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 of him. These communicative “visual distractions” were the impetus for his new abstract works that…
With the news that Paul Feig is going to reboot Ghostbusters with an all-female cast, we wonder on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast what it would be like if they re-did another ’80s classic: Young Guns. We then move onto the latest Brad Pitt World War II movie, Fury,…
The midpoint of this list seemed the appropriate time to acknowledge the Dallas Arts District. Decades in the making, the Dallas Arts District signals not only the city’s dedication to the arts, but is a significant promise to future generations. It’s reshaped how Dallas thinks and talks about the arts,…
Last year, Dallas got down and dirty with costumes. And nowhere outshone the Cedar Springs block party. Of course, that’s usually the case in this city. If you want to see Halloween in all its gory glory, you head to the gayborhood for a night of revelry. This year, with…
This Thursday, Elm Street Bar will be home to native Dallas fashion designers Becca Jett and Rosemary Susat and stylists Mayra Ruiz and Toni Martin. Martin and Ruiz, 21, who owns Rag Parlor in Deep Ellum have put together a retro collection of looks pulled straight from the store. Jett…
“Orchestras across America are having to find different ways to adapt the delivery of their core product, which is live symphonic classical music,” says Jonathan Martin. “The traditional concert experience hasn’t experienced any fundamental changes in 100 years. What has changed is how the public engages with this particular art…
Public art in Dallas is a complicated world. In front of City Hall, we have a Henry Moore sculpture; then, this year, the city offered 50 measly dollars for artists to yarn bomb parking meters. Like a lot of things in Dallas, the cost of maintenance and preservation looms more…
There’s an energy percolating in downtown Dallas. Well, not downtown, exactly. South. In a neighborhood known as The Cedars. On the heels of the Alamo Drafthouse announcing it will make its first Dallas home on Lamar Street, murmurs of other new developments are cropping up. Some remain merely rumors; others…
Artist Stephen Lapthisophon has made his mark on Dallas in more ways than one. Born in Houston, he attended undergraduate at UT Austin and went on to get his MFA in Chicago, where he also studied comparative literature at Northwestern. In the early 2000s, he was looking for new opportunities…
Vinnie Potestivo of Vinnie Potestivo Entertainment is looking to make a Laguna Beach-type show — but in our very own Highland Park. If you don’t remember MTV’s Laguna Beach because you had better things to do than watch spoiled California kids get drunk, then you missed out on MTV’s prime…
For some people, this week kicks off with a holiday celebrating the accidental discovery of Christopher Columbus. In the spirit of exploration, we’ve compiled a few awesome ways to spend your evenings this week…
Deep down, every comic book fan wishes for some kind of superpower that would allow them to dish out world justice or attract men or women with a made-for-spandex body. Next year, fans will get their chance to act out superhero fantasies with The Marvel Experience, a new interactive ride,…
Saturday night, the Stafford sisters open their final art exhibition on Dragon Street. Aptly titled, Always and Forever, it’s a show revolving around memento mori – or objects that warn or remind of death. But their gallery isn’t dying; it’s growing. “We had two options, we could close or we…
Y’all have been taking some mighty pretty shots on your smart phones. We thought we’d share a few of our favorites, like this here photo of the slides from Photofox5000. The only picture I could snap was of Big Tex’s bony butt, so thank you for sharing your much more…
In 2012, Avant Chamber Ballet gavotted into Dallas promptly presenting more than a dozen world premiere ballets, as well as two regional premieres. The collaborative efforts of Artistic Director Katie Puder and Music Director David Cooper keeps the organization on its toes, pairing live chamber music with original choreography. With…
It started with a stink. After one of Ben Kusin’s usual smoke breaks and before an important work meeting, he stopped by a gas station for something to freshen up his clothes. “He had a conversation with the clerk and he suggested Purell and breath mints, but he was worried…
This weekend, the longest-running neo-burlesque troupe in DFW is dancing their way through their twisted, sexified Halloween show, arguably their most anticipated show of the year. The sultry members of the Lollie Bombs present “Ghouls! Ghouls! Ghouls!” at 11:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday night at the Pocket Sandwich Theater. It’ll…
Gallery hopping is not just the pastime of the art collector. It can also be a great way for anyone interested in art to take a peek at what Dallas artists are creating, and gallerists are curating. This weekend, many of the Design District spots have openings, with receptions from…
Every year, there should be at least one movie that lights up your senses like fireworks. You should feel anticipation buzzing at the base of your heels. Hollywood owes us this–at least one time a year. This year, one of the most anticipated films buzzing up from the feet up…
God save us from old coots and the actors who play them. Actors, like the rest of us, grow old, and there aren’t a whole lot of good roles available to them. But do we really need to see Robert Duvall playing a withered grouch for the millionth time? There’s…
Dracula Untold, a Dracula Begins-style sword-and-fangs curio, plays like someone said, “What if we took a vampire flick but did a find-and-replace swapping out all that bare-neck sensuality for some video-game ass-kicking?” Or: “Remember what the Star Wars prequels did for Darth Vader? Let’s foist the same kind of tragic…
The tragedy of Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children is that it was released the year it was made. A snapshot of today’s cultural disconnection, in which Facebook, texting, World of Warcraft and streaming smut lure people away from dinner with their families, the film’s so current that its observations…
