Nick Jonas. Sing it with us, Niiiiiiick Jonasssssss. You know him from that boy band of brothers. He’s the youngest one with the diabetes. He’s the one who dated Miss Universe. He’s also on that show Kingdom. Well, put away your silly questions about music and life and love because…
When you step onto the front porch of Allie Hill and Jayme and Michel Ditto’s house, all the neon-painted pots and plants are so perfectly arranged, you’d swear they were styled by a professional, because they were – Allie, Jayme and Mitchell. They’re graphic designers by trade, but they’ve come…
In the sunny main gallery of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a single tree branch seems to be growing out of a marble column. Or perhaps it has been trapped that way, memorialized in this regal way. Then, upon closer inspection, you’ll see this branch, and the others like it, aren’t…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Sayra Carpenter and Michelle Carranza wear a lot of jewelry. Precious stones, woven friendship bracelets, gold pendants in the shape of Texas. They stack their wrists with bracelets, they…
Some veteran filmmakers try to capture the younger generation and fail to get it right, coming up with characters and faux with-it dialogue that invite lots of “Oh, Mom!” eye-rolling. That’s not the problem with writer-director Nancy Meyers’s The Intern, in which retiree Robert De Niro finds meaning in life…
In the mid-20th century, movie audiences understood the value of a good melodrama: A picture like Now, Voyager or Black Narcissus or almost anything by Douglas Sirk could be an urn into which you could pour your own unarticulated feelings of loss and loneliness. The heightened, unrealistic intensity of those movies…
Maybe you avoid the art scene because you think it’s boring, or perhaps you think that your own art skills and knowledge just aren’t up to snuff. Either way, you’re probably wrong. Still, everyone can stand to get a little better at art, even those that don’t find themselves particularly…
This is your bat signal. If, like me, you need rescuing from the dumbed-down high-dollar hillbilly hogwash passing itself off as an important “world premiere” right now at that shiny Arts District venue, then The Adventures of Flo and Greg at the humble Bath House Cultural Center is here to…
If Moonshine:That Hee Haw Musical is redundant, predictable and precariously sexist, the audience doesn’t seem to mind. Taking its title from the long-running variety television show, it’s roughly five minutes into the story that the ending becomes clear and five minutes after that when the heroine looks more like a…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Josie Carignan sits in her bare Rescue Her office in Grapevine. Her desk is seated next to her husband’s in New Life Family Church, where they both co-pastor. Carignan…
Fall is finally freaking arriving, y’all. The weather will (soon) turn crisp, the pumpkins will invade everything up to and including your coffee, and perhaps most importantly, you’ll have plenty of weekend time because football is boring and there are much more interesting things to be doing in Dallas. This…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Justine Ludwig arrived in Dallas a year ago, but to hear her talk about the city, you ‘d think it was longer. Since moving here from Cincinnati to take…
Charlie Kaufman is a cartographer of the soul. You can picture him hunched over parchment accurately inking each dark river and, off to the side, cautioning that there be dragons. What makes Kaufman cinema’s best psychoanalyst is a contradiction. He sees people for who we are — hurtful, hopeful, lovely,…
Over the last few years, a number of Dallas-based artists have been making trips to Corsicana, a town about 55 miles south of downtown. Helmed by Southern Methodist University alum, Kyle Hobratschk, the project has been to transform a three-story historic building into a residency space for artists and writers…
Oral Fixation builds a community by getting people to tell their personal stories. The series kicked off its fifth season last night at its new location, the Dallas City Performance Hall. The new performance space is a perfect fit, big enough for the large crowds these events draw, but still…
If you didn’t buy tickets to see Garth Brooks, and you aren’t going to spend the weekend in your basement making clocks, then we’ve assembled this list of awesome things to do in Dallas this weekend just for you. Thursday, September 17 331/3 Party Vinyl used to be the cheapest…
The fall art season is upon us. Last weekend, a bevy of openings brought with it some fantastic art. This weekend, we have even more with numerous museum exhibits opening, as well as an array of gallery shows. This week, because one of the openings features an artist near and…
As you probably know, our fair city has a bit of a dark history. Dallas may not be widely known as the “City of Hate” any more, but there are still plenty of creepy artifacts and spots littering the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Even if you don’t necessarily believe in ghosts…
Arthur Pena and Francisco Moreno have been friends and known each other’s artwork for five years. They both approach painting with a focus on production and labor. Making use of limitations or defining a painting only as an attempt, both artists develop very specific ways of producing paintings. But with…
This weekend marks the true beginning of the fall museum schedule, with shows opening or entering the second week at nearly every major museum in Dallas and Fort Worth. Here, we outline the highlights. Being the River, Repeating the Forest Thoreau once said, “Nature will bear the closet inspection. She…
James “Whitey” Bulger was more like a character from a 17th-century folktale than a late-20th-century criminal, the sort of figure who’d murder innocents on wooded roadways and then, with a shrug, toss their bloody bones to hungry wild dogs. In ’80s and early-’90s Boston, he headed a criminal syndicate known…
The hardest type of guy for an actor to play is one without charisma. That’s the challenge faced by Tobey Maguire in Edward Zwick’s , which tells the story of Cold War–era chess champ and totally strange human being Bobby Fischer. He’s good at it — maybe too good. In…
