan Contemporary Exhibition: Closes March 24 Details: www.CohnDrennanContemporary.com
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Failure
Poster and Collage Exhibition ✯
Austin-based artist Failure presents his first major exhibition at Dallas Contemporary. Failure has been painting graffiti 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
the Lighthouse The Dallas Opera ✯
There is a crisp, nononsense preamble to 1980’s chamber masterpiece The Lighthouse, from Peter Maxwell Davies. The preamble states this work “is based on the incident as described by Craig Mair in his book on the family of Stevenson, lighthouse engineers, of Edinburgh, concerning the disappearance of the three lighthouse keepers from the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, in unexplained circumstances, in 1900.” While appearing to tell us quite a lot, in fact, this tells us little about what we can expect, over the course of this powerful and thought-provoking work. An additional note from the composer explains that the musical structure of this piece is based on the Tower of Tarot. Number symbolism is present in the music throughout, and (as Davies put it), it “erupts” onto the surface, in the form of words sung by Arthur during the card game. The Lighthouse stars Andrew Bidlack in his Dallas Opera debut, Robert Orth and Daniel Sumegi. Set design is by Beowulf Boritt in his Dallas Opera debut.The plot of this chamber opera serves up both supernatural and psychological explanations, in equal measure, as Davies’ intense, atmospheric and haunting music carries the audience to another world! Conducted by Nicole Paiement and staged by Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty in his opera debut, performances of The Lighthouse are sung in English and are approximately 72 minutes with no intermissions. Theater: Winspear Opera House Performance: March 16-18 Details: www.DallasOpera.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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THEATER
Love From a Stranger Garland Civic Theatre ✯
One of Agatha Christie’s rarest and most unknown jewels, “Love from a Stranger” is a love story threatened by darkly veiled intentions and terrifying secrets that surround beautiful Cecily Harrington and her fiancé, Nigel. Cecily abandons her wedding plans to run away in a tangled romance with the beguiling and handsome Bruce Lovell. The last act of this play has reportedly been so suspenseful, that audience members have physically fainted from the anticipation. Theater: Garland Civic Theatre Performance: March 1-24 Details: www.GarlandCivicTheatre.org
Tigers Be Still
Dallas Theater Center ✯
Sherry is an art therapist who is embarking upon a new job, after spending a month moping around the house she shares with her older sister, Grace, and their unseen mother. All three women have been dealing with depression; her mother won’t come out of her room or let anyone see her, while Grace spends her days on the couch watching the movie Top Gun over and over, or going to her ex-boyfriend’s condo to steal more of his stuff in the vain effort that it will at least make him give her a call. Theater: Charles and Dee Wyly Theatre Performance: Opens March 2 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: Closes March 17 Details: www.Undermain.org
Superior Donuts Theatre Three ✯
Arthur Przybyszewski, an older man with outmoded ideas, owns a donut shop in uptown Chicago. Franco Wicks, a young teenager who is his only employee, wants to change the shop for the better. Franco battles against Arthur’s outdated notions as respectfully as he can in this comedy-drama, set in the heart of one of Chicago’s most diverse communities. This play explores the challenges of embracing the past and the redemptive power of friendship. Theater: Theatre Too Performance: Opens March 16 Details: www.Theatre3Dallas.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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THEATER
Million Dollar Quartet Dallas Summer Musicals ✯
This is a new smash Broadway musical inspired by the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time. On December 4, 1956, these four young musicians gathered at Sun Records in Memphis for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions ever. The man who made it happen was Sam Phillips, the “Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” who discovered them all. The four legends-to-be united for the only time in their careers for an impromptu recording that has come to be known as one of the greatest rock jam sessions of all time. During the session Phillips spotted an opportunity for some publicity and called the local newspaper. The following day, an article written about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title “Million Dollar Quartet”. This thrilling musical brings you inside the recording studio with four major talents who came together as a redhot rock ‘n’ roll band for one unforgettable night. Don’t miss your chance to be a fly on the wall of fame. This show brings that legendary night to life, featuring a treasure trove of some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll, gospel, R&B and country hits from these music legends, including such iconic songs as “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “That’s All Right,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “Walk the Line,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” “Who Do You Love?,” “Matchbox,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Fever,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Hound Dog,” “Riders in the Sky,” and many more. Theater: Music Hall at Fair Park Performance: March 6-18 Details: www.DallasSummerMusicals.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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THEATER
