It’s summer now. You’re pulling your hair out after all the spring cleaning and garage sales of the past few months. Now it’s time to let your imagination run wild and your idle hands get a little creative. The Supplies Me! art and craft supply sale is just what the…
All the summer birthday pool parties are starting to get dull. Your skin is on fire from having a sunburn on top of a sunburn. Your hair is crunchy from the chlorine. You don’t feel like going to the pool, much less celebrating another person’s day again. To top it…
Comic Greg Giraldo–you might know him as the dude with the stupid friendship-bracelet-looking forearm tattoo who was always on Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn–isn’t afraid to be politically incorrect (in other words, honest) in discussing the differences between men and women. One of his recent bits in the aftermath of…
We have a question for you, folks. Were you ever lucky enough to watch Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel? It was an 11-part series about–you guessed it–Earth, split up into multiple parts to give viewers a chance to see everything from mountains to oceans to jungles to deserts to…
Deep Ellum’s tunnels used to be the place to go to see breathtaking graffiti–not the hastily sprayed tags and four-letter words scrawled throughout the rest of downtown, but real spray-paint art. But maybe the new home of art graffiti is Oak Cliff. The crew to watch is Sour Grapes, a…
Man, Japan comes up with some quirky things. Did you know they invented a hair noodle protector? It’s this weird thing paper fan-like thing that wraps around the side of your face to keep your hair out of your noodles. Um, ever hear of a scrunchy? There’s also this Japanese…
Nothing like a good yeast to sugar ratio brought on by a few glasses of “Big Red” to coax out your inner imagination and break down the barrier between artist and non-artist. Join Creative Musings: Provocative Prints, an informal program designed for adult artists of all experience levels presented by…
On Contemporary Dance Fort Worth’s website, the dance company describes its work as “NOT the ballet,” and sums it all up with a slogan fit for a Nike commercial: “New music. No swans. No limits.” Clearly, if you’re to learn one thing from this message, it’s that contemporary dance is…
You rarely hear anyone complaining about having too many options. Thirty-one flavors of ice cream? Freaking awesome. Fifty-three snow cone varieties? Bring it on. This summer, the Norwood Flynn Gallery presents its own spin on variety with Gallery Artists: Summer Show 2010. Each week, the gallery will choose a new…
With a dramatic, added-time goal in their final first round game, the USA has qualified for the knockout stages of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The team’s next match, versus Ghana, kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Please see our World Cup Soccer Bars Directory for great…
There’s always been a debate about the merits of art school. Sure, you get the basics of technique in school, but can you actually teach talent? There’s plenty of cookie cutter student art out there–like the “political” collages of talking heads and mushroom clouds or the “modern” take on abstract…
San Antonio photographer Michael Nye’s stark black-and-white prints put a face on society’s most marginalized members–teen parents and the mentally ill in past exhibits, and those who don’t know where their next meal will come from in his latest. Even better, he also captures their stories in audio recordings to…
Remember when you were younger and you took your sisters’ Barbie dolls only to return them in compromising positions? Well if you cleaned that up a little bit, inserted vintage ’60s backdrops behind them and then took a picture, then you’ve pretty much created the works in Davis Parise’s Vintage…
Opening with a close-up of the crow’s feet around its subject’s eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip, the documentary-portrait Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work celebrates Saint Joan the Resilient, Showbiz Survivor. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg dogged the indomitable stand-up comic throughout the course of her…
Fifteen years after ushering in a new era of CGI animation, and 11 years after a colossally successful pre-millennial sequel, the Toy Story franchise returns to a changed world. Its irresistible conceit and snappy good humor remain largely intact, though now it also hauls a saltier and more anxious sensibility…
An exhibit like the new Geometric Interpretations: Works Using Paper at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art (3109 Carlisle St.) makes me wonder how many of these artists got their start making cootie catchers, paper sailor’s hats and Origami swans. Curated by Ruth Anderson, the exhibit features inspired (mostly)…
Painter Deya Harris can’t seem to decide what to specialize in, which makes her work all the more interesting. One painting might be a surreal spacescape on canvas, followed by a portrait painted on a smooth rock, followed by abstract swirls painted on a cross. Influenced by Diego Rivera, Pablo…
Around the world they called it The Incredible Trip in a Crazy Airplane and Tighten Your Seat Belts…The Pilot Is Gone!, but here in America we needed just one word and one big punctuation mark to name the greatest disaster comedy of all time. Airplane! turns 30 this year, and…
Some things you might not know about Whoopi Goldberg: She has been married (and divorced) three times; she has won almost every notable award one can win in entertainment (save an MTV Video Music Award or a CMA); she doesn’t seem to despise The View like everyone else in America;…
Before White America appropriated “bling bling,” “fo’ shizzle” and, yes, even “Superman that ho,” from Black America and placed those terms into its own lexicon, it did so with Blackstreet’s Dr. Dre-supported “No Diggity”–and not just with the title of the track, but also with the term from which it…
All the TV lovers out there know that the weekend (at least until Sunday night) is a television wasteland, full of reality dross and reruns. But once upon a time, there was a reason to watch on Friday nights–a little block of shows called TGIF. Childhood memories are firmly anchored…
In the beginning, the idea of Sarah Geronimo evoked in me the jaded cynic full of snark, but the tween in me (whose first concert was The Jets and who currently follows @DeborahGibson on Twitter) brought the smack down and rallied behind The Popstar Princess (her official title, FYI). Sure,…
