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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. Administrative Contact: Phone: 214.887.0737. Online: www.VeryBestCity.com

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Even at the outset, it is clear that 2012 will be another year of non-stop charity events which Dallas is so known for.Philanthropy is alive and well in this big city. So let’s take a quick look at the highlights for the upcoming hot 2012 social calendar. January, is the ideal time for “Soup’s On” which ben-efits the Stewpot Alliance. In February buy your ticket for St. Valentine’s Day Luncheon and Fashion Show, as well as the Junior League Ball and Kara-oke Lounge for Turtle Creek Recovery Center. In March we will finally get to attend the opening celebration of the Margaret Hun Hill Bridge presented by the Trinity Trust Foundation. Other no-table events in March are Fresh Faces, AWARE Luncheon and Curtain Call. April has a crowded calendar, such as The Art Ball for DMA, along with Greer Garson Gala, Celebrity Waiter Gala, Sweetheart Ball, and the Park Cities Historic Home Tour. The Children’s Cancer Fund Luncheon is scheduled for May 2. Also in May, TACA Party on the Green supports the performing arts. After the lull of summer we are back in town and geared up for Sep-tember where there is way-too-much going on: The Crystal Charity Fashion Show, Pegasus Ball, Kidney Texas Luncheon, The Symphony Gala, and SPCA Fur Ball, among many others. October brings us an array of benefits such as Cattle Baron’s Ball, Kappa Tablescapes, Partner’s Card and Bone Bash for Arthritis. As we dash through Autumn and race toward the holidays, the November cal-endar is packed with fabulous soirees like Zoo to Do, and the Beat Leuke-mia Ball. December always finishes the year strong and 2012 is no exception. Already, we can make plans for the Ballet’s Tutu Chic, Wednesday’s Child Luncheon and the Crystal Charity Ball, just to name a few. Okay, champagne toast to a great 2012.-- Sally Blanton


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The Dallas Arboretum’s Women’s Council supports the Arboretum with fundraising and programs. The Coun-cil, 29 years old, with over 900 mem-bers, welcomes new members and guests. They also maintain “A Wom-an’s Garden,” the area which draws national recognition each year as one of the top 14 places to visit in the world during the spring. Coffee is at 10:00 and a program at 10:30. There is no charge for members and guests will pay $15.

Where: Dallas Arboretum, Rosine HallWhen: January 24Contact: [email protected]

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Soup’S onStewpot Alliance Luncheon

The Stewpot Luncheon features speaker Jeanette Walls, author of Glass Castle. She describes the nomad-ic family life of her childhood which chronicles many issues familiar to The Stewpot’s clients. Chef Brian C. Luscher of the Grape Restaurant acts as Chef Chair along with eight chefs who prepare and serve soup. SOUP’S ON! includes a silent auction of paint-ings and handmade jewelry from the artists of the Stewpot Art Programs and additional items.

Where: Union StationWhen: January 24Contact: Tonya Meier, 214-762-1368


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Peggy Sewell is chairing the 20th an-niversary of the annual benefit dinner for the DMA. She says “no one knows about the fabulous silver collection at our museum.” It has the most com-prehensive 19th and 20th century American silver collection of its kind in the world. “The Silver Supper” is the one time a year that it is brought out and used, says Peggy. This event has raised $1 million over the years. Indi-vidual tickets are $1,500. Tables are $1,500.

Where: Dallas Museum of ArtWhen: January 27Contact: Debbie Stack, 214-922-1295

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The theme “The Wizard of Paws” will lead guests on a journey to a place where every adoptable animal has a loving home. Sambuca Uptown is the magical location. This event will feature a Silent auction, “Bone” Appetit prize drawing of restaurant certificates, wine pull and more! Business casual dress. Tickets for the event are $150 per person, in advance or at the door. All of the proceeds from the Wizard Cam-paign will go directly to the SPCA of Texas Clinic spay/neuter programs.

Where: Sambuca UptownWhen: January 29Contact: Karol Wilson, 214-321-1971


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Mary Linn Clifford will be chairing this 14th annual event for Catholic Chari-ties at the Hilton Anatole. The ticket price is $250 and about 1200 guests are expected. Honorary Chairs are De-loitte and Sr. Mary Anne Owens. The mission of Catholic Charities of Dallas is to be a family of human services working together to strengthen families by providing help and creating hope, regardless of faith. The organization is a non-profit organization and a United Way partner agency. It is nationally ac-credited by the Council on Accredita-tion. Catholic Charities of Dallas has been serving the Dallas community for over 120 years and now extends its reach through four main service divisions: Elderly and Family Services, Refugee and Empowerment Services, Immigration and Legal Services, Chil-dren & Adoption Services and Com-munity Outreach. From humble begin-nings as an orphanage in Oak Cliff, the organization serves more than 70,000 people annually, regardless of race, age, gender, disability, national origin, or religious belief. This year the head-line entertainer for the gala is come-dian and actor Martin Short. Mr. Short is best-known for his comedy work, particularly his long stint on the televi-sion program Saturday Night Live. He starred in such comedic films as Three Amigos, Innerspace, Pure Luck, Jun-gle 2 Jungle, Mars Attacks!, Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride Part II. The evening will include a seated dinner, auctions, raffle prize drawing for a world class trip to Ireland, live en-tertainment, and music and dancing to local Dallas Band, Day Job Refugees.

Where: Hilton AnatoleWhen: January 21Contact: [email protected]


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Zoo To Do Patron Party

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The Dallas Zoo’s largest fundraiser was held November 5 at the Wilds of Africa Plaza at the Dallas Zoo. Zoo to Do Goes Hollywood showcased exquisite food prepared by Honorary Chef Jim “Sevy” Severson and a team of 25 top chefs. Throughout the evening, guests partici-pated in the exciting live and silent auc-tions, and discovered their adventurous side with continuous music and dancing. With the proceeds, the Society is able to continue its mission to support the Zoo as a center of education and conservation.

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The Art of Film Dinner John Lithgow Honored

Hall of State

Award-winner John Lithgow was presented the Dallas Star Award during an evening that celebrated the achieve-ments of his career. The Art of Film, presented by the Dallas Film Society, was a rare opportunity for 400 film lovers to be part of an intimate conversation with Lithgow and film critic, Elvis Mitchell. Lithgow is a two-time Academy Award nominee with two Golden Globe Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

TopTanya Foster, John Lithgow, Lynn McBeeCenterStubbs and Holly Davis, John Lithgow, Randy Travis and Mary BeougherBottomFaye Briggs, Randy Travis, Carmaleta Whiteley


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St. Jude Children’s HospitalEvening Under the Star

Cowboy Stadium

The Evening Under the Stars Party raised more than $620,000. The proceeds go directly to St. Jude to help fund the research and treatment of children. More than 700 guests walked onto the field of Cowboys Stadium in Arlington where they enjoyed cocktails, dinner and a chance to bid on exclusive items during a live and silent auction. In addition, Dal-las Cowboy Cheerleaders encouraged the cowboy chic clad guests to punt and throw the football.

