Spring is in the air, so if you’re beginning to wipe winter from your eyes while emerging from a cocoon of cashmere sweaters, Dallas diva and lifestyle blogger Cynthia Smoot has words for you. She’s offering up her fashion picks for the next shopping season to guide you through some…
Occasionally our Dallas fashion stars shine bright, like when designer James Martinez made it onto Season 11 of Project Runway. Most of us think he’d have gone further if it weren’t for that cursed group challenge. Fortunately for all of us, Martinez is still hard at work, making charming garments…
It’s not often we say this, but there’s a great reason to go to Addison: The 2013 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. WaterTower Theatre (15650 Addison Road) hosts the 10-day revolving door of dance, theatre, comedy, performance art and music, starting Thursday and running through March 17. Last year’s…
“Seven stormtroopers got together and actually devised All-Con in 2003,” says Todd Carlton, who’s both a proud representative of the Dark Side and an All-Con Content Manager. From those humble, difficult to walk-in beginnings, it sprung: A convention that adheres the best bits of Dallas’ other conventions together, like a…
Every Wednesday, we find you five movies for you to check out over the coming week or weekend, from the latest wide release to weird local screenings to timely classics you can watch on your couch. Did we miss something? Let readers know in the comments. Now, Forager Screens tonight…
In Ink Spot, we stop people in Dallas to shoot, and learn about, their body art. Know an interesting human canvas? Leave a tip in the comments. Eamon Maxwell, a soft-spoken 23-year-old from Coppell, already has 12 tattoos with plans for more. Maxwell says he wants people to see his…
We don’t see too many artists from China in Dallas, but Galleri Urbane likes to gather from underutilized sources. Currently, they’re showing an exhibition by Florida-from-China artist Kirk Ke Wang, who turns wall-sized canvases into politically supercharged paintings. He does it through lovely subversion, shape-shifting the images from representational symbolism…
After listening to more than 130 hopeful pianists audition in six cities around the world, judges for the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition have chosen this year’s 30 finalists. Of those who made the cut into the esteemed Fort Worth competition, eight are from the United States. Italy shines…
I’m still waiting on that POGS film… Knowing that Pulitzer Prize winning author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman created the Garbage Pail Kids trading card series, makes their existence so much sweeter. Still, I can’t help but imagine his reaction went he went to see The Garbage Pail Kids Movie world…
With her vampires put to eternal rest, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer was able to dabble deeper into other science fiction avenues. In her book-turned-movie The Host, she invades the realm of alien body snatching and sets the stage for Earth’s invasion. There, a lone resistance group remains, pocketed away from…
For the impatient theatergoer, festivals such as WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe are a good fit. Lots of short, provocative pieces. (Most performances come in under an hour.) A mix of dance, music, drama and comedy. Plenty of breaks to mingle with patrons and artists. Now in its…
In Death by Microphone, local Brit and barbecue blogger Gavin Cleaver attended stand-up comedy classes at the Dallas Comedy House and reported back for our amusement and education. Then, on Friday, it happened: His stand-up debut, at DCH’s showcase for class graduates. Inexplicably sideways video evidence is above. Read his…
As episode eight opens, we follow Hannah down the street. She receives a text from Adam, which causes her to have a nervous tic, one we’ve never seen before. We’re reminded Hannah got an e-book deal, and the deadline is looming, with nary a word written. Hannah starts doing everything…
The Fort Worth Opera is bringing Dallas a little present tonight, in the form of some very boozy singing. Skipping the opera house for a cozier setting, the company presents its popular pop-up opera series, Opera Shots, on the outdoor stage of the Foundry. Tonight’s two-hour event gets going at…
By now it’s clear that Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty wishes he could fly. This season he has two shows back-to-back with “Fly” in the title: Fly by Night, set during the 1965 New York City blackout, opens at April 26 at Kalita Humphreys Theater; and Fly, opening…
This week, the Dallas Film Society and the Angelika Film Center in Dallas will host a short retrospective of the films of South Korean director Park Chan-wook, starting Tuesday with Oldboy, winner of the Grand Prix award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. It continues Wednesday with 2006’s Lady Vengeance…
Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning photographs of architectural landmarks since 1987 through an annual project called Big Shot. But what’s unique about this group’s approach, and what gives the night shoots their curious, ending glow, hinges on deviation from the standard. Rather than placing industrial photography lights around…
There are child actors and there are real actors who happen to be children. At Fun House Theatre in Plano, a company we’ve praised before, 18 serious actors, ages 10 to 17, are doing an impressive production of Hamlet right now. The lead is played by Shepton High School ninth-grader…
Last night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert left me with whiplash. If this was any indication, this weekend’s program is bizarrely lopsided and, despite impressive playing, feels more like a display of anomaly than a cohesive artistic experience. The first half of the concert is light and quick, lasting only about…
A sign of recovery in the retail market or a misallocation of funds? It’s a bit unclear, but the after-hours shopping phenomenon Fashion’s Night Out has been canceled for 2013, nationwide. Vogue brought it to fruition in 2009 as a way to encourage shoppers to spend, despite the economic collapse…
If you happen through NorthPark Center this weekend, be on the lookout for some art dancing. (Psst, it’ll be near The Art.) Funded through a grant by the Texas Commission of the Arts in collaboration with the National Endowment of the Arts, the project borrows the bodies of Contemporary Dance/Fort…
For each of the last eight years, some of the country’s best long-form journalists and memoirists have converged on a Hilton conference center in Grapevine during what always seems to be the most intolerably hot weekend of the scalding Texas summer. Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference writer-in-residence George Getschow — a…
