Forrest Solis takes a meditative look at maturation in her new solo exhibition at Galleri Urbane. The figure painter mashes up early 20th century etiquette books with contemporary oil paintings of young women and pairs them together on canvas in her new Self and Sex Series: What A Young Woman…
Yes. Friday Night Lights’ executive producer Peter Berg sat down with MTV and said that he’s “not done with Friday Night Lights.” This comes as incredible news, because even after five seasons of television, which were based off a movie, which was based off a book, we’re not done either…
Sometimes a play is worth seeing for the words the actors are saying. Sometimes it’s for the actors saying the words. See Collapse, a new play by Allison Moore at Kitchen Dog Theater, for the red hot performance by actor Michael Federico, the closest Dallas theater has to a Paul…
Welcome to DOGTV, a “scientifically developed” channel created by humans for dogs. Focusing on three central themes: Relaxation, Stimulation and Exposure, the digital channel is designed to act as Fido’s ultimate babysitter so that you, the self-centered human, can go about your daily life while your retriever’s brain atrophies to…
While I had a great time at Medieval Times celebrating my 13th birthday more than 20 years ago, and again celebrating my son’s 10th last weekend, I now understand why my parents took me there exactly once as a child. There was a specific moment that drove home the realization…
“All the zombies are our tonight,” shouted the guardian of Smokin’ Joe’s hot dog cart to a passing patrol cop. “OOOOOOOh, it’s going to be wiiiiild!” he thundered, fist in the air. The cop rolled down his window, assessed the spectacle occurring in front of The Church and looked severely…
So, the narrator of Rupert Holmes’ 1979 hit, “Escape (the Piña Colada Song),” finally heads over to O’Malleys to meet up with the mystery chick he’s been groovin’ on from a personal ad. But, wouldn’t you know it – when she arrives, it’s his own “lady,” of whom he’d “grown…
Fresh off a week of recent Dallas escapades, Shepard Fairey has been cast in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons called “Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart.” Now in its 23rd season (Wha-hoo!) the city of Springfield is faced with a new scourge: Bart Simpson turned rebellious street artist. His muse? Homer,…
Tonight select Dallas theaters will participate in the one night exclusive showing of Re:Generation, a pumped up intellectual look at how today’s top DJs deconstruct music into polyphonic fractions, permute and then reassemble them so your eardrums never grow stale. It’s this quest for new sounds that leads each DJ…
A few good men were involved in the invention of television. That’s the subject of the play The Farnsworth Invention, written by Oscar and Emmy winner Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, The Social Network, Moneyball) and opening tonight at 7:30 p.m. in previews at Theatre Three, where it will run through…
Our friends over at You Plus Dallas put together this comprehensive time-lapse footage of Shepard Fairey creating his murals in the Big D. Take a short break and enjoy the proceess as it played out from the street. Follow the Mixmaster on Twitter and Facebook…
You did it! You managed to keep your head low and your gaze straight as you soldiered through another work week, and for that you should be rewarded. Here’s a little congratulations prize for your efforts (spoiler alert: it’s a list of fun stuff to do around town). Click each…
A couple weeks ago, I’d expressed some anxiety about attending JourneyDance with Katie Toohil at SYNC Yoga and Wellbeing in Oak Cliff. Dancing, huh? My own my mom has likened my moves to Elaine from Seinfeld; but, they might be described more accurately as Woody Allen: the Broadway Musical. Further…
Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the downward spiral of LAPD cop Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson). A Vietnam vet whose personal code allows for extreme bad behavior in the name of a hazily defined greater good, Brown…
Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective is Lauren (Reese Witherspoon), a product tester who decides to apply comparative shopping techniques to dating. Her would-be beaus, FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy), are best friends…
A lot of drinking and heavy thinking can happen on a hot day on a veranda. Two good shows running on Dallas stages right now — The Night of the Iguana at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas and Pluck the Day at Second Thought Theatre — take place on big porches,…
They’re after your brains. If you had enough weapons and materials to form some sort of go-to kit, something that had anything and everything you’d need to ward off a zombie attack, you’d be set. But you don’t. You have to solve clues and perform crazy tasks to earn your…
In his famous short film Rejected, Don Hertzfeldt depicts himself as a down-on-his luck illustrator who acts out his spiraling madness through squiggly cartoon stickmen. Each segment grows progressively more insane until characters are bludgeoning one another for their inappropriate selection of head wear. God we love this man. He’s…
How far has the gentleman’s sport of pugilism fallen? Sure, there’s ultimate fighting on cable and there might be humble backyard brawls out there, complete with lawn chairs to the spine, but whatever happened to punching dudes in the head with class and dignity? Well, ESPN’s Friday Night Fight offers…
Are you running out of ways to propose to your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day? Well the race is on for you to submit your love story. For the first time, the annual Cupid Dash 10k/5k/fun run wants to help one lucky couple get hitched. Entrants who shared their lovey-dovey stories…
The title Kinda Blue for a comedy night suggests a lineup full of crass, foul-mouthed comics trying to one-up and out-raunch one another. True, the all-local bill will present material that is certainly for adult ears only, but that doesn’t mean the stand-ups have to resort to four-letter words to…
While it has become beyond comical to see everything from mayonnaise to nail polish marketed as “extreme,” there are some realms in which the youth-magnet buzz word is still appropriate, even a bit understated. Motocross is certainly one of those worlds where to be simply extreme is almost to be…
