Number 15 From the Double Wide to Lee Harvey’s, house parties to bar bashes, we saw Dallas power-flex its costuming muscles on Saturday night. But the eye of the storm hovered over Cedar Springs at the famous Oak Lawn Block Party, and so did our cameras. We had photographers Jay…
Pee Wee’s Playhouse was a collage of art forms, where furniture puppets turned into characters and wallpaper sucked you into a cross-dimensional portal. If you cracked open the snow-globe brain of artist Wayne White you’d see much of the same. He designed the set for the cult production back in…
We don’t often hear of sleuth-like happenings on museum property, but today the Dallas Museum of Art released exciting information. A piece of artwork long-thought to be painted by Asher B. Durand, was actually painted by George Inness. The mysterious work was willed to the institution in a lump donation…
Remember how you swore that you’d get over to the Chinese Lantern Festival during the fair, but then got sidetracked by fried foods, Kobayashi and the drunken quest for a Coupon Daddy? (Coupon Daddy: An urban legend figure who gives away free coupons because he likes to see you happy.)…
Dallas could explode this weekend, there’s that much going on. Crazy Halloween parties are cropping up at all of your favorite bars, there’s a theater performance in a wrestling ring, poster art in a movie theater and auditions for MasterChef. To help you with your highly refined party strategizing, I’ve…
Pablo Picasso: October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973 We love ya, Pabs. Here’s a little Modern Lovers to help celebrate your birthday, from your friends at Mixmaster…
As you age, your perception of Halloween shifts. You see things more philosophically, and it’s in that exploration of death’s abyss that your fears are triggered. What if you couldn’t cross over? What if your soul wound up penned between two worlds with no hope of transcendence? It’s a terrifying…
Even the street style of a city like Johannesburg is enough to make a Dallas fashionista envious. Those seemingly effortless pairings have layers of complicated design behind them — and once you delve into couture runway looks, well, just step aside, USA. We get a chance to open the window…
All’s fair in love, war and the quest for the Shiva, or at least that’s the takeaway from the FX’s series The League. The semi-improvised comedy focuses on the dysfunctional lives of six friends who spend more time sabotaging each other than actually learning about their fantasy football rosters. Season…
an you believe Found Magazine is more than 10 years old? Yeah, we’re aging. Since Found’s inception, we’ve followed the career of its creator, Davy Rothbart, and watched him explore his passion for communicating underrepresented stories through his contributions to This American Life (that one about Mister Rogers still amazes…
The Dallas Arboretum made a bold announced this morning: Dallas, like, really loves Chihuly. The show has brought in 461,332 visitors since opening in early May with the potential to draw thousands more during the holiday season, but the show was scheduled to close on November 5, marking a tidy,…
In my own life as a writer I’ve pit my shortcomings to things which felt seemingly out of my control. I’m guilty of it. I’ve blamed the easy targets: required page views, deadlines, and the daily vacuum of emptiness, disguised as content. But there are others whose contributions to the…
Sex. Love. Dope. Violence. Rock ‘n’ roll. Gary Oldman. Sid Vicious and Nancy Spugen set the bar for dysfunction in punk rock coupling. Their violence drove their passion. Their daily diet of heroin didn’t help the matter. Still, there’s something charming about that love story. Not fictitious film romance, “Rocky…
Don’t worry if your Halloween costume hasn’t come to fruition — that’ll work out. The important thing is to organize your weekend in advance. You’ll want to hit all of the big parties and maybe a few black sheep events to get the most mileage from that outfit — whatever…
This is the beginning of our new series on Dallas nail artists, and we’re starting if off with a woman who will be difficult to top, Vanessa Quilantan. She’s known internationally as Pro Nail Princesa and will be featured in the upcoming documentary, Nailgasm. She’ll have her own studio someday,…
Number 10 The Irving Convention Center was taken over by aliens, intergalactic heroes and nightmare-invading villains last weekend for Comic Con Fan Days. Cult superstars Stan Lee, Bruce Campbell and the man behind the sweaters and night terrors, Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) drew in the metroplex’s most dedicated and costumed…
It’s his JFK moment, and local outsider artist Clay Stinnett is commemorating the day by adding flames to his collection of Big Tex paintings. He’s a huge fan of the iconic cowboy, and has been posting the pics on his Facebook page in rapid-fire progression. We got curious and emailed…
ArtLoveMagic’s longest running exhibtion, Girl Show, unlatches its boudoir doors this Saturday, October 20. It’s grown so much in five years that the all-female populated and operated art and music festival has had to plant a sloppy farewell kiss on Life in Deep Ellum, and return to the larger venue…
NUMBER NINE: By Artist Miggy Aguilar Live Fast/Die Slow, the visual component to 45 Fest, opened last night. It’s made up of 37 pieces, each designed by local artists attempting to capture the spirit of the band Spector 45. The winning work will be used as the album art for…
BRUCE CAMPBELL WILL BE AT COMIC CON THIS WEEKEND, AND SO WILL STAN LEE! Alright Dallas, I hope you took a powernap and squirreled away a minibar’s worth of 12-hour energy drinks, because you’ll need your A-game to conquer this jampacked weekend. We’ve got Bruce Campbell, Stan Lee and folks…
There’s a gritty aspect to the new exhibition at Goss-Michael Foundation, and it’s got my radical cheerleader pompoms all perked up. Linder got her start in the Manchester art scene in the late ’70s by bringing a rough-cut, DIY-lene to photo montages and performance art. A little bit Dada, a…
His trademark emblem — a cupcake skull above a set of crossbones — began as a side business for Johnny Earle. After excusing himself from college, Earle ventured into band-merch design. But when he showed up wearing that original pastry-laced shirt, everyone wanted it. Now known internationally as Johnny Cupcakes,…