TopHolly Brooks, Rick and Anne Shadyar, Doug BrooksCenterErica Hoelscher and Cindy FieldBottomFaryn and Andrew Clark


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Junior League Luncheon90 Year Anniversary Celebration

Brook Hollow Country Club

The Junior League of Dallas celebrated 90 years of service to the Dallas community by honoring and remem-bering its volunteers and leaders at a luncheon November 15 at Brook Hol-low Golf Club. Letot Girls’ Residential Treatment Center was recognized as the beneficiary of the special JLD 90th Anniversary grant. In addition, Lori Whitlow was presented with the Sustainer of the Year Award, and past president Lyda Hill was honored with the Junior League of Dallas’ Lifetime Achievement Award.

Top Heather Hicks, Joanna Clarke, Leigh Ann Haugh and Katie RobbinsCenterLyda Hill and Lida CustardBottomLori Whitlow and Jan Langbein


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A.W.A.R.E Patrons Hear Luncheon Plans

Home of Jerry and Gene Jones

The Alzheimer’s Women’s Association for Resources and Education (A.W.A.R.E.) will honor two legendary football rivals and friends- Frank Broyles, Arkansas Ra-zorback Coach and Darrell Royal, Texas Longhorns Coach- as the Honorary Chairmen of its luncheon, set for March 23 at the Hilton Anatole. The event will commemorate the gridiron battles between Arkansas and Texas in 1964 and 1969 – including the “Game of the Century” - and will highlight the coaching history of these two extraordinary men.The announcement was made at a party hosted by Gene and Jerry Jones.

TopCo-Chair Susan Holman, Gene Jones, Co-Chair Sandra CudeCenterBob and Myrna SchlegelBottomHenry and Rita Hortenstine, Kay and Jim Hammond


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TWU Leadership ReceptionVirginia Chandler Dykes Program

Home of Myrna and Bob Schlegel

Myrna D. Schlegel and Kimberly Schlegel Whitman have been named the recipi-ents of the 10th Annual Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award, presented by Bank of Texas, and TWU and the Texas Woman’s University Foundation. Texas Woman’s University Chancellor Dr. Ann Stuart will present the award at the Virginia Chandler Dykes luncheon event in February, at the Belo Mansion. This outstanding duo is known for their numerous leadership roles and ongoing support of nonprofit organizations and charitable causes.

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Point of Excellence AwardsWilson Foundation Benefit

Ritz-Carlton

Wilson Associates, a global hospitality interior architectural design firm, held its 15th annual Point of Excellence Awards Luncheon at The Ritz-Carlton. This year, more than 250 people attended the luncheon, which honored Chip Norton of Norton Enterprises N.A. LLC and Ron McDaniel of Townsend Leather. All proceeds from the Point of Excellence Awards Luncheon benefit The Wilson Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organi-zation founded in 1997.

TopRon McDaniel, Trisha Wilson, Chip NortonCenterJohn Canterbury, Mary Stephenson, Dr.Kathy Kordy, July Letsche, Trisha WilsonBottomRylan Hill, Bethany Kastanek, May Poon, Rod Slavicek

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Art, Antique & Jewelry A World Class Exhibition

Irving Convention Center

The Irving Convention Center was trans-formed into one of the finest art, antique and jewelry exhibits in the world. Guests at the show were impressed at the size, quality and caliber of the show. With ap-proximately 100 international exhibitors, it was a show that exceeded all expecta-tions. The DALLAS International Art, Antique & Jewelry Show was the perfect fit for the sophistication and culture of the Metroplex. Barbara Daseke, chaired the private preview party on Wednesday evening benefiting TACA. A $15,000 check was presented to TACA by Scott Diament and Rob Samuels.

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David Blaine, a master illusionist best known for his street magic and feats of extreme endurance, brings his show David Blaine: The Art of Magic to the Winspear Opera House for one night only. David Blaine has redefined magic around the world with his unique brand of intimate, close-up magic and his challenges that have set new bound-aries of human endurance. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Blaine discovered his passion of magic at the age of five. He began performing professionally for private parties when he turned thirteen. At nineteen, he did his first television appearance and then immediately after, he began doing private parties in St. Tropez and traveling around the world with his magic. By the age of 23, Blaine had created, directed and pro-duced an original television program titled Street Magic, which was broad-cast as an one-hour primetime special by ABC. Street Magic revolutionized the way magic is portrayed on televi-sion around the world and garnered rave reviews by critics. In April 1999, Blaine was buried alive on Manhat-tan’s West Side in New York for seven days and seven nights. Donald Trump provided the land and this became a highly publicized spectacle in New York. When Blaine was released, he was quoted as saying, “What I saw was every race of people, every age group, and every religion all gathered together smiling; and that made all of this worth it.” From that point on, his name became synonymous with mod-ern magic. Blaine has been the special guest performer for President Bill Clin-ton and Hillary Clinton, Governor Ar-nold Schwarzenegger, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Lance Armstrong, Prime Minister Gor-don Brown and many others.

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Video game fans in the Lone Star State will be able to experience Nin-tendo’s musical tribute to The Legend of Zelda video game series. The Dal-las Symphony Orchestra will perform orchestral arrangements of music from the game’s 25-year history accompa-nied by video content from the games themselves. The concerts will be con-ducted by Irish-born conductor Eímear Noone, and the multimedia show will pair iconic music and gorgeous visuals from classic Zelda titles.

Genre: ClassicalDate: January 10Details: www.DallasSymphony.com

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Brian Regan, one of the most popular comedians performing to date, brings his comedy tour to the Majestic The-atre. Known for his observational and self-deprecating humor, Regan has been filling theaters nationwide for years. His theater tour has visited more than 80 cities a year since 2005. His first album, Brian Regan Live, was released in 1997 and has sold more than 150,000 copies. On December 7, 2011, he released his second album, All By Myself.

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Spend a hit-filled evening with country stars Lorrie Morgan and Pam Tillis on their Grits & Glamour Tour Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. Pam Tillis was one of the first women in Nashville to produce her own album, and she was awarded the coveted Female Vo-calist of the Year by the CMA in 1994. Lorrie Morgan made her first appear-ance on the Grand Ole Opry with her father George Morgan as a teenager in 1975 and has built a reputation as a bona fide country star.

