Normally, when Jimmy Buffett comes to Texas, it’s the beginning of Spring, when everyone ditches their hoodies, long pants and woolen socks and pulls out the Hawaiian shirts, surfer shorts and flip flops.
Of course, Spring 2013 has been anything but normal.
Reviews
Andrew Solomon’s monumental work, “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity,” (Simon and Schuster) began as an assignment from the New York Times to write a piece on deaf culture.
If you love opera – and I mean really, really love beautiful music sung by glorious voices – you have two more chances to see it in its purest form.
Fair Music Hall. When it came through Dallas several years ago, I tried to avoid becoming one of the converted, but failed – miserably. By the end of the first act, when Elphaba soars in the jaw-dropping number “Defying Gravity,” I was hooked.
From the first, distinctively dramatic notes until the emotionally-charged finale, The Dallas Opera’s current production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” is a feast of sight and near-heavenly sound.