Arts & Culture

Spend your evening getting all cultural and stuff at Late Nights in the Arts District. While you’ll find a million happenings scattered among the Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 North Harwood St.), things will only get seductively French over…

Starck Club, one of the most legendary nightclubs in Dallas history, opened its doors in May of 1984. The club served as an adult playground for celebrities and the who’s who of the decade, and remained the place to be seen from the moment the first feet graced its dance…

The comedy and variety show genre is alive and well in Dallas thanks to two awesome entertainers, Ricki Derek and Nick Gibbons. Known for their forays in Rat Pack reinvention and Adult Swim entertainment, the two are bringing it together once again for a special Halloween-themed performance that surely won’t…

While it’s true that we need dogs to feel complete, there are also times when they need us — like when they’re trying to get into a bar, without ID. This Saturday you can pay back your hound for all of his tireless dedication by taking him out for a…

It’s a mistake any Dallas newbie can make. You get up one October morning and decide to catch breakfast somewhere west on Northwest Highway and then you see it: pink, pink, pink, as far as the eye can see. Traffic is at a standstill and you are left to marvel…

There’s a group in town that’s busy toppling the existing gallery regime. ArtLoveMagic has proven repeatedly that this city is both unified and beautified by a collaborative web of artists whose talents run a gamut of media. Twice a year we see that network surface for a massive public exhibition,…

His trademark emblem — a cupcake skull above a set of crossbones — began as a side business for Johnny Earle. After excusing himself from college, Earle ventured into band-merch design. But when he showed up wearing that original pastry-laced shirt, everyone wanted it. Now known internationally as Johnny Cupcakes,…

If there’s one thing pugs love, it’s costumes. No wait, that’s Beggin’ Strips. Well, if there’s one thing humans love, it’s cramming those wrinkly pups into crazy outfits. And with that, we wish you a Happy Pug-O-Ween. Much like the name implies, Pug-O-Ween is a Halloween-Pug hybrid event filled with…

Dallas fanboys and fangirls rejoice, because this weekend you’re in for some of the most awesome awesomeness ever. Fan Days is coming to town for a three-day extravaganza, bringing us the best in actors, artists, toys and more. We’re sure that you’re excited to check out the wares available at…

When you were 17, most of your spare time was used perfecting your fake ID and trying to convince your parents that being 30 minutes late for curfew was within a scientific margin of error. In hindsight, it’s probably still time well spent in many ways — life experience and…

Grapevine’s Runway Theatre picked an unconventional opening for its 30th season. Zombie Prom isn’t your typical off-Broadway, boy-meets-girl musical, unless your definition of “typical stage romance” involves a nuclear power plant suicide mixed with zombie song and dance numbers. Based on a story by John Dempsey and Hugh Murphy, Zombie…

Dallas Theater Center has turned the Wyly Theatre into a sports arena for its latest play, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Kristoffer Diaz’s dramedy is set in the world of professional, televised wrestling, so scenic designer Tak Kata created a full-size ring, with giant video screens, confetti cannons and…

There’s a gritty aspect to the new exhibition at Goss-Michael Foundation, and it’s got my radical cheerleader pompoms all perked up. Linder got her start in the Manchester art scene in the late ’70s by bringing a rough-cut, DIY-lene to photo montages and performance art. A little bit Dada, a…

Every small town has one: an unassuming neighborhood house that transforms into a haunted attraction at Halloween. Some are low-budget, with only a walk-through carport of oddities. Others are impassioned spectacles that took years of labor to create. As a child you never bothered to know who lived there, why…

An interesting thing happened last night: Someone broke into the Kunsthal Rotterdam and raided the place, reportedly taking Pablo Picasso’s ‘Harlequin Head’, ‘Reading Girl In White and Yellow’ by Henri Matisse, ‘Waterloo Bridge, London’ and ‘Charing Cross Bridge, London’ by Claude Monet, as well as ‘Woman with Eyes Closed’ by…

If you’re craving a true fright this Halloween, check out these five allegedly haunted graveyards. We recommend bringing a support system and at least one Ghostbuster. Estes Cemetery in Grand Prairie (above) If a mix of innocence and fright calls you, Estes Cemetery is right up your alley. Visitors have…

In the artistic think tank of ArtLoveMagic’s headquarters, exciting news has arrived. After five years of organizing and presenting educational events in Dallas, the group has finally received its National Not-For-Profit status. It’s a game-changer for the volunteer-operated artist network, which puts on its annual production Girl Show this Saturday…