A Quentin Tarantino-themed burlesque performance, like tonight’s by Iggy Rodriguez & Bettie’s Deadly Dolls, lends itself to many interesting options. There are the obvious: Uma as a hep kitten dancing off a five-dollar shake and Uma as a samurai bride lookin’ for revenge, but instead finding a skin-tight banana yellow…

This week’s artistic melee is invigorating, daunting and the manifestation of many efforts, not the least of those belonging to the Dallas Biennale. Launching in tandem with the Dallas Art Fair is the first and only installment of this internationally seasoned mass attack meant to redefine and comment on the…

Music crested through the Hilton Anatole’s lobby last night as the atrium filled with hundreds of well-primped cocktailers. The crowd puckered and kissie-faced for photos as they waiting for the main event, a six designer runway show, to commence. Above their heads hung a chromosomal-structured work of art that bowed,…

If you’ve been holding out for a Cirque show in The Tent, your patience is about to pay off. Cirque Du Soleil has announced that Kooza will make Dallas home to its temporary artist encampment in mid-September. These shows differ from the stadium productions because they’re customized with the tent’s…

Next time you’re marooned at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, release your TSA tension at the new yoga room. Located just beyond Auntie Anne’s Pretzels in Terminal D, the strip of tiled floor is covered in mats, sectioned off by a privacy screen and accented with several potted plants. Hand sanitizer…

It could have been the world’s greatest cocktail party: Three sheroes of comedy, film and literature gathered in one room, but life rarely deals out a fair hand. So on Thursday, April 19, we have a decision to make. Everyone’s favorite cool aunt, Judy Blume, is speaking as part of…

I positively love Carol Burnett. She’s always been a trailblazer and role model for women, especially for the eccentric ones. Born in San Antonio and later raised by her grandmother in a Hollywood boarding house, Burnett didn’t have an easy childhood. That didn’t stop her from pursuing her education (she…

Romantics, music-lovers and film nuts gathered at the Meyerson this weekend when Dallas Symphony Orchestra presented an unconventional screening of Casablanca. It’s a project that DSO Pops Conductor Laureate, Richard Kaufman loves, you can tell by the enthusiastic “movie facts” he delivered to the crowd before the camera rolled. It…

Those saucy vixens at Viva Dallas Burlesque teamed up with Trixie Minx, Alley Oops and Fleur de Tease on Friday night to perform a racy take on Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland. A Jabberwocky-free zone, the Lakewood Theater was overrun with big-booty Tweedles, an aerial Alice and other positively mad…

Tonight’s show at Rubber Gloves is the only place in the US to ogle post-apocalyptic, Portuguese comics from the new collection Futuro Primitivo. The project has been shown in Rome, Helsinki, Sweden, and next Brazil, but because of local artist Nevada Hill’s contributions to and connection with the the vibrant…

DIFF just announced that Academy Award-nominated actress Laura Linney will join the elite recipients list of this year’s Dallas Star Awards. She’ll participate in a Q&A session at the Nasher on April 14 at 11 a.m., followed by a 2:45 screening at the Angelika of You Can Count on Me,…

Real World casting directors come to town Saturday to see what talent is hiding in Dallas, but getting picked requires method acting. You’ll want to face the mirror and have a one-on-one: “Will I be able to commit to this ridiculous persona for an entire filming period?” “If I’m using…

It’s happened again. You’ve spent so many hours under that fluorescent office lighting, staring at your computer screen, that your cheekbones look sunken and your skin turned all mealy. Quick, snap a Slim Jim under your nose and pour an energy drink in your coffee because honey, we’re going out…

If you were lucky, you were allowed to be a mild hoarder as a child. Back then, everything felt as though it had value. Wrappers off of lollipops, seashells and baseball cards acted as currency in that Fort Knox you called a bedroom. The cards you kept in either a…

Before Cane Rosso built its stationary brick and mortar digs, it was mobile. They kept the legacy going after the restaurant was built so you can still eat that amazing thin-crusted goodness all over Dallas, so long as you check its daily location. This Monday the mobile oven is parked…

Easter is the Super Bowl of brunches — every joint in town wants to grab the brass napkin ring and win the big game. Since you have nothing to do the rest of the day aside from digesting your morning indulgence and possibly wearing a big hat, take advantage of…

Everyone thinks that their dog is parade-worthy, but yours really is. He’s an excellent walker (when he’s not chewing through his leash), he’s generous to his many adoring fans (unless those jerk squirrels ruin it) and he’s the handsomest pup in town (humping every larger dog who walks into his…

Frank Lopez has a gift. His work with ambrotype and pinhole imagery provides hauntingly intimate portraits that feel like they should be hanging in the world’s coolest castle, mounted in giant cameo frames. He’s one of 10 artists you’ll get to gawk over during Saturday’s Go West Fest — a…

I’m going to have to fill a handbag with Adderall and Champagne cocktails and start guzzling to survive next week’s fest madness. In addition to our favorite annual celebration of movies and the creative folks behind them, Dallas International Film Festival, and the guns a-blazin’ eye candy of the Dallas…

Gallery-owning, art-slinging, cobbler-gobbling Waxahachie painter Bruce Lee Webb has a collection of his newest pieces on display at Magnolia Theater. His art’s been known to summon spirits and shake barn walls across the South and right now you can see it for nothin’ more than the lint in your pocket…