Liz OhanesianWhen religious protesters showed up at Comic-Con, attendees responded with absurd signs. In Southern California, you can be certain that the bigger the event, the more religious protesters you’ll see across the street. Oftentimes, convention-goers will counter the protesters with signs bearing absurd slogans. That was the case in…
Rob Inderrieden San Diego Comic-Con is a lot of things to a lot of people. You can bemoan the commercialization and curse the movie studios, but while you’re doing that, be sure to appreciate the magic of thousands upon thousands of super-fans dressing up as their favorite characters for no…
Dallas’ comedy scene can feel disjointed at times, but there’s no shortage of places to see funny people say, and do, funny things. So for the moment, consider us the Siri of North Texas comedy, but way less warm and creepy-sounding. Addison Improv Comedy Club, 4980 Belt Line Road, #250,…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. Creative energy was in the air at Oil & Cotton’s Read-Rite Market this weekend. Check out our…
Those bewitching vixens of Viva Dallas Burlesque lured in a few celebrity friends Friday night to thrill the crowd at Cirque du Burlesque, Viva’s big top-inspired residency at Lakewood Theatre. Things got steamy. Hot. How photographer Valerie Thompson captured these photos without her lens fogging up is beyond us. Here’s…
Liz OhanesianJ.G. Quintel, creator of Regular Show, left, meets Muscle Man come to life. J.G. Quintel has been going to San Diego Comic-Con for a decade now. He started out his journey here as a fan, a CalArts student who caught wind of the event from his brother. Quintel would…
Twenty years ago, Emily the Strange first appeared on t-shirts and other odds and ends. Now, the 13-year-old girl with the long black hair, black dress and penchant for cats is the star of novels, comic books, iPhone apps and so much more. Most recently, she’s been fronting a band,…
In April of 2012, vintage enthusiast Melissa Mackaly set out to create a mobile vintage shop that specialized in housewares. “It’s my passion,” she said this week, while tending the cash table at her “estate sale” in an unmarked building at 2650 Main in Deep Ellum on Thursday. The mint…
Something interesting happens in Oak Cliff this Saturday when Oil and Cotton presents the Read-Rite Market, a free, day-long celebration of words. It’s the kind of event that makes your inner book-loving cheerleader go nuts, kicking off with “Coffee, Cigarettes and a Newspaper,” a program that fulfills your fantasy of…
Update: We’ve been asking for your SyFy film suggestions today and I gotta say: I’d greenlight all of these. Check out our favorite reader’s ideas for new Sharknado follow-up projects. They’re at the bottom. I love crap. According to trending polls, you do too. Case in point: rip-off monster movie…
Update, July 18: After this post went up a couple weeks back, several people pointed that it was a little — OK, a lot — one-dimensional, omitting various demographics of Dallas’ vast LGBT rainbow of a community. So we’ve added to it. Not every mover or shaker or mover-shaker is…
Summer Adventures at Fair Park, the seasonal offshoot of the State Fair of Texas that began this year, announced today that it’s switching to half-priced admission for the rest of its run. That means that entry, which includes unlimited rides, shows and activities is now a flat rate of $14.95…
Moon Day, a seven-hour celebration of the other moonwalk, happens Saturday. Art superfans, stretch now: this is a marathon weekend. We’ve got Dallasites: Available Space kicking off at the DMA Friday just next door to ‘Til Midnight at the Nasher; Design District Gallery Day blocks out Saturday afternoon and there’s…
Be afraid of Virginia Woolf. She’s drunk off her ass. In Edward Albee’s epic 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, main characters George and Martha pour 17 drinks — hard liquor on the rocks — in the first act alone. Nine or 10 more in the second act. Another…
In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, on a platform of Oakland’s Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit Station, a young man named Oscar Grant III was shot in the back by a BART transit officer. The officer later claimed that he meant to reach for his Taser and…
Something like half the running time of the engaging new don’t-go-in-the-basement thriller The Conjuring is devoted to showing us characters proceeding slowly into the basement, or into the maws of basement-like places we know they shouldn’t go, often with just matches or a flashlight to guide them. Twice, deliciously, they’re…
bulk of smelly, cranky humanity. In comedies, filmmakers often render the infinite and otherworldly in the mundane, human terms of bureaucracy, with all the waiting rooms, Muzak, and impossible regulatory complexities that depiction implies. We can’t really envision an afterlife that isn’t somehow modeled on our own psychic landscape. So…
On Thursday night only, Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) offers a screening of Plimpton!, a 2012 documentary on writer George Plimpton. His résumé is enviable: founding editor of The Paris Review, friend of Robert and John F. Kennedy, participated in a boxing match with Archie Moore. The life Plimpton…
You probably know this, but beer is, like, a thing right now. Of course, beer’s never really not been a thing — but there was a time when watery corporate brews were ordered without a second thought. Today, the labels you’re scraping off your amber bottles are of the local,…
Viva Dallas Burlesque, the largest burlesque show in the Lone Star State, brings the latest installment of its monthly spinoff series Cirque du Burlesque Friday at Lakewood Theater (1825 Abrams Road). Jump-start your weekend and your lackluster fantasies with this ultimate adult-themed circus, which includes hoopers, sideshow acts, award-winning aerial…
When summer’s sun hits Dallas, our city streets empty. We become night owls, rising at dusk and venturing outside with the stars. Sadly, we’re missing the operating hours of most museums and amusement options, and kid-friendly activities are traditionally limited to the pre-primetime hours. But not this weekend, because it’s…
Just a few hours south in sister city Austin, you can’t swing a recycled, naturally dyed, hand-knit, multi-use grocery/sleeping bag without knocking down six to 14 sketch comics. Try it, it’s fun to do. Especially outside of Wheatsville Co-op, where they have extra-weakened soy legs. Here in Dallas, we experience…
