We’re all casting an eye to the future for 2a15, hoping for bigger, better things. But there’s still value in looking to the past–particularly when that past consists of gilded, jazzy parties that evoke a free-wheeling, glittery spirit. The Singapore Slingers bring all the sounds and sights of pre-swing America…
You’ve spent some New Year’s Eves in less-than-ideal situations. There’s the year you talked to the cops in your front yard while hiding a 12-piece band in the living room. Then there’s the year you were prostrate in the stall of a dive-bar bathroom after a few too many champagne…
It’s time to inject a bit of blue into the bright lights and sparkling colors that characterize the merrymaking this holiday season. Red and green has had its time to shine — it’s decked all the halls and festooned the trees for over a month now — and our eyes…
Now that the visions of sugarplums are long gone, replace them with aerial silks and acrobatic tricks at Oh La La!, presented by Lone Star Circus at Dallas Children’s Theater this week. Don’t let the word circus fool you. There won’t be any clowns or prancing horses — just human…
A Play With A Body Count Harry Hunsacker is one of those people who leaves a body trail in his wake. Like dear old Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote fame or Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. Hunsacker is something of a buzzkill. Think you’re going for an ordinary night at…
If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that Christmas is a time for miracles. Days after Sony Pictures announced that no one could see Seth Rogen’s and James Franco’s movie The Interview because some hackers threatened to blow up the world for daring to make a joke about beloved…
However you feel about the holiday season, it is finally drawing to a close. After Christmas Day on Thursday, the shimmering lights and Christmas trees will be packed away as we all get back into the regular routine. (Most of them anyway, and is there anything sadder than Christmas lights…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. One of the first people I added to this list of 100 Dallas Creatives was Wylie H Dallas. And then I took him off for a little while because finding 100 cultural entrepreneurs and creatives…
Photo by Mark PokornyTalk some sense into ’em, Bilbo.Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson discuss the third-and-final Hobbit movie: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, in this special bonus episode of the Voice Film Club podcast. As always, send barbs, jabs,…
Here are a few sprinklings of awesome things to do when you’re not spending quality time with your family this Christmas week…
Once again, the Addison Improv hosted the final showdown for the Funniest Comic in Texas and this year’s honor went to two-time FCiT finalist and local comedian Linda Stogner. One-fourth of the Four Funny Females, Stogner went up against four strong sets from four equally talented comedians including Joel “Junebug”…
Earlier this month, Merriam Webster Dictionary declared 2014’s word of the year to be “culture.” Which simply means that more people looked up the definition of that word than any other in the past 12 months. At first glance that may seem ludicrous. Everyone can define culture. But if I…
Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson run down their ten favorite/best/top/whatever movies of 2014, along with Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Carolyn Sortor has been called “the hardest working woman in the Dallas art scene,” and it’s hard to argue after glancing at her résumé. Between curating art shows all over Dallas, displays of video art…
Between 1987 and 1989, Nathan Nipper, the Bedford-based author of Dallas ‘Til I Cry: Learning to Love Major League Soccer, was a soccer-obsessed 12 year-old son of missionary parents on the go. In those two impactful years, the Nippers moved from Rose Bud, Arkansas (population 202 at that time), to…
For almost six years, the players and performers of the Dallas Comedy House have turned a relatively small space on Commerce Street in Deep Ellum into a thriving hub for a form of comedy that most people have never seen around these parts. Now they need a bigger place to…
BY MICHAEL ATKINSON Call it Stone Age materialism, but I still think movies are worth owning in physical forms you can hold, shelve and collect, and therefore worth giving as gifts. Fuck the Cloud — who knows when Hulu will get sold to Google or when Netflix decides to narrow…
We begin this week’s Voice Film Club podcast with a strange story about Giles Corey, who famously said, “More weight!” as stones were laid upon him during his witch trial. The end of the year is sort of like that for film critics, who are pressed upon with all the…
This year the Dallas art scene felt rebellious. While one museum exhibition paid homage to a wonderful Dallas-based painter, another had me wanting to commit acts of destruction. At galleries and other exhibitions, the work dripped with anarchy and frustration with the system — a sentiment felt across the country,…
On Tuesday night, downtown was filled with gleeful, excited children. Their parents quickly grabbed their hands to stop them from running into the street. Where were they running? Well, only to the most famous reindeer of all. Rudolph. Yes, folks, it’s time to get your Christmas spirit on and take…
The Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson captured the attention of an angry America by scheduling a screening of Team America: World Police in place of The Interview starring Seth Rogen and James Franco that was canned by Sony Pictures. Now it appears that Paramount Pictures doesn’t want America to see the…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. I’ve always thought the notion of an “x factor” is a little bit hokey. But after meeting Charles Smith II at Glasshouse Studio in Expo Park, it began to seem like a real thing. Smith…
