Arts & Culture

For anyone who laments the lack of role models for little girls in film, Hayao Miyazaki is your go-to moviemaker. His ten-year-old heroine Chihiro Ogino was borne of Miyazaki’s frustration that books and movies marketed to young girls were all about silly crushes and superficial whatnot—in response, he created a…

Every cringe comic can spout off a list of midget and dwarf jokes like a high school chemistry student reciting the list of noble gases for a verbal exam. Brad Williams has heard them all. The diminutive comic may be physically small but his bold and animated presence can take…

What’s so great about ballet? If you’re not swept away by the tutus, the pink-ribboned shoes, or the graceful athleticism of the dancers, it might be difficult to convince you of the art form’s merit. But by god, you are missing out. We recommend opening your mind for just one…

As part of its mission to broaden the general public’s awareness of the cultural aspects of Middle Eastern dance and music, The Isis Foundation will be presenting its 14th annual Yaa Halla, Y’All event. Hundreds of local, national, and international professional, amateur, and student belly dancers and Middle Eastern musicians…

Here’s the lowdown: The Lot’s Geeks Who Drink trivia night is a 120 minutes long. Teams of up to six players each compete in eight rounds of eight questions, with rounds 1, 4 and 6 being themed rounds, while rounds 2, 3 and 7 are … Jesus Christ! Whatever happened…

The One-Minute Play Festival at first glance sounds a little like the 21st century’s ADD addled response to the art of theater. It’s actually anything but. This August audiences will have three chances to see Dallas’ inaugural One-Minute Play Festival, a festival Artistic Director Dominic D’Andrea calls a “barometer project.”…

Elvis Presley, God love him, was a man of excess. He was a glam rocker before glam rock — sporting eye shadow and plowing through mass inventories of rhinestones. He drank a case of soda a day, had shag carpet laid in his bathroom and required that his pantry be…

What do hyenas, haikus and theater have in common? One man: Matt Tomlanovich. If you’re friends with the beloved director and actor on Facebook, you have probably been exposed to his “Hyena Haikus,” and you’ve probably noticed that they have been absent as of late. That’s because Tomlanovich has been…

We remember very little about the day we took the SAT. There was a strange school, pencils that weren’t our favorite pencils, flop sweat and intense paranoia. What we do know for certain is that we didn’t prep for it, aside from taking the PSAT, and in retrospect, a tutor…

The threat of having any one of your senses taken away can be frightening, but when you consider that condition could make you a target, the fright start to multiply. Within that fright lays the power of Frederick Knott’s play, Wait Until Dark. As the audience, we aren’t the protagonist—a…

Before computers gave us the ability to copy paste, it was happening in real life. This is how most technology comes to exist: expediting the human experience. But some artists resist the shortcuts, instead using their hands to copy paste things into collages. Kirk Hopper Fine Art is letting these…

Remember when stranger danger was a thing? You know–when approached by someone you didn’t know, you were supposed to book it after-school special style. Maybe stranger danger is still taught, but you wouldn’t know it: we leave our social media accounts open for people we’ve never met to browse through,…

Your grandmother may have been a kind, sweet person with nothing but a need to see their grandchildren happy. But just because she got old and turned into the sweet, pious person you knew, doesn’t mean she couldn’t blow a fuse and let loose on some poor bastard who probably…

If you didn’t see Bachelor in Paradise last night, what’s it like to be you? It must be nice to have better things to do with your Monday night. ‘ Unlike perfect, intellectual you, I spent my Monday watching The Bachelor spinoff, where Bachelor and Bachelorette losers castoffs go to…