Around 11 a.m. Saturday, dust off your green wig and drag your Irish-for-a-Day ass to Blackwell Street and Greenville Avenue for the 35th Annual Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade. (Good luck finding parking. You should most definitely take the DART. Or parachute in.) The Dallas Mavericks are the presenting…
When you die, you have two viable options: heaven or hell. I take that back; knowing you, there’s really only one option. See you down there, sucker. In the meantime, Fair Park’s Margo Jones Theatre opens a new play by (Ron) Alexy that plumbs the comedic depths of apocalypse. Heaven,…
If you don’t think hair styling is an art form then you’ve never seen this group of ladies and one gentleman work. Diary of a Badd Hairstylist is a hair show in which seven stylists compete on stage in front of you, the live studio audience. Each stylist has prepared…
Sometimes the moon looks like it’s winking at the little humans on earth, or maybe it’s just winking at me. Either way, many people have a fondness for the man in the moon and his magnetic pull. This tranquil reflection of the sun inspired a poem by former U.S. Poet…
If you’re a fan of anything in this world, there is a convention dedicated to it somewhere in the world. Of course, it’s not economically feasible to fly halfway around the world just to publicly declare your love in creative cosplay to the Saturday morning cartoon series Rubix, the Amazing…
If you’re obsessed with true-life storytelling, you’re not alone- there are others. Lots of them, fixated on the lives of so-called ordinary Dallas people who are proving to be anything but. Like Dallas native Nicole Stewart, who created Oral Fixation, a performance experience backed by an addiction to excavating stories…
Shakespeare wrote a lot of sonnets. Hundreds, actually. This, of course, led people to believe they couldn’t all be about his wife. Because, c’mon. In the 1970s English historian A.L. Rowse claimed to know the identity of Shakespeare’s mistress, commonly referred to as the Dark Lady. His research has fascinated…
If you feel like you’ve traveled down the Yellow Brick Road one time too many, you’re probably right. Count ’em: The Wiz, Wicked, need I go on? Wikipedia says there are 22 stage adaptations, if you count The Wizard of Oz on Ice. So why on earth would we recommend…
In a play within a play, it can sometimes be difficult to discern reality. The actors are always acting, but are they acting that they’re acting or are they just being themselves? Phew, I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Where reality stops and the show begins might be exactly the…
You know what the Renaissance was missing? Sex. And lizards. And a little leather play. Leave your Bosch hell mouths and self-flagellation at the door as the MAC’s large gallery opens Masami Teraoka’s bold take on the issues of the Roman Catholic Church. His work addresses serious themes, such as…
The last thing a writer feels like doing on a day when it seems that everything is just out of his reach is bask in the glory of another writer who actually made it. Sometimes the days can consist of getting your ego beaten as if it owed someone money…
Somewhere in the ether of geographic nothingness exists a small desert town that’s more cut off from society than even the most heavily fortified separatist compound. It’s got all the things that every small town has: a high school, a City Hall and an all-night diner. However, it also has…
The people in charge of the fifth annual Dallas Comedy Festival are doing things a bit differently this year. “We really wanted to be diverse with our headliners this year,” says festival Co-Executive Producer, Sarah Adams. “Booking Rory (Scovel) to open the festival is a new concept for us. We…
Out of the Loop Fringe Festival is an annual event at Watertower Theater featuring a packed schedule of mostly local acts through Sunday. Cody Lucas returns to his hometown for the fest, with Sweet Chariot, a show about a man in a bathtub. There are two more chances to see…
In our city, the major museums are the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and the Kimbell Art Musuem and The Modern, if you count Fort Worth. This means our major arts leaders are Max Anderson, Jeremy Strick, Eric M. Lee and Dr. Marla Price, respectively. It probably…
Get to know the people behind some of Dallas’ more interesting, unique, art-inspired local businesses. Know any good ones? Drop us a tip in the comments. Connor Hill is a hard worker in slacker dude clothing. He has no less than one million jobs, does his best to work “penis”…
First of all right off the bat and here at the top, let me say that the Trinity Forest Adventure Park — a tree-top park combining zip lining with a kind of ropes course — is fun, brand-new, clean, well-run and operated by very nice people. But that would bring…
Apparently, this is the weekend to play dress up in Dallas. We’ve got All-Con all weekend, the bunch of bananas Friday night, then the Greenville Ave. “parade,” where more than 100,000 people will dress up in green and play drunk in the streets. Here’s one more for you: “Brides of…
Saturday evening, I participated in the activity known in New York City or Los Angeles as “gallery hopping,” which is exactly what it sounds like. I just often forget you can do it in Dallas. On nights packed with openings, it can be the perfect pre-dinner or concert activity. Swing…
This weekend, live your dream of dressing up as a phallic fruit and consuming way too much vodka by joining the madness at the 4th annual Dallas Banana Bar Crawl. Brought you by the crazy misfits over at Cyanide & Happiness, the fun starts at The Green Room at 8…
This Saturday, more than 125,000 people will stuff themselves into Greenville Avenue’s taint to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day exactly as one would in Ireland: with a beads parade, corn dogs and green beer. At 11 a.m., the 35th Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade will puke all-green-errything upon Blackwell Street…
The Internet has not been kind to the printed word. It’s deformed language, crippled print journalism, and perhaps most depressing of all, it’s suffocating books. You know, the bouquets of paper you check out from libraries; the gently used paperback you rescue from Half-Priced Books; America’s next great novel available…
