Fairey Versus Wagner: The Ultimate Grudge Match

Tickets are still available for two events on Saturday, February 4 that target youthful supporters of the arts. The Young Professionals of the Dallas Opera are having beers and rapping about Wagner and the Dallas Contemporary has international DJ/Artist/Cool Dude Shepard Fairey spinning a giant bash over in the design…

Local Theater Company Raising Money for Loop Festival Entry

WaterTower Theatre puts on a splendidly versatile showcase for the performing arts each year called Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. It was given Best Theater Festival in Dallas for a reason, namely because its organizers have curated a menu of talent that is so delightfully experimental that you, the…

Lonely Weave Seeks New Head

Hi, I’m a lonely weave. Maybe you saw me this weekend, laying all by myself on the sidewalk in front of 7-11. I thought the corner of S. Field and Commerce would be a nice place to meet that special someone, but alas, I’m still single with no head-shaped prospects…

Beavis and Butthead in, Uh huh huh, Like Real Life and Stuff.

Special effects make-up guru Kevin Kirkpatrick is very much our kind of dork. He’s structured the gore for everything from Tron to True Blood but still managed to squeeze in time to make these amazingly creepy human-like renderings. That’s laced with a bit of irony: Kirkpatrick spent three years perfecting…

Du Chau’s “Inch By Inch,” As Beautiful As It Is Eternal

Peek behind the white partition at Kirk Hopper Gallery and you see it: a shimmering waterfall of music wires, hundreds of them, cascading out along a horizontal line. Their polar tips crash into polished white porcelain rose stems that hang vertically, like pendulums filled with untapped kinetic force. You need…

Who Needs Beauty and the Beast 3D?

Dallas ISD: School Zone Dallas Presents: Jerry Junkins Musical Production of Beauty and the Beast from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo….when you can get this courtesy a DISD elementary? That’s got to be, like, at least 5Ds. Maybe more. Doesn’t It seem like they’re coming right at you? Follow…

Jean Paul Gaultier to Appear on CBS Sunday Morning

Immerse yourself in fashion inspiration this weekend when style’s ultimate curator Jean Paul Gaultier appears on CBS Sunday Morning. The interview was filmed from his current exhibition, which ends on February 12, at the Dallas Museum of Art. Gaultier’s creative influence in the field cannot be matched, and that’s likely…

Jennifer Hudson Signs Books, Looks Hungry

We loved large Jennifer Hudson. Everyone did. The admiration wasn’t due to her weight, it was because of her vivacious spirit, unmarred from Hollywood and backed up with a “This is me. Deal.” attitude. Yeah, she was hanging on to an extra 80 pounds — so? It didn’t stop her…

Shakespeare Dallas Auditions, All the Park’s a Stage

Doth thou seek amusement cast off from thy daily toil? Are darkness and light one and the same betwixt the hours of 9 to 5? Need ye an outlet, a respite of the soul, tethered along thy brethren of stage and illusion? Take heart, good lord. Hope awaits ye, and…

Kids Make LEGO Robots, Solve the World’s Problems

LEGOs can be built, smashed and reconfigured in an unlimited amount of ways. Their creative potential is infinite, much like a child’s imagination. When the two pair up on Saturday for the FIRST LEGO League robotics competition just imagine what they’ll achieve. The students were given a goal: identify problems…

It’s Good to Be the King

Getting cast in Elvis Lives!, the touring homage to the Big E, is not easy (think Highlander for stage impersonators). The worldwide auditions lured in more than 500,000 would-be hip-swivellers in the last five years alone. Once the tribute artists are assessed and whittled down, those remaining Kings of Kings…

Dallas Modern Home Tour: Architecture Voyeurs, Unite

How badly do you want to live in these freaking amazing houses? High ceilings, fine lines, and light — oh, sweet beautiful light — pouring in through abundant oversized windows. You and your houseplants would live perpetually invigorated, both the philodendron and your joy quadrant would quadruple in size. Lovely…

Betty White Turns 90, Frosts Local Comedian

Everyone’s favorite brassy Golden Girl Betty White turns 90 today! In addition to squeezing in every cameo and roast that can possibly be wrinkled into a schedule, she’s also managed to helm the new (gotcha!) prank show Betty White’s Off Their Rockers. In it, rehearsed sketches are interspersed with spontaneous…

Fashion Week Dallas Day One: Carolina Herrera Keeps it Pretty

​Kicking off Fashion Week Dallas 2012 is best done with an oversized jeweled anklet, a note proven last night as collections by SOCIAL List and Carolina Herrera shared the runway at the Adolphus Hotel, outfitted with jewelry by local companies Body Elements and BootGlams. Dallas designer SOCIAL List assembled a…

Top 5 Friday the 13th Activities: Go Ahead, Get Freaky

It’s a severely underrepresented holiday, this most darling day of haunting. Typically used as a punchline to explain the tragic behavior of those around us (“Did that creep at the bar really suggest a three-way? Well, what do you expect? It is Friday the 13th.”) it once held meaning. There…

Alec Baldwin To Speak at Winspear

Brace yourselves and keep your daughters away from the voicemail because everyone’s favorite Hollywood charismatic, Alec Baldwin, is coming to Dallas on March 2. From his role as Joshua Rush on Knot’s Landing to Liz Lemmon’s platonic comedic foil in 30 Rock, Baldwin has remained a powerhouse for more than…

Mayor Rawling’s Daughter Makes NSFW Art; Given First Ever Blingee Award

Michelle Rawlings Loves You This is so over. Or maybe it’s just starting. Honestly, who cares? Dallas’ panties were collectively bunched yesterday as images from Michelle Rawlings’ — daughter of Mayor Mike Rawlings — upcoming art exhibition, Empathicalism, circulated. Blame it on the dildos. Or on the Photoshopped cover of…

The MAC is Back

Back from a brief hiatus, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary is boasting a power-packed, three-component show. The largest of the three displays, Coincident Disruption, is the work of Dallas artist Eric Eley. In it, Eley examines camouflage through a penetrable screen of hand-designed nettings. The aerial landscape is bold and alluring;…

Ladies: We’re Going to Empower the Shit Outta You

Hey girlies, let’s chat. We all know how traditional ladies’ nights go down: You and your besties get dolled up, have cheap drinks, catch up on each other’s lives and then, BAM! Vultures. Sexual scavengers dip down to prey on girls who have had one too many and annoy the…

Who Wants a Comedian When They Can Have a Psychopath?

If you were to see an X-ray of Pablo Francisco’s cranium, it would be a meticulously constructed Rube Goldberg device. The sassy sorority voice kicks into drive a monologue about boning, which triggers a reaction in his human beatbox cortex. This series of bits, impressions and musical mockery continues to…