Combine the words “magician,” “audience participation” and “Las Vegas” in any sentence and you might expect the word “smarmy” to show up real soon. Luckily, that’s not the case with The Amazing Johnathan, comic and long-time Vegas headliner who explodes the conventions of Vegas cheese with comedy that’s abrasive, ridiculous…
For 26 years this festival has brought Dallas some of the most unexpected finds in contemporary video work and video art. You’ve got curator/organizer/big brain Bart Weiss to thank for that. He travels to conventions that you’ve never heard of to find the movies you need to see. This year’s…
Over the years, vampires have gone from the mystical creatures of Nosferatu to the high societal members of Interview With the Vampire to the dumbasses of Underworld. The voodoos, meanwhile, have evolved from a person sticking pins in a doll to a crazy person stabbing a pin-up doll with a…
Few artists have proved as influential (and poorly mimicked) as Robert Rauschenberg. He was kind of a rock star, an anti-conformist and a man with the ability to simply create masterpieces over and over and over again. You often look at his work — the “Glass Tires” sculptures, his trace-ink…
Modern-day radio stations may be more likely to play his son’s and grandson’s music, but for hardliners, there’s the original Hank Williams. For a man who didn’t live to see 30, Williams had a profound impact on country music that’s still felt today, more than 50 years after his death…
He created the Nasher’s gorgeous housing. (Yes, the one currently getting melanoma from Museum Tower’s death ray.) He designed the Kimbell’s sexy new wing. He’s even been called a “starchitect” — a side effect from winning the acclaimed Pritzker Prize. And for the Nasher’s 10-year anniversary, super stud structure designer…
October may be the traditional time to watch scary movies, but there aren’t many new scary things coming to a theater near you this month, unless you count Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Escape Plan. The Dallas Comedy House has a worthy-sounding alternative to pretending that you wet your pants…
“If you don’t want to see sex with a duck, leave about an hour and 10 minutes in,” says Bart Weiss, Dallas VideoFest’s organizer and programmer. We’re eating a sensible breakfast in Oak Cliff as Weiss describes a historical documentary called Natan, which screens this weekend at VideoFest. It’s about…
In the Dallas arts scene, the urgent question people are finally beginning to ask: where are the young artists? The stunning architecture of the Dallas Arts District yearns to be filled with the creation of young, hungry artists. It’s why the Flora Street Lofts are being developed to bring affordable…
Long before The Daily Show became the most trusted name in fake news, including the one with the smarmy guy from Sportscenter who threw away his late night career to star in a Rob Schneider movie, and even long before the first season of Saturday Night Live gave a much…
*Editor’s Note: Nobody in Dallas is showing Teen Witch? IT’S HALLOWEEN MOVIE SEASON PEOPLE. GET EXCITED! In Dallas, theaters have rolled out the orange carpet to usher in a season of gore, spoof and general Halloweenocity. ( Movie Tavern in Denton The college town go-to hosts a Retro Cinema series…
Home is your safe place. It’s where you hold intimate conversations with loved ones and display meaningful objects. That doesn’t make you shallow, just human. Not everyone has that. Many, like the Dallas families transitioning out of homelessness and poverty, barely have walls. Imagine the increased feeling of pride that…
There’s always something going on in Dallas, so we thought it’d be fun to live vicariously through your adventures. Each week look for our #Dallas Instagram recap of people, places, events, food, and more. This recent #Dallas photoroll turned up a pumpkin village, some serious Dallas Cowboys tailgaters and an…
The Wes Anderson Collection, an artful and comprehensive new coffee table book released today, sheds light on the popular auteur’s films. Featuring a generous spread of rare, behind-the-scenes photos, an introduction by novelist Michael Chabon, critical essays and much more, the book is a must for Anderson fans. The book’s…
It’s easy to hate on Dallas. You look outside, see only concrete construction and think “Man, where’s all the cool stuff?” Well, yesterday cool stuff happened. Cyclosomatic is currently in effect, and that means one entire month of completely great events, created solely for your two-wheel pleasure. You don’t need…
Saturday morning’s temperature drop and scattered showers couldn’t keep hundreds of costumed dogs or their P1 owners home. Fort Worth’s new Coyote Drive-In movie park and patio hosted 1310 The Ticket’s annual Dogtoberfest, the Marconi Award-winning sport station’s annual celebration of the “good good puppy dog.” In addition to impressive…
Remember back when they called our generation lazy and unimaginative? Well, whatever awesome parent dressed their daughter as David Bowie from Labyrinth for Comic-Con Fan Days just proved all of them haters wrong! Over the weekend thousands piled into the Irving Convention Center for a little facetime with sci-fi, magical…
If you think children’s theater is just about giving a mouse a cookie or putting a hat on a cat, you haven’t been to Fun House Theatre and Film, this year’s Best of Dallas Best Theater Company. Located in an unglamorous little playhouse behind a Thai restaurant in a Plano…
The tale of the retired wrestler is often a tragic one, as Grantland contributor David Shoemaker has made a career of cataloging. In a way the post-ring career of former multi-WWE champion Mick Foley serves as sort of a fairytale-type alternative scenario for those hoping to leave the business unscathed…
AMC’s original-drama wave crested over the weekend, when a record 10 million people bid a Badfinger-scored farewell to Walter White and Breaking Bad. Walking Dead (which returns next weekend) and Mad Men (next year) will keep things going, but fans will of course want more-more-more. The network is hoping a…
Blue Caprice looks for sense in what, to all other appearances, was a senseless moment in recent history. Over the course of three weeks in October 2002, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized citizens of the Washington D.C. area, and America as a whole, by randomly sniping at least…
If Comic-Con’s gotten a little too mainstream for you or maybe you’re looking for something a little more highbrow, don’t worry — you don’t have to miss out any of the convention fun. This weekend’s FenCon is a literary science fiction and fantasy convention with all the same geekery as…
