When great music and smoked meats come together to raise money for an excellent cause, you pack your bag and head downtown. Smoked Dallas is brand new to the city, but there’s no doubt that it will be sticking around after people taste some of the state’s best barbecue, from…
In addition to free entry to the museum (allowing visitors the opportunity to see the fantastic Thomas Heatherwick exhibition), this month’s family-friendly Saturday is themed, “Creatures.” Family activities from 10 AM – 2 PM will feature a children’s art activity, demonstrations by artists and an art scavenger hunt. So bring…
Chanel. Yves Saint Laurent. Commes des Garçons. We generally associate these designers with young, cool fashionistas. But that’s a mistake. The women who really rock these designers’ looks are the women I dream about becoming. In Advanced Style, street style photographer Ari Seth Cohen and director Lina Plioplyte dive into…
Spring is a time of rebirth, according to conventional wisdom, religion and even science to a certain extent. But in North Texas, autumn is the more appropriate season for revival—after the beat-down that is summer, everything emerges all shiny and new. Hoodies are donned, pumpkin spice pervades our beverages, and…
In the second installment of Meadows’ Faculty Artist and Distinguished Alumni Recital Series, SMU presents decorated concert pianists Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, alongside Dallas Symphony percussionists Douglas Howard and Brian Jones. Lutoslawski’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini opens the program, followed by Bartok’s fascinating, but peculiar, Sonata for…
This weekend is practically a harvest of the arts—a virtual cornucopia of performing and visual arts awaits, freshly reaped and ready to go in all corners of North Texas. One such event, the Cottonwood Art Festival–held in Richardson’s Cottonwood Park, 1321 West Beltline–is a serious bounty of seriously fine art,…
We could make a pretty good case for the piano as the world’s most beloved instrument. It’s one of the few instruments that so easily transitions from jazz to classical, from group to soloist, and they a beautiful grand piano can be a marvelous work of art. But we’re not…
Have you picked up your dry cleaning recently? Are your pockets feeling deep?Consider getting dressed up for a change and pay it forward at the Meyerson Symphony Center, which welcomes Barbara Bush’s annual Celebration of Reading this evening. The event features readings from authors Brad Meltzer, Kelly Corrigan, Eric Draper,…
The term “hate speech” gets thrown around a lot by politicians who confuse constructive criticism of their attitudes and opinions with an incitement to riot with literal torches and pitchforks. There is, however, a line that people can actually cross and incite a wave of violence and the Dallas Holocaust…
James Ellroy is responsible for some of the greatest crime fiction and even one of the greatest crime movies in the history of medium, a talent that developed from a very dark place in his life. His mother was murdered when he was just a boy and her case has…
In partnership with the Video Association of Dallas, the Dallas Chamber Symphony is set to perform a newly minted musical score (courtesy film composer Douglas Pipes) to Hitchcock’s silent film The Lodger. This will be a live-to-film event, with the DCS synchronizing Pipes’ new composition to the actions on screen…
Prepare for an overload of pink when you step into the Cliff Gallery for Hugs & Kisses. The latest work from Dallas-based artists Erin Stafford and Heyd Fontenot is sure to combine with an electric chemistry, as the two artists have earned reputations for challenging notions of sexuality with a…
Exhibited for the first time in the United States – and in partnership with National Geographic – this collection shows off the intricate artisanal works of ancient Peru. On display are a variety of objects in textile, ceramic, gold and silver, demonstrating the vast technical abilities of the early Peruvian…
Theater season is in full swing. Here are a few picks for your month…
September was a fine opening to the 2014-15 classical season, even if it had the occasional off-kilter gait. However, this month’s schedule looks even more substantial than the last; is this where the season launches in earnest? More Shostakovich, more Mozart, more Beethoven, some complex offerings from Prokofiev, Bartok and…
As Index Fest was happening in Dallas, I found myself headed west to Marfa for another music festival — the Trans-Pecos Festival of Music + Love. The long drive gave rise to a lot of important realizations. One: Being able to move 70 mph in one direction for eight hours…
Yesterday, D Magazine’s Frontburner blog got their fingers sticky in some scoop batter via the boob tube. The Internet’s cutest repetitive Preschooler, the “Apparently Kid” got his first reporting gig from Ellen Degeneres, who is sending him to cover the State Fair of Texas. On a scale of 1 to…
Local author Merritt Tierce is quite the media darling these days. After publishing her debut novel Love Me Back, Tierce has made the rounds on TV, been compared to Joan Didion by one critic, and perhaps most famously, told The Dallas Morning News about the time she donated Rush Limbaugh’s…
This morning, KERA’s Jerome Weeks commented on my Facebook check-in at Shakespeare in the Bar last night with a link to a New Yorker article about Drunk Shakespeare, pointing out that New York did it first. I squinted at the screen, rubbed my aching head and thought, damn it, it’s…
Much of the art on display in The Modern’s newest exhibition doesn’t belong in a museum. The very title, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, implies the art’s original presence in the streets. Even today, after decades of moving the risky stuff off the streets and onto the…
Some rebellious theater kids take over The Wild Detectives tonight for the first-ever rendition Shakespeare in a Bar. Well, we’re pretty sure we’ve heard some drunken actors (maybe even some of these guys) reciting lines of iambic pentameter over a double whisky on the rocks. Now it’s just a bit…
First, we had Scott Schuman and his collection of photographs, The Sartorialist. Then came the onslaught of fashion, DIY, and lifestyle blogs. We loved it. We still love it. Don’t tell you don’t check Refinery29 every morning (or that you’re not following them on Facebook and Instagram), or that you…
