Quite some time has passed since I’ve seen a movie as beautiful as “The Words.” I admit that the real reason I went to go see it is because of my undying love for Bradley Cooper. I would have been content with just scenes of him shirtless and brooding, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the plot had actual substance to it.
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How much does Brian Dwyer love pizza?
Let us count the ways: He holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia; he has a caricature of himself, eating pizza, tattooed on his back with the phrase “Totally saucesome!”; and he is the driving force behind Pizza Brain, which he describes as the nation’s first pizza museum.
Dance for a cause this Friday night at the Phi Kappa Chi Stoplight Party, as the Christian fraternity raises money for the fraternity’s philanthropy Iloveorphans.com.
Does it really take two to tango?
The Pablo Ziegler Trio, this year’s first performer in the Baylor School of Music’s Distinguished Artist Series might prove otherwise.
The trio consists of Pablo Ziegler on piano, Héctor Del Curto on bandoneón and Claudio Ragazzi
Photographs taken by Keith Carter are nowhere near the typical cliché of bright colors and happy faces, but that is what distinguishes Carter from some modern photographers.
“I loved the 19th century photographs, and a lot of times they [the human subjects] had what I call ‘the look’. The exposures were long, they’d never been photographed and they just sort of stared, and I love that look,” Carter said at a gallery exhibit Thursday.
When the sun sets on Parent’s Weekend, students will rise up and show everyone what they can do.
After Dark, the annual campus variety show gives students the opportunity to display their various talents before and audience and judges.
Auditions begin next week
When writing a cookbook for beginners, it’s best to assume complete ignorance.
Mincing may be new to the reader’s vocabulary. Rice may require step-by-step instructions.
Apple showed off the newest iterations of its wildly popular smartphone Wednesday morning in San Francisco, confirming that the iPhone 5 will be larger, lighter and faster while connecting to newer cellular networks.
Auditions for “All Hallowed,” Waco Civic Theatre’s second show of their 2012-2013 season, will take place at the theatre this Sunday and Monday.
Directing the play will be George Boyd, and it is the first theatre that will perform the new play by Bill C. Davis.
Baylor Artist-in-Residence, Krassimira Jordan, will perform a faculty recital at 7 p.m. Monday in Roxy Grove Hall.
Jordan will open the program with three of Franz Liszt’s piano transcriptions of Franz Schubert songs, including “Du bist di Ruh,” “Auf dem Wasser zu Singen” and “Gretchen am Spinnrade.” Another Liszt transcription will follow.
How much reality does a vague childhood memory retain, and how much is fabricated over time? In their exhibition, photographers Leah Gose and Mary Kathryn Wimberly seek to capture the fragments of our memories as we remember them.
Virtually every city, town and hamlet in the U.S. has one or more Chinese restaurants. So why would you want to cook the dishes for yourself?
When Bob Dylan, the Dave Matthews Band, Nelly Furtado, the Avett Brothers, David Byrne with St. Vincent, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, the xx and the Raveonettes all have albums — and they’re all coming out today — you know you’ve got a busy music season ahead.
Students at Baylor are more than likely to see at least one Baylor Mainstage production in the four or more years while they are enrolled.
The Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, between North Village and the Baylor Sciences Building, almost always has banners hanging from it that advertise the newest big musical or theater production.
The Jazz Age is still alive and swinging thanks to the Baylor Jazz Ensemble.
Directed by Alex Parker, a senior lecturer in jazz studies, the band’s season begins Saturday with “A Moonlight Serenade,” an all Swing Era concert that features a “re-creation of what folks in the 1940s heard on radios, in nightclubs, on 78-rpm records and from the hotel ballrooms of their day,” according to a brochure published by the Baylor School of Music.
Wacoans by day and stars of the stage by night — the members of the Waco Civic Theatre are gearing up for their season opener this weekend with a trilogy of one-act plays in Neil Simon’s comedy “Plaza Suite.”
The Waco Symphony Orchestra’s 51st concert season features some highly acclaimed guest soloists and frequently played classics.
The lineup includes French composer Maurice Ravel’s “Boléro,” as well as Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.”
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church will provide Waco with a taste of Greece this Saturday at the annual Greek Food Festival.
The festival will be held at the Extraco Events Center in Waco from 5 to 9 p.m. as a fundraiser for both the church and the National Orthodox Autism fund.
Texas’ independent film industry is getting a boost from the Texas Independent Film Network, which devotes its services to promoting Texas made films, bringing them to small towns, college campuses and museums for exhibition.
I had never heard of “Lawless” until a few days before I saw it.
It didn’t seem like a movie I would jump at the chance to go and see, but those sneaky Hollywood producers managed to credit an all-star cast that deemed this movie as a “must-see.” Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Shia Labeouf, Dane Dehaan Pane, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain star in this film.
After reading about Jake’s Texas Tea House in our Welcome Back issue, I was excited to try it out. This weekend I did just that.
I walked in and loved the ambiance. It had a ’50s feel to it with aqua and red and white booths, vintage Americana décor and the catchy old music everyone loves at a sock hop.
