Anybody can print a copy of an Ansel Adams photograph. If you have access to your company’s printer, you could do it right now, and you won’t even need the color code, because most of his shots are black and white. But like any piece of art, there’s something about…
Some of the Dallas Chamber Symphony’s most memorable concerts have featured silent film screenings set to newly composed music. In January, the 2-year-old organization announced it was expanding on that success by launching a film competition called Sight of Sound. Contestants chose from a list of short classical pieces and…
Have you ever wanted to be a person who’s really good at parties? You know those people. They have arsenals of songs they can play on the piano, endless jokes to tell, and they know how to make an impressive cocktails. Everybody likes those people and they never have to…
Often at museum gift shops, there are scarves colored with patterns from a Monet or a Renoir. Visitors can then wear the art they’ve seen; they adorn themselves with the work of an artist. But where art ends and fashion begins is more complicated than whether or not a famous…
Mark this in your calendar for next year, folks, April 29 is now officially Fort Worth Dance Day. To celebrate it, Texas Ballet Theater announced its 2014/2015 season. Featuring a princess, a solider, a merry widow, some shiny jewels, and a sexy rendezvous, TBT will be offering a selection of…
Most anyone who can ride on two wheels can tell you their favorite bike shop. In prepping and shopping for this weekend’s big Bike MS: Sam’s Club Round-Up Ride (aka, the MS 150), it seems I’ve heard raves about almost every one — from tiny hipster outlets to big stores…
Outside of New York City, those of us who care about the Tony Awards are few and far between. But real theater nerds aren’t that different than movie enthusiasts or sports fans and today we started building our brackets. Because today is Tony nomination day. Sure, you may not have…
Dance lovers have plenty of reasons to kick up their heels in May. For example: May 2: TITAS Command Performance Gala “This is the pyrotechnics of dance,” says Charles Santos about the upcoming 20th anniversary of the TITAS’ Command Performance Gala. Command, as it is fondly referred to, brings to…
Venus in Fur is about sexual domination, but not one person over another. Although, there’s a bit of that too. Rather, David Ives’ play is about BDSM of the soul, the masochism of humanity and the perversion of artistry. It’s about the self-flagellation necessary to bring a play to fruition,…
This week, the cool kids know what’s up. They’re swinging their way into some shows and driving to the drama, to let the good times roll in a theater. All around town, the theaters are getting hip and mounting plays worth a good old heel-kicking happy dance. So, if you…
If you’re in a horror movie and you’re the baby-sitter, don’t answer the phone. Don’t hide in the closet. If you find an ouija board, don’t play with it. Never say, “I’ll be right back.” If you’re a woman, don’t take a shower. In fact, keep your clothes on at…
“Check the dictionary,” I scream at my friend, Annie. The zombie is growling just inches from my feet and the clock is ticking down to the end of the hour. Somewhere in the small, locked room there are clues to open the combination lock that secures the zipper of the…
We love you, Scarborough Renaissance Festival. We love your jovial mood, your festive fashion, your adopted vocal patterns, your lack of irony, and your don’t give a horse’s turd attitude. Recently we sent out a photographer to snap you lovely people in all your finery, then I sat around wanting…
“This is the pyrotechnics of dance,” says executive director Charles Santos about the upcoming 20th anniversary of the TITAS’ Command Performance Gala. Now, if that doesn’t spark your interest in dance, I don’t know what else can. Pyro-technics, people…
Dispatches from Beefhaus Gallery at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night are sure to be strange. Randall Garrett converts this artist-run space in Expo Park into a discotheque that houses his solo exhibition, Reach Inside to See the Stars. Part visual art, part performance art, he describes the experience of the space…
Tommy Davidson will be at the Arlington Improv for a special engagement May 1-4, telling jokes, singing, and fingers crossed — doing his spot-on President Barack Obama impersonation…
If you strolled down Main Street Saturday night, you may have seen an elephant plodding in place in the window of a deserted building. No doubt it caused many a double take, or momentary lingering. But a few curious souls, and those of us with a map, ventured inside for…
Every April thousands of north Texas musicians, aficionados, artists and party-lovers from all life’s walks come out of the woodwork and converge on a 20-acre historic park in Denton to enjoy seven stages of music and an arts exhibition space of 17,000 square feet. Thousands more travel from across the…
Look, you’ve been treating earth pretty poorly. You drive an SUV, don’t recycle as much as you should, and let’s not even discuss how much Tupperware you own. Sure, Earth Day was technically Tuesday, but don’t you think you owe your home planet a little bit more love? Lucky for…
There’s a functional way to drag a corpse off a stage and there’s a funny way. The young actors in Fun House Theatre and Film’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead do it the funny way. Every time. Fun House, for theatergoers who haven’t yet discovered its extraordinary shows, is Jeff…
The vampires who walk among us — and they do — are not the Twilight kind, or the True Blood kind, or even the Buffy kind. In the world of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, the director’s most emotionally direct film since Dead Man, and maybe his finest, period,…
Since 2002, the year Sam Raimi’s SpiderMan hit theaters, the other SpiderMan, the hero of the actual comic books, has joined the Avengers, revealed his secret identity to the world, and become a highly paid inventor who has engineered, among other marvels, a limitless energy source science has dubbed “Parker…
