Don your capes, strap on your superhero boots and head to a local comic book store to dig your way through the quarter comics and pick up a few freebies at Free Comic Book Day. The first Saturday in May is probably the only Stan Lee- endorsed holiday on the…
Another day, another dollar. This week, the wise words of Jay-Z are getting you through to the weekend, which arrives in approximately five more spreadsheets, 30 more emails, and one long meeting with the boss man, which you’re hoping will lead to that raise they promised you last year. The…
It’s been a couple of years since the city of Dallas has had their tolerance tested for excessive violence and suffering presented as entertainment. We don’t mean within the hustle and bustle that is life in the Metroplex. Thanks to a population that’s heavily armed, traditional cuisine that’s deliciously fattening…
How much can you take away and still have a movie? Steven Knight’s Locke is an experiment in reducing contemporary screen storytelling to its irreducible essentials, which isn’t quite the same thing as being an “experimental” film, despite the early reviews from England. It shows us just one actor, on…
Today it’s hard for us to fathom why preachers used to rail so vehemently against jitterbugging. Even with cultural context — black music infiltrating white America; the revolution of rhythm over melody — the athletic whirligig swing-time boogie craze of the ’30s and ’40s now looks as wholesome as ice-cream…
The next time someone tells you dance is boring, point them to Texas International Theatrical Arts Society, or TITAS for short. For more than 30 years, this group has brought some of the world’s most exciting dance troupes to Dallas. And no, “exciting dance” is not an oxymoron. Some of…
If you’ve ever thought about participating in The Amazing Race only to remember your crippling fear of air travel, we have exciting news. The Deep Ellum Urban Race and Block Party gives you a chance to race through the streets, solve puzzles, answer trivia and outwit your opponents to the…
As part of its three-week Beethoven Festival, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Jaap van Zweden) is performing the master’s symphonic game-changer, The 9th Symphony. Psychologically absorbing, suspenseful and grandiose, the 9th remains one of the greatest pieces of music ever composed. From the fiery rhythms of the scherzo to…
When it comes to classical music superstars, there’s hardly a bigger name than Itzhak Perlman. The famed violinist has performed for queens and presidents (most notably alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma at President Obama’s 2009 inauguration), and has wowed audiences around the world for decades with his impeccable tone, insightful musicality…
The name “Art Festival” is a little misleading. This is more than just a two-day event where people wander around tents and walls and look at artworks. It’s more like an outdoor music festival mixed with a massive art show that anyone with a set of eyes and a sense…
Your dog loves you. Despite the fact that you forgot to restock dog food and gave her questionable leftover spaghetti to tide her over until morning, she loves you. Despite those times when you dragged her to trendy doggy hot spots that are more dude-bro than dachshund, she loves you…
Among Celtic cultures, the Irish get the most publicity, what with all the boozy parades. But while plenty of faux Irish hurl on St. Paddy’s Day, we bet you’ve never seen anyone on Greenville Avenue hurl a nearly 20-foot-long, 175-pound log through the air. That’s called the caber toss, and…
Film introduces you to parts of the globe you may know nothing about, to things you’ve never experienced, to people you’ve never met. You can learn a lot by spending a day at the movies, even if it’s just that Zac Efron defies the law of six abs to a…
This weekend, the worst nightmares of TSA agents climb into reality when swarms of bloodthirsty horror film fans flock to the Hyatt Regency DFW Hotel for Texas Frightmare Weekend. Hopefully, they don’t try to sneak their chain saws into a carry-on. This three-day celebration of gory, grimy movies gives even…
Rarely is the appearance of May such a welcome thing in North Texas. It generally means the arrival of oppressive heat and car-murdering hailstorms. And it still might. But at least it marks what has to be the end of some straight-up weird wintry weather that still had us running…
It was a time when Jennifer Lopez was just a fly girl, Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx were relative unknowns, and Tommy Davidson was just a comedian performing his Sammy Davis Jr. and Sugar Ray Leonard impersonations. Unless you lived in a cave or sketch comedy just wasn’t your thing,…
Everything has its own holiday. In America, we have National Pie Day (yummy); in Spain, they have Goose Day, which is something worth a quick Google. But one holiday spans the galaxies. Star Wars Day is celebrated annually by the universe’s nerds on May 4, because if you’re Daffy Duck,…
The complete burrito, the full taco, the entire flauta, the total tostada, the undivided quesadilla. Oh, excuse me, didn’t see you there. I’m just trying to figure out why it was an enchilada that became the subject of an idiom that really just means “having it all.” Whatever the logic,…
Here’s the Iron Fork deal: Returning champion chef Matt McCallister of FT33 will square off against Richard Gras of Oak in a toque-to-toque competition moderated by restaurateur Kent Rathbun. Each chef receives a basket of ingredients, including one mystery item, and they compete to see who can whip up the…
It’s a decade-long art trick in the making, and an undertaking so intense that most people would say the man behind it is a bit insane, if we didn’t already know him to be Chris Byrne, the co-founder of the Dallas Art Fair. The Magician, a graphic novel comprising 12…
Nothing brings a family together quite like the impending death of an aging grandparent. For most kids, this is the first experience of the void created by the extinguished candle of life. It’s also the first experience many children have with savage familial honesty. Of course, when you’re an adult,…
You’re thinking this is the year you’ll make that island getaway, hop a plane, head to a warm beach with lapping waves and tiki torchlight and make the kind of memories that are found in crackly old photographs. But then reality sets in, and you’re stuck in Dallas this spring,…
