In the Dallas art scene, the name Frank Campagna is nearly synonymous with Deep Ellum. He’s known as much for playing cheerleader to local talent as he is for his own work: painting the ads for the late Gypsy Tea Room, projects like the now-defunct 200-artist Good Latimer tunnel project…
The Modern Dance Festival begins today at the Modern in Fort Worth, and while all of its components look great, one of the biggest show-stoppers might be the Dance on Camera series. This weekend two films on street dancing are featured, “Check your Body at the Door” and “All the…
Next weekend, the Bath House at White Rock is going to be all drama. But, don’t worry – we’re not talking Ewing-Barnes style histrionics. The Festival of Independent Theatres (FIT) is holding its 14th annual spree, beginning oh-so-fortuitously on July 14. Correction: beginning on Friday, July 13…
Quick, while temps have dipped slightly below heatstroke levels, make plans to catch Shakespeare Dallas’ Twelfth Night at Samuell-Grand Amphitheater. You can take a picnic or sack of snacks with you. Flop onto your blanket or low lawn chair and soak up some culture as the sun sets over cottonwood…
Perhaps you’re like me: First thing I thought when I saw this wondrous photo was, “Stephen, have you–by any chance–shrunk down to the size of a quarter after a mysterious ray gun zapped you, and are now residing inside an old 35mm film can?” Turns out, it’s not true. Photographer…
The day following a mid-week holiday should allow for coasting. We need HOV lane mannequins to place at our desks and recordings of typing sounds — think Ferris Bueller meets 9 to 5. Hang in there, kiddo. We’re going to get you drunk again in no time. There is no…
Playwright and SMU grad Beth Henley won a Pulitzer for her 1981 Southern gothic comedy Crimes of the Heart. Interesting to note that the 1981 Pulitzer for fiction went to John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. It was a good year for literature about idiots in Dixie. Crimes, now…
Among things you can see in Dallas Theater Center’s production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Wyly Theatre: Old Testament characters playing basketball and plugged into iPods; a giant wooden pyramid that breaks apart like a cool toy from a museum…
The W Hotel is a scene, and it’s about to get a whole lot scene-ier. The W Hotel’s Living Room bar is teaming up with Havana Social Club to give you, the faux-tanned and freshly Nair-ed public, Havana Nights. The evening will include flights of spirits (the alcohol kind, not…
We trot out our Americana archetypes every Fourth of July — the apple pie and the ice cream; the fireworks; the pickup trucks and “God Bless America.” We see them paraded in Chevy ads and mattress sales and actual parades. And those are all good things. But they’re a pretty…
By Friday your body has absorbed all of those little pieces of tension. Reports. Deadlines. A never-ending string of emails. It collects throughout your being — maybe in a ache in your neck or in a lack of patience for those around you. But it doesn’t have to. The Crow…
“Dude, we’ve got a crisis. We’re going to have to leave the apartment – our snack supply is, like, gone. We even used all of the flavor packets from the Ramen noodles for that MSG bong – which was badass, by the way. That was like, the most amazing thing…
Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls is an event of ultimate machismo, with men hurdling down narrow streets, pursued by rampaging half-ton bulls. Cafe Madrid’s running of the bulls might not be as thrilling thanks to the foam horns of its “bull,” but it could be just as fun. This annual…
The Kettle Art Gallery’s exhibition The Ripple Effect marks the curatorial debut of Amber Campagna, daughter of famed Dallas muralist Frank Campagna. It showcases the art of Richard Ross, Brian Crawford and other local artists as they show their visions of the watery seascapes that seem so distant from Dallas…
Looking for a gam-tastic good time? Head to Speakeasy, A 1920s Prohibition Party Birthday Bash. It’s a celebration for Retro Lovely Magazine and Angela Ryan, who will be signing autographs all night. The party is obviously a throwback to a time when drinking was done out of bathtubs and back…
The Lone Star State Classic Dog Shows, running Friday through Sunday at Dallas Market Hall, showcases three regional dog clubs, each a member of the American Kennel Club, and more than 150 different breeds from across the United States. Talk to award-winning owners and learn about the judging process and…
At the London Olympics, along with all kinds of sports we only pay attention to every four years, we will get to see horses and their jockeys compete in jumping, dressage and eventing. But what about all-out racing? Your last chance to see horses compete for speed locally is Lone…
They’re identical twins! Who don’t know each other! Comedy! Second Thought Theatre winds up its eighth season with The Bomb-itty of Errors, a hip-hop take on Shakespeare. Written by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, GQ and Erik Weiner, with music by Heath Gage and Steven Michael Walters, the show, according to…
There have been several movies about whales lately, but few seem to really show what they do in their day-to-day lives. So the Museum of Nature & Science is screening an IMAX film called, simply, Whales. The film promises to show the lives of several species of whales in their…
The Red River Shootout’s descent on the Cotton Bowl is months away, but a different sort of football arrives to offer some mid-summer escape when Mexican Primera Division rivals Cruz Azul and Club América face off Wednesday. These inter-city rivals, who square off in preparation for the Mexican Apertura later…
Former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Remi Ayodele is venturing into the salon business, and he wants you to be his guinea pig. On Wednesday, the grand opening of Studio 1514, which Ayodele is opening in downtown Dallas with business partner Natalie Guillen, will feature several NFL and NBA players, a…
You’ll be tapping your foot to the African beat of drums in Karen Abbott’s production of Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, a story written by John Steptoe and being performed at the Dallas Children’s Theater. It’s Cinderella with a twist: Switch the two menacing step-sisters with a vain stuck-up biological one, and…
