Gregg Turkington is one of the greatest comedians of our time and you probably haven’t heard of him. If us girls are being honest here, it’s likely he’ll stay pretty far off your radar. He’s best known for is character Neil Hamburger, a strange alter ego of Turkington that the…
Over the weekend, the great progressive suburb of McKinney barrel rolled into the the national conscience. A video showing footage of the McKinney Police Department’s response to a disturbance at a teenage pool party went viral, viewed by millions within a few hours. Emotions ran high on social media. But…
It started in Waco. Mick Burson, 16 at the time, watched freight trains decorated with graffiti roll past him. The markings felt free to him. They represented a breed of art that wasn’t self-serving or introspective, but mobile, liberated. He absorbed these inscriptions and wondered where the artists were from…
New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke’s cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman’s new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up and nodding out. But Josh and Benny Safdie’s tough,…
In Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park reboot — set 22 years after dinosaurs started walking the Earth, again — brontosauruses, stegosauruses and velociraptors have become old hat, sort of like the mechanical Abe Lincoln at Disneyland. Meanwhile, the habitat around them has gone Vegas: Isla Nublar, home of the…
Audacity Productions’ Dallas Solo Fest at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park is presenting its second celebration of short shows written and performed by brave souls who aren’t afraid to go it alone. The standouts from the first weekend of the eight-show festival were Jill Vice’s Tipped & Tipsy…
The best play running on any Dallas stage right now is Precious Little, currently on at the Bath House Cultural Center. The best actor on any Dallas stage right now is in it — Sherry Jo Ward. In the production of Madeleine George’s strange, brief, beautiful play, directed with gentle…
Why are you leaving? Where are you going? Will you come back? If you’ve ever stuck your nose down in an art history book, you’ve likely learned that master French artist Paul Gauguin spent several years in Tahiti. It’s also likely that you’ve seen one of his resulting paintings, “Nafea…
Rub the sleep out of your eyes, Dallas. Fuel up with a double shot of espresso, a few rips off your roommate’s bong, or whatever it will take you key you up for an especially long weekend of cinematic jouissance. Oak Cliff Film Festival is back for its fourth year…
In most industries, summer is the time for the sugar-coated, mindless entertainment. There’s the dance party anthems in the music industry; the blockbuster films in film. It’s not that different for books. With the expectation of beach vacations and weekend visits to the pool, you’ll occasionally hear publishers talk about…
At SMU’s Meadows Museum last week, classical music lovers gathered for the first annual gala for Open Classical, an organization that’s been putting on inventive and inexpensive classical music events around Dallas since 2011. The gala showcased a sampling of their events, and some aspects of the evening —…
Located in the gallery known as The Safe Room upstairs at Texas Theatre, The Glacier Project is an endeavor from Amarillo artist Jon Revett, also known as Jon the Lion. The idea is to combine graphic and geometrical designs, mixing pop culture with spirituality. Revett started with album art from…
If any ounce of you, maybe your optimistic, glass-half-full side of you, thought The Bachelor had any string of realness, a new Lifetime scripted series confidently puts that to rest. In the 30 combined seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, there has yet to be a TV show, movie,…
Kathy Griffin will be performing in Dallas at The Majestic June 25th, so we caught up with her to ask her a few questions about her new tour, “Like A Boss.” Griffin says her act is ever-changing, “I still make fun of the celebrities that I’m friends with, and I…
There is no such thing as “too much” culture or art to consume. Even if you’re heading out to a gallery opening or theatre performance a few times a week, you could still be rounding out your cultural experience with events that don’t necessarily fit into your interests. If you…
Every city has its own set of museums. It’s how we document history or call attention to quirky industries. San Antonio, for example, has a museum dedicated to toilet seats. Some of the museums come and go. For years, Plano had a Cockroach Hall of Fame where the owner of…
There will be days this summer when you want to blow your brains out. The kids are going to whine about being bored every few minutes; the temperature will hover in the low 300-degree range, and the biggest movie of the summer will most likely be Mission Impossible 32 with…
When John Cusack was launching his career in the ’80s, Brian Wilson had gone from rock star to living lore — a brilliant Bigfoot. “People would have Brian Wilson encounters,” says Cusack, who plays Wilson in the new biopic Love & Mercy. “In L.A., people would say, ‘Oh, I was…
Have you ever wanted to be in the room with two of the brightest minds in the city so you could eavesdrop on their candid and entirely unscripted conversation? What if those two people were Jim Schutze and Mark Lamster discussing the Trinity River? Well, Mixed Media, the culture podcast…
I’m probably going blind. This sunshine is so damn bright, y’all. I don’t have shades dark enough. Just as soon as we all stop complaining about the rain, it becomes time to complain about the hot, sunny Dallas summer. Nothing will ever be good enough, although thanks to the wet…
Comedians are like rappers: They typically face the crowd alone, use a poetic language, and are worth following on Twitter. Like some rappers, some comedians have ghosts. At least one of the comedians listed here probably wrote material for a comedian with a bit more name recognition. Dallas-Fort Worth has…
If you enjoy ironic consumption, Granada Theater and Dallas Comedy House have joined forces for the Summer Mockbuster Series. Starting with Batman and Robin on Saturday June 6, this exercise in bad taste gives you the chance to sit with others, imbibe, and talk shit about awful movies. Or rather,…
