Did that headline convince you? Hope so. If you are one of the few and the proud who are participating in Dry January, you are officially 12 days in and, like, only 1000 more to go. Well, at least that’s what it feels like. Because not drinking for an entire…
Like acne scars that never fade, even as middle-age wrinkles carve tiny paths around them, the worst moments of our teen years remain etched forever on our psyches. It is the time in life most pocked by humiliation, shame and insecurity. Impulse control hasn’t yet kicked in. Mistakes are made…
Nowhere is the spirit of Dallas more alive than in its artists. Their cultural brain power and unstoppable ambition bring us new events and festivals, revitalize neighborhoods, reflect on our blunders and offer us things to take pride in. Our artists challenge the status quo of theater, film, visual art…
Listening is a simple art: Keep your mouth closed, look at the person talking to you, move your head up and down a few times and ask a follow-up question that demonstrates you understood. That’s about it, and yet it’s increasingly hard to master. This is a problem since texting…
Yes, binge-watching eight hours of a documentary about the legal travails of cat-torturing ne’er-do-well is tempting, but it’s also more than a little depressing. Fight the urge to hole up on the couch and marathon through all those miscarriages of justice this week with these engaging endeavors, none of which…
The seventh episode of Transparent’s second season, now available on Amazon, takes place on Yom Kippur. The holiest day of the year in the Hebrew calendar, it’s a holiday on which Jews fast to symbolically atone for their sins. It’s also a significant occasion for Transparent, which, like the Pfefferman…
Connor Hill and Mallory Hill are a super fun couple with a super fun house. They also happen to have the same last name, but that’s just a fun fact for you to file away in your dossier. Guess what’s another fun fact? No one likes paragraphs. All the returns…
Do This! The 4th Annual Hypnotic Polar Plunge asks you to jump into the frigid waters of the FOE pool to raise money for the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Freezing your ass off won’t be how they earn the money, the cold, hard cash you hand over to…
Annette Lawrence As the analog world becomes replaced by the digital, imagine transferring the scribbles in your journals into your laptop, or up into the cloud. Artist Annette Lawrence has long been interested in the written word as object and idea, and for her upcoming exhibition at Conduit Gallery (1626…
Quick! Pick two pop culture icons in your head right now, one with a musical background and the other from any non-musical, pop culture category. Now imagine the one from the non-musical column singing the other person’s music. Chances are you didn’t come up with the odd combination of Elvis…
In the current noble vogue of admirable female figures in documentaries, now comes Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict by Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Guggenheim may not be news to the art world, but for the rest of us the film might stir wishful nostalgia for a breakthrough time in cultural history —…
Guided by a belief that anything not backed by science or hard math is mythology as always, Dallas multimedia artist Celia Eberle explores love in her latest solo show. The Mythology of Love references music, poetry, movies, animals, and the love goddess herself. Eberle’s work is well known throughout Texas,…
The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs has announced the recipients of the third-round of its Special Support Grants. Seven artists were awarded up to $5000. There were only twenty-three applicants this time around, but the next call for applicants already began this week. The grants aim to foster…
Somewhere between season two and season three of Game of Thrones I quit. It was too evil and rape-y for my squeamish brain. But one thing I loved about the show was the theme music. It fit perfectly with the show’s sinister, yet magisterial mood. Fast forward to last week…
Star Wars has warmed up box offices hotter than a Tatooine summer, and fans are going back to relive The Force Awakens experience to the fevered tune of 1.39 billion in global sales. As the film continues to dominate theaters with spaceship cameos and warm-hearted Wookiee hugs, detractors have begun…
Many great American plays have been written about big moments in otherwise small lives. Death of a Salesman. Summer and Smoke. A Raisin in the Sun. In these, the characters are ordinary people facing life-altering events: the loss of a job, devastating heartbreak, the struggle to rise out of poverty…
Making a Murderer has only been out for two weeks and the Internet is already lit up by intense reactions from angry viewers who managed to binge watch all ten episodes of the documentary series, holiday season be damned. Set in Wisconsin, the protagonist is Steven Avery, who was released…
JoJo Fletcher’s life is about to change. Tonight. Tonight is the night her entire existence is about to change. We are excited. Just kidding, we are terrified for her. Fletcher is one of the 28 bachelorettes on ABC’s The Bachelor, vying for Bachelor Ben’s attention. All of that is nice…
As you go forth into this new year armed with the best intentions to be more well-rounded, well-read, and generally happy, you’ll be glad to know you’ve got all the support you need to actually pull those things off. Consider Dallas’ literary minds, theater companies, dancers, artists and dreamers your…
One of our most enduring cinematic genres, horror is also among the most difficult to do right. This may sound obvious — countless attempts are made to scare moviegoers every year, whether in theaters or, increasingly, streaming online — but it’s brought into focus by the few that actually make…
As cinematic year 2015 reaches its end, the FOMO specter threatens to haunt us all. If you pored over the results of our film poll and felt aghast at how many apparently great movies you’ve yet to see, here at last is a chance to catch up without braving traffic. About…
Just a few years ago, a serious discussion of the “literary” scene in Dallas would have felt a little forced. Our fair city is known for a lot of things — well, at least a few — but breeding, attracting, inspiring and keeping writers of literature has not been one…
