Three musicians who stuff all the bleeps and bloops from your favorite new and classic video games into new compositions and songs are bringing their 8-bit instruments to Dallas next week as part of a national Total Destruction Tour. Lyricist Brent “brentalfloss” Black, rapper Raheem “Mega Ran” Jarbo and Dan…
Morning news shows have to fill a lot of time for audiences who are barely awake or so hungover that they don’t realize the TV is actually on, so they have a little more leeway with their content. That’s why you’ve never seen folks like Brian Williams doing cooking segments…
English is known for his brightly saturated critique of consumerism that leaves a taste of the bizarre in your mouth. He is the creator of the character MC Supersized used in the film “Super Size Me.” He has painted on the Berlin Wall, and once he appeared as a character on The Simpsons.
Have you ever been to an art show and asked yourself, is this guy shitting me? At Joshua Goode’s exhibit that opens at RO2 Art this weekend, the answer is yes. Ostensibly, Artifacts from the Burial Site of the Unicorn T-Rex contains Goode’s findings from a dig in Germany, where…
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. If we were your great grandmother, we’d say Tom Sale is a character. Mostly because he is. These days Sale is widely known as…
Some characters in plays are people you’d like to know in real life. In The Motherfucker with the Hat, the five characters, with maybe one exception, you are happy to walk away from after 95 minutes. That’s how long Stephen Adly Guirgis’ profanity-spewing dark comedy lasts and that’s more than…
Action heroes with nothing to lose are the best kind, perhaps the only kind worth watching. In the opening seconds of Jaume Collet-Serra’s Non-Stop, Liam Neeson’s federal air marshal Bill Marks slumps in his parked vehicle, sloshing a few glugs of whiskey into a paper cup and stirring it up…
In 1998, Douglas Adams published a sweet, funny essay called “Riding the Rays,” about an excursion to Hayman Island to try a kind of underwater jet ski device called a Sub Bug because it afforded an opportunity to swim with manta rays. He wrote of his encounter with the creature:…
First, let’s get this out of the way: There is no Santa Claus. Now, on to a perhaps even harsher truth: There are certain indications that Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, whose 17th-century paintings — like Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Music Lesson — show an extraordinarily delicate touch…
The corpse lay crumpled on the conference table, close enough that the studio executive could tug on the red heel of her Louboutins. She’d been lying there unnoticed, or perhaps just ignored, for quite some time. Her wedding veil was tattered and someone had spilled coffee on her white satin…
“Sex films sell, and other stuff doesn’t … or at least not nearly as well,” says film preservationist Joe Rubin. Rubin, 24 years old, is one of the creators working Skinaflix, a VOD-style streaming video service he calls “the Netflix of porn.” At Vinegar Syndrome, a separate DVD/Blu-Ray–centric home video…
When we first meet the hero of Son of God, a kind of chintzy melodrama about the horrors of capital punishment, he’s approaching a fisherman with a classic boiler-room pitch: “Just give me an hour, and I will give you a whole new life,” Jesus (Diogo Morgado) promises Peter (Darwin…
You know that old adage about how you can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his mother? Well, the same holds true for a country’s conduct; just ask the experts. Valerie Hudson, coauthor of Sex and World Peace, is an authority on women’s security and its…
Admit it, you’ve caught yourself salivating over a picture of a juicy burger in the pages of Bon Appetite. If it seems as though no matter how many filters you apply your Instagram photos can’t quite match the pages of a menu, you’re right. There’s a magic to food photography…
When the weekend officially begins depends on many things … like exactly how shitty has your week been? Extra special shitty? Well, kick it off Thursday with the ladies of The Quake. They’re putting on a burlesque and variety show that promises “earth shaking shimmies, mind blowing illusions and tunes…
Pull out your swingiest vintage skirt and shine your dance shoes because Dallas’ most authentic Prohibition-era jazz band is coming to Oak Cliff for a night of two-steps, one-steps, fox trots and waltzes. On Thursday, head to the Kessler Theater, 1230 W. Davis St., to hear the Singapore Slingers play…
As it stands the average American’s knowledge of Irish culture extends about as far as Bono, Lucky Charms and Leprechaun 5: In the Hood. Domestically, St. Patrick’s day, a holiday intended to celebrate Ireland’s patron saint and culture in general, is little more than an excuse to get hammered on…
Where ya at? Gris gris, ju ju and voodoo. Mardi Gras is coming to the Kessler, ya heard. They even get the name right — OCarnivale Masquerade Ball. Costumes are always encouraged and prizes will be awarded for the best dressed. Sequins, headdresses, feather boas, hot pants (for the fellas)…
We’re coming out of the winter months, a time of year when it’s ridiculously easy to get off your diet and lie around the house because it’s too cold or slippery to go out for a run. The Trinity Commons Foundation and the city of Dallas’ Trinity Corridor Project can…
Everyone thinks they’re oh so funny, but when put on the spot, lesser men crumble. That’s why only the bravest of comedians try improv. Even then, few succeed. Flying by the seat of your pants and working with nothing but your wits and the words of strangers can be a…
The true gift of the arts is that they inherently transcend language, even culture, and speak to each viewer or listener as though they share the same tongue, the same experience, the same space. Dance in particular seems to drill through differences, using movement to deftly break barriers and create…
Looking for a way to lift your soul now that winter seems to have passed? Think Dallas is all indie rock and country music? Think again, and come out this Friday and Saturday to celebrate Dallas’ rich gospel tradition with an evening of fast-paced, power-packed music performed by Barbara Mitchell,…
