Among some other rad shit going down tonight at the Dallas Contemporary for D-Mag’s FrontRow Live, we just got word that Oliver Francis Gallery is giving “[con]texting while driving” a whole new meaning. OFG’s owner and artistic polymath, Kevin Rubén Jacobs, has curated a show featuring three “sound/video/fART installations” by…
One of the most popular — or rather populist — shows hosted by Gallery 500X is the The Open Show, and drop off for its latest installment is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, the 2nd and 3rd of June. Since the show is non-juried, $30 bucks lets you include up…
One of the most beautiful aspects of art is the avenue it opens for the very young and the very willing. Freddie Jones’ horn has sent him around the world – from Paris to Rotterdam – and back, and the UNT-educated trumpeter has since paid it forward, providing young musicians…
Still hungover from Memorial Day? You’re a trooper. We’re going to slow the pace down by a gear shift or two and let you stabilize. Don’t fret, there’s still plenty to do: Get out of the heat with all kinds of movies; pop in an art space for an amazing…
Now that television has, for the most part, settled into blessed respite for the next three months, the onset of summer designates an ideal moment to step away from that noise and to recharge one’s sluggish mind with some cerebral health food. Making that ambition all the more attainable, The…
Where are the great new American plays coming from? Not just from East Coast graduate programs that follow the Paula (How I Learned to Drive) Vogel model, no matter how many of those dreary dramas Dallas Theater Center tries to force upon us. Not from the ranks of hot TV…
Dig deep into that spot that makes you laugh a little when you think about naked time — that’s just the part of you to take to Viva Dallas Burlesque’s show at Lakewood Theater, 1825 Abrams Parkway. This time the lovely ladies of tassels and titillation are bringing not only…
If you watch the Texas Theatre premiere of Panos Cosmatos’ Beyond the Black Rainbow, chances are you’re going to need the premiere afterparty. If you don’t watch the film but are meeting up with people who did, you’re going to need the premiere afterparty. Rainbow tells the story (sort of?)…
You got into an argument with your hairdresser because you ate at Chick-Fil-A and he doesn’t appreciate the chain’s conservative agenda. Your boss just forwarded an email that refers to “No-Bama” no less than five times. You don’t give a shit about being liberal or conservative — you just want…
You’ve got water skiing in my surfing! You’ve got surfing in my water skiing! Also there’s some skateboarding culture in there? Whatever. Point is, wakeboarding is wild and fast-paced even by action-sports standards and, yes, even we landlocked Texans get to get in on the watersport action. The 2012 MasterCraft…
Space is not the final frontier. In fact, it’s just the beginning, at least in the Large Gallery at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary this month. Hosting seven current artists-in-residence at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Core program, the MAC presents Of Other Spaces, a collaborative exhibition featuring new and…
Not many comedians have the luxury of growing up. This is no fault of their own; when you base a career on a shtick or tag line, a theme or gimmick, you’re forced to carry it with you or face the turbulent world of rebranding. But watching a 40-something discuss…
Sunday, the Texas Theatre kicks off its new monthly Spanish film series (Petra Negra Film Session) with a screening of All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madra). Pedro Almodóvar directed this highly dramatic and character-driven tale of a woman and her group of friends who experience a gamut of…
Leave the kids at home for this one. At 2 p.m. Sunday, the Fort Worth Opera Festival winds down with a final performance of Mark Adamo’s racy modern opera Lysistrata. Based on a 5th-century Greek play, this 21st-century American opera is a retelling of the classic tale of sex withheld…
Hard to believe that only three years have passed since Fort Worth police and agents with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents conducted their infamous raid on that city’s Rainbow Lounge. Today, it hardly seems conceivable that the cops would bust in and bust heads in a dubious crackdown on…
Let’s see. By now, school will have been out for about a week. Yep, that’s just about enough time for loving parents everywhere to start asking themselves the annual summertime question: “How can I get these annoying, screaming little savages out of the goddamn house before I go crazy!?” Can’t…
Hey Freaky Deaks, wanna see Chihuly sculptures all lit up like crazy? But your prefer to see it in 10-inch platforms, white polyester pants that cling to your butt and a shirt unbuttoned so far even the space station can see your navel? Well, first of all, you have very…
Dallas Design Week snuck through town under the shadow of the Dallas Art Fair and the Dallas International Film Festival, so many were unaware of all that occurred. In addition to a passionate uniting of Dallas’ most design-driven industry members there was a nested event called Good Ideas for Cities…
Don’t confuse Bar None Presents: The Girl With the File-Stamp Tattoo for a suspenseful, intrigue-packed stage adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. First off, because that would be really dumb and secondly because these annual Bar None events are skit-based musical variety shows sponsored by the Dallas Bar…
Johnny Cash knew a thing or two about pairing music with booze. The Man in Black was known for his whiskey-soaked performances, and also sang songs about drinking. On Friday, in his honor, the Zack King Band is going to combine music and alcohol. The band is schedule to play…
Clutch the pearls — Legally Blonde is a musical. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s been one before. We know. But now it’s this musical. The one performed by Level Ground Arts. And it has everything you’re looking for — music, dance, small dogs, big words, pink suits and absolutely no visible…
If ever there were a perfect example of pure, fresh, classical simplicity unnecessarily trodden under with complications, it is Snow White and the Huntsman. Had it trusted to the native charm of its cast and the sensory seduction of its often-astonishing images to humbly, naively retell its story, this Snow…