TUNA’S GREATEST HITS
Eisemann Center for Performing Arts ✯
Tuna’s Greatest Hits: 30 Years Of Laughter is the celebration of the characters that came into the lives of playwrights Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard thirty years ago and cracked them up and kept on cracking them up and most everybody else for the next thirty years of laughter and tears and somewhere along the way made us fall in love. So here’s to the characters! Here’s to Bertha and Didi, Petey and Pearl and all the rest, even Vera; this is a grateful, affectionate salute to them. Come and see why critics have called Sears and Williams “living treasures of the American Theatre.” When we reflect on their stories over the years, we can’t help but notice that the goings on in Tuna, Texas, seem to center around long-suffering, put-upon housewife Bertha Bumiller, her family, friends and nemeses, and her budding, then blooming romance with local celebrity, OKKK DJ Arles Struvie. It turns out it was a love story from the very beginning, and it had a happy ending all along. Who knew? Playing for 16 performances Feb. 21 through Mar. 4, 2012 in the Bank of America Theatre. Venue: Bank of America Theatre Performances: Through March Details: www.EisemannCenter.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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THEATER
In The Heights
Lexus Broadway Series ✯
This musical tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood; a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. Theater: Winspear Opera House Performance: March 13-25 Details: www.ATTpac.org
Anne of Green Gables Dallas Children’s Theater ✯
Anne, a young orphan from Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia, finds herself on Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers’ homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, siblings in their fifties who live together at their Avonlea farmhouse on the Island, decide to adopt a boy from the orphan asylum in Nova Scotia to help Matthew run their farm. Through a misunderstanding, the orphanage sends Anne Shirley, a bright, quick, eager to please and talkative girl. Theater: Dallas Children’s Theater Performance: Opens March 23 Details: www.DCT.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CINEMA
dr. seuss’ the lorax Danny DeVito / Zac Efron ✯
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is an adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a boy as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Danny DeVito will lend his vocal talents to the title character of the Lorax. Director: Chris Renaud Rated: PG- Mild Language Opens: March 2
project x
Kirby Bliss Blanton / Oliver Cooper ✯
Project X follows three seemingly anonymous high school seniors (played by Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown) as they attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let’s throw a party that no one will forget... but nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born. Project X is a warning to parents and police everywhere. Director: Nima Nourizadeh Rated: R - Crude and Sexual Content Opens: March 2 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CINEMA
john carter
Taylor Kitsch / Lynn Collins ✯
From Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter—a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (played by Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (played by Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (played by Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands. Author Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago and is best known for writing and creating Tarzan—still one of the most successful and iconic fictional creations of all time. “John Carter” is based on Burroughs’ first novel, A Princess of Mars. Academy Award®– winning director/writer Andrew Stanton directed and co-wrote the screenplay for WALL•E, which earned the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature of 2008. He was Oscar nominated for the screenplay. He made his directorial debut with Finding Nemo, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film of 2003. He was one of the four screenwriters to receive an Oscar nomination in 1996 for his contribution to Toy Story, and went on to receive credit as a screenwriter on subsequent Pixar films A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and WALL•E. Director: Andrew Stanton Rated: PG-13 Violence Opens: March 9 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CINEMA
footnote
Schlomo Bar-Abba / Lior Ashkenazi ✯
