Tumbleweed Tiny House Company will show you how to design plans for a tiny functional house, then build the thing, plop it on a trailer hitch, and exist by roaming the land as the unfettered Kerouac gypsy soul your high school self was certain you’d turn out to be. Or…
Sitting on a vast stretch of prairie land in Sanger, Texas — a city whose name elicits involuntary drawl — is a magical space filled with dancing ponies, knights, a three-legged dog and wild-hair locals revving four-by-fours. It’s the Medieval Times Ranch, where an absurd, imagined world is drafted and…
Warning: It’s beautiful out. I repeat: It’s beautiful out. With temperatures slated to stay at mid-nineties and below, you’ll actually enjoy leaving your house this weekend. There’s a SUP paddle boarding party in Grapevine, a free block party in the Arts District and a giant beer festival and concert at…
Things are moving along at the new Richardson branch of Alamo Drafthouse, the Austin-based chain known for simultaneously serving up booze, food and great movies. Construction is in such good shape that the venue says it will open a full week sooner than originally thought, with a new date set…
Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pom-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies, many of whom look like gummy nothings long stuck to the bottom of Pixar’s junk drawer. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-screams from human kids, a premise…
Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you’ve got left and wondering how the hell you’re going to fit them together. In Marc Forster’s World War Z, the world as we know it is destroyed…
Meredith Willson’s 1957 musical The Music Man, now at Irving’s Lyric Stage, feels as summery as an ice cream social. If only this production came in more flavors than vanilla. The quaint ode to small-town life circa 1912 falls flat if its angelic Iowans aren’t threatened with perdition by a…
Traces lets you marvel at the wonders of the human body while making you feel bad about your own. Seven gorgeous young performers in a 90-minute whirl of acrobatics, dance and borderline insanity fly off the floor and hang in mid-air longer than logic and the laws of gravity say…
The lifelong connection between the two characters in Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries begins when they are 8, meeting in the school infirmary. Kayleen has tummy troubles. Dougie has just ridden his bike off the roof, splitting his forehead. Thirty years and many accidents and illnesses later, the pair finally…
Like its gaggle of former anti-nuke environmentalists who’ve now switched sides, Pandora’s Promise takes the form of a traditional liberal pop-doc while proffering a decidedly nonconformist message. The case for nuclear power as the solution to both the planet’s rapidly escalating energy needs and the climate change produced by fossil…
As the great poet Tom Cochrane once said, life is a highway. And comedy, it is often a circus. You get up on stage, perform your tricks for a crowd and hope no one throws tomatoes or other round, soft objects at you. On Thursday night, the Addison Improv (4980…
They have ideas to better the world — seat-belt buckles designed for Texas heat, perhaps. On Thursday, we’ll hear exactly how life-changing those philosophical and researched approaches to life’s obstacles are as 11 speakers give short presentations at the Kessler Theater (1230 W. Davis St.). They’re auditioning for a spot…
The Immersed Ink Tattoo and Arts Festival is coming to town. And the ‘and’ is curious because tattoos are arts. Maybe not that tramp stamp you got back in junior college, but certainly the ones that will be created and inked from 2 to 10 p.m. Friday at Mesquite Convention…
Viva Dallas Burlesque at Lakewood Theater(1825 Abrams Road) has concocted the perfect performance combination for your viewing pleasure: derobing beauties meets circus magic. With Cirque du Burlesque, the biggest burlesque show in Texas promises to dazzle with internationally recognized performers and models Angela Ryan and Courtney Crave. Femme Vivre LaRouge…
Has it been several summers since your skin’s had tan lines? Did you miss our brief stint of beautiful weather because you just bought Bioshock Infinite and you refuse to go anywhere until you finish, lest there be spoilers? Well, give your callused thumbs a rest this weekend and leave…
Doesn’t the summer give you fits of country-life longing? When the concrete radiates the heat right through your soul (and your soles) and the buildings reflect light and your car runs hot, hot, hotter as it idles on a baking stretch of U.S. 75 … we pine for grass and…
When one door closes, another opens, and that is true for the Design District on Saturday night. Circuit 12 Contemporary (1130 Dragon St.) is debuting its new show, Domestic Dissonance, which features works by Sandra Erbacher and Eddie Villanueva. Via paintings, sculptures and installations, ideas of domestic repetition and cognitive…
Depending on your disposition, you’ll be either frightened or delighted by the stars of the Fang Festival at Texas Discovery Gardens (3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). It’s a veritable reptilianpalooza that will feature native Texas snakes, turtles and toads. For those who don’t know, native Texas snakes include rattlesnakes,…
Calling all history buffs, literature aficionados and lovers of Jane Austen’s prose. Join the Jane Austen Society of North Texas on Saturday at The Netherfield Ball as they celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice at a lavish event inspired by Austen’s gala of the same name. Learn the…
How many times have you thought to yourself, “Why can’t I find a way to combine my appreciation of fine craft beers with my proclivity for financial do-gooding?” Well, now’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is, because the Best Little Brewfest in Texas has done all…
Have you watched the movie 9 to 5 recently? Have you noticed how well it’s held up? Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin were embracing the idea of “lean in” way before Sheryl Sandberg wrote a book about it, although theirs came with a side of comedic revenge against…
If you’re the type of person who wakes up early every Wednesday to pick up your comic book subscriptions and you’ve trolled through every shop in town locating your old favorites, then this weekend there’s only one place to be — at the Awesome Comic Book Collector Show. This comic…
