Once upon a time, Schoolhouse Rock taught children about “The Great American Melting Pot” and how liberty was built on the amalgamation of diverse ethnic, religious and cultural ideas. These days, “immigrant” is often an epithet, and many consider assimilation as the only mode of survival for those not born…
Forget badly painted ceramics or knitted dolls and open up your mind to broader avenues of arts, crafts and thinking with the Dallas Museum of Art’s Think Creatively workshops. Dr. Magdalena Grohman, resident creativity expert at the DMA, will lead a two-part program this month: a brain warm-up followed by…
Hah! Food trucks. Those’ll never take off. They’re just a fad that will be forgotten in a few weeks. C’mon, it’s not like any new ones are sprouting up or people have been lobbying the city to make laws more conducive for trucks selling high-quality food. If food trucks were…
In the mid-’60s, animation studio Hanna-Barbera produced a televised take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland that was destined NOT to become a classic. Still, it did feature the voice of Sammy Davis Jr. as the Cheshire Cat, singing “What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like…
Frank Lopez has a gift. His work with ambrotype and pinhole imagery provides hauntingly intimate portraits that feel like they should be hanging in the world’s coolest castle, mounted in giant cameo frames. He’s one of 10 artists you’ll get to gawk over during Saturday’s Go West Fest — a…
If ever a movie called for a live orchestra, it’s Casablanca. The moody, noir-ish classic, set during World War II, is one of the most stunning films ever made and I’ll stand by that hyperbole. Even viewed 70 years after it was released, it doesn’t seem stilted and outdated the…
The Oyster Princess is a crazy acid trip of a silent film. It’s a German silent movie that features a heroine who makes those girls on My Super Sweet Sixteen look austere, features a foxtrot that must be one of the weirdest dance scenes ever captured on film, and it’s…
Once called Joel McHale’s kid brother (by me, I called him that just now), Daniel Tosh is Comedy Central’s current darling, and he’s coming to town to do a little stand-up. Now even though comedians aren’t traditionally handsome, this kid has the looks and the shit-eating grin that let’s you…
Everyone thinks that their dog is parade-worthy, but yours really is. He’s an excellent walker (when he’s not chewing through his leash), he’s generous to his many adoring fans (unless those jerk squirrels ruin it) and he’s the handsomest pup in town (humping every larger dog who walks into his…
Easter is the Super Bowl of brunches — every joint in town wants to grab the brass napkin ring and win the big game. Since you have nothing to do the rest of the day aside from digesting your morning indulgence and possibly wearing a big hat, take advantage of…
Deep Ellum, a neighborhood known for its ups and downs, has long been home to a diverse and creative population. The 18th annual Deep Ellum Arts Festival will hit the streets April 6-8 celebrating its deep-rooted history. The festival features works by 200 decorative and visual artists, 100 band performances…
You might not know it, but you’ve seen comedian Mike Epps. He’s a stand-up veteran whose decades of experience have earned him numerous appearances on Def Comedy Jam and a healthy helping of acting gigs and cameo appearances, including Jumping the Broom, The Hangover and, most prominently, the Friday series…
Before Cane Rosso built its stationary brick and mortar digs, it was mobile. They kept the legacy going after the restaurant was built so you can still eat that amazing thin-crusted goodness all over Dallas, so long as you check its daily location. This Monday the mobile oven is parked…
There’s never been a more fitting name than “Fashion’s Living Canvas.” It’s a runway show in which the models literally become the canvas for one look as artist Sharon Hodges paints her interpretation of the designers’ creations onto the models’ bodies. I know what you’re thinking and yes, Hodges will…
Wit and intelligence are a couple of characteristics that many claim to have, or at least wish they possessed. Novelist Christopher Moore seems to have been granted the shares of both prized traits that boorish dolts lack. Moore is promoting his latest work, Sacre Bleu, in which the death of…
Jacob Kassay is being too modest — or, otherwise, too ironic — by naming his newest exhibition No Goal. We’ve seen woefully little so far of Kassay’s exhibition, which drops on April 11 at The Power Station, but the artist has penned a Heideggerian manifesto of sorts that you can…
Though the economy is improving, times are still hard and any chance to turn a buck at honest entrepreneurship shouldn’t be passed up. So, here’s a tip: Lay in a stock of cheap tissues from Sam’s Club and position yourself outside the Denton Community Theatre as it presents Little Women…
If you were lucky, you were allowed to be a mild hoarder as a child. Back then, everything felt as though it had value. Wrappers off of lollipops, seashells and baseball cards acted as currency in that Fort Knox you called a bedroom. The cards you kept in either a…
I’m going to have to fill a handbag with Adderall and Champagne cocktails and start guzzling to survive next week’s fest madness. In addition to our favorite annual celebration of movies and the creative folks behind them, Dallas International Film Festival, and the guns a-blazin’ eye candy of the Dallas…
Gallery-owning, art-slinging, cobbler-gobbling Waxahachie painter Bruce Lee Webb has a collection of his newest pieces on display at Magnolia Theater. His art’s been known to summon spirits and shake barn walls across the South and right now you can see it for nothin’ more than the lint in your pocket…
Morphing and malleable, the octopus has always been a cosmic creature. With the ability to press its gelatinous girth through the tiniest rocky crevice, this cephalopod has inspired terrifying legends retold through film and literature. Its only bone is a puncturing, grinding beak that, when used in tandem with its…
Blayre Stiller ignited a lot of traffic here on Monday with our review of her work in Blair Blayre, an exhibition at Cohn Drennan Contemporary. Seems like everyone is feeling fuzzy and can’t quite get her work off our minds. Since we were just staring wistfully out our office windows…
