Shakespeare is for suckers. Sure, he (or whoever actually wrote all of those plays) played a vital role in language as we know it, but we’re fairly certain that our high school curricula was inundated with Shakespeare because school district leaders are dicks. What they should have done was send…
More than just an experimental cinematic playground, Texas Theatre is an unconventional nightlife hub, a film festival nucleus and a reassuring Jefferson Boulevard business anchor. But life wasn’t always this way. The Oak Cliff Foundation purchased the historic building in 2001 with a financial leg-up from a few dozen generous…
Memory jugs were created as a way to honor the dead. Oftentimes holes were provided so the spirit wouldn’t get trapped inside the container. Of course, Bruce Lee Webb, that crazy coot, will offer way more insight on this delightfully quirky tradition in his Oil & Cotton class aptly titled…
Rumor has it, Val Kilmer gave himself a haircut on stage at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest for a scene in one of Terrence Malick’s new films, set amidst the music-loving world of the Austin festival circuit. But we’re willing to believe he really did it to prepare for…
A group of local Trekkies are boldly going where no one has gone before on Friday, as the U.S.S. Navras presents a costumed celebration honoring our Earthly military. The officially sanctioned USO party is sci-fi themed, so if you’ve ever wanted to dance with a sailor while dressed as chain-mail…
For 25 years, local do-gooders Big Thought have been expanding the minds (and vocabularies) of our area kids with several educational programs and initiatives, including Thriving Minds and DaVerse Lounge. If you haven’t had a chance to see this program in action, now’s the time, as the music, art and…
If it excites you when, in a small cell, a gentle curve meets a bold thick line, or when a pop of perfect color conveys an intensified level of action, you have a calling: the Dallas Comic Book Show Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show offers thousands…
Before you deck the halls, don your gay apparel and fa-la-la-la-la your way through another holiday season, you need a proper kickoff. Thanksgiving doesn’t count — cleaning up the turkey scraps doesn’t transition one into the Christmas spirit. The appropriate kick-off for all things merry is a full five days…
If it’s been a while since you’ve crossed the Trinity to celebrate the awesomeness that is the Oak Cliff, now’s your chance, with the fourth annual Cliff Fest: More than Just a Taste. An afternoon devoted to the best in food, shopping and entertainment, Cliff Fest brings together everything that…
Dallas Fort Worth area native and artist Esther Pearl Watson has pinned her career on two influential humans: her spaceship-building father and a 15-year-old girl with a lackadaisical diary obsession. In the gallery world, like at Sunday’s opening at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie (209 W. Franklin St.), we’re given a…
Maybe yours is covered in cascading piles of paper, wads of discarded ideas and a rubber-band ball you’ve worked on for several years. Or, perhaps your desk is pristine, not a file or paper clip out of place. What your desk says about you could parallel what our entertainment districts…
This Wednesday Dallas Mavericks do basketball battle with the New York Knicks, the team that famously let Jeremy “Linsanity” Lin sign with the Houston Rockets in the offseason. The Knicks started the season 3-0 for the first time in over 10 years, and are looking quite un-Knicksish. The Dirk-less Mavs…
A group of artists will shake up that currently sedentary snowglobe you know as reality Saturday night in a group show called Co- Re-Creating Spaces. A gathering of more than 20 complicated minds, the shared goal is to contextualize, reframe and reassign meaning to surrounding space, spaces and the pathways…
Mark S. Nelson isn’t a new name around Dallas. He’s been showing his work in our city’s stronghold galleries — Kettle, The Public Trust and Plush — since the early 2000s, giving those walls a hearty dose of cheerful color, layered above peculiarly deviant subject matter. Now, he’s got his…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. Tara — clad in solid black with the exception of some killer lime green leggings — caught…
Wheel Of Fortune has been bringing families together, often to shout frustrated expletives at contestants, since 1975. It combines life’s greatest things: a spinny prize wheel, an illuminated version of Hangman and the eternal fountain of grace and youth that is Vanna White. This weekend Dallas Fort Worth watchers will…
Could Captain Kirk kick Han Solo’s ass? Is Spock more wise and knowledgeable than C-3PO? Phasers or light sabers? Would you rather spend a romantic evening with Android Andrea or Princess Leia? Who possesses more power, Kahn or Emperor Palpatine? Some of these important questions may be boozily discussed at…
You’ve got to wonder if the Cohen brothers were able to predict the pop-culture trajectory of The Big Lebowski. It’s spawned a nationally touring tribute festival, created a new generation of white Russian drunkards and even made the word “nihilist” trendy. Plus, it’s got everyone: John Goodman at his absolute…
Something funny comes to the Winspear on Thursday with the one-night-only performance of the family-friendly one-man show MacHomer, actor-writer Rick Miller’s comic adaptation of Macbeth using characters from The Simpsons. It’s an inspired idea that Miller, a Toronto-based actor, launched in 1995 and has performed around the globe ever since…
Mark Cuban has a problem with Facebook. In a recent interview on Read Write, the St. Patrick’s-Day-Parade-Saver sticks it to Zuckerberg: “We are moving far more aggressively into Twitter and reducing any and all emphasis on Facebook,” Cuban says, via email. “We won’t abandon Facebook, we will still use it,…
“I’m calling her.” It was Saturday night at Hyena’s in Fort Worth, and Sean Kent, the comic, had commandeered the cell phone of a middle-aged woman who made the mistake of answering her daughter’s call during his show. After a string of text messages detailing Kat’s conception (one incarnation involved…
She’s a fashion icon, an international celebrity, cyborg and a award-winning clothing designer, and tomorrow, November 14, you can snag a peek at Victoria Beckham when she visits the flagship downtown Neiman Marcus. She’ll be there for a special, private affair to promote her ready-to-wear line, Victoria, but she’ll also…
