The Ghastly Love of Johnny X kicks off this weekend’s Oak Cliff Film Festival/rocks your socks. Like the Supermoon or Venus in transit, the universe is highlighted with tremendous points of confluence. So are weekends. This next stretch in particular is so loaded with amazing options and possibilities that it’s…
Did you cry when Aerith died? Does a giant ostrich sound like a completely reasonable mode of transportation? Do you have any idea what I’m talking about? If so, then you’re undoubtedly a fan of the long-running videogame series Final Fantasy. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is catering to your specific…
Motions and Emotions is, shockingly, not a Beach Boys song. It’s a night of art, fashion, dance, catwalkin’ and charity, all for the kids. The event, which benefits the Children’s Medical Center, is free, with “food and drinks on us.” A $5 donation is suggested but not required so go,…
The story of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, isn’t a cheery one. It’s appropriately nerve-wracking for a work by German director F.W. Murnau, who previously painted the haunting celluloid of Nosferatu and Faust. Released in 1927, the black and white film is silent and uses creepy, dastardly images as…
Somebody’s going to be tuckered out Friday night, but we’re unsure if it will be your little ones or you. Making insomnia classy again — as if it had ever gone out of style — the Arts District celebrates its Annual Summer Block Party on June 15, coinciding with normal…
House music fans will be converging upon the grand reopening of this historic east Elm venue not only because renowned DJ Miguel Migs and singer Lisa Shaw will be performing, but also because it’s one of Brooke Humphries’ new clubs. The local entrepreneur, who also owns Barcadia and Beauty Bar,…
This Father’s Day, there are a couple suitable options for a dutiful son or daughter to get Dad to get a little buzzed before he opens another round of ties from Kohl’s. For $40 a person,The Dallas Bites! Summer Beer and Burger Tour will provide a bus full of Deep…
We’re sitting on a damn goldmine here in Dallas. Our artists are innovative, targeted and open to collaboration, a rare combination for any city. Tonight you’ll experience the best of our most inventive contributors when nine different galleries, all of which cater to pushing through new methods and ideas, participate…
You may well recognize the Comedians of Chelsea Lately from their boss’ talk show. But if Chelsea Handler’s rants make you too tense to get your eight hours, you may know the stand-ups from other places. Jen Kirkman has recently been driving around and dissing mozzarella sticks in a Toyota…
If you ask Dad what he wants for Father’s Day, he’s going to tell you to save your cash and build your financial security. That’s because he won’t say what he really wants: falcons. Goddamn, flying creatures of prey that will swoop down during a staged battle and deliver notes…
You’re a dad now, so you get to do a lot of boring things, like meeting with financial advisers and reapplying sunscreen to non-compliant targets. But none of that stuff precludes you from cutting loose once in a while. Thrash’d Swag is a best-of-both-worlds scenario for dads: Not only can…
What a bunch of wusses those kids at Horace B. Smedley School are. When their kindhearted teacher Miss Nelson can no longer take her students’ unruly behavior and disappears, the kiddies are instantly cowed by her stern, ruler-waving replacement, Miss Viola Swamp. Hah. In my day (ca. 1847-50), any class…
If gambling hasn’t violently torn your family apart, then a day at the races could be a great way to entertain Dad on the day in which we gladly ignore the living room screaming matches of our adolescence and his ambivalence towards our allegedly frivolous dreams of simply wanting to…
If you’re living on a beanbag chair with a milk crate ottoman, get a job, you hippie. And then head to the first ever ID Dallas furniture showcase. There’s a thriving scene here in Dallas, and this one isn’t pumped full of Botox. This one is filled with handcrafted furniture…
It’s a good thing the drinkers of the world don’t have to keep up with all the different types of gin or the sleights of hand that distinguish Manhattans from Algonquians. That’s the bartender’s job, thankfully, since measuring and muddling and mixing requires constant education (and, happily, plenty of sampling)…
Go ahead and turn your phone off, you won’t need it this weekend. Those scamps at Aviation Cinemas have put together the Oak Cliff Film Festival, a four-day immersion in the best indie cinema imaginable. In addition to highlighting work by emerging and established talents, this festival is a wonderful…
No, unscripted comedy isn’t what you get when you watch America’s Funniest Videos on mute (which is the only way to watch that show, by the way. Same applies to reruns of the Hills). In the world of live laughs, unscripted means improv, and that’s what you’ll get if you…
With her high cheekbones, feline brown eyes and heart-shaped mouth, actress Aubrey Plaza is bombshell hot. But in an unusual twist for a twentysomething performer at the beginning of her career, Plaza’s natural foxiness is a resource that has gone largely unexploited. Not exactly a character actress — she hasn’t…
Schrödinger’s cat is neither here nor there, but the Greater Denton Arts Council’s Cat Snapp likes to think both inside and out of the box. Snapp’s new exhibition, Small Breaths, uses box and book structures that beckon for a viewer’s touch, manipulation and exploration. In fact, Snapp’s artistic ideation is…
Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It’s not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions — guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater — so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage production, first…
Golden Triangle Woodturners, a group of more than 70 artisans who use ancient techniques of manipulating wood through the use of a lathe, are producing the group show, Turning Logs Into Art, on exhibition in the Meadows Gallery through August 10. Displaying a large variety of sculptural pieces — some…
There are plenty of reason for geeks to drink, from the passing of Ray Bradbury earlier this month to George Lucas’ announcement that he’s retiring, though that might be celebratory drinking for many of you. Geeks Who Drink gives a whole new reason, and that’s a pop culture twist on…