Genre: CountryDate: January 14Details: www.EisemannCenter.com

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The Civil Wars, a singer/songwriter duo from Nashville, were recently nomi-nated for “Best Folk Album” and “Best Country Duo/Group Performance” for the 54th annual GRAMMY Awards. Their debut album, Barton Hollow, has sold over 215,000 units to date and reached #12 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on iTunes’ overall Albums chart. The album’s first single and title track ‘Barton Hollow’ was nominated for “Duo Video of the Year” at the 2011 CMT Music Awards.

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AT&T Performing Arts Center brings you Mark Twain Tonight, the one-man show he starred in on Broadway. Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politi-cians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in an intimate look behind the famed author and American treasure. Holbrook adapted Twain’s own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Missis-sippi and a very effective ghost story. Holbrook’s Mark Twain characterization grew out of an honors project at Deni-son University after the War. Holbrook and his first wife, Ruby, had construct-ed a two-person show, playing charac-ters from Shakespeare to Twain. After graduation they toured the school as-sembly circuit in the Southwest doing 307 shows in 30 weeks and traveling 30,000 miles by station wagon. His first solo performance as Mark Twain was at the Lock Haven State Teach-ers College in Pennsylvania in 1954. While hunting for a job in New York, the show was his desperate alternative to selling hats or running elevators to keep his family alive. After five years of researching Mark Twain and honing his material in front of countless audienc-es in small towns all over America, he opened at a tiny theatre off-Broadway in New York. He was a stunning over-night success, as stunning to Holbrook as anyone else. In 1966, on Broadway, his second New York engagement won him a Tony Award and a Drama Critics’ Circle Award. This was fol-lowed in 1967 by a 90- minute CBS

television special of Mark Twain To-night! which was nominated for an Emmy Award and seen by an audience of more than 30 million.

Genre: HumorDate: January 13Details: www.AttPac.org

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This year marks the 50th anniver-sary of Loretta’s arrival on the music scene with her 1960 debut single, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl.” Almost on the exact date of her golden anniver-sary in show business, the Record-ing Academy gave her its Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor was presented in Los Angeles on Janu-ary 31, 2010. Loretta Lynn signed her first recording contract on February 1, 1960, and within a matter of weeks, she was at her first recording session. In addition to being “first,” she was also “great” and “different.” Loretta’s instantly recognizable delivery is one of the greatest country-music voices in history. As for “different,” no song-writer has a more distinctive body of work. In lyrics such as “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’” and “Your Squaw Is on the War Path,” she refused to be any man’s doormat. She challenged female rivals in “You Ain’t Woman Enough” and “Fist City.” She showed tremendous blue-collar pride in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “You’re Lookin’ at Country.” She is unafraid of contro-versy, whether the topic is sex (“Wings Upon Your Horns”), divorce (“Rated X”), alcohol (“Wouldn’t It Be Great”), war (“Dear Uncle Sam”), or “The Pill,” her celebration of sexual liberation, which were among some of her songs to be banned by many radio stations. Like the lady herself, Loretta Lynn’s songs shoot from the hip. One of the most remarkable things about Loretta is how she renews her creativity time and again. Two years after she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, she was back on the charts with the hit, “Heart Don’t Do This to Me.” In 1988, the year she entered the Country Music Hall of Fame, Loretta recorded with k.d. lang. She earned a Gold record in 1994 with Honky Tonk Angels, a trio CD with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette.

Genre: CountryDate: January 22Details: www.AttPac.org

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With a career spanning more than three decades and selling 75 million al-bums worldwide, Bryan Adams brings his Bare Bones tour to the Majestic Theatre for a rare acoustic concert. With hits like, “Cuts Like a Knife,” “Summer of ‘69,” and “Everything I Do (I Do It For You),” Adams has been selling out arenas and climbing the charts for years, becoming one of the most recognizable voices in rock. Bare Bones, his fifteenth album, was re-leased in 2010.

Genre: RockDate: January 28 Details: www.LiveNation.com

For the past two decades, Kenny G has become the biggest selling in-strumentalist in the world, with more than 75 million albums sold. Over the years he has collaborated with various artists, including Andrea Bocelli, Whit-ney Houston, Aaron Neville, Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra and Smokey Robinson- just to name a few. In 2003, Kenny G was named the 25th-highest selling artist in America by the RIAA, with 48 million albums sold in the USA alone.

Genre: Smooth JazzDate: January 19 Details:

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This exhibition of work by emerging Shanghai-based artist Qiu Anxiong includes paintings and video art. Qiu’s unique videos are created by a stop-motion animation technique from im-ages of his paintings. Together the paintings and videos in this exhibition offer insight into Qiu’s process: how he creates an image in paint, how it evolves and is recorded, and its final result in video as part of an ever-changing series of images. The result is hauntingly beautiful moving images that range from mythical stories to urban transformation. Although the paintings are acrylic on canvas, they appear at first glance to be ink paint-ings. The landscape images in par-ticular refer to traditional Chinese land-scape scroll paintings, with their crag-gy mountains and still lakes. In some of his videos, Qiu shows the transfor-mation of an idyllic natural landscape to one that is polluted, industrialized, and urban. Qiu came to international prominence when his work was shown in the 2006 Shanghai Biennial. With a video titled New book of the Mountains and Seas, 2006, he was able to cap-ture an approach to tradition in China at a time when few artists were con-sidering the subject. He writes: “These days, most people consider new and old to be mutually exclusive concepts. The new is completely novel; the old, totally outdated....No one has really thought deeply enough about the in-timate relationship between the new and the old. Most people in China au-tomatically equate new with all things Western.” One can argue that Qiu’s art, through both his chosen medium and subjects, sets out to question pre-vailing assumptions about tradition and change in Chinese society. Qiu Anx-iong has shown his work international-ly, including in contemporary art bienni-als in Sydney, Thessaloniki, Seoul, Sáo Paulo, Busan, and Nanjing.

Museum: The Crow Collection of Asian ArtExhibition: Closes February 5Details: www.CrowCollection.com

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This exhibition is a reflection on the career of the late Martin Schreiber. Known for his highly disciplined art form, his work, through subtle changes of color and intensity, produces soft edge light vibration and illusions of spatial expansion. Born in 1924, Mr. Schreiber enjoyed a long and success-ful art career both as a commercial art director in New York City with Dell Publishing and as a visual artist work-ing in hard-edge geometric abstrac-tion.

