Arts & Culture

If the phrase “patron of the arts” always seemed enticing, but tragically unattainable, Thursday is your night for reinvention. That’s when Dallas Theater Center offers a special pay-what-you-can performance for the highly anticipated local premiere of Red, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play. It’s a lovely evening…

Ken Price created morphing, perplexing sculptures for decades, but he didn’t design most work intending that you and I would gawk over them, which we’ll happily do over and over again during the run of Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, which opens to the public on Saturday. Price made work…

It barely feels like a year since the last Phenomenon event over at the Dallas Contemporary (161 Glass St.). Man, remember that party? (Flashback tinkly sounds and smoke go here.) Fresh off his wall-tackling mission around Dallas, Shepard Fairey proved that not all muralists and graffiti artists are also DJs…

With the holidays over and the extended family back where they belong (i.e. not your house), you’re likely craving a little ringside action. Fulfill your desire while seeing how the pros throw at the 2013 Bud Light Pro Fight Series on Saturday at the Hurst Conference Center (1601 Campus Drive)…

You’ve seen the organic King Cakes resting awkwardly on Whole Foods’ shelves, which leads to the questions 1.) Man, is it Mardi Gras already? And 2.) Is the cake baby gluten-free? Well, we don’t know details on the bastardized baked goods, but Oak Cliff’s Mardi Gras is ready to show…

Whoever said variety is the spice of life had definitely seen a good burlesque show. Because you know, a burlesque revue is essentially a variety show filled with jokes out-to-there, dance numbers down-to-there, and spicy, sultry talent through the roof. So the fifth annual Dallas Burlesque Festival is pretty much…

Teatro Dallas (1331 Record Crossing Road) kicks February off with a tribute to Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and his 1933 play Blood Wedding. This stage production ups the contemporary aspect by integrating flamenco, video and modern dance into the dramatic tale of love, death and symbolism, and if you…

It’s Sunday afternoon: Do you know where your nerds are? If your dorks have gone missing, chances are you’ll find them at the Sci-Fi Expo. The nerd population of North Texas will descend upon the Irving Convention Center (500 W. Las Colinas Blvd.) for two days of TV, movie and…

There are great Sundays and then there are the ideal, goddam gems of afternoons that give purpose to your time off work. We’re going to discuss the latter. Those mischievous scamps over at The Granada have devised a way to please us all in one tidy afternoon. They’ve assembled a…

This installment of the Dallas Museum of Art’s (1717 N. Harwood St.) Arts & Letters Live series pairs Texas actors with Texas authors. Dallas-born actor Stephen Tobolowsky (Glee, Deadwood, True Stories) will sign copies of his new book, The Dangerous Animals Club, as well as read his essay “F.A.Q.” Spring,…

You might think that you know everything you need to know about the world of antiques and collectibles. After all, you caught an all-day marathon of Storage Wars last weekend, and after three episodes you were shouting at that Brandi chick for even considering a unit full of crappy luggage…

Oh, right, Valentine’s Day. Instead of the usual boring dinner/movie date, Studio Movie Grill (11170 North Central Expressway) is offering up a Valentine’s Eve (that’s a thing, right?) movie night for the obscure-horror fan. Horror Remix cuts up and edits down B-movie shlock to its powerful, gooey essence, providing a…

Experience has taught us that some of the best bonds come from sharing battle wounds, and no one can better attest to this than Kayleen and Doug, the main (and only) characters in Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries. The two-man show (starring Travis Stuebing and Mikaela Krantz) spans 30 messy…

Now in its sixth year, Thin Line Film Festival returns to Denton’s time-trapped downtown square to bring you all things ’ocumentary. Kicking off Friday’s action is a Sundance selection called Blood Brother that will likely shatter your heart as it rocks it gently back and forth. American Rocky Braat refuses…

I can’t imagine that life has been easy for Whiplash, the dog-riding monkey. He travels the rodeo circuit with his manager, which seems like a lonely life. And I suspect he blows his stipends on bananas and alcohol, as monkeys who ride dogs are prone to do. Also, he’s from…

Attention nerds, dorks and assorted dweebs: You can get your photo taken with Doc Christopher Lloyd AND Lea Thompson this weekend at the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo! There are loads more of your favorites lurking — some of those Battlestar Galactica kids will be on the loose. But most of us…

Those venturing into and out of the American Airlines Center between now and March 31 could get an accidental dose of art, thanks to the Dallas Contemporary. The non-profit currently has a very cool, but easy-to-miss, video art exhibition called Los Americanos, lining its narrow interior gallery’s walls. Soon, you…