For the past decade the Fox network has let millions of viewers witness folks dance their hearts out on So You Think You Can Dance. (Assuming the audience can balance it against Nigel Lythgoe’s sarcastic antics and Mary Murphy’s supersonic screams.) Expressing a mixture of jazz, hip-hop, tap, contemporary, ballroom…
Every time the lease runs out, you dream of finding a real community to call home, rather than just a roof overhead. You know, like Melrose Place, but minus the catfights and STD scares. It’d be awesome to walk out your front door and feel the love from your neighbors,…
Our recent Best of Dallas issue gave Best Beer Festival honors to Big Texas Beer Fest, a massive and well-run celebration of suds in Fair Park, and Best Festival to Untapped, which combined a great indie-music lineup with excellent beer curation. So what happens when the people behind BTBF and…
Attention Free Peoples of Middle-earth: An epic auditory journey will occur Sunday at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Appointed to task by Dallas Summer Musicals, the Dallas POPS will courageously bear the burden of The Precious and present Howard Shore’s score of The Fellowship of the Ring (aka: the…
On Sunday, new Dallas Symphony Orchestra pops conductor Jeff Tyzik brings the sounds of Harlem to downtown Dallas for an afternoon of suspender-snapping, skirt-swinging entertainment. Classic blues, jazz and swing standards by Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Louis Armstrong and others round out the program for the orchestra’s “Night…
In 1960s Detroit, Motown Records unleashed the Funk Brothers — a clutch of session players that turned the backbeat up on hundreds of hits, thanks largely to legendary finger-hooked bassist James Jamerson. Meanwhile in Memphis, Stax had its own wrecking crew: Booker T. & the MGs stirred up the rowdier…
Brought to us by the Lone Star Film Society, the Lone Star Film Festival is a prime example of what makes Fort Worth such a culture-rich city. They gather big name films (and Oscar contenders) that have shined on the international festival circuit and bring them home so that we…
This generation may not have a Walter Cronkite, a universally respected and trusted news anchor, but as far as modern talking heads go there may not be anyone more beloved than Anderson Cooper. The Peabody-winning CNN anchor appears at UT Arlington’s College Park Center, 601 Spaniola Drive, Arlington, at 7:30…
Two of Dallas’ freakiest art minds have finally gotten together. Wednesday at Steve Paul Productions, a music studio and gallery hybrid at 2814 Main St., Clay Stinnett and Kevin Parmer play with scale in Possessed2. There you’ll get an assortment of Parmer’s psychedelically summoned collages, cut and ribbon-stripped in his…
While we, print’s lowly writers, hope that our words will be read, we understand great photography renders us nearly obsolete. Kettle Art celebrates those who capture life’s images at their most pivotal during Shot in Dallas, a group show featuring work by nine different media photographers. Naturally, there’s a twist…
Bull Game (winner loses action figure) is the newest play with a grammatically challenging title from the Dead White Zombies, Dallas’ most bizarre theatre troupe. The Zombies’ latest project is structured as a fight for success and survival, and the audience interacts as fans of the different competitors. Starring reigning…
In the coming weeks, there’ll be JFK media rehashes out the yin-yang, conspiracy theories resurfacing like rubber ducks in a tub. But El Centro College takes a different approach with the fashion exhibition Jackie and Main Street, focusing not on the darkness of that November in 1963, but instead on…
Weight-loss and weight-gain performances are tricky things. Robert De Niro’s heavily mannered turn in Raging Bull just has to be great — he gained 60 pounds for it, didn’t he? For his role in The Machinist, Christian Bale dropped to a sub-skeletal 122 pounds; he looked like a walking, talking…
One of the key annual fundraisers for the organization is the Art for Advocacy auction, which supports the art therapy programs and other services offered to child abuse victims. Silent auctions can be competitive arenas, so we’ve scoped out 10 artists you might want to bid on.
Photo by Jay Maidment – © 2012 MVLFFLLC. TM &2012 Marvel. All Rights Reserved. Thor: The Dark World just doesn’t compare to the 2011 original, in spite of its few redeeming qualities. That’s the consensus among this paper’s film critics on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, available now. Listen…
(The award for best sax solo goes to this guy at the one minute mark. Schuller conducts.) He’s played with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. Edited and posthumously released Charles Mingus’ final work Epitaph. He’s won the freaking Pulitzer Prize for Of Reminiscences and Reflections, is a celebrated author and…
Before Wes Anderson became the director of quirky, mannered films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and last year’s Moonrise Kingdom, he was a University of Texas graduate sharing an apartment with brothers Luke and Owen Wilson. Before Matt Zoller Seitz became TV critic for New York magazine and Vulture.com, plus…
The Dallas Contemporary turns officially old this weekend. It celebrates with Alive for 35, an immersive event that invites you into the space — and beyond its walls — for a 35-hour party. They’ve promised to keep the doors unlocked and the lights up from 1 p.m. on Friday until…
Not since Kristin shot JR have there been such twists and turns like those in the soon-to-be released Dallas Noir — a crime anthology featuring the fictional escapades of detective Betty, Texas Ranger Jeremiah Spur and more set in Dallas and certain seedy suburbs. David Hale Smith is a literary…
Comedian Simon Amstell, sounding a little in awe, summed up the pending live Radiolab show thusly: “You came out here to watch two men sit behind a desk and talk about science.” He was right. The mostly-full Verizon-Theater-worth of people drove out to Grand Prairie on a Monday night to…
UPDATE, 2:40 p.m.: Dan Leal, the center’s executive director, emailed us this statement this afternoon: “The Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County appreciated the generous offer made by the Tattooed Hippie Pirate Mommas organization; however, the money was raised with a pin up calendar that could be perceived by some…
“Do you really cut into someone’s arm during the show?” Dallas-based playwright and performer Brad McEntire hears this question after almost every performance of his kinky solo show Chop. “An uncomfortable number of times, actually,” he says. Since premiering at WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival in 2010,…