Museum:Geometric Madi MuseumExhibition:Closes January 8Details:www.GeometricMadiMuseum.org

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The Magdalene (1641) is the center piece of an exhibition highlighting the works of by Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652), a Valencian painter of Spain’s Siglo de Oro. The exhibit also includes three additional paintings by the artist. Of particular note from the Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid is the Assumption of the Magdalene (1636), which, like the Prado’s Magdalene by Ribera, was last exhibited in America at The Metro-politan Museum of Art in 1992.

Museum: The Prado - Meadows Museum of ArtExhibition: Closes January 15Details: www.MeadowsMuseumDallas.org

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This is the first ever exhibition devoted to renowned fashion designer, Jean Paul Gaultier, who is easily one of the most important fashion designers in the world. Gaultier draws inspiration from dance, pop-rock, cinema, televi-sion, photography, and world cultures, and he does it with a keen respect for tradition as evidenced by his highly tai-lored designs. This exhibition highlights a selection of approximately 130 haute couture dresses and ready-to-wear pieces. Museum:Dallas Museum of ArtExhibition:Closes February 12Details:www.DallasMuseumofArt.org

Jade is more than a precious stone; it is what is considered to be an ideal. Some 2,500 years ago, Confucious (Kong Qiu or Kongzi, 551-479 B.C.) provided a list of likenesses between particular sensual qualities of carved jades such as luster, surface angular-ity, and veining patterns and qualities of perfected human character such as benevolence, loyalty, and virtue. Confucius went on to elaborate on his meaning in a passage from the Book of Rites.

Museum: The Crow Collection of Asian ArtExhibition: Recently OpenedDetails: www.CrowCollection.com

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Mark Bradford has emerged in the past decade as one of the most inven-tive and accomplished artists of his generation, extending and transform-ing the traditions of 20th-century American painting into an empathetic yet demanding reflection of the urgen-cy, tension, and vibrancy of our pres-ent moment. This five-venue national exhibition marks the first major survey of this Los Angeles–based artist whose multifaceted practice encompasses painting and sculpture as well as me-dia and sound installation. In addition to providing a comprehensive account of Bradford’s career to date, with an emphasis on his work as a painter, this exhibition will foreground new works, including an environmental installa-tion with sound entitled Pinocchio Is on Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present. Additionally, two new works related to Mithra, his monumen-tal, ark-like public art project installed in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Or-leans for the Prospect.1 exhibition in 2008, will be featured: a major new

sculpture titled De-tail, which incorpo-rates elements from Mithra, and a film titled Across Canal, which examines the conception, produc-tion, and reception of that work. Also commissioned for this exhibition are an ambitious suite of new paintings and four inventive new drawings incorpo-rating graphite.

Museum: The Dallas Museum of ArtExhibition: Closes January 15Details: www.DallasMuseumofArt.org

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ECHOES OF THE PASTBuddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan

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Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan rep-resents the culmination of a six-year project that began in 2004 at the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago. The project’s aim was to research and “reconstruct” Xiangtangshan, a series of six-century Buddhist cave temples hollowed out from the living rock in a mountainous region in northeast China. Although they survive to the present day, the temple interiors were severely dam-aged in the early twentieth century when large numbers of stone figures and fragments were removed and of-fered for sale on the international art market. Using advanced technology in conjunction with straightforward research, the team studied the history of these grotto temples and investi-gated their subsequent despoliation in an effort to reconstruct the original appearance of the caves’ interiors. A focal point of the exhibition is the digi-tal recreation of one of the largest cave temples of Xiangtangshan, by which visitors can better understand the architectural setting in its original con-text. The results of these efforts form the basis of this exhibition. The works on view are on loan from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Cleve-land Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Penn-sylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Xiangtangshan, or the “Mountain of Echoing Halls,” is a Buddhist devotion-al site created during the brief Northern Qi dynasty (550-577). Carved into the mountains in the southern Hebei province of Northeastern China, Xiang-tangshan originally comprised a total of eleven man-made caves divided be-tween two main locations, Bei Xiang-tangshan and Nan Xiangtangshan.

Museum: The Meadows Museum of ArtExhibition: Closes January 8 Details: www.MeadowsMuseumDallas.org


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MUSEUMS

This is the first museum exhibition fea-turing the works of acclaimed sculptor, Tony Cragg. The exhibit features 30 large and moderately-scaled sculp-tures dating from 1984 to the present and provides an opportunity to better understand his work. Also included is a selection of drawings that are integral to the artist’s method and rarely seen in this country. Cragg is often praised for his innovative and varied forms, which draw upon his broad intellectual interests in science and literature.

Museum:Nasher Sculpture CenterExhibition:Closes January 8Details:www.NasherSculptureCenter.org

TONY CRAGGSeeing Things

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FORM/UNFORMEddesign From 1960 to Present

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Including over thirty works drawn largely from the Museum’s collections dating from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition reveals the transforma-tion of ideology and forms that have shaped international design of the last half century. From the technological and formal ideals of modernism to the influence of the handmade object, the works reflect increasingly complex and vibrant relationships between concepts of function, aesthetics, and material expression.

Museum: The Dallas Museum of ArtExhibition: Closes Fall 2012Details: www.DallasMuseumofArt.org


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GALLERIESJanuary 2012 / Page 30

This exhibition includes paintings de-picting water in the landscape, from rushing rivers to crystal clear lakes to wetlands vegetation, in the artist’s Maximalist style of “more is more.” The Cuban-born, Houston-raised artist is currently a Professor in the Depart-ment of Art at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Garcia-Roig has had over 30 solo exhibitions, and her work has been included in 214 group exhibitions to date; a list that grows steadily each year. She points to the opinion of prominent critics and paint-ers, such as Robert Storr and Gerhard Richter, who say the biggest issue in painting in the last half of the 20th cen-tury has been the attempt to reconcile the abstract nature of painting with its representational role. Garcia-Roig says the reconciliatory idea has been at the core of her on-site landscape paintings in which the figure is the ground and the ground is the figure, and both are gestural marks and paint which look and feel like a specific place. She says she works on-site (Plein-air) because it is the only way for a painter to capture the multi-dimensional experience of a landscape, focusing in and out at vari-ous depths, noticing and trying to bal-ance various relations among spatial elements such as color, size, shape and visual weight. The perceptual melting or push-pull that occurs when the viewers are continuously forced to focus in and out of her paintings paral-

lels the experience of being in dense, tangled woods. An opening reception for the artist will be held on January 14 from 6-8 p.m.