Footnote is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. Meanwhile his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son, Uriel, is thrilled to see his father’s achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father’s. Will he sabotage his father’s glory? This is the story of insane academic competition, the dichotomy between admiration and envy for a role model, and the very complicated relationship between a father and son. Footnote was written and directed by Joseph Cedar (Time of Favor). When asked about his inspiration for Footnote, Cedar said, “It is difficult for me to answer that question without spoiling the film and giving away a key plot point, because the initial idea was exactly that – a plot point that I thought would be interesting to develop. It is remotely based on something that almost happened to me, and I enjoyed imagining how it would unfold if it did happen to me. The finished film, however, turned out to be much more complex than that initial idea. During the writing process the focus shifted from the plot to an examination of these two characters.” Director: Joseph Cedar Rated: PG Opens: March 9 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CINEMA
salmon fishing in yemen Emily Blunt / Ewan McGregor ✯
A visionary sheik (played by Amr Waked) has a big dream – to bring salmon fishing to the desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative (played by Emily Blunt) to turn his dream into reality, an extraordinary feat that will require the involvement of Britain’s leading fisheries expert (played by Ewan McGregor) who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable. That is, until the Prime Minister’s press secretary latches on for a ‘good will’ story. Director: Lasse Hallstrom Rated: PG-13 - Language Opens: March 2
21 Jumpstreet
Jonah Hill / Channing Tatum ✯
In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (played by Jonah Hill) and Jenko (played by Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. 21 Jumpstreet also stars Rob Riggle and Ice Cube. Director: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller Rated: Unrated Opens: March 16 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CINEMA
wrath of the titans
Sam Worthington/ Liam Neeson ✯
A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus (played by Sam Worthington) --the demigod son of Zeus (played by Liam Neeson)-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity’s lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades (played by Ralph Fiennes) and Poseidon (played by Danny Huston). The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld. Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus’ godly son, Ares (played by Edgar Ramirez), switch loyalties and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans’ strength grows stronger as Zeus’ remaining godly powers are siphoned, and hell is unleashed on earth. Enlisting the help of the warrior Queen Andromeda (played by Rosamund Pike), Poseidon’s demigod son, Argenor (played by Toby Kebbell), and fallen god Hephaestus (played by Bill Nighy), Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind. Wrath of the Titans is the sequel to the recent remake of the Clash of the Titans, and is based on the characters created by Beverly Cross. The sequel is directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Battle Los Angeles and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) and written by Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson. This film will also be available in 3D and 2D in select IMAX theaters. Director: Jonathan Liebesman Rated: Unrated Opens: March 30 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CINEMA
jeff, who lives at home Jason Segel / Ed Helms ✯
On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff (played by Jason Segal) looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life... and if he’s lucky, pick up the wood glue as well. This comedy also stars Ed Helms and Susan Sarandon and was written and directed by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. Director: Jay & Mark Duplass Rated: R - Language Opens: March 16
Mirror mirror
Julia Roberts / Lily Collins ✯
One of the most beloved stories of all time is coming to life in the motion picture event, Mirror Mirror. A fresh and funny retelling of the Snow White legend, Mirror Mirror features breakout star Lily Collins (The Blind Side) as Snow White, a princess in exile, and Oscar®-winner Julia Roberts as the evil Queen who ruthlessly rules her captured kingdom. Seven courageous rebel dwarfs join forces with Snow White as she fights to reclaim her birthright. Director: Tarsem Singh Rated: PG - Mild Violence Opens: March 30 ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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EVENTS
ST. patrick’s Day parade Largest in the Southwest ✯
What started in 1979 as a few disorganized vehicles making a trek through lower Greenville amidst traffic has now become the annual Greenville Avenue Saint Patrick’s Day parade and is lovingly referred to as “the Dallas Mardi Gras.” The parade actually began on lower Greenville Ave. and was a nice little community event for those first few years. Word got around about this little neighborhood spectacle and attendance began to grow. So much in fact that the residents in the adjacent neighborhoods felt that they were too close to the traditional St. Patrick’s Day revelry and they overwhelmingly spoke out to their area council person. In 1987 the Dallas City Council cancelled the event entirely. Later that year a group of like-minded business owners banded together to form the Greenville Avenue Area Business Association. The city council voiced concerns ranging from crowd control to littering. One stipulation from the city was that the parade was to be moved to the North, where the