Should we, as a society, be able to pee freely? It’s an important question, one taken on by our European brethren (who say “no,” by the way) and by a McDonald’s just off the Woodley Park Metro stop in Washington, D.C. (which also says “no,” and asks for a quarter…
There’s a Dallas website that remains cloaked in mystery and gravy. It’s House of Plates, an electronic make-out session of food porn, photography and music — and today, Plates will make you shake your ass. I know what you’re thinking: “How can they do that? They live inside my computer.”…
Are you the kind of sophisticated Dallasite who enjoys dining on sushi while listening to jazz? And Japanese drum lines? If so, Tei-An Soba House has what you need Monday. Tei-An celebrates its four-year anniversary in full party mode, with Japanese drum group Fujisan Kaen Daiko and local jazz star…
As part of its 2012-2013 “Pursuits of Passion” season, and in celebration of the opera’s 25 successful years, The Dallas Opera will stage a production of Dominick Argento’s The Aspern Papers. The work hits the Winspear stage in April, but you don’t have to wait to bone up on all…
Each year as the big tops roll into town, it strikes me that the circus is just about the one enterprise that hasn’t changed much over the last century. Why would it? It’s a formula that’s worked beautifully despite economic challenges and technological innovations and is just about immune to…
At one point in Killer Joe, a hideously funny tabloid noir set on the outskirts of Dallas County, Chris Smith (Emile Hirsch) is let into the family double-wide by a relation whose face has just been pummeled into a Rorschach blot of dried gore. He doesn’t stop to ask what…
Our sister paper The Village Voice has been around, like, forever and has some deep archives, including this December 28, 1967, review of The Graduate, which is being re-released, opening this week at the Angelika in Dallas. Enjoy.
As part of Texas Theatre’s unofficial Awesome-up The Planet Initiative, anyone is now allowed to be an artist. Also, a drunk. Even you! Yes! The one shaving out your ear wax with a pencil eraser! A–aaa–nd you might want to hang on to that: there is no medium du jour…
Video by Catherine Downes Yesterday evening, something amazing happened. The American Airlines Center plaza was briefly renamed The Battle Zone. Entry to its sloppy inner sanctum was not offered to every eager warrior: official battle tools were required. Hundreds of pie-enthusiasts waited in line to receive the items: A plastic…
Consider us the “Mean” Gene Okerlund of Scrabble. We talked this week with Dallas-based gamer Chris Cree, who psyched himself up for August’s National Scrabble Championship with a growling, groaning pregame interview that would make even the Hulkster shudder. OK, not exactly. The 57-year-old Cree is an affable guy who…
If you’ve noticed that your cross fit center has been overrun lately, it isn’t due to swimsuit season. Dallas’ most fashionable shoppers are to blame; they’ve gone into heavy training for this weekend’s F.I.G. Shopping Finale Sale, a two-day affair in the Design District that resembles a museum filled with…
Founded, owned and operated by photographers, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery has firmly established itself as one of the city’s very best venues for artistic photography, pulling in a number of acclaimed artists from around the world. As its name would suggest, the gallery has, since its inception in 1995,…
See also: The Epic Gamers of QuakeCon 2010. Let’s go over a quick checklist for this weekend: Fully optimized alienware desktop? Check. A full case of Bawls? Check. Soap? For the love of god please say check. This weekend, QuakeCon 2012, celebrating its sweet sixteen in Dallas, will bring gamers…
It was a good weekend on Broadway for the Booker T. High School Class of ’92. Actors Brian J. Gonzales and Cedric Neal, who graduated the same year from Dallas’ performing arts magnet school, both stepped into leading roles in big New York shows on a moment’s notice. Gonzales, understudy…
See also: Drunklympics: The 2012 Summer Olympics Drinking Game Every two years your liver’s reputation is offered rebirth. During the Olympics your usual drunken bar crawls are not seen as debaucherous meanderings, instead they’re proof of your patriotism. Be the best American you can: Charge a giant bar tab, eat…
See also: Dallas’ Five Best Wig Shops. Ah, furniture shopping. Whether you’re adding pieces to your home or starting over with a clean slate, it can be hard to know where to start (once you move from Pinterest to real-life shopping, that is). And like most every other category, there…
We just squeed a little. SMU announced today that performance poet, playwright and hip-hop artist Will Power — a former Meadows Prize Winner who will join Meadows School of the Arts Division of Theatre this fall as artist-in-residence — has partnered with the Royal Shakespeare Company to produce a commissioned…
Don’t get us wrong. We love that Dallas’ formal arts scene is backed by faithful supporters able to infuse the likes of George Grosz and Giuseppe Verdi into our cultural consciousness, but this ain’t no Arts District kind of event. And that’s a beautiful thing. Beyond the I.M. Pei curves…
See also: Dallas’ Seven Best Post-Theater Hangouts Addison’s WaterTower Theatre has just opened its production of the jukebox musical Smokey Joe’s Café, celebrating the many rock and roll hits of composing team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The show was one of the first big Broadway jukebox revues to be…
The other day, while cruising Lula B’s West on our lunch break, we found a bunch of typewriters and lucite gems, plus an amazing white and gold ceramic dolphin lamp. We felt compelled to share them with you. The above photo is a Smith-Corona typewriter with a $48 price tag…
As all who are participating in Tuesday’s Pie Throwing Championships are aware, the circus is in town. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey digs its big red heels into Dallas soil for a 12-day run of Fully Charged, a production showcasing the company’s most high energy acts. You’ll see Ukrainian…
Dude. Forbes. Did you really just begin a sentence with, “‘Cool’ is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as …” Look, we’re thrilled that a publication we’ve actually heard of has given Dallas big props for a change, but there’s a lot going on with this one that has us scratching our…
