The weekend’s biggest party, Red Bull Flugtag, is this Saturday. Watch in greedy anticipation as 34 teams launch home-built crashing/sinking flying machines over Lake Carolyn in a quest for extreme distance and peer-review glory. Everyone’s going to be there. You’re more than a face in the crowd to us. That’s…
Last night, the Dallas Chamber Symphony launched its second season of concerts at City Performance Hall with an artistically compelling program featuring the group’s new concertmaster, Japanese violinist Kazuhiro Takagi, as soloist. The orchestra and its new concertmaster will perform four subscription concerts during its 2013/2014 season — two less…
Bernie Su and Hank Green captured the hearts, iPhones, Pinterest pages, Instagram accounts and GetGlue music playlists of teens across America with their 2012 series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which updated Pride and Prejudice to modern life through real-time transmedia storytelling. The series consisted of 9½ hours of content stretched…
The most deliciously twisted mind ever to rise from Baltimore’s cultural coagulate will visit the Kessler in May. The author/playwright/sexybeast will present his one-man show, This Filthy World, wherein Waters discusses his rises and falls within the industry he’s spent a career both celebrating and mocking. It’s part of this…
Update: HOMECOMING! has stopped taking furnishings for this project, but is still accepting donations to cover shipping. While the bulk of the Texas Biennial happens at San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum and other satellite cities’ venues, Dallas has a couple offerings of its own. The most flammable of…
Cedar Springs shut down on Sunday for the 30th anniversary of the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade. Recently some noise rustled throughout the LGBT community; a response to the announcement banning public nudity from the Pride Parade. It caused some to say that things were getting too commercial. Others used…
Local writers love scribbling out pieces that “Deep Ellum is back.” It happens whenever they find themselves immersed in an Elm Street festival or caught in the afterglow of an exceptionally great evening in the neighborhood. But that approach is tired and lazy. Writing that story further validates that the…
Frederic Church’s The Icebergs returned home to the DMA this week after an exhausting year of touring. Like any proper rock star, Icebergs immediately took a cold shower, ordered champagne delivery and then bought lots and lots of pay-per-view. [Checking notes.] Actually, that isn’t right. It looks like the painting…
Rainn Wilson’s more than just a great Twitter voice, and his vision extends further than the Schrute family beet farm. Wilson lives a life of civic service through volunteership, social activism and by using his celebrity platform to share good, big ideas via his website and book, SoulPancake. Yep, he’s…
Most of us have a love or obsession with something that we’d rather not tell other people about because we fear being judged or called names. Some people cultivate those loves or obsessions for that very reason — because it makes them unique and they love telling you about it…
The Dallas Opera has announced that not only will it share Tod Machover’s robot opera Death and the Powers in a global simulcast, it’ll present the thing with something called a “robot’s eye view.” On Sunday, February 16 at 2 p.m., Powers, Machover’s look at technology, immortality and conscious, will…
Gardeners can be classified into several groups. There’s veggie people, tree folk, general landscaping enthusiasts, and the most passionate off them all: cactus addicts. It’s a nerdy affliction, being seduced by succulents, but there’s something intrinsically satisfying about their subtle variations and perky personalities. None of that is lost on…
Why? Because this weekend is crowdsurf, come on down good. That’s why. Immediately locate your smallest outfit because the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade is this Sunday. Got a glitter allergy? Okay, fine. How about the year’s biggest vinyl toy show; a party for our favorite local jewelry line; or…
“Welcome to Luby’s. Salad fer you?” drawls actor Paul J. Williams, playing one of a cafeteria full of characters in his gently tossed solo comedy Dishing It Out. Williams’ show is at the top of the menu for Uptown Players’ annual smorgasbord of short plays for the two-weekend Pride Performing…
“If they made a movie, Holden wouldn’t like it,” Martin Sheen opines deep into the new documentary Salinger. He’s speaking of the possibility of a film adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye, a disastrous idea that J.D. Salinger prevented in both life and death. Sheen, of course, could be…
It’s tempting, after watching the exceptional new film Museum Hours, to describe director Jem Cohen’s visual style as chiefly “observational.” The film, a kind of hybrid between understated drama and essayistic tourism, approaches its subjects with uncommon patience and curiosity, lingering over objects and faces as if to savor their…
We’ll always have Iron Man, they must be telling each other in Hollywood. As summer wanes, the hulking corpses of would-be blockbusters litter the home-video distribution channels like fallen Kaiju from Guillermo Del Toro’s giant-’bots-vs.-giant-beasts movie Pacific Rim, the most enjoyable of 2013’s many urban-renewing summer blockbusters. In Del Toro’s…
Understandably, Peter Mayhew is not as well-known as Harrison Ford or Mark Hamill. But W. Ryan Ziegler wants to change that. The first-time filmmaker is now raising money on Kickstarter for Standing in the Stars: The Peter Mayhew Story, a documentary about the 7-foot-3 actor who played Chewbacca in the…
Is your vinyl collection more Munny than Mudhoney, more Kid Robot than Kid A? Do you relish the thought of tearing through generic boxes (and your checking account) in hopes of a one-in-a-million variant? Then this, vinyl toy aficionado, is your holy grail: the Vinyl Thoughts Art Show from 7…
When Ben Affleck was outed as the new Batman, people banded together to pollute newsfeeds with Important Fury. And wow — poor Ben. He can’t have anything nice without someone giving him shit about it. Take for instance that Oscar for Good Will Hunting. Mindy Kaling and her best friend…
Friday the 13th is more than an excuse to rubber-bat your cubical and sip red wine from an IV bag while doing data entry. (We’re all doing that, right?) It’s also a chance to explore your threshold for terrifying attractions as our area’s haunted houses pry their doors open for…
You know a good movie when you see it, but it’s hard to describe in abstract. Good writing, good acting and good cinematography seem like obvious requisites, but sometimes one aspect is just so damn good that you’re willing to forgive the others being kinda shitty. It’s just as hard…