Gallery:Valley House GalleryExhibition:Opens January 14Details:www.ValleyHouse.com

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SUbLImaTIOn SImULacRUmangel Fernandez and Kit Reisch

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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 my-thology 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 ContemporaryExhibition:Opens January 7Details:www.CohnDrennanContemporary.com

Martin Delabano is a Dallas-based artist, teacher and active community member. In 2010, he received the Dis-tinguished Texas Artists award. Dela-bano grew up in a house of Pre-Colo-nial African and New Guinea sculp-tures, which had a profound influence on his work. His father was the Cura-tor of Installation at the Dallas Museum of Art for 33 years as well as a gifted painter. He is also a middle school teacher.

Gallery:Kirk Hopper Fine ArtExhibition:Closes January 7Details:www.KirkHopperFineArt.com

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maRTIn DeLebanO 2011 Selected new Works


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The SUm OF ITS PaRTSJerry Skibell

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Jerry Skibell was raised in Lubbock, Texas. He received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968 and continued for a year in graduate school, majoring in graphic design. Skibell has exhibited in numerous galleries in Texas and New Mexico. He incorporates a wide range of various materials and collage ele-ments in his work as well as a relatively new artistic process called “solar plate etching.”

Gallery:McKinney Avenue ContemporaryMercantile Coffee HouseExhibition:Closes January 14Details:www.The-MAC.org

This exhibition sets out to highlight the exceptional talent and innovation of many discovered and yet-to-be-discovered artists from the north texas region in a diverse mixed media invita-tional event organized by Dallas cura-tor, Rita Barnard. One of the goals of the center is to create opportunities for emerging artists. Many artists, cor-respondingly, seek new venues with which to present their varied works of art.

Gallery:Bath House Cultural CenterExhibition:Closes January 28Details:www.DallasCulture.org

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This is an exhibition of original antique oils and works by artists that focused on the busy, robust life that can be found on Parisian streets. High-lighted among the collected works are remarkably vivid street scenes in Paris from the 1900s by French post-impressionist artist Edouard Cortès. Cortès was born in Lagny, France on April 26, 1882. During his early lifetime, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists from across the globe traveled to France to study and paint its beauti-ful countryside and cities. The Cafe de la Paix was once a fashionable restaurant during the Belle Epoque. Housed in the Grand Hotel, the historic landmark had been situated on the corner of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l’Opera. An awning anchors the site of the restaurant while busy shoppers stroll by the corner, dressed in colorful late fall attire. Cor-tès was known as “Le Poete Parisien de la Peinture” or “the Parisian Poet of Painting.” His father, Antonio Cortès, was a painter for the Royal Court of Spain. He said, “I was born from and for painting.” All of his siblings became artists, as well. His beautiful depictions of Paris and the French countryside were always in demand and he con-tinued to paint them until his death in 1969. Views of Paris, or as it became known ‘the City of Light,’ were in great demand by both collectors and tour-ists, alike. Cortès, along with other art-ists like Eugene Galien-Laloue (1854-1941), Luigi Loir (1845-1916) and Jean Beraud (1849-1936) answered their call. Specializing in diverse Paris street scenes, each of these artists captured the city during its heyday and continued with these scenes well into the 20th century. “On the Streets of Paris” offers a nostalgic look at one of the greatest and most beautiful cities in the world.

Gallery:Banks Fine ArtExhibition:Opens January 2Details:www.BanksFineArt.com

On The STReeTS OF PaRISFine art exhibition

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Artist Britten Roetzel strives to ex-press an intangible and ethereal mo-ment. She aims to translate emotion into a visual language, capturing the essence and transmitting it onto the canvas with application of multiple lay-ers. Fearless in her exploration, Britten embraces universal elements of nature – earth, water, sky, air, ether, metal and fire, resulting in magical landscapes with underlying imagery of timeless ancient symbols. Britten’s passion for color in interplay of brilliant hues mirror her aesthetic sensitivity. Every painting is an invitation to discover new possi-bilities. Contrastly, artist Maya Eventov was born in Leningrad in 1964. She developed her unique technique of etching on oil after being inspired by the Fabergé eggs that fascinated her as a child when she would visit them in a Russian museum. Her works evoke feelings of happiness and well-being. In the hands of this artist, interiors and still life become extra-ordinary. The chairs, flowers, harps and roman pil-lars, that have been interpreted by generations of artists, take on perso-nas that could be sophisticated and rich, whimsical and fun, having their own independent life within the paint-ing. She works in watercolors and oils, using her own unique technique that combines oil painting and etching.

Gallery:Galerie ZugerExhibition:Closes January 9 Details:www.GalerieZugerDallas.com

GOOD FORTUnebritten Roetzel & maya eventov

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PacIFIc meeTS TORReY PIneSanne c. Weary

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After visiting Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve in San Diego, California, Anne C. Weary became entranced with its distinct topography. Using a red conté crayon to draw the landscape, she created beautiful and unhurried portraits of this natural beauty. With its distinct topography of pine trees, ocean and cliffs, Weary became en-tranced with the area and created these detailed drawings on site, work-ing outdoors. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition.

Gallery:Valley House GalleryExhibition:Closes January 7Details:www.ValleyHouse.com

Painter Thomas Zitzwitz, lives and works in Koln, Germany. His paintings are characterized by his natural interest in that which is ephemeral. The ever-changing impressions of multiple layers of color on top of one another and the actual change of color, depending on the view one chooses and the way the light falls, insinuate the impression of a fleeting moment. Standing in front of these paintings, viewers realize that they are not simply observers.

Gallery:The Gremillion GalleryExhibition:Closes January 7Details:www.Gremillion.com

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THEATERJanuary 2012 / Page 36

The Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl. The play is a dramati-zation written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket. It premiered at the Cort Theatre, Broadway, on October 5, 1955, in a production by Kermit Bloomgarden. The play received the 1956 New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Play and ran until 1957. The stage production was re-vived in October 1997, in a new adap-tation by Wendy Kesselman, directed by James Lapine. The revival was nominated for a Tony award in 1999 for Best Revival of a Play. Anne Frank is undoubtedly an icon of the Holo-caust; her diary has been published in many languages, and millions of peo-ple are familiar with her story. In this powerful new adaptation, the young Anne Frank emerges from history as a living, lyrical, intensely gifted girl who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determi-nation. This impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence. Each day for two dark years, Anne Frank’s voice shines through: “When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!” The cast includes Molly Franco as Anne Frank, Stan Graner as Otto Frank, Emily Scott Banks as Edith Frank, Jessica Renee Russell as Margot Frank, Travis Tope as Peter Van Daan, Lucia Welch as Mrs. Van Daan, Paul T. Taylor as Mr. Van Daan, Ted Wold as Mr. Dussell, Dana Schultes as Miep Gies, Andrew J. Kasten as Mr. Kraler, Arvin Combs as the Nazi Officer, and Jacob Aaron Cullum and Wes Cantrell as soldiers.

