The 6th Annual Fresh Faces of Fashion is here. It’s not a model-y model show. It’s a do-gooder-y show that uses real live do-gooders to show off the latest fashions. And with Stanley Korshak as a sponsor, we’re not talking JNCOs here, people. It all benefits the North Texas Suicide…
Turns out that whole green thing wasn’t a fad after all. Thanks a lot, people from the Northeast. Well, at least we got one good thing out of it — adrenaline rushes when we litter. Just kidding. We have eco-friendly fashion, of course, and there’s no better place to check…
Dallas supports the arts consistently, lovingly and vibrantly. The amount of organizations that exist solely to enhance our community’s ongoing education in the poetic visual and auditory nature of the universe can rival just about any other in the country. Proof of this can be seen today when Business Council…
Ever since your fur child squirmed into your heart and home you’ve been smitten. But love doesn’t allow you to quit your job or negate your daily responsibilities, so when the weekend arrives you seek out activities that let you bring your pup with you for quality time. This Saturday…
Being an athlete is overrated. The only things you really need to feel powerful are a pocketful of quarters and access to your favorite pinball machine. Twister, you had me at multiball. Black Knight 2000, you manage to taunt while serenading with your medieval metal background anthem: “You’ve got the…
When a recreational runner tackles a 5K “fun run,” it’s the overly cheery providers of false encouragement wielding cups of water that the runners end up wanting to physically tackle. If runners didn’t need the water, those fake-happy hand-clappers would get leveled. If they want everyone to do so great…
Get ready to be blown away this weekend at the Festival of Balloons in Dallas, an international World Balloon Convention featuring larger-than-life masterpieces by the world’s best balloon artists. This family event is inflating into a mega balloon extravaganza with nearly a half million balloons expected to be used, 150,000…
How holy are your Peeps? Peeps … you know, the painfully pastel yet supposedly delicious goops of goo that the Easter Bunny likes to leave on your doorstep. Have this and all of your other seasonal puzzlements and holiday wonders answered with this year’s presentation of Sister’s Easter Catechism: Will…
There are no Sharks and no Jets dancing about onstage, but there are plenty of dreams about life in America going on In the Heights, the Tony and Grammy winning musical that takes you on a three-day journey into New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, a Latino community that’s on the…
Move over Big Apple. Big D is hot to trot, ready to trend and putting its best fashion foot forward. It’s time for the sizzling south lands of Texas to teach you a thing or two about what’s hot and not in the world of fine design when SMU hosts…
While The Office or the film Office Space provide laughs through the everyday happenings inside of generically stale workplaces, they’re far more entertaining than the real thing most of us cubicle warriors encounter between clocking in and out. Dallas-based playwright and filmmaker Eric Steele, however, knows that life for the…
When Magnolia Gallery owner Scott Horn told us Bruce Lee Webb’s new exhibition would be a “barn-burner,” we immediately imagined Southern Gothic of Faulknerian proportions. And, though he has traveled the world garnering a “flea market education,” this Texan artist’s homegrown cultural archeology never disappoints. Primarily based in Waxahachie, where…
Tweet up your friends because tomorrow night, March 22, the artistic stars align: It’s the painterly equivalent to buying a McRib and Shamrock Shake on THE SAME DAY. Three of our favorite venues are hosting parties by several great artists, each representing a contemporary or outsider lean. The MAC’s bash…
Oh dear lord. There were just too many cranked-out uppers and psychedelics circulating in 1976 for anyone to make good decisions. This film, an X-rated (though by modern standards, an ‘R’) musical-comedy adaptation of Alice in Wonderland was produced by Bill Osco (Mona in 1970 and Flesh Gordon in 1974)…
Starting now, I’ll be rounding up some of the North Texas-centric moments on the tube from week to week. Since it’s still alive, by the grace of Jesus, I’ll start with GCB. GCB Premise: Several rich, big-haired women with dripping fake Southern accents navigate Dallas’ drama-filled religious society sect (if…
Marvelous Krys Boyd didn’t have much to do last night, sitting in a comfy chair across from Sarah Vowell, under the massive gold cross in the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. Vowell, who appeared as part of Arts & Letters Live, gained popularity on public radio’s This American Life, and…
Those excavators of fallen frocks over at the Vintagemobile have rotary-dialed the Angelika Theater and planned a date. Beginning this Sunday you can plummet into the soulless sinkhole of Don Draper’s eyes enhanced by a hundred when the Angelika presents Mad Men Season 5 on the big screen. There will…
A day of art, music and food called Go West Fest is a new event set for Saturday, April 7. Theater company Upstart Productions is steering the bash, which will happen in a converted warehouse space at 425 Bedford Street, just south of Singleton Boulevard in the La Bajada neighborhood…
Those who were in the audience that night in October 2005 remember it well. The national tour of Wicked had hit the Music Hall at Fair Park for the first time and it was a sold-out opening. A huge Broadway smash (it’s still playing to capacity crowds in New York),…
The word is out: Cirque du Solieil returns to Dallas in June but this time it’s thrusting its collective pelvis to an all-Michael Jackson soundtrack. The Immortal Tour was created by Jamie King, a former Jackson tour dancer who’s passion for meticulous choreography was developed under Jackson’s tutelage. His goal…
I know what you’re thinking: “Penitentiary III? But Penitentiary II has Mr. T.” Oh, you weren’t thinking that? Well, that’s because you have a life and a soul and that little thing in your head that tells you when to stop watching terrible movies. On behalf of everyone else, Penitentiary…
Maxwell Anderson has stayed busy since taking the reigns as The Eugene McDermott Director of the DMA. Staff restructuring has become an almost daily procedure. Last week Oliver Mesley was bumped up from Senior Curator of European and American Art to Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, and former Chair of…
