In this hectic world full of traffic, student loans, and boring jobs, relaxation is an absolute must. Most of us don’t budget enough time or cash to bliss out from time to time, which will probably mean that we’ll all end up dead from all the stress of our fast-paced…
Carly Waddell, seven episodes deep, lost her battle to reality TV Monday night in Des Moines, Iowa. Cruise ship singer/Arlington native Carly Waddell entered The Bachelor world Jan. 5 wearing a pink frilly dress and singing a made-up song into a Barbie karaoke machine to try and impress Prince Farming…
If you’re an artist in Dallas, chances are you feel undervalued. It’s easy for this city to get lost in the mentality of proving one’s worth with monetary value, or asking not what a city can do for its people, but what its people can do for it. Especially its…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. It’s true that art is not just a beautiful part of life, but it can be valuable for mental development. And not just at young ages, but late into life. Even so, accessibility programs are…
One of the most striking passages of Mary Helen Specht’s debut novel Migratory Animals comes in the final pages. After hundreds of pages in which she weaves together a story of friendships, family, love and loss, the novel’s protagonist, Flannery, reflects on her attitude arriving in Nigeria as a scientist,…
BY MICHAEL ATKINSON In the olden days, what month it was never mattered to movies. But today the late winter months are well-known as a weedy boneyard of mouth-breathing Hollywood castoffs, and we explore it at the cost of our patience, time, shekels and optimism. For the love of everything…
Five decades is likely more than half a life. That’s more than 18 thousand days and nearly a half-million hours. It’s a long time to live. It’s a long time to be creating art. To see an artist’s work spanning 50 years is to stand in the presence of mastery;…
Let’s face it, most of us spend way too much time in front of Netflix and the Kardashians to actually put culture into our brains. Think about the last time you went to a museum. If it was more than a month ago, it’s time to head back to one…
I’m in a 20-year-long joint custody situation with Florida and Texas. So when Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings called Texas a “crazy state” that he would never visit, I knew he was just protecting his heart. Florida doth protest too much. These two wacky panhandles were made for each other –…
In a crazy combination of desperately needing a new place to rent and six degrees of separation, I currently find myself subletting the East Dallas residence of filmmaker Toby Halbrooks. He’s currently on location in New Zealand working on the Disney big-budget remake of Pete’s Dragon with another Dallas filmmaker…
Perhaps the most ambitious photography project to ever take place in Dallas was announced this week by photographer Richard Andrew Sharum. Known around the globe for his street photography, Sharum has recently been focusing his efforts around downtown Dallas. Last year he created a small-scale version of this project, in…
This weekend there are plenty of reasons to leave the house and no, 50 Shades of Grey is not one of them. From masquerade balls, to an ’80s prom at Doublewide, to video art screenings, performance art, theater and more. We’ve compiled a list of what we recommend you spend…
I haven’t read 50 Shades of Grey. I was waiting for someone to make it into a movie, because as a mother of two, I rarely have time to read books, and I must use what little time I have to read books with titles like, How to Not Stab…
Dallas actors Wendy Welch and Bob Hess struggle to make laughs happen as they ham their way through the one-act two-hander Sexy Laundry by Canadian playwright Michele Riml, now on in a production directed broadly by Terry Martin in WaterTower Theatre’s studio in Addison. Even these talented pros, so funny…
Putting the audience on couches sounds like a swell idea. Upholstered seating would seem to be a welcome alternative to those stiff green meanies you have to sit on in the main space at the Wyly Theatre. The chairs in the upstairs venues in that building are designed to remind…
Those more devoted to the genre can debate whether Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman is the best comic-book movie of the last few years. What’s beyond argument, however, is that Vaughn has whipped up the most interesting one, the only to make ferocious, unsettling art out of the great contradiction of superheroic…
Even fans of Fifty Shades of Grey admit the book is a literary atrocity. Novelist E.L. James’s erotic reveries read like the rantings of a drunk yokel — less “His firm hands cupped my breasts” and more “Holy crap! He’s touching my boobs!” The story is simple: 21-year-old virgin Anastasia…
It’s often said that art is subjective. We’ve all heard a friend rant and rave about something and wondered, “Is it actually worth paying X-amount of dollars to experience it? Will I agree that it’s good?” Well, David Cross is tackling that issue head on. Following in Radiohead’s footsteps, Cross…
Those of you who are late to the Dallas Medianale party aren’t out of opportunities to join in on the fun. The experimental film festival that took over the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (3120 McKinney Ave.) at the beginning of January still has a few tricks up its sleeve before it…
Valentine’s Day lands on a Saturday this year, which means one of two things: You will be stuck at home with your sweetheart while all of your single friends are out drinking beer, or you are that single friend and you’re still unsure what you are doing that night. Luckily…
Spain beats all other European destinations in the romantic flair category. Great Britain is hospitable and lovely, to be sure; Italy has monuments that awe; and France has pastries to make a man weak in the knees. But Spain has a devil-may-care appeal that sets it apart from its neighbors…
If CNN reports tomorrow that Wayne Brady is actually a robot designed solely for entertainment — and you know they would break into a Presidential address to report such a thing — it shouldn’t surprise anyone. The star of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and host of Let’s Make a…
