Trendysomething in SoMo

Balls of fire: Surviving hacky sack with the Burn the Floor cast

By Steven Thomson

12.21.10 | 11:15 am

I never was the athletic type. As a youngster, I could be found hanging out in outfield, blowing dandelions and weaving bits of grass, and to obtain my physical education requirements in high schoo ...

Acobatic, sexy & so alive

Corky & Mark Ballas Burn The Floor in dance extravaganza

By Sarah Rufca

12.16.10 | 6:00 am

It was in the middle of the first act, when the lights briefly dimmed and the unmistakable samba rhythm opening of Sergio Mendez's "Magalena" rang through the Hobby Center, that I rea ...

H-Town's own dance man

Mark Ballas opens up on the naive miracle of Bristol Palin & his John Mayer ways

By Nancy Wozny

12.13.10 | 8:41 am

Mark Ballas, the two-time mirrored ball trophy winner on the ABC hit show Dancing with the Stars, joins the cast of Burn the Floor, presented by Broadway Across America Tuesday through Sunday ...

Burn the Floor

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

12.14.10 - 12.19.10

Love ABC's Dancing With The Stars? Burn The Floor is an international showcase of 10 updated ballroom dances. From Harlem's hot nights at The Savoy, where dances such as the Lindy

The Arthropologist

Houston's definitive holiday art guide: The cultural treats of the season

By Nancy Wozny

12.03.10 | 12:26 pm

Welcome to "The Arthropologist's first annual fully vetted holiday guide to holiday art during the holidays."  Those, you know, holidays, are upon us, which means relatives y ...

Ballas for Baby Daddy!

The real story of Sarah Palin on Dancing with the Stars: Did Bristol the pistol drag her back from Alaska?

By Jennifer Patterson

09.27.10 | 10:02 pm

Next in line to be Bristol Palin’s baby daddy? Her Dancing with the Stars dance partner Mark Ballas! After Palin received decent reviews for her sexier than expected first performance on ...

Defying the doubters with theme music

Surprise! Bristol Palin is charmingly competent (so far) on Dancing with the Stars

By Sarah Rufca

09.21.10 | 12:54 pm

I had two previous experiences that made me assume Bristol Palin was going to be a wreck on Dancing with the Stars. First, I have seen her brief scenes as "Bristol,"a teenage mom on T ...

Will Kate Ever Go?

90210 vixen robbed: Shannen Doherty's raw deal on Dancing with the Stars

By Rachel Hanley

03.31.10 | 2:13 pm

I was sure Kate Gosselin’s time on Dancing with the Stars had expired but instead that dubious distinction went to Shannen Doherty — so much for wishful thinking. Forgettable dancers al ...