Now in its tenth year, the Dallas Black Film Festival is focused on a major celebration the weekend of August 24 to 26. They’ve just confirmed this year’s guest speaker will be former Public Enemy member and current Illuminati conspiracy theorist, second degree black belt Professor Griff. What Griff will…
There is no amount of money that could make me want to go back to high school. In some ways it was like being in a pimply, angst-ridden foxhole: endless hours of insufferable, hormone-riddled boredom punctuated by brief spells of piss-your-pants terror. But DISD has just upped the ante with…
This old school Sharon Needles video isn’t safe for work. AT ALL. Pomp drag outsider artist Sharon Needles snatched up the winning title on season four of RuPaul’s Drag Race, shaking up the public perception that all drag is pretty and glamorous. She’ll perform at Queen, the newest addition to…
Ever do a search for “movies opening this weekend” only to find that none of the good ones are actually playing in Dallas? We’re here to save you from that disappointment. Wednesday 8.15 The Odd Life of Timothy Green Peter Hedges (author of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) pens the screenplay…
Here’s why the Romney-Ryan ticket is a turn-off to voters and why they won’t win in November, and it isn’t only about their granny-starving, wealth-worshiping policies. The secret to the scary-bad vibe these guys give off as potential president and vice president lies in something a Hollywood veteran taught me…
Sure, I love the Olympics. But you know what I love more? The phrase “great whites breaching.” There is no television programming stretch more glorious than Discovery Channel’s celebration of cartilaginous, chompy fish. Shark Week is a sea geek’s fantasy, filled with stories about electro-magnetic field facial receptors, the hunting…
For awhile, Lynn Michelle considered altering her body. Like so many women, she’s successful — well-educated; a small business owner; an award-winning, peer-recognized career woman — and beautiful, funny and personable. But she believed there was something missing. “There were things I wanted to change,” she says. “I considered a…
A little over a week ago, we reported that local artist and activist Karen Blessen was one of fifteen national finalists for a Marigold Big Ideas for Good Grant. With your votes, she’s done it. Blessen is bringing back $5,000 to change the face of Dallas arts. Her vision is…
Dallas VideoFest is approaching a milestone and turning 25 years young. (Awe, don’t worry, DVF. You could still pass for Beta.) They’ve got a lot of experimental projects on the bill for this installment, happening from September 27 to 30, and still all of those documentaries you’ve come to rely…
Dallas’ Public Safety Committee meets today to discuss its current approach to graffiti management, mainly that it’s a plight beyond anyone’s control. So put that can down, step away from the brush and let’s chat a little, shall we? You’ve been getting away with a surprising amount of tagging; roughly…
Archer City, a small town 140 miles northwest of Dallas, was buzzing with media and bidders over the weekend as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry auctioned off books from his antique bookstore, Booked Up. Here’s what it looked like:…
A&E’s Storage Wars: Texas is adding two new faces during this season’s premier on Wednesday at 8, both of whom are local businesswomen. Mary Padian of Mary’s Finds on Market Center Boulevard and Jenny Grumbles of Uptown Country Home on Milton Avenue join RiverRegency proprietor and colorful Storage Wars veteran…
See also: “Rachel De Joode’s Brief and Wondrous Art,” a preview of the show. I left Rachel De Joode’s “Real Things” show at Oliver Francis Gallery, subtitled “Explorations In Three Dimensions,” feeling nagged by this question: Is ascribing meaning to an artwork the job of the artist or the viewer?…
Ari Richter, a New York artist who’s living at UT Dallas’ CentralTrak artist residency, uses skin — actual, human skin — for his upcoming exhibition, The Skin I Live In. It’s culled from a “limited, daily supply” of skin chewed from the insides of his own cheeks, before being processed…
Find more of DFW’s best in our Best Of app, available for the iPhone and Droid. Vote for the Best Of Dallas in our 2012 poll. Chances are, if you grew up in the area, you’ve already seen some of the best history Dallas has to offer. After all, they…
Nerv Gallery and Studios opened back in May with the purpose of gathering misplaced artists and having them put their work on display under one roof. Now, Natalie Vaughan, Nerv’s curator, and the rest of her crew are going to make it easier for those artists looking to share their…
Earlier today, Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show and Horseman, Pass By, began auctioning off some 300,000 books from his antiquarian store, Booked Up. The taciturn man of letters said he does not want to burden his children with nearly half a million…
Dr. Guy Stern stepped off a PT boat 68 years ago onto the Normandy coastline on the third day of the D-Day invasion. He was “squeamish.” On that beach he saw more carnage and mangled bodies than one should in a lifetime. But that “cured” him of the fear he…
“I always really like the idea of an alien coming to Earth and not knowing the difference of things,” says Berlin artist Rachel de Joode. We’re sitting in the noisy back room of an East Dallas sandwich shop discussing her Saturday show at Oliver Francis Gallery. Her pieces reflect that…
When Larry McMurtry began writing his memoirs, the first volume of which was published in 2008, he saw it necessary to divide his life into three distinct sections: Books, Literary Life, and Hollywood. It is no coincidence that Books, the recounting of his life as a “rare bookman,” came first,…
Yes. It’s true. Next Friday, August 17, a group of Dallas women will sit proud in front of an audience and read passages from their favorite stories, completely in the nude. It’s a literary trend appropriately titled Naked Girls Reading, and now, after a two year hiatus, it’s returned to…
That rascally non-profit Downtown Dallas, Inc. wants to crack some brews with you. It’s launching a weekly pop-up happy hour series and inviting you, and other haggard cubicle workers, to drink craft beer in our city’s parks and plazas. There will be four of the Thursday evening parties, with the…
