Do This! Usher in the Year of the Monkey in the Arts District with the Crow Collection’s Chinese New Year Celebration. From 11 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. on what promises to be a beautiful Saturday, there will be performances traditional Chinese New Year art making activities, calligraphy demonstrations, face painting,…
Stop working. Stop talking. Stop everything. Stand up. Stretch. This is our time, Dallas. And by “our time,” we mean Bravo announced the Real Housewives of Dallas cast, so buckle up, bitches, because RHOD wasn’t just some weird nightmare you had. It’s actually happening. Really, really happening. Are you scared?…
Somewhere in our apartments, we’ve all got one — a box filled with written mementos, whether they’re old diaries, letters from sleep-away camp or lyrics for that career as an acoustic singer-songwriter that never took off. But the difference between most of us and the cast of Mortified, a confessional…
Grown-ups may wince, but Paul Dalio’s earnest, ambitious manic-poet romance Touched With Fire is a gift to the young and passionately creative, to the brains-a-poppin’ kids caught up in invention and each other and the invention of each other. You don’t have to be bipolar to get caught up yourself…
A guy I grew up with had the superpower to make anything dirty. No matter what you’d say to him, he’d manage to make it about his dick, or about anal sex, or about how girls — so he had heard — smelled like fish. I asked him what he…
“I’ve turned into this kind of crazy optimist,” Michael Moore admits in his new documentary Where to Invade Next, his first film in six years. At 61, the gadfly savant has mellowed. Instead of charging into rooms, he shuffles, the American flag wrapped around his shoulders like a grandmother’s shawl…
Dallas artist Jeff Zilm is engaged in a quest to determine the role art can play in a world riddled with images: what meaning can it possibly have to offer a world over-saturated with visual stimuli? Specifically, Zilm has his eye on the technology of film and how the medium…
Joachim West Mother Earth Is a Dirty Whore – In Color and Uncensored Artist Joachim West weaves a tangled web of humanity’s darkest obsessions. His paintings and drawings portray the grotesque underbelly of society, turning metaphor into reality. His work will fuck your mind up and leave you wrestling with…
The new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in The Cedars is, in a word, awesome. The second Alamo in Dallas-Fort Worth is located on South Lamar and the view of the city skyline from the front doors is absolutely majestic. In the lobby, there is an enormous film poster of Robocop, which…
Roger Peters and Jessica Cramer are married homeowners who just might be superhuman. In addition to their day jobs — Peters is a director and owner of Equilateral Films, Cramer is a freelance producer and one of the most calm and organized people you’ll ever meet — they also remodeled…
Arts writer Katy Lemieux falls in love all over again with the actor playing Paris in Romeo & Juliet at Dallas Theater Center. Sure, he’s her husband and all, but based on his performance in this show she’d marry him twice. Wedding planning is super hard. Like, really hard. Sometimes…
You may recognize him as Captain Danny Ross from Law & Order: Criminal Intent or from his appearances in films directed by Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Atom Egoyan. But Eric Bogosian is also a playwright, novelist, and historian. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Talk Radio, a…
There’s plenty to love about this upcoming week in Dallas — even as you scramble either to pull together a romantic outing with your Valentine or totally avoid the inevitable crush of lovebirds invading all your usual haunts. From advocating for an art deco treasure near and dear to our…
When Jared Guynes of Rockwall launched his “Epic Party” in 2014, he hired a bunch of acts, attractions and activities that looked like the kind of birthday party that Veruca Salt would demand her daddy throw for her if she didn’t fall into the furnace of Willa Wonka’s egg sorting…
On November 11, 1991, the late King of Pop Michael Jackson released the instant-hit song “Black or White.” It is one the most notable and important songs in his oeuvre because it addresses issues we will be fighting until the world implodes and cats take over: racial and gender issues…
Former G.I. Joe and WWF champion Sgt. Slaughter was in Dallas this weekend to promote Wrestlemania Fan Axxess (tickets on sale now) and was kind enough to answer a few questions about his career, Wrestlemania 32, and if he ever had a sip of snake liquor. Sgt. Slaughter is one…
An orchestral program of Mozart’s darkest piano concerto and Shostakovich’s most complex symphony would challenge a conductor under any circumstances. Thursday night at Myerson Symphony Center, the Dallas Symphony’s assistant conductor Karina Canellakis stepped in for music director Jaap van Zweden (who was called away on a family emergency) with…
Another NFL season is about to come to an end and if you’re a Dallas Cowboys fan, it’s probably not a good time for you. Not only did Jerry Jones’ storied franchise come to a dismal end with a 4-12 record but it also saw a list of season ending…
I didn’t witness the hermit crabs demise, just heard the gruesome rumors. Apparently one of the arrow crabs had been seen snacking on a an eyeball and not long afterwards, that soft-bodied little guy went missing. Pitted against each other by artist Pierre Huyghe, these cute crustaceans aren’t normally arch…
The biggest story at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the record-breaking bidding war for The Birth of a Nation, a prestige biopic about rebellious slave Nat Turner. When Fox Searchlight snatched it for $17.5 million — $5 million more than any other flick in the festival’s history — their…
Do This! Nothing says Catholicism, like a bigass parade filled with plenty of costumed people riding on floats tossing multi-colored beads. The Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade is this weekend, and since it seems to grow every year it’s fair to say, this year will be bigger and better than…
It’s the classic story of mean divorce attorney meets her estranged love-addicted sister and they figure out life together. Or something. Listen, we don’t know. All we know is Meaghan Oppenheimer, who wrote “We Are Your Friends,” (You know “We Are Your Friends” because it starred Zac Efron and was…
