Since opening earlier this year, we’ve been endlessly impressed with the display of art at Zhulong Gallery. This gallery has brought the neighborhood its first tastes of new media art from across the globe. The newest show, Systema, takes an interest in the uses of systems in various realms of…
Described as “a powerful play about love in a dystopian society,” Ochre House Theater’s newest musical, Flower in the Machine, by Kevin Grammer promises all the things we’ve come to love about this splendid little company, which we recently named the Best Small Theater in Dallas: music, fine acting, and…
The minimalism of Anna Bella Papp’s clay sculptures force the viewer up close. It’s as though she’s invited onlookers into an intimate moment with the art. For the tiny amount of space they actually inhabit, they imply much larger ideas. The Nasher Sculpture Center gives Papp her first museum exhibition…
The Dallas Holocaust Museum’s newest exhibition features the political cartoons of Arthur Szyk, a Polish-Jewish refugee, who came to the US during WWII. His work, which depicted the dictators who tortured the world in the early 20th century, was harsh in its criticism of Hitler and Mussolini and strongly pro-democracy…
Fill October’s final full weekend with art. As fall trickles into town in fits and starts, decorate your life at these galleries. And for once, Friday is the stronger night to hit the galleries, although there will be compelling work to see Saturday as well. Ella Kruglyanskaya’s Grafika Much of…
Friday night, I found myself doing the Dallas Do-si-do Ditch. It’s a cute little shuffle that people here do after a show with the following steps. 1. Wait for first moments of applause. 2. Jump to your feet without missing a beat. 3. Swing your partner out the aisle. 4…
It’s awards season and the hyped movies are starting to land in theaters. On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we talk about Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, and Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip, and carve out some time to recommend Nothing Bad Can Happen and Glen…
Dallas can be a difficult city to be proud of. I’m sure that statement brings with it numerous detractors who will verbally punt me back to wherever I’m from. I grew up here, just to be clear, and even moved back after very quickly falling out of love with New…
In February, a few of my friends wanted to hit the slopes in Aspen. We had a friend who’d recently moved to Snowmass, where snow is plentiful and pot is legal. To save a little bit of money we rented a condo from Airbnb. I was skeptical about sleeping in…
In the center of an abandoned warehouse, carpenters put the final screws into a sandbox big enough for a giant. Near the front of the box, a woman buries a man in the sand. She’s wearing a black leotard and a mask reminiscent of the reptilian birds from Labyrinth, he’s…
Actor. Teacher. Director. Voice Coach. Mentor. Poet. Matthew Tomlanovich wore many hats, but one that always seemed glued to his head, was friend. After battling a MRSA infection in his spinal cord for six months, Tomlanovich died Sunday. I could give you his bio: “Over 30 years of experience working…
“Criminals have more fun” could’ve been the subtitle of the musical, Bonnie & Clyde, currently on stage at WaterTower Theatre. History’s law-breaking power couple certainly have a better time than the rest of their family in the Depression-era story. And it seems the actors playing them are having a damn…
Liliana Bloch might run the smallest gallery in town. With just a few white walls cordoning off her art inside Brian Gibb’s The Public Trust, she’s proving with each exhibition she programs that in the art world, it’s not size that matters…
Get out there and enjoy the crisp fall air. Monday, October 20 Autumn at the Arboretum This week the weather will be perfect to swing by the Arboretum for its celebration of fall and all things pumpkin. As the fall foliage turns a crisp brown, the expansive gardens fill with…
Digital-Distraction at Barry Whistler Gallery Put down your cellphone and see some art this weekend. For his latest work, John Pomara found himself interested in the way digital technology simultaneously connects us and disconnects us. Everyone has that friend who’s in constant communication with everyone except the people in front…
Everyone’s seen a Renoir, most people know about Degas’ dancers, or recognize Manet’s Balcony. The ubiquity of Impressionism inspires films, fiction, and even credit card embellishment. “Two Girls at a Piano” reminds a father of his two daughters, so he finds a knock off online; an art student stares endlessly…
The great comedians know that they don’t have to create fiction, they simply have to pluck out the insane bits of a world trying to wrestle with its sanity and present it in the way a carnival barker would just before he pulls back the curtain to reveal some horrid…
All fans of anything have lists in their heads of famous hands they’d like to shake — those attached the faces and voices they’ve seen in their favorite movies and TV shows. There’s just something about making that face-to-face to contact with the people you’ve worshiped from afar that makes…
A cottage industry has popped up to help sate the nation’s unending appetite for the undead. Everything from brain shaped candy, to “Zombie Squad” customizations for vehicles are readily available for consumers who want to show that they’re ready for the not really upcoming zombie apocalypse. Lucky for those North…
It’s here, finally. Well, if you count Thursday as the weekend. And we do. No need to slack off, get planning on how you’ll make your fun this weekend. What’s that expression? Oh yeah, carpe diem…
Three years ago, Shakespeare Dallas launched a project called, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.” The gist was simple: Over five years, the company’s actors would recite every single word Shakespeare ever wrote in a monthly series of staged readings. This includes plays and poetry. According to the Folger Shakespeare…
A gloom hangs over writer-director David Ayer’s brutal war drama Fury that only the audience can see. It’s April 1945, and we know that in weeks the Nazis will surrender. The war is already over — Hitler just hasn’t admitted it. American Sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) suspects as…
