This past February Disney+ added The Muppet Show to its streaming platform. Flipping through a few of the episodes — watching musical guests from John Denver to Alice Cooper — is wildly nostalgic. Those who grew up watching the felted sketch show in the late ’70s are the same ones…
This week’s 93rd Academy Award nominations set a fair number of milestones. Steven Yeun became the first Asian-American actor ever nominated for Best Actor with his work in Minari; with Nomadland, Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color ever nominated for Best Director; Riz Ahmed became the first Muslim actor ever…
A woman with long, black braids stands near an arched window in one image. On another wall, an angel observes a chess player pondering his next move. The colorful scenes are part of Once Upon a Time, a collection of paintings based on folk tales by artist Justin Simmons. A…
Getting your name into the Guinness Book of World Records takes patience, dedication and practice. It also doesn’t hurt if you know some of the science behind what it takes to get there. The Science of Guinness World Records, an exhibition that opened in early March at the Perot Museum of…
If we’re going to be stuck in Zoom meetings for much longer, we may as well get creative. With his new interactive art installation ANTIBODIES, artist Daniel Iregui uses motion-sensing technology and artificial intelligence to encourage beholders to reflect on the monotony of Zoom calls during the COVID-19 pandemic. ANTIBODIES,…
Think of a night out when you’re not offered a show, but an experience — a place with earth-rumbling beats where audience members are encouraged to express themselves through music, spoken word and dance as the lines between performer and audience blur. Before the end of the night, not even…
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a pioneer of modern politics. The junior senator of the Lone Star State defied the odds to become the most unpopular member of the U.S. Senate, a body of people whose collective approval rating falls below approval ratings for hemorrhoids, traffic jams, root canals and…
Even in the midst of a global crisis, Hollywood isn’t about to stop congratulating itself. After a year in which most movie theaters were closed, the Academy Awards extended and expanded their eligibility requirements for films in contention, pushing back their ceremony to April. As a result, movies released in…
Dallas contemporary art gallery SITE131 is showing a new solo exhibition through March 27, and its brightly colored works initially evoke a child’s imagination. This is partially because they are inspired by artist Jeremiah Onifadé’s memories as a 13-year-old living in Nigeria. But the paintings are not simply a remembrance…
Leafy stems ascend across a banner in Deep Ellum while the roots below seem to search freely. The artwork, created by Shamsy, a local artist drawn to the outdoors and natural world, is one of six banners designed for the Deep Roots project celebrating both Black History Month and Women’s…
Women are rockstars in business, and that’s just a fact. There are countless women-owned and women-run businesses in Dallas, but here are 55 to get you started. In honor of Women’s History Month, support one of these local shops, restaurants and services run by a bevy of badass bosses. Bars and…
Gov. Abbott’s recent decision to reopen the state without a mask mandate probably makes you want to stay inside for the foreseeable future, and we don’t blame you. However, if you find yourself feeling a little stir-crazy, claustrophobic, or some combination thereof, it may be time to escape to a…
The corporate owners of the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater chain may be in a bit of financial trouble, but the Dallas-Fort Worth chain won’t be affected because they are two separate business entities, according to its owners. “Alamo is just like a Chili’s or a Jason’s Deli, and the reason…
Six Flags has never been a stranger to controversy. Arlington’s Six Flags Over Texas, the chain’s first park, came under fire in 2017 following the death of a Charlottesville, Virginia, protester by a white nationalist. The amusement park was widely criticized for continuing to fly a Confederate flag on park…
On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that the threat of COVID was over. Well, not exactly, but Texans are officially free to put the pandemic out of sight and out of mind In an afternoon news conference from Lubbock, Abbott said he is lifting a statewide mask mandate and allowing…
It was a worthy and fitting musical ode to a woman who fought for years to get a six-story mountain of shingles removed from her backyard. The gesture was the work of a trucking company owner with a propensity for opera. Crows cackled from the trees while Marsha Jackson and…
Comedian Erik Myers, a Florida native, died on Tuesday in a car accident in Amarillo while he was traveling to Dallas to perform at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub. Myers could do something very few comics are capable of doing: He could make audiences and comedians laugh. “You kind of get jaded…
Exactly a year ago, theater director Kara-Lynn Vaeni was helping Dallas build and maintain a flourishing theater scene packed with stellar and wide-ranging productions. Dallas and Fort Worth theaters were showing us some of their best work during the 2019-2020 season before the promising future for local theater was struck down, like…
Even while soldiering through power outages and pandemics, many locals are still readying for part two of Scarborough Renaissance Festival’s 40th anniversary, which begins April 10. Like most shows, last year’s celebration ended before it began. However, tickets for this year’s festival are now up for grabs, offering an anniversary…
The Texas Big Freeze of 2021 made history with some of the coldest consecutive days the state has ever experienced. In addition to massive power outages and deaths resulting from below-freezing temperatures, the snowstorm also came close to erasing an important piece of local history. Most people visit Dallas’ Fair Park…
News from the pandemic front is getting brighter lately. The average number of new infections of COVID-19 has fallen below 100,000 in the U.S. for the first time since November, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths is decreasing sharply, too. In fits and starts, the national vaccine…
The past week in Dallas has been referred to as Snow-vid, Dallaska, “The coldest week of my life,” or, in the case at least of one Texas senator, “vacation-time.” Artists were out and about in the Texas-sized winter wonderland trying to find ways to forget that most of their friends…
