Nobody knows how to do camp anymore. Humor in modern film and TV is so wrapped up in irony that not a sliver of campiness can wedge in among all that hyper-awareness. Luckily camp’s heyday has left behind a treasure trove of silly but gratifying works that made us squirm…
Do you hate snakes? If so, then stay the hell away from the Texas Motorplex (7500 U.S. 287) in Ennis this Saturday and Sunday. Repticon holds its second Dallas-area show this weekend, baiting in dedicated herpers from across the state. This destination festival allows enthusiasts to show off their most…
Whether you follow football or not is pretty inconsequential when the Big Game rolls around. It’s as much an excuse to drink beer and eat party subs (is that still a thing?) as predicting the outcome in New Jersey. Some of you will use it to show off your heirloom…
You have to choose your level of jackass when you buy a ticket to The Donkey Show. This is not a snarky stab at the third annual fundraiser for the Far North Dallas Richardson Democrats. The various ticket levels actually include “Shrek Donkey,” “Eeyore” and the highest, “Pegasus Donkey.” Either…
The undead of today’s films don’t hold a candle to those of yesteryear. In the 1990 film Ghost, Swayze’s portrayal of ectoplasm haunted film audiences, inspiring sexual fantasies that weirdly involved pottery wheels. In 2012, Broadway saw songwriters Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard resurrect the story of a man stuck…
Dallas’ Second Thought Theatre launches its 10th anniversary season with the award-winning Cock, a play about sexuality, identity, the comedy of human relations — and really complicated love triangles. Love dodecahedrons? Directed by Dallas favorite Alex Organ, Cock follows everyman John (played by Justin Locklear) as he emerges from a…
She’s a beautifully dark force in the world of contemporary art, and North Texas gets easy access to Kiki Smith’s latest exhibition, currently on view at UNT Gallery on the Square (109 N. Elm St., Denton). Transformations shows both the artist’s process and final output through a series of five…
This Friday night, the AT&T Performing Arts Center was to have opened its brand new Winspear Opera House Recital Series with a solo performance by renowned American pianist André Watts. Unfortunately, the organization has just announced that because of illness, Watts will not be able to perform and the recital…
This is it, people. This Sunday, February 2, is the last day the all-weather ice rink at Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway) will be available for your horrible-at-ice-skating ass to fall down on it. For $5. Unless you bring your own skates, and then it’s free. So bring…
How many dick mentions are in an interview with a comedy collective? Only three, surprisingly — at least when you interview Riley Morris and Naaman Rodges of Shut Up and Prance. Instead they lead with homicide and wiretapping. Morris was calling in from Los Angeles and said he was forced…
Comic Con announced yesterday that Close Encounters and Jaws star, Richard Dreyfuss, will headline February’s Dallas Sci-Fi expo, happening at the Irving Convention Center. He’s an uncommon “get” for one of these gigs, which typically cull television celebs and other non-Academy Award winners for their meet-and-greets. Dreyfuss is different. He…
Contemporary Belgian artist Michaël Borremans’ only U.S. solo museum exhibition ran at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2005. Titled Hallucination and Reality, it focused on his small paintings and sketches on cardboard. His only solo U.S. gallery show was at New York’s David Zwirner in 2009 and featured a…
With so many Academy Award nominees currently in theaters, it’s natural for your competitive side to activate. But there’s still a month before you don an old prom dress, eat a shrimp ring and watch the Oscars — that’s plenty of time. Be decadent this week: Treat yourself to eight…
Five years ago, Dallas Comedy House founder Amanada Austin risked a cushy job at a Lexus dealership to follow a dream of bringing Chicago-style improv comedy to Dallas/Fort Worth at a time when its comedy scene was still in its infancy. “When we opened, I was really more concerned with…
There are myriad reasons The Ticket has dominated Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves for 20 years, all part of a formula that’s proven to be impossible to replicate. One ingredient that builds a sense of culture around the station is the so-called “Drops.” Small sound bites, usually taken out of context, inserted…
Not only will Eddie Izzard bring his newest sell-out tour, Force Majeure, to Dallas this summer, he’ll do it the most stylish way possible. Rather than filling a soulless stadium for one night, where screams of “Cake or Death” would ricochet off a thousand distant walls, Izzard will hover at…
Rangers fans piled into the ballpark Saturday to get a little facetime with their favorite players. Autograph sessions, Q&As, tours of the dugout and a chance to run the bases rounded out the afternoon’s events. We sent photographer Rachel Parker to weave through the masses and find our favorites. While…
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. Shannon Driscoll has been immersed in art most of her adult life. She’s a former art conservator, co-owner Oil & Cotton, and the teeniest…
A trio of University of North Texas (UNT) improvisers who went to Austin to compete in the College Improv Tournament came back to Denton with a first-place plaque. UNT seniors Daniel Matthews, Colten Winburn and Ryan Goldsberry, known collectively as Cell Block Tango, beat 11 other teams to win the…
So far in 2014, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has been solidly stuck in the late Romantic period. Of the five pieces the orchestra performed last week and this, four were composed in the final two decades of the 19th century. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In the late 1800s,…
Being nervous about sketch comedy is natural. One bad experience and you’re convinced the medium disagrees with you. Like that time you drank all of the melon-flavored whiskey and said, “Nope. Never again.” But maybe you just drank the wrong shit, right? Nobody should drink melon-flavored whiskey, especially when the…
DFW Vintage Toys’ Jayden Frost has a hard time turning away just about any toy that someone brings into the store. He doesn’t just have mainstream vintage fare like unopened G.I. Joe Skystrikers, plastic molded comic book characters and a room dedicated to Star Wars. He has some of the…
