Arts & Culture

For anyone who’s seen Shrek, it’s impossible to think about the lovable green ogre as having any voice but Mike Myers’ over-the-top Scottish accent. Strangely enough, Chris Farley of SNL fame was the original choice to voice the character on the big screen. (Perhaps even more confusing is that Janeane…

Clicking through vacation photos on Facebook is a poor substitute for actually being there. A photo of a Hawaiian beach makes me feel less like the sun is warming my face as the tide rolls in and more like I need fewer braggart friends. But maybe the communication breakdown is…

Museums generally have many rules: no drinking, no smoking, no photography, no loud talking, no touching, no fun. It’s a lot like elementary school — not a place where anyone necessarily wants to go, but in the end you’re glad you did. If you can follow along with that stunning…

I’ve seen Billy Zinser’s work, and it’s totally fabbers. And yes, that’s totally a word. His art is abstract and overly textured like chunky streams of paint spilling forth on a canvas. I know what you’re thinking, and no, I didn’t go to art school, but that doesn’t stop me…

Greater minds have filled countless pages trying to articulate a definition of art, but all we know is that it seems to come from a source greater than pure education or formal training. This fall, the Pollock Gallery at SMU celebrates underappreciated American artists in its exhibition Self-taught Masters of…

Driving through Arkansas not long ago, I turned on the radio and scanned for local stations talking about anything but rightwing politics or Jesus. It was early on a Saturday morning and I stopped on a show called “The Trading Post.” In a drawl you could drizzle on a waffle,…

Alexander Dijulio’s Alfabeto is as grounded in reality as it floats in the surreal. The show addresses context, authenticity and art itself. Although the show is made up of a number of pieces, you could consider it, Dijulio’s first solo exhibition, a single installation. “The work is about finding harmony…

Halloween night at the Texas Theatre, I Heart Cinema threw up a 35mm screening of the 1988 Lance Henriksen gem Pumpkinhead. There was Pumpkin Ale, a “Pumpkinhead” cocktail — made with bits of real human heads (editor’s note: not true) — and a screening of Trick ‘R Treat. There were,…

I had never even been on a roller coaster until five years ago, when I jumped on Disney’s Splash Mountain after taking one look at all of those harried, middle-aged women weighted down with sippy cups and strollers, sitting on the “mom bench” of non-riders. I thought to myself then,…

Name: Megan Sears, 27 Occupation: Speech therapist Location: Sons of Hermann Hall Style breakdown: Free People sweater, Target tights, velvet dress, ALDO necklace, Irregular Choice shoes. Influences: “I’m influenced by how I feel, sometimes I feel like a tomboy… sometimes I feel like a speech therapist.”…

First of all, Happy Halloween. Secondly, let’s talk great costumes. It’s pretty well known around these here parts that the Oak Lawn Halloween Block party, which opens up Cedar Springs for the costumed roaming, is one of the great Halloween parties. Our contributing photographer Stephen Masker patrolled the area with…

Of all the horror films in our countdown, Ti West’s The House of the Devil (2009) is the most unpredictable and inspiring homage to the genre. The film is set in the 1980’s, and if you didn’t read anything else about the film before popping it in your Playstation–you’d think…