Hangovers are a particularly spiteful affliction because on top of the poisoning in your brain and gnarled barbed wire in your stomach and the random vomiting, there’s a lingering sense of guilt. You spent all of the day before watching a Millionaire Matchmaker marathon and now you’re too hungover to…
In a city of staggered fall openings, blowing your art wad in one weekend is a rookie mistake. Hopefully you’ve saved a bit of room in your Franzia hump after last Friday and Saturday’s affairs because three shows now deserve your attention. Talley Dunn brings a double hit of Some…
Some people consider a marathon an accomplishment. And running 26.2 whole miles is definitely something to be proud of, but there are other stamina-heavy activities that require more finesse. Like tattooing for 24 hours straight. Or holding a world record for most tattoos done in 24 hours. Oliver Peck made…
“Music and Masterpieces” is an artist one-two punch of music and visual art. Beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Dallas Museum of Art’s Horchow Auditorium, Texas-born tenor David Portillo will perform a concert in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Presented by The Dallas Opera, the concert is free…
I can say two words and then just pretty much fill the rest of this space with one long HEEEEEEY. The words are Pride Parade. As in gay pride. As in the grandest celebration of them all. If you’ve never been you seriously have no idea what you’re missing —…
There’s an old saying about how a day without wine could have been better. It’s true — there isn’t much that a glass of nicely fermented grapes can’t brighten up, unless you count your teeth. So get that call in to the dentist now to postpone your whitening session: The…
Is it wrong to define a comedian’s career by one glorious public moment? Let’s hope not, because when Josh Androsky was called onstage during a live taping of the Price is Right, loaded on booze and mushrooms, he became our daytime television spirit animal. Dressed in a Dolly Parton T-shirt…
There’s an infamous tale in the world of modern art about “The Jungle,” a spectacular modernist piece by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. Though now considered a masterpiece, the 1943 stunner hung outside the coatroom at New York’s MoMA for years, eventually prompting a critical outcry and a front-and-center conversation about…
You bought one of those home kits a couple months ago thinking maybe your special brew would be your ticket to total beer-industry domination. The reality was an epic grain-steeping, yeast-activating disaster that resulted in a concoction that’s a non-potable hops of wrath. Maybe it’s time for a little inspiration…
While we’re still giggling from The Book of Mormon, Theatre Arlington (305 W. Main St., Arlington) will kick off its 41st season at 8 p.m. Friday with Altar Boyz, one of the 10 longest-running off-Broadway shows ever. The Boyz are a Christian boy band: Matthew, Mark, Luke and Juan (get…
We’re standing in an Oklahoma City Museum of Art gallery, caught in the crossfire of three wrong-eyed critters. These puppets are big enough to make us feel miniature. Tugging on their connected gym ropes activates their pulleys, causing the beasts to shuffle and dance. Cobbled out of cardboard, bicycle parts,…
Shelby Miller and Cody Phillips’ Vinyl Thoughts Art Show, a celebration of custom-carved collectable toys, returns to the Quixotic World this Thursday. It’s their fourth show in two years, and for this installment expect twisted participation by more than 40 local, national and foreign artists. Much of what will be…
Tattooing the number 13 on Friday 13th has been a tradition among tattoo addicts long before Jason Voorhees climbed out of Crystal Lake and donned a hockey mask to silence a few horny campers by using every-day garden tools like a hatchet, a shovel and a machete. It’s a day…
Summer 2013 was a strong season for that oft-maligned genre, the romantic comedy. Excellent films like The Spectacular Now and Drinking Buddies for the most part avoided rom-com cliches, and reinventions like Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing made timeless story lines seem fresh. Still other on-screen romances were held…
We are officially in Dallas Pride mode now, and there’s a lot to celebrate after this past year: the Supreme Court rulings in favor of marriage equality (and Edith Windsor being adorable), the Boy Scouts of America’s (admittedly half-assed) step toward inclusivity, George Takei being pretty much everywhere. We want…
Romeo Espana is many things — father, makerspace member and drone builder extraordinaire. He co-founded the NTDUG (North Texas Drone Users Group) and has led several how-to workshops on drones. I recently sat down with him to make sure he wasn’t spying on the city or secretly carrying our personal…
Twelve-year-old actress Kennedy Waterman, the late Jerry Russell and lots and lots of Shakespeare are on this year’s list of honorees chosen by the 12 members of the DFW Theater Critics Forum. The annual luncheon and voting session was held Saturday, September 7. Maybe it was the heat, maybe we’ve…
Inspiration materialized as the Naturally Isis Hair Parade on Saturday, a celebration of beauty through empowerment. Musicians, artists, dancers and a shoulder-lifted Erykah Badu filled out the procession to pay homage to a cultural movement and the local icon responsible for nurturing it forward, Isis Brantley. Brantley battled for, and…
The coin world princesses of Viva Dallas Burlesque! stripped down to their eight bits last weekend at a gaming themed spectacular. All the babes were there: Mortal Kombat, Duckhunt (with more estrogen, natch), Dr. Mario, Skyrim, Princess Peach, Ms. Pac Man and others fought for the crowd’s affections. Since the…
We’ve been following the progress on Instagram, watching the stair and ramp construction for Overground’s new street course. And yeah, we got nostalgic. We looked at our skate shoes that are never, ever used for skating and wondered if some secret talent would be unlocked if we threw a deck…
Oh girl, I got class. Well, I had class. It’s gone now, but it was glorious while it lasted. The class I had was 45 minutes of nonstop Gourmet Easy-Bake Oven instruction where I learned tips that even applied to non-Easy-Baking. And now for the question of the century (not…
Inside a nondescript, hard-to-find office in Richardson, a man named Jordan Williams takes many forms. There’s a full-color, miniature bust of him on the edge of a desk. On the wall a few feet from the front door hangs a hi-res picture of Williams holding said bust. And last but…