Theater: WaterTower TheatrePerformance:January 6-29Details:www.WaterTowerTheatre.org

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANKWaterTower Theatre

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Home alone and warned NOT to make a mess, a young boy discovers if you give a mouse a cookie...anything can happen! After eating a cookie, the mouse has some milk. Then he decides to clean his face. This starts simply enough, but the mouse keeps getting distracted and is constantly moving on to other projects, leaving unfinished ones behind. In the end, the mouse wants another cookie and the boy falls asleep on his desk. Don’t miss this DCT Family Favorite.

Theater: Dallas Children’s TheaterPerformance:Opens January 20Details:www.DCT.org

IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIEDallas Children’s Theater

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I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE

Theatre Too

Celebrating its 10 year anniversary, Theatre Three’s mega-hit produc-tion 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 musi-cal 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 TooPerformance:Opens January 20Details:www.Theatre3Dallas.com


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Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo are classical musicians who have taken the world by storm with their theatrical shows, which combine comedy with classical music and popular culture. Their clips on YouTube have gathered over 15 million hits and they have ap-peared live on television, including an exclusive interview for CNN. Equally comfortable performing in classical concert halls, as well as in stadiums in front of crowds of 18,000, they appeal to a diverse range of audiences.

Theater: Hill Performance HallPerformance:January 28Details:www.EisemannCenter.com

A LITTLE NIGHTMARE MUSICThe Eisemann Center

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La Bête (The Beast) is set in a stunning palace in 17th century France, where Elomire, the intellectual head play-wright of the castle’s resident acting troupe, is told by the court’s Princess that he must meet with Valere, a local clown the Princess discovered per-forming in the streets. Elomire is dis-gusted by the idiotic and vulgar antics of the clown, whom he believes would ruin the troupe’s reputation. The Prin-cess is upset by Elomire’s refusals and demands.

Theater: Theatre ThreePerformance:Ends January 14Details:www.Theatre3Dallas.com

LA BêTETheatre Three


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THEATER

Giant, a musical based on the 1952 Edna Ferber novel of the same name, takes the stage at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre and will go down in his-tory as Dallas Theater Center’s biggest production ever. Co-produced with The Public Theater and directed by three-time Tony nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal), the story of ambition and romance comes to the stage with music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa and book by Sybille Pearson. Edna Ferber’s great-niece, Julie Gilbert, had approached LaChiusa to write a musi-cal based on the novel Giant. Pearson used the novel, rather than the famous film version of the story, as the basis for their adaptation because “the movie, in its own greatness, changes some of the plot.” The production instead follows the novel, rejecting the many plot changes that were made for the popular 1956 film of Giant starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. In Dallas Theater Center’s production Aaron Lazar will star as the lead character, Bick. Lazar has appeared in seven Broadway productions and was recently seen in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his role in the revival of Les Miserables and can now be seen in Clint Eastwood’s film J. Edgar. Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (Finian’s Rainbow) will play Leslie. Baldwin has performed at theaters across the country and has appeared on Broadway in several pro-ductions including The Full Monty. The role of Jett will be played by P.J. Grif-fith, who recently starred in the original Broadway production of American Idiot. Greif will reunite with costume designer Jeff Mashie. The rest of the design team includes set designer Allen Moyer, lighting designer Ken Posner, sound designer Brian Ronan and choreographer Alex Sanchez.

Theater:Charles and Dee Wyly TheatrePerformance:Opens January 18Details:www.DallasTheaterCenter.org


GIANTCharles and Dee Wyly Theatre

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Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are drop-ping like flies! On the eve of the grand re-opening, head cook Edith Chiles drops dead. This is not the best ad-vertisement! It’s up to John Stone, the manager, to find the cause and the murderer. Delightfully sarcastic and cynical, Stone finds himself teaming up with Ed Parlor, a writer of mur-der mysteries with a cheery disposi-tion who enjoys the chance to play “Sherlock” and try to solve the deaths by chocolate. Together, the two men engage in a wacky race against time. The clues point to a sinister box of chocolates, and the suspects include all the outlandish characters working for the resort. Could it be Lady Riv-erdale, the new owner of the Mead-owbrook Health Resort? She is the pompous, high society type, except when she is required to use her vicious street shrewdness in order to survive (which serves as a hint to her mysteri-ous past). Maybe it is Ralph Dead-wood, gym instructor and all around cad? Dick Simmering, the aerobics instructor? Anne, the panic stricken nurse? Perhaps it is Margaret Daniels, a writer for Elite magazine and Alfred Mellox, trusted companion of the late Henry Meadowbrook. Last, but not least is Sweet pea Meadowbrook, daughter of the late Henry Meadow-brook; she is extremely overweight and seems to be trying to eat herself to death because of the trauma of losing her father. Rounding out the cast of whacky characters is Lady Riverdale’s long-suffering, eccentric secretary, Dyslexia, famous for her unusual cloth-ing choices. Death by Chocolate is a new, fun, and different comedy that will delight audiences all the way to its oh - so “sweet” finish line!

Theater: Garland Civic TheatrePerformance:Opens January 19Details:www.GarlandCivicTheatre.org

DEATH BY CHOCOLATEGarland Civic Theatre

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THE FREQUENCY OF DEATHGrand Theater

This story takes place in the studios of radio station WKIL during a live broadcast of “The Mystery Challenge.” The program is hijacked by a mysteri-ous voice, that of Dr. Big, a demented but brilliant scientist who has crossed paths with Harry, Nigel, and Lt. Foster before. Dr. Big is bent on revenge at any cost. He has rigged the building to explode if anyone tries to come in or leave. The only hope the heroes have is to stop Dr. Big before the program signs off, permanently.

Theater: Grand TheaterPerformance:January 26-29Details:www.ATTpac.org

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This musical production is filled with funny songs about Junie B. (which stands for Beatrice) Jones and the things she does throughout her stint in first grade. Junie writes everything down in her Top-Secret Personal Beeswax Journal. Junie lives with her parents, her dog, Tickle, and her baby brother, Ollie. Her best friends at school are Herb, Jose and Lennie; and together they battle against Junie’s tat-tle-telling rival, May. The musical was adapted the popular book series.

Theater: Hill Performance HallPerformance:January 22Details:www.EisemannCenter.com

JUNIE B. JONESHill Performance Hall


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CINEMAJanuary 2012 / Page 42

Red Tails is the true story of a crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program during World War II. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options – including the untried and untested pilots of the ex-perimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage.