residential neighborhoods would not be disturbed and police would have better access the area’s businesses and residents during the parade. Negotiations continued for a couple of years and in1989 Greenville Ave. St. Patrick’s Parade was granted a permit from the City of Dallas. There were over 20,000 spectators that year, a green longhorn steer, three elephants with green toenails and the same councilperson who had so adamantly opposed the parade in previous years even served as a judge. In the years that followed, the parade has embedded itself deeply in Dallas folklore. Now, with more than a hundred floats and attendance close to one hundred thousand, this “little neighborhood” parade now rivals other top ten metropolitan areas. The parade typically begins between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. around Park Lane and Greenville Avenue. Venue: Greenville Avenue Event: March 17 Details: www.Greenvilleave.org/St-patricks-Day ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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EVENTS
Dallas Kids Expo Fun for the Whole Family ✯
For one day only, the 4th annual 2012 Dallas Kids Expo will be the resource for Dallas kids with a wide range of exhibitors and child-focused services, educational seminars for parents and kids, wholesome entertainment and bargains for family needs. The vastness of the DFW metroplex often makes it difficult for families to learn about all of the resources that are available to them. This expo offers a convenient platform for families to access information. Venue: Dallas Market Hall Event: March 24 Details: www.DallasKidsExpo.com
Rock and Roll Marathon
Benefits the Susan G. Komen Foundation ✯
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series revolutionized the benefit-race industry when it combined entertainment and running. The original Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in 1998 is still recognized as the largest inaugural marathon in history with 19,979 entrants. Through the 14-year history of the series, more than $243 million has been raised for a variety of worthy causes and nonprofit organizations. This year the proceeds from the race will benefit the Susan G. Komen foundation. Venue: Fair Park Event: March 25 Details: www.RunRockNRoll.Competitor.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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EVENTS
Spin Music Festival Two-Day Festival ✯
The Spin music festival is an electronic music festival that currently is only offered in four other cities in the continental United States: Detroit, Tampa and Anchorage. Featured artists for the tour include: Sydney Blu, Umek, Stonebridge, Tatianna Fontes, Matt Aubrey and Exceed, with a full lineup of special guest artists such as MxMInd, Mary Sno White and many more. Events begin on Friday with a launch party and then continue throughout the weekend. Venue: Main Street Events Center Event: March 30-31 Details: www.SpinMusicFestival.com
Festival of Black Dance 8th Annual Weekend Event ✯
This event celebrates the history and passion of black dance with a weekend of dance events and workshops from area dance troupes, including: Jamaica’s Stella Maris dance company and Dallas-based Happy Nia Dance Theatre and Djely Kunda West African Dance and Drum Ensemble. Participants are invited to dance to contemporary, African, modern and jazz beat at the Black Dance Master Class on Saturday. Performances are to be held on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage. Venue: Black Academy of Arts and Letters Event: March 2-3 Details: www.TBAAL.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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savor Dallas
A Celebration of Wine, Food & Spirits ✯
The 8th annual Savor Dallas, A Celebration of Wine, Food, Spirits and the Arts returns. The popular Arts District Wine Stroll gets the events underway on Friday March 30th between 5 and 7 p.m. Patrons are invited to “drink-in the arts” at four beautiful locations in America’s largest contiguous urban arts district: the Dallas Museum of Arts, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Altogether the Dallas Arts District is 68 acres. Friday activities continue with a new wine, food and music event, “Sips and Sounds” at the historic Kessler Theater in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District. A wine, beer, spirits, and food sampling featuring some hot chefs from Bishop Arts is followed by a concert from Texas music sensation Carrie Rodriguez. The dazzling “International Grand Tasting” takes place on Saturday March 31st, from 7 to 10 p.m., in the beautiful, new Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas. Featuring cuisine from over 60 of the area’s top chefs and more than 400 premium wines, spirits and imported beers. Connoisseurs will want to attend the limited attendance “Reserve Tasting”, preceding the International Grand Tasting, to sample the finest wines and spirits available. Other Savor Dallas events include a wine and cheese tasting seminar at The Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, featuring Scardello’s Cheeses and wines selected by Mansion beverage director Michael Flynn to benefit the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food. Another exciting benefit, “Wine, Women, and Lunch” featuring top women chefs and winemakers, will raise money for the Dallas Chapter of Les Dames D’Escoffier and will take place at the Milestone Culinary Arts Center. Venue: Dallas Arts District Event: March 30 - 31 Details: www.SavorDallas.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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CSI Family Day Third Annual Event ✯
