It’s that time again, revelers: The 29th annual North Texas Irish Festival runs Friday through Sunday at Fair Park. With St. Paddy’s Day coming up, what better way is there to break the seal than coming down to listen to some top-tier Celtic music? The event will feature dancing, traditional…
Whether you’re a runner, a walker or someone looking for some morning festivities, head over to the Bishop Arts District Saturday for the Dash for the Beads, the kick-off event for Mardi Gras Oak Cliff. On the schedule of activities are a 5K run, a 1-mile walk and a family-…
Natalie Portman may have pretty well convinced you with her Black Swan performance that ballet really does boil down to cracked toes, tortured bodies and psychotic ballerinas. And maybe it does–depends on the plot of the ballet, we suppose–but dance is also an art form that is at once athletic,…
Human bodies are so hip these days. Some people like to look at dead ones on display, once they’ve been preserved and posed with tennis gear. At fancy parties, people serve sushi on naked women’s bodies because A) it looks cool, and B) it encourages people to eat more sushi…
This Mardi Gras, why not stock up on beads and let the good times roll with a new burlesque twist? Just in time to celebrate one more guilty pleasure before Lent, Viva Dallas Burlesque will bring the Big Easy to Dallas March 4 at the Lakewood Theatre. 1825 Abrams Road…
As a general rule, we tend to avoid movies made by foreigners, set in circuses and described as “surreal.” Toss in a dwarf, a mime, a bunch of sequins and some blood and you have the perfect storm of weirdness that makes our brain, softened by years of straightforward narrative…
As far as we know, New York City writer/performer Faye Lane is not the long lost daughter of Truvy Jones, the sassy beauty shop operator played by Dolly Parton in the film Steel Magnolias. However, her Texas-flavored cabaret show, Beauty Shop Stories, is cut from the same cloth, telling the…
As an increasing number of middle-age couples struggle to keep their marriages afloat while juggling raising their kids with helping (or housing) aging or ailing parents, films about Sandwich Generation families hardly fall under the umbrella of escapist fantasy for many American families today. With his feature-length film debut, Every…
If you’ve been paying any attention at all (and it’s OK to admit you haven’t), you’ve likely heard about how the end is nigh, since we can’t seem to recycle, conserve or generally be bothered to really care about our environment. We may or may not save the world but…
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time,” Elie Wiesel wrote in his acclaimed account of the Holocaust. Wiesel survived multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis during World War II. The death camp is the…
There is power in thread. Binding yet precarious, it weaves physical representations of abstract ideas to create multidimensional art. The actual thread in Tina Medina’s Anima Sola is embroidery floss. The idea that it conveys is the title’s translation (“Lonely Soul”) via an exploration in thread, watercolors and other media…
Stretching the limits of the two-dimensional space, Conduit Gallery will host three new exhibitions, which will defy the audience’s understanding of static structure. In his latest collection, New Work, Robert Jessup sets out to reconfigure the known world by blurring the lines of structure and space. Matt Clark’s Manufactured Beauty…
Fairy tales are usually pretty predictable. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. Sure, there might be a wicked witch or ancient curse in there, but the premise is generally the same. You don’t exactly go in expecting an M. Night Shyamalan ending. But in the Dallas Children’s…
Drawing upon both the rich cultural traditions of Africa and the artistic philosophy and themes of the Harlem Renaissance, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary’s Nobody Knows My Name: The African American Experience in American Culture is an examination the black experience. The exhibits focus on the challenges African Americans have faced…
From the lobes of seeds in a pomegranate to the feathering in a stretched cloud, one North Texas artist aims to transform patterns of daily life into iconic altarpieces. Pamela Burnley-Schol based her newest art show, Earth and Ether, on the idea that those metaphorical icons contain something so indescribable,…
Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) have achieved somnolent routine in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yet the wives worry. Rick is a girl watcher; Fred masturbates in the privacy of their parked Honda Odyssey…
They’re up to new tricks at Matthew Posey’s Ochre House theater, that odd little hotbox of freakishly entertaining original work written, directed by and starring Mr. Posey. His latest is Memphos!, a 90-minute look at the last performance of the last-worst act in old-timey vaudeville. Posey plays the title character,…
Leanly scripted, directed for maximum tension, fast moving, and filled with a surprising amount of droll humor, writer-director Will Canon’s Brotherhood (co-written with Doug Simon) illustrates the catastrophic consequences of boys being boys when group-think, machismo and the survival instinct all converge. When an ostensibly fail-safe fraternity initiation (robbing a…
Comic Book Literacy, North Texas filmmaker Todd Kent’s feature-length, award-winning (read: festival-approved) indie documentary, operates under the premise that comic books tend to be thought of as some kind of “ghetto medium,” or inferior “junk food for the brain.” Seeking to shatter negative stereotypes, the film instead paints comic books…
I consider myself somewhat of a comedy nerd, following comics’ careers and listening to comedy podcasts. I also listen to NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! occasionally, but I still wasn’t sure if Paula Poundstone, the comic who is a frequent panelist on the show, was funny–so I decided to find…
With newspapers across the country self-destructing like gadgets in a bad spy movie, it’s surprising–no, shocking–that the Chicago Tribune has managed to keep around a guy who earns his pay critiquing architecture. That’s how Blair Kamin rolls, God love him, and he’s good enough to have earned a Pulitzer Prize…
Be sure to bring plenty of sugar water for the 1997 classic, Men In Black, showing this weekend at the Inwood Theatre. For those who haven’t seen it a million times on cable, the film starts Tommy Lee Jones as veteran M.I.B. Agent K, and Will Smith as hotshot cop…