Director: Anthony HemingwayRated: PG-13 - Violence Opens: January 20

Red tailsterrence Howard / Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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Darling Companion tells the story of a woman (played by Diane Keaton) who saves a lost dog from the side of the freeway. Suffering from empty nest syndrome and dealing with a self-involved husband (played by Kevin Kline), she forms a special bond with her new pet. After her hus-band loses the dog at a wedding, a distraught Beth and some remaining guests form a search party to look for the animal. Darling Companion is directed by Lawrence Kasdan.

Director: Lawrence KasdanRated: PG 13 - LanguageOpens: January 1

daRlinG Companiondiane Keaton / Kevin Kline

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Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Con-traband, a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family he’ll do anything to protect. Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling—full of desper-ate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs—where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away. Chris Farraday (played by Mark Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (played by Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (played by Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best—run-ning contraband—to settle Andy’s debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebas-tian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to success-fully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (played by Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target. Contraband is written by Aaron Guzikowski and is based upon the Icelandic film Reykjavik: Rotter-dam by Arnaldur Indriðason and Óskar Jónasson. Baltasar Kormákur directs the thriller which also stars Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Caleb Landry Jones, Diego Luna and J.K. Simmons.

Director: Baltasar KormakurRated: R - Violence, LanguageOpens: January 13

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Oscar® nominees Queen Latifah (Chi-cago, Hairspray) and Dolly Parton (Steel Magnolias, Nine to Five) star in Joyful Noise, a funny and inspirational story of music, hope, love and renewal. The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the peo-ple are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly ap-pointed director, Vi Rose Hill (played by Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (played by Parton) thinks tried-and-true trans-lates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, Randy (played by Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (played by Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more heat between G.G. and Vi Rose. If these two strong-willed women can overcome their differences and find a common voice, they–and their choir–may make the most joyful noise of all. Starring with Latifah and Parton are Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee), Courtney B. Vance (Extraor-dinary Measures), Jeremy Jordan (Broadway’s Rock of Ages), and Kris Kristofferson (Dolphin Tale). Rounding out the main cast are Dexter Darden, Angela Grovey, Paul Woolfolk and Jesse L. Martin. Todd Graff (Bandslam) directed Joyful Noise from his original screenplay. The film is produced by Oscar® nominee Michael Nathanson (L.A. Confidential), Joseph Farrell, Catherine Paura, and Oscar® nomi-nees Broderick Johnson and Andrew A. Kosove (The Blind Side).

Director: Todd GraffRated: PG-13- Mild Rude HumorOpens: January 13

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Mallory Kane (played by Gina Carano) is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully free-ing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive. Haywire also stars Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, An-tonio Benderas and Michael Douglas.

Director: Steven SoderberghRated: R - ViolenceOpens: January 20

HayWiReGina Carano / Channing tatum

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Underworld Awakening brings a stun-ning new dimension to the epic battle between Vampires and Lycans, as the first film in the franchise to shoot in 3D. Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who es-capes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.

Director: Mans Marlind & Bjorn SteinRated: PG - Mild ViolenceOpens: January 20

undeRWoRld aWaKeninGKate beckinsale / stephen Rea

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Katherine Heigl brings Stephanie Plum - the popular heroine of Janet Evanovich’s worldwide best-selling seventeenth-book mystery series - to vibrant life in One For The Money. A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum’s got plenty of atti-tude, even if she’s been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bond-ing company...as a recovery agent. True, she doesn’t even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn’t stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny’s big-gest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli - yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school. Nabbing Morelli would be sat-isfying payback - and a hefty payday - but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger, a hunky colleague who’s the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn’t airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself...well, sud-denly Stephanie’s new job isn’t nearly as easy as she thought. Starring Kath-erine Heigl, One For The Money is a fresh, funny action-comedy directed by Julie Anne Robinson (The Last Song) and also starring, Daniel Sunjata (Res-cue Me), John Leguiziamo (Ice Age), Debbie Reynolds and Debra Monk. Screenplay by Stacy Sherman & Karen Ray and Liz Brixius. One For The Money is based on the novel by Janet Evanovich.

Director: Julie Ann RobinsonRated: PG-13-Mild Rude HumorOpens: January 27

one foR tHe moneyKatherine Heigl / Jason o’mara

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man on a ledGesam Worthington / elizabeth banks

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An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (played by Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police De-partment negotiatior (played by Eliza-beth Banks) tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective. Man On A Ledge also stars Jamie Bell (The Eagle), An-thony Mackie, Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan), Kyra Sedwick and Ed Harris.

Director: Asger LethRated: PG -13 - ViolenceOpens: January 13

in tHe GReyliam neeson / dermot mulroney

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In The Grey, Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements – and a vi-cious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt – before their time runs out. In The Grey also stars Dermot Mulroney and is directed by Joe Carnahan (The A-Team, Smokin Aces). It is based on the short ghost story Ghost Walker by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers.

Director: Joe CarnahanRated: This film is not yet ratedOpens: January 27


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EVENTS

The first and largest stair climb in North Texas is back for a fourth year and promises to be better than ever. Join 1,000 fellow climbers from the area as they charge up the stairs at Fountain Place. The Big D Climb is a 52 flight footrace up the stairs of Fountain Place. Participants of all ages will race indi-vidually or in a team. The event benefits The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, (LLS), the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to fund-ing blood cancer research, education and patient services. LLS’s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS created the Informa-tion Resource Center (IRC) to provide blood cancer patients, their families and health professionals accurate, cur-rent disease information and support. IRC information specialists are social workers, nurses and health educators. Since its founding, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has provided more than 600 million dollars for research on blood cancers and has coordinated a nationwide informational clearinghouse for medical professionals, caregivers, and patients. LLS also advocates public policy positions that accelerate prog-ress toward cures for leukemia, Hodg-kin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of those with blood cancer, their friends and families. After the event, a party will be held.

Venue:Fountain PlaceEvents:January 28Details:www.BigDClimb.org


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Jeff Hellmer, Piano & ConductorGeorge Gershwin, Piano

Tuesday, February 14

8:00 pm Meyerson

Symphony Center

DALLAS WIND SYMPHONYPRESENTS

A Gershwin Valentine


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EVENTSJanuary 2012 / Page 49

HUNTING AND FISHING EXPOAnnual Outdoors Expo

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This annual exposition will feature a 4,000 gallon aquarium that has been transformed into a natural habitat which holds 30-40 fish from differ-ent species. Participants will have a chance to see and learn about an array of eagles, hawks, falcons and owls. Kids can also fish for catfish from a catfish tank. Seminars will be conducted by Wally Marshall, who is also known as Mr. Crappie, and by Zell Rowland, who is known as the King of Topwater.

