Shout!FactoryThe cast of Fridays Whether you love it or hate it these days, it’s still tough to compete against Saturday Night Live. Although the show certainly has seen much better and much funnier days, you still can’t knock it off its perch after all these years. The powers that be…
Whispers have been circulating about a shared venture between Kettle Art Gallery and local art-supporting real estate company Deep Ellum 42. Frank Campagna’s beloved artist-run haven has been looking for a home since it was forced out of its old location in May, but late last night an announcement was…
“There’s nothing worse for a human being than to feel like they’re repressed because they can’t pursue or express a passion,” says University of North Texas professor Ruth West. “It lets you get through almost anything.” West is speaking tangentially — and not about RePhoto, the app she’s helping develop…
The People of Bastille Day 2013 by Danny Hurley From concerts and pool parties to ballgames and delicious food, it seems there was something for everybody in Dallas this past month. Here are 10 of our favorite shots from July. You can check out the entire slideshow here…
Once a year at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, you, your cousin and your auntie can all exhibit at the gallery. No, not a prank, but an interesting opportunity given to artists of all levels at the MAC. For a fee of $30, aspiring and established artists get a one-year artist/student…
Most young opera singers dream of taking the stage of New York’s Metropolitan Opera and performing history’s most famous operatic roles around the world. It’s safe to say that wowing Howard Stern at Radio City Music Hall was not originally part of Sean Panikkar’s opera-star dream, but when an opportunity…
If you’re unfamiliar with Skepchick’s Rebecca Watson, here’s a few things to know: James Randi loves her; she’s trashed hotel rooms with Christopher Hitchens; back when her popular feminist/science skepticism/rational thought blog was getting legs she would daylight as a copy writer; she’s the co-host of The Skeptics’ Guide to…
The Perot Museum has announced its first two major name touring shows: an animal version of the Body World series called Animal Inside Out and The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, curated by the American Museum of Natural History. Animal looks at life below the fascia, showing the innards of about 100…
On Friday the Nasher announced the latest piece of public art for its Xchange initiative, a sound installation by Alfredo Jaar titled Music (Everything I know I learned the day my son was born). The Chilean installation artist will target what it means for an institution to age, grow and…
Classical music doesn’t have to be stuffy and conservative. In fact, in a lot of places it isn’t. Take for example (le) Poisson Rouge (LPR) in New York City, a Bleeker Street nightclub that opened in 2008 and quickly made a name for itself as one of the most exciting…
Nobody does glam quite like La Divina Productions. Friday night’s Hotter Than Hell show at the Kessler was no exception, with men and women stalking the stage in their featheriest finery. We sent photographer Ed Steele to trap all that pent-up friction on film, then we picked out our ten…
As we’ve previously reported, Halt & Catch Fire is the product of Plano native Chris Cantwell, and it focuses the personal computing boom of the 1980s in tech-rich Dallas. The show filmed a pilot for AMC this year, and even fixed up a the iconic Neon Big Tex sign on…
One of the ancillary wings of DallasSites: Available Space, the DMA’s month-long local art showcase, is PSWxEdu, a series of panels and experiences sparked by performance art. That programming is being organized by PerformanceSW, a newish team of talent made up of Courtney Brown and Alison Star. Last night they…
It only takes about five minutes for someone in the noisy crowd of social drinkers at the Old Monk pub on North Henderson Avenue to recognize comedian Paul Varghese. An attractive blond woman recognizes him just as we sit down on the patio to talk about his new album Paul…
The Dallas Museum of Art publicly released the ePub for the exhibition DallasSITES: A Developing Art Scene Post-War to Present yesterday, thanks to some new open-source catalog-sharing software built to easier dole out information across the web. It’s usable on everything from laptops to iPads and is totally free to…
The lobby in Richardson’s new Alamo Drafthouse is still just bare concrete and metal, but they’ve already held what would, for any other theater, be an event almost impossible to top. Starting at seven, over two hundred lucky contest winners were ushered inside to an intimate auditorium decked out with…
The Plano-based game developer behind Borderlands 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines announced that they will release a high-definition refit of the classic space strategy games Homeworld 1 and 2. Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford and CCO Brian Martel announced their plans at Penny Arcade Expo Australia last weekend. The company…
The above trailer is for an actual movie about old guys partying in Vegas, coming to your local cineplex on November 1. (Sample joke: “Do you have any drugs?” “Does Lipitor count?”) (Sample reaction: throws self into nearest sinkhole.) But Last Vegas isn’t the last Vegas movie coming your way…
Any press release that starts with “retired art crime specialists from the FBI and Scotland Yard” has my attention. So the Meadows School’s news announcement wins the Best Press Release of the Day award: a recycling bin pardon from the Mayor of the internet. SMU will hold a week-long course…
Summer’s dehydrated your excess funds, but do not panic: There are four great free movies this weekend, free theater and free art shows to carry you through. In this week’s list you’ll also find benefits, comedy, celebrity pop-bys and some dazzling burlesque performers. As always, be a good scout and…
We all grow older, but until we die we’ll be shadowed by the boy who never grows up, Peter Pan. The rotten little imp is everywhere. Always has been, always will be. As inescapable as Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse. Instead of new ideas, big-time musical theater keeps reaching back…
Like first sex, writer-director Maggie Carey’s debut feature, The To Do List, is quick and messy, fitfully pleasurable, full of promise but not quite adept at getting everyone off. It’s an impossibly huge deal yet also a modest achievement, something we have to go through but that will no doubt…
