If your resolutions include putting yourself out there on the market, there are two things to consider: Are you in season, and is your price reasonable? One way to determine your value as a commodity is to venture to DallasMeetMarket.com’s latest social exchange. Here singles and couples skip the club…
If comedic gender swapping and spot-on drag costuming got actors Oscar and Tony nods, the talented Uptown Players would have the award market cornered. The company is known for its gender-bending comedies and edge-teetering satires, and fortunately for all with a charitable and theatrically bent pocketbook, their fund-raisers don’t shy…
For the next month, the area gets a double serving of gallery artist Rusty Scruby’s fantastic three-dimensional constructions as solo exhibitions open at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary and Pan-American Art Projects. A former student of aerospace engineering and music composition, Scruby’s large-scale installations will be on display in both the…
For the next month, the area gets a double serving of gallery artist Rusty Scruby’s fantastic three-dimensional constructions as solo exhibitions open at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary and Pan-American Art Projects. A former student of aerospace engineering and music composition, Scruby’s large-scale installations will be on display in both the…
After the New Year’s Eve parties and the champagne and the countdown I always feel like I’m missing something. There’s something I never can put my finger on, something that got left out or behind. Then I bolt up from sweaty slumber and realize: I didn’t hear a polka or…
Do you need to know about wintertime crappie? Wait. Back up. Do you know what crappie is? Do you know how to cast? Is one side of your two-car garage occupied by either a bass boat or a gun safe and buckshot loader? Do you know how to handle live…
There is something frighteningly awesome about the mind of Martin McDonagh. The British playwright, known for his black humor and sometimes disturbing story lines (see the award-winning The Pillowman) recently graced the world with his first feature film, In Bruges, but now local audiences get to see McDonagh’s work the…
We thought that we’d left Sister Hazel and that song “All for You” way back in high school. Turns out we were wrong because the band’s still roaming the nation, putting out CDs and performing the songs from the 1997 album Somewhere More Familiar and all the albums they’ve put…
The beauty of anime is that once you learn to enjoy Japanese animation, the work is pretty much over. There don’t really seem to be genres to sort through, as anything can–and usually does–happen at any point. Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is no exception. It floats along without rules or…
Once Christmas is over, winter seems to lose color. When the reds and greens fade to grays and browns it’s nice to find an outlet for escape like The Pool, a vividly colorful and visually stunning little film about a young hotel employee in Panjim, Goa who becomes fascinated by…
Despite a solid 51-31 record last year, the Mavs barely made the playoffs, earning the seventh seed in the Western Conference. They proceeded to get their asses handed to them as the New Orleans Hornets won by double digits in three of the first four games on their way to…
In Dallas theater, 2008 was the year Jersey Boys jerked audiences to their feet at Fair Park, an all-drag Facts of Life became the must-see hit of the summer and William Ayers’ son, playwright Zayd Dohrn, premiered his 9/11 paranoia comedy, Sick, at Kitchen Dog Theater. It was the year…
No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why none of his books sold more than 12,000 copies in his lifetime and why it’s taken more than 40 years for one of them to reach the big…
You’ve made the first movie of the Obama generation!” exclaimed an audience member as he rushed up to Clint Eastwood after a recent screening of Gran Torino. “Well,” the 78-year-old actor-director replied, without missing a beat, “I was actually born under Hoover.” It was an ironic juxtaposition, given that Eastwood’s…
In my upcoming art appreciation course, I expect to learn a few things. As an art newbie, I’m more accepting of “traditional” art, and I can’t seem to wrap my mind around the idea of “digital art paintings.” When I think of paint, I imagine a viscous, pigmented medium like…
Once upon a time, there was a ridiculously spoiled little girl who used to make her father drive her to the Video Library in Arlington nearly every weekend so that she could rent a low-budget, live-action, half-hour version of her favorite fairy tale, The Emperor and the Nightingale. O, what…
The Public Trust has a great show on right now, which runs through January 17. For those not in the know, The Public Trust is a gallery that rose from the ashes of the celebrated Art Prostitute Gallery. Run by Brian Gibb, co-founder of Art Prostitute magazine, the gallery caters…
Somewhere between emo and metal, there’s Christmas rock. You know the stuff. It’s emotive, heartstring-pulling and when the guitars really start squealing during “Deck the Halls” it’s great to headbang to. Like Santa and Rudolph, this phenomenon comes just once a year, most famously in the persons of the Trans-Siberian…
As with many local art spaces in the past year, Barry Whistler Gallery has been on something of a roll. Having just hosted the stark work of Johnnie Winona Ross and the whimsical photographs of Allison V. Smith, the gallery has received a fair amount of press, resulting in some…
Trysts in Toledo, luckily, is not about sexual exploits in Northern Ohio. That particular subject matter would perhaps be best tackled by the Coen brothers in a sprawling film with bleak panoramas and pitch-black humor. And while this would probably be a given for Oscar contention, it maybe wouldn’t work…
Not to be crude or anything, but usually when someone talks about “New Year’s runs,” I can only assume they mean they ate too much brie at a party on New Year’s Eve. But apparently if you wake up on January 1 and by some miracle feel refreshed and ready…
Not to be crude or anything, but usually when someone talks about “New Year’s runs,” I can only assume they mean they ate too much brie at a party on New Year’s Eve. But apparently if you wake up on January 1 and by some miracle feel refreshed and ready…