Venue:Dallas Market HallEvents:January 6-8Details:www.TexasFishingShow.com

The National Cheerleading Association Championships provide high school and junior high school cheer teams the opportunity to compete with teams around the world in top-rate competi-tions. Participants will be scored on the degree of difficulty and originality of their stunts, pyramids and toss-es, tumbling, jumps, dance routines, showmanship, team spirit, overall performance, crowd appeal, school representation and the team’s overall impression upon the judges.

Venue:Dallas Convention CenterEvents:January 7-8Details:www.NCAVarsity.com

CHEERLEADERS CHAMPIONSHIPSNational Competition

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MEET THE MUSEUM Bob Ray Sanders On JFK

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January’s program features a lecture by Bob Ray Sanders who will speak about his experience during the time of Kennedy’s death. A respected long-time newspaper, radio and television journalist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Sanders was attending high school in Fort Worth in 1963. On Thanksgiving Day that year, his marching band per-formed a memorial tribute to President Kennedy. Sanders was later an active supporter of the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Venue:The Sixth Floor MuseumEvents:January 13Details:www.JFK.org

VOLLEYBALL CHALLENGE National Tournament

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This volleyball challenge will hold divi-sion competitions for all ages from 12 to 18. Saturday will feature a round of volleyball competitions and Sunday will conclude the event with bracket competitions based upon Saturday’s tournaments. Five matches/ten sets are guaranteed and in Sunday’s playoff brackets, matches will be two out of three sets. Sunday evening will fea-ture an awards presentation in which awards will be granted to the winner of each bracket in each age division. Venue:Dallas Convention CenterEvents:January 28-29Details:www.SummitVolleyBall.com


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On the third Friday of every month, the museum stays open until midnight to offer performances, concerts, read-ings, film screenings, tours and family programs. This month is the annual Birthday Bash, featuring the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit, highlighted by The Divas of Gaultier Costume Con-test. Guests can release their inner diva and dress as Madonna or Lady Gaga. Prizes will be awarded to the best Madonna and best Lady Gaga, who will then compete head-to-head for the best overall costume. The win-ner will receive a Museum store gift card and a Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition catalogue. The eve-ning also includes an exciting musical and theatrical performance featuring award-winning Madonna tribute artist Chris America accompanied by danc-ers from Bling Divas Entertainment. In the Center for Creative Connections, local milliner Cassandra MacGregor of the House of MacGregor will conduct a hands-on exciting evening of hat making workshops. General admis-sion is $10 or less; DMA members and children under 12 free. Late Night pro-grams are included in general admis-sion to the Museum unless otherwise noted. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors, by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Venue:Dallas Museum of ArtEvents:January 20Details:www.DallasMuseumofArt.org

LATE NIGHTS AT THE DMABirthday Bash

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The Nasher Sculpture Center brings art world speakers for conversations or lectures about sculptural themes. Learn about the ever-expanding defi-nition of sculpture and the thought-process behind some of today’s most innovative contemporary artwork, architecture and design. This month, the Nasher welcomes artist, Elliott Hundley. Elliott Hundley (born 1975) is an American artist, living and work-ing in Los Angeles. Hundley earned an MFA in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, with a 1997 BFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2002, and had fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bemis Center for Contem-porary Art in Omaha, NE. Hundley’s work has been exhibited at Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and various venues in Los Angeles, including group exhibitions at Peres Projects. Hundley has been part of the LAXed exhibi-tion at the Peres Projects Berlin in April 2006 and the Hammer Museum in May 2006. His work is in the perma-nent collection of the Museum of Con-temporary Art, Los Angeles, the Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Venue:Nasher Sculpture CenterExhibition:January 28Details:www.NasherSculptureCenter.org

ELLIOTT HUNDLEYNasher 360 Speaker Series

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This is the largest one-day exhibition of its kind. The annual event will feature more than 200 of D/FW’s top party and event suppliers. See the hottest party and entertainment trends such as table decor, entertainment, venues, lighting, music, food service and in-vitations while networking with party planning professionals from around the world. Seminars, food and beverage samplings, a silent auction and exciting new product demonstrations will be highlighted throughout the day.

Venue:Dallas Market HallEvents:January 11Details:www.ApplauseProductions.com

PARTYFEST EXTRAVAGANZAAnnual Hospitality Exposition

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DALLAS BRIDAL SHOWAnnual Bridal Exposition

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This bridal-themed consumer trade show is held twice annually to provide brides and their wedding parties a one-stop shopping opportunity to plan every aspect of the wedding in one weekend at one location. From invita-tions to photography, catering, musi-cians and entertainment, bachelorette parties, wedding dresses, reception favors, wedding and reception venues, and even honeymoon destinations, brides can view, taste and feel samples from thousands of vendors.

Venue:Dallas Market HallEvents:January 28-29Details:www.BridalShowsinc.com

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RSVP The Billiard BallFebruary 18, The Ritz-Carlton

Celebrating its 9th year, The Billiard Ball features cocktails, dinner, silent auction, award presentation and dancing to the big band tunes of the Hunter Sullivan orchestra.Contact: [email protected]

CinemaSafe HouseFebruary 10, Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds

A CIA agent is guarding a prisoner in a CIA safe house and is attacked by a group of rebel soldiers, leaving everyone dead but the agent and his prisoner.This film is not yet rated

TheaterThe Farnsworth InventionOpens February 16, Theatre Three

The year is 1929. Two ambitious visionaries, Philo T. Farnsworth and David Sarnoff, battle fervently to discover and develop the greatest invention of all time: the television.www.Theatre3Dallas.com

MuseumsNigel CookeCloses February 18, Goss-Michael Foundation

Nigel Cooke’s paintings construct a dark and melancholic world. At its core, it is an allegorical conception of creativity and production as ambiva-lent human traits.www.GossMichaelFoundation.org

GalleriesAn Archive Of Shadows: UnderwoodCloses February 5, Hawn Gallery

In his first solo exhibition, Andrew Douglas Underwood brings his research together in the form of folio boxes, books and framed works that compile discrete dossiers. www.SMU.edu

ConcertsKelly ClarksonFebruary 10, Verizon Theatre

In ten years, Kelly Clarkson has re-leased five studio albums, sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, 10 million albums in the U.S. and has had nine singles in the top 10.www.VerizonTheatre.com

EventsDallas Winter Boat ShowFebruary 3-5, Dallas Market Hall

The 2012 Dallas International Boat Show has the most comprehensive selection of boats, as well as fishing gear, hunting equipment and a full range of outdoor equipment.www.DallasBoatShow.net

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