The play Opal’s Husband tells the story of Opal Kronkie, a junk collector on a quest to find her best friend a husband. (In my head I like to picture Meg White as Opal, mostly ’cause of the White Stripes’ song “Rag and Bone”—”Well can’t you hear we’re selling rag…

Le Violon rouge is a 1998 Canadian film aboot a haunted violin and its passage from owner to owner through the centuries. And this effin’ violin gets around, man, landing in Italy, an Austrian monastery and China before winding up in present day Montreal, where one would assume it belongs…

At first I thought Smoke On The Mountain Homecoming was a play about Deep Purple’s last reunion tour, but then I realized I was thinking of “Smoke on the Water.” Turns out it’s the Reverend Mervin Oglethorpe’s last sermon at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, and we’re all invited to watch…

Beautiful Boy is author David Sheff’s moving account of his own son’s struggle with meth addiction, a subject many families can no doubt identify with. It’s also possible even more people can identify with this in Southlake, where Sheff will sign his book at the local corporate coffee mecca (One…

Across the great state of Texas you’ll find plenty of artistic inspiration, as evidenced by the work in Gallery 2’s new exhibit, Across Texas. The show features work by Randy Bacon (who specializes in the big sky scenery of West Texas), William Young (whose work takes a more whimsical bent—including…

If love were a meal, how many courses would you want? I think I’d just want one—dessert. Or maybe an appetizer and some dessert. We should probably throw a couple of cocktails in to break the ice. Anyways, dessert for sure. (Ben & Jerry’s or Pokey-O’s will do just fine,…

Attention all nerds! Your tribe will congregate this weekend at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison for the weekend of fantasy, costumes, cosplay and general nerdery known as All-Con. Foremost among the festivities will be the appearance of Aaron Douglas of Battlestar Galactica fame. This is Chief Petty Officer Galen…

Artist Terence Hannum may hail from Chicago, but from the sounds of things he’d be just at home at Denton’s House of Tinnitus, reveling in noise. Hannum’s Web site features two droning instrumentals entitled “Obelisk Pt. 1” and “Obelisk Pt. 2,” and he’ll open his new exhibit, Don’t Give Up…

J.M.W. Turner could paint the shit out of anything——fires, a battle scene, seascapes, some sunlit mountains…you name it. After all, he was “one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art.” From the stuff I’ve seen (like “The Battle of Trafalgar”), though, homeboy was just painting the news…

Anyone who’s ever driven through the Great Plains can attest to its emptiness——miles and miles of corn or wheat in every direction with little besides small towns, Wal-Marts, churches and fireworks stands to break the monotony. But there’s certainly something to be found in all that emptiness——they don’t call it…

I’m not really sure why, but back when I was about 10 years old, I always tuned in to Anything but Love, the ABC sitcom starring Richard Lewis and Jamie Lee Curtis. Looking back, it’s nearly impossible to believe anyone bought the fact that Curtis’ character (Hannah Miller) was actually…

I must admit, seeing Days of the New singer-songwriter Travis Meeks on an episode of Intervention a couple years back was a bit of a shocker. Not because he was on the show, necessarily. And not because he was addicted to meth instead of rock star mainstays such as cocaine…

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but at some point Sprint Nextel became a big player in the art game. Don’t believe me? Then check out Cardinal Points/Puntos Cardinales: A Survey of Contemporary Latino and Latin America Art from the Sprint Nextel Art Collection. The exhibit features 56 works…

I’ve never really understood extreme sports—skydiving, bungee jumping, Zorbing, urban rappelling, base jumping, street luge, parkour (aka freestyle jumping), etc., etc. To me it’s more like dumbass in the sky, dumbass on a rubber band, dumbass in a rubber ball, dumbass with a parachute, dumbass with road rash, bouncing French…

Robert Sabuda (not to be confused with Andy Kaufman sidekick Bob Zmuda) is the king of pop-ups. He has illustrated, designed and written more than 20 unique children’s books since the late ’80s, including innovative pop-up takes on classics such as Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia and The…

I lived in Chicago for a summer once, so naturally I was expecting an exhibit called New Art From Chicago to feature all the staples: hot dogs, pizza, Old Style, Wilco, George Wendt, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Tortoise, the Blue Line, Jon Langford, etc., etc. Unfortunately, “the show is based on…

I’ve been waiting for an Alamo Drafthouse to open in North Texas for years now–there’s really nothing as satisfying as watching a bad movie with a bucket of Lone Star in hand, after all. Until that glorious day, however, we Dallasites will have to make do with the Studio Movie…

Artist Nancy Brown shares her name with a blond woman with a serious sunglass tan, who unfortunately beat her to the nancybrownart.com domain. Luckily for us, instead of the watercolor beach scenes favored by the other Nancy, our Nancy favors mixed-media collages that would look out of place in the…