With crime scene investigation growing in popularity on television and in the video game world, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is expecting hundreds to attend CSI Family Day for the third straight year. On Sunday, March 18, from noon to 5 p.m. on the seventh floor, Museum visitors will have the chance to solve a hypothetical crime after examining a mock crime scene, receiving a police report about what happened and performing forensic analysis at evidence stations; such stations include analysis of blood, fingerprint, document, footwear, hair, fiber and eyewitness testimony. Members of the University of North Texas’ Forensic Science Club will be posted at each evidence station to help visitors draw conclusions about crime analysis and likely suspects. This year’s program will include a new “Ask the Expert” station, where a certified forensic document examiner from Denton-based Weldon & Associates will be available for questions about handwriting analysis and similar investigatory work. Participants can keep track of their collected data using an evidence collection guide provided for them. CSI Family Day offers a fun and engaging way to learn about modern investigative techniques and the reallife challenges to solving crime; it is suitable for children 8 years and older, their parents, and anyone interested in crime scene investigation and analysis. The first 500 children will have the chance to have their fingerprints taken free of charge for parent identification purposes. CSI Family Day is free with paid Museum admission: $13.50 for adults, $12.50 for youth (ages 6-18) and seniors (65+), free for five years and younger. Discounts are available for groups. Venue: The Sixth Floor Museum Event: March 18 Details: www.JFK.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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Target First Saturdays Monthly Family Event ✯
Each month families have the opportunity to focus on a “Big Idea” through a hands-on craft, take home activity and a scavenger hunt. The event includes free admission for families and features an art activity, art in action sculpture demonstration, family tours of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Yoga, Discovery books, storytime with the public library, NasherKids Live and more. The Big Idea for the month of March is “Individuality” Target First Saturdays are held from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Venue: Nasher Sculpture Center Event: March 3 Details: www.NasherSculptureCenter.org
Home and Garden Show Semi-Annual Exposition ✯
The 29th annual Home and Garden show features a wide array of attractions, including: green energy products, a chance to speak with remodeling experts, building products for every room of the house, kitchen experts, bath designers, experts in outdoor living spaces, pool companies, spa and sauna installation experts and more. The Taste of Home Cooking School will also be running in conjunction with this show, featuring culinary expert Jamie Dunn. Venue: Dallas Market Hall Event: March 2-4 Details: www.TexasHomeandGarden.com ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com
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The 2012 Mad Hatter’s Tea Party April 12, Dallas Arboretum
This year’s theme is “The Art of Nature” at The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden benefiting The Women’s Council of The Dallas Arboretum. Over 500 will attend. Contact: www.DallasArboretum.org
Cinema
The Cold Light of Day
April 6, Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver
Will’s family is kidnapped. He has only hours to find them, uncover a government conspiracy and find a connection between their disappearance and his father’s secrets. Rated PG-13
Theater
Art of Murder
Opens April 12, Theatre Three
Joe DiPietro, the writer of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change dives into the rarified world of high priced art, towering ego clashes and high style intrigue. www.Theatre3Dallas.com
Museums
Planet Shark: Predator or Prey
Closes September 16, Museum of Nature and Science
In this traveling exhibition, you will see explanations and examinations of nearly every aspect of sharks from evolution and biology to pop culture, myths and legends. www.DallasMuseumNatureandScience.org
Galleries
Billy Hassell
Opens April 14, McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Recognized for his inventive use of shape and renditions of plants and animals, this Texas native has made a career of painting the flora and fauna of this region. www.The-MAC.org
Concerts
Modern Family Panel April 24, Winspear Opera House
The actors of Modern Family will take the stage to discuss their hit show, which is centered on the lives of three unconventional families with co-creator, Steve Levitan. www.ATTpac.org
Events
Dallas International Film Festival April 12-20, Various Dallas Locations
During the past five years, this Festival has featured the finest in U.S. and international cinema, including 981 plus films representing more than 50 countries. www.DallasFilm.org ✯ The Turtle Creek News - CITY - www.VeryBestCity.com