| Tom Sime: Comic comes home for one night of 'Dishing' 03/28/2001 By / The Dallas Morning News
Paul J. Williams, popular comedian and former Dallasite, returns to his
old haunt Wednesday. The Pocket Sandwich Theatre gig is only his second
Dallas appearance since moving to New York three years ago. He's since had
two hit runs at the Don't Tell Mama cabaret, and was nominated for a
Manhattan Association of Cabarets award for best male comic.
Mr. Williams will perform his new collection of bits, Dishing It Out
, a follow-up to his previous shows The Best Little Homo in Texas and
Left, Out...and Not Right! You may remember Mr. Williams from his stint
with the Less Miserable trio, or as the Wicked Witch of the West in the
Turtle Creek Chorale's The Wizard of Oz.
In his new show, he plays a variety of characters in a Southern
cafeteria, chief among them a female food server. It sounds remarkably
similar to You Want Gravy on That?, former Less Miserable
colleague Steven Crabtree's show about multiple characters led by a
female cafeteria server, which played at the Pocket three years ago.
Which really came first? You be the jury. Dishing It Out plays
one night only, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., at the Pocket, 5400 E.
Mockingbird. Tickets are $15. Food service begins 90 minutes before
curtain. Call 214-821-1860 for reservations.
Piano solo
Dallas pianist and composer Jon Dahlander will perform his soothing solo
piano work Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Sammons Center for the Arts.
The concert is a benefit for Inspirata, a nonprofit corporation that
plans to build an "urban retreat" for those interested in exploring
creativity through spirituality.
Mr. Dahlander recently released the third CD in his Piano Landscapes
series. Tickets to the concert are $20, which includes a wine and dessert
reception after the performance. Tickets are available at the door. The
center is at 3630 Harry Hines Blvd. For more information, call
214-662-9133.
Art bytes
Richland College presents its ninth annual Computer Arts Festival
Wednesday and Thursday at the college, 12800 Abrams Road
The events include software demonstrations, artists' talks, exhibition
receptions and a panel of multimedia/Web developers who will discuss
current trends in the industry.
Related exhibits include ".tif," a group show of digital artworks in the
Brazos Gallery, room C140, through April 13 (reception Wednesday at
noon); and a solo photography exhibition by Marilyn Waligore, "Invisible
Women and 21st Century Notions of Immorality," running through April 13
in the Lago Vista Gallery in the library (reception Thursday at noon).
Winners of the 2001 Web Animation Competition will be announced
Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. in the Brazos Gallery. A complete schedule is
online
www.rlc.dcccd.edu/multimedia. For more info, call 972-238-6130.
Competitions update
The Texas Sculpture Association's NorthPark 2001 exhibit will accept
entries at the shopping center Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Monday from 8
to 11 a.m. The jurors, who will choose the exhibition from the entries,
are Freedmen's Memorial Cemetery sculptor David Newton; Bath House
Cultural Center visual arts coordinator Enrique Fernandez; and SMU
sculpture professor and art division chair Jay Sullivan. The fee is $15
per entry. Works chosen will be displayed at NorthPark Center April 8-22.
Call 972-296-5317, 214-521-8900, or 972-680-9030 for a prospectus or more
information.
• The Dallas Visual Art Center's 2001 Critics' Choice exhibit has an
entry deadline of April 14. This exhibit is chosen by slide entries. The
juror is Dr. Steven A. Nash, director of the Nasher Sculpture Center and
chief curator of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The fee to
enter three works is $20 for DVAC members, $30 for non-members. Call
214-821-2522 for a prospectus or more information.
Briefly noted
The City of Dallas' Office of Cultural Affairs is looking for public input
for a review of the city's cultural policy. To put in your two cents or to
sign up as a task force member, come to a public meeting on Tuesday, April
3, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the African American Museum, 3536 Grand Ave.,
just inside the entrance to Fair Park. Attendees are asked to RSVP to
Patricia de la Cruz, 214-670-4870.
• Andrée Putman, one of France's best-known interior designers, will
address the Dallas Architecture Forum on Thursday at the Dallas Museum
of Art. Ms. Putman, a former musician and journalist, began her interior
design career in1978, and has since won prestigious commissions and
awards for her work and for her mission to bring design in accessible
forms to the public. Her talk will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Horchow
Auditorium of the DMA, 1717 N. Harwood. Admission is free for DAF
members, $10 for DMA members, $15 for the general public, and $5 for
students with ID. For more info, call 214-740-0644.
• In connection with the children's arts festival Imagination
Celebration, the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library presents the Crayola
Dream-Makers Student Art Exhibit, a free show of crayon drawings by 300
area students. The exhibit will be on view through May 4 in the
children's center on the second floor of the library, 1515 Young St. at
Ervay. Call 214-823-7601 for more information.
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