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. Killer Joe It’s the story of a Texas drug dealer who hires a hitman to kill his momma, but…
Somehow Cris Worley Fine Arts’ impending move a few streets across the Design District totally slipped under our radar. Formerly in a space next to Galleri Urbane on Monitor Street, Cris Worley will be taking up residence a bit closer to the action, at 1415 Slocum St., #104. I’ve always…
New York Times best-selling romance novelist Jodi Thomas sets a lot of her torrid historical tales in Fort Worth, and her latest release — set to drop on August 7 — is no exception. The multiple RITA Award winner’s 35th book and 6th in her “Whispering Mountain” series, Wild Texas…
While some of us still have the tote bags from 2012’s Dallas International Film Fest taking up space in our cars, it’s officially time to start thinking about next year’s fest. They’ve opened the door for submissions to April’s 7th Annual Dallas International Film Festival, and you can now submit…
Sunday’s vintage swimwear party at the F.O.E. is going to be a lot like this, but with more making out and better music. I’m not sure how Dallas is managing it, but the weekends keep out-doing themselves. I’m already popping ibuprofen in preparation for Monday’s hangover. Just look at this…
2010 MasterMind Award Winners, Karen Blessen, submitted an idea back in June for one of six monthly Marigold Ideas for Good grants, which funds ideas to improve communities through art. And now she’s a finalist. Blesen made it through the initial judging period to become one of 15 “June” finalists…
Artspace111 tipped us off to something we didn’t even know we wanted. The Modern Museum of Fort Worth’s Cafe Modern boasts a menu of 13 lucky summer cocktails, each inspired by works from the museum’s permanent collection. As you may recall, the Modern brought you this great Lucian Freud exhibition,…
Our annual Best of Dallas awards are around the corner, which means you can vote for your favorite local people, places and businesses. But this year, to shake things up a bit (and because we know how much you love to Instagram stuff), we’re having a Best of Dallas Instagram…
Chinese artist, activist and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause celebre last April when he was arrested by authorities at the Beijing Airport, detained in an undisclosed location for nearly three months, and released after allegedly confessing to tax evasion. The Sundance-feted documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry concludes shortly…
Someday musical theater will unplug the jukebox and come up with new tunes. Just not anytime soon. Not as long as audiences are still paying to see shows patched together from the hits of yesteryear. Mamma Mia! does ABBA. Rock of Ages is wrapped around songs of 1980s “hair bands”…
What do you get when you bring more than 10,000 gamers together in Dallas? No, A-Kon was two months ago. You get the gaming behemoth that is QuakeCon 2012. QuakeCon, now 16 years young, invites gamers from across the world to spend four sleepless days gaming in the Big D…
Legend has it that former President John F. Kennedy spent the night with Marilyn Monroe at the Belmont Hotel, and Thursday you can too. She’ll be larger than life and just as gorgeous as ever, starring in Some Like it Hot, the 1957 classic cross-dressing screwball comedy. It’s a summer…
Are you fantastic? Like to dress in plastic? Or like to be around people that do? Head to Club Colette for the Alter Ego “Sticky” Party. The event celebrates the 2013 Alter Ego Calendar, so yes, calendar girls will be present and they’ll be dressed in their finest latex and…
It isn’t enough to be fashion-conscious in 2012: You’ve got to look great without dissolving your bank account. It’s a fine line to balance — a tedious walk between appearing expensive and actual frugality, and that’s why the F.I.G. Fashion Finale has become a weekend-long magnet for Dallas shoppers. Stretching…
This is wrong, Angelika Film Center. You bring us in and offer us drinks. You seduce us by screening The Graduate in its original 35 mm format, when many of us are too young to have experienced it on the big screen before. You’re using your age and cunning to…
Local designer Tashumbra has that something special. It’s in the way prints are layered, the boldness of the color palette selected and the unexpected surprises that accompany the line’s “classic” looks. But there’s something else, something a little more uncommon that this designer offers that few others can: Tashumbra’s clothing…
Dick Clark may have passed on to that great Times Square in the sky, but he lives forever in the American collective — well, okay, in our grandparents’ cultural landscape — as the straight Ryan Seacrest. A storied career including four Emmy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of…
There’s something about Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark that makes comic geeks cry tears of joy when he appears on screen. Few would argue that Downey wasn’t made for the role. Even the substance problems that both actor and comic hero share seem a perfect match. It’s the snarky charm…
Don’t sweat that there are three must-see gallery openings this weekend — it’s a marathon, not a foot race, after all. In the Design District, pop into Craighead Green for New Texas Talent XIX, an annual juried show promoting emerging visual artists, judged this year by Lollie Tompkins, Visual Arts…
How much cute is too much cute? Because we’re officially at the tipping point. It’s the Second Annual Project Pugway Fashion Showwwwww!! (You have to add an echo and exclaim that. It’s a cute mandate.) Project Pugway is a real-life runway show featuring pug fashion in categories such as Spring,…
Prefixes are the gold medal winners of linguistic affixes — they always come in first. But when it comes to the MAC’s Annual Membership Exhibition, Trans-, everyone wins. A juried exhibition featuring work submitted by the MAC’s faithful supporters, Trans- features works in all media from visual to performance art…
We’re about to mention “tall boy” and “Denton campus” in the same sentence, and there’s no cause for alarm. The premier of British playwright Simon Bent’s The Tall Boy/i> is coming to UNT. Adapted from Kay Boyle’s short story The Lost, The Tall Boy tells the lives of three young…
