See also: The Dark Knight Rises in Dallas: Where to See it in Full IMAX Unlike most superheros, Batman isn’t bionic. He doesn’t have a mutation or special power: He’s a man. Since his toys are what protects him, five decades of Alfreds have dedicated their lives to tuning up…
Dromio and Antipholus of Ephesus have long-lost identical twin brothers named Dromio and Antipholus (they live in Syracuse). The two sets of servants and masters collide in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Second Thought Theatre ends its eighth season this weekend with the final performances of its spoof of the…
Find more of DFW’s best in our Best Of app, available for the iPhone and Droid. Like taking a new car for a test drive, sometimes it’s fun to try on a different head to see what you’ll look like before you chop, perm or color your own hair. Or…
The cyber-orgy of food porn, music articles and drag-you-in photography known as House of Plates is manned (or womanned) by an anonymous group of Dallas bloggers, all hell-bent on showing us the great shit they’ve found around the city. So of course we like them. But we like them more…
Big Al’s on McKinney Avenue must not think the spectacle of little people wrestling (EXTREME-ly) is enough to draw a crowd for tonight’s main event, The Baddest Little Show on Earth. Their website has upped the ante, promising another compelling lure: miniature horses. You can pet them, Instagram them, or…
Most classical music organizations (the opera, symphony, etc.) follow an academic calendar with regularly scheduled concerts from September through May, which means that that come June, musicians get paid to skip town and head to summer camp (read: summer music festivals in more temperate locales like Colorado, upstate New York,…
Hey fellow nerds, geeks and dweebs: This is your weekend to shine. Friday, July 20 marks the 43 anniversary of Neil Armstrong planting his kicks on the moon. To celebrate, let’s watch this Michael Jackson moonwalking video. It’s pretty boss. There’s so much happening this weekend: The Nerdist is doing…
Shout hallelujah! Come on, get happy! Coy Covington is back in a Charles Busch comedy at Uptown Players at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The Divine Sister presents the divine Mr. Covington, Dallas’ finest interpreter of Busch’s en travisti roles, decked out in full penguin garb as the preternaturally sunny Mother…
Before Brando developed an affinity for butter — both eating it and, well, you know — he sweat-stained his way through a not-so-ironic wifebeater in the 1951 version of Tennessee Williams’ iconic American masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. Star-studded, wrenching, empathetic, the multiple Academy Award winner — Vivien Leigh took…
Local jewelry and gift design duo Shoshannah Frank and Casey Melton are known better for their company name, f. is for frank. Beyond that, the metalsmiths are identified as the women behind the most stylistically interesting works of wearable art in Dallas. Now five years into the business, the team’s…
Seeing four sides to every coin and burning candles at both ends and the middles, video installation artist Omer Fast perceives and portrays life from angles one might not know existed. A veteran of the Whitney Biennial (2008), where his “Nostalgia” won the prestigious Bucksbaum Award, and the Biennale di…
Beef or pork? The battle of the dinner table has spread into the world of indie baseball as the defending American Association Champion and current top-seeded Grand Prairie Airhogs square off against the 27-25 Kansas City T-bones on Friday at QuikTrip Park. For those whose baseball knowledge is limited to…
Ride animals that really do not like to be ridden, tie up other animals at unnecessary speeds and then dodge around more barrels than Mario in Donkey Kong. This is what the 55th season of the Mesquite ProRodeo Series is all about. Well, that and the $21,000 prize at the…
Dallas is often known for its glamour and style, but hiding behind that shine is something much brighter and more beautiful than any couture garment or three-pound diamond. We have tiny groups of people who provide support for those who can’t press on, lend assistance to our neighbors in crisis…
There are those Friday nights when you spend hours scouring Facebook, trying to cobble together some sort of social experience that won’t end with you slumped in a dirty vinyl booth, listening to bad karaoke and really wishing you hadn’t imbibed that last shot of tequila. And then there are…
Dallas Comic Con, scoot over! You’ve had your turn. The Arlington Hilton will play host to the North Texas Comic Book Shows’ fourth quarterly event on Saturday. The comic book show will bring together 35 vendors, and thousands of modern and vintage comics will be available, in addition to comic…
Having one No. 1 New York Times best seller is kind of a big deal, but if you want a real thrill, try 15. Journalist, television producer and prolific novelist Daniel Silva has just the chops to send each of his spy stories to the top of pack, and this…
Let’s do a bit of math here. What do you get when you take a three nerdy standup comedians, give them a podcast, add in celebrity nerd guests and perform it live? You end up with The Nerdist Podcast Live! Hosts Chris Hardwick (Web Soup and Talking Dead), Matt Mirra…
When Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon, his heart shattered. The moon (cue dramatic music) was not made of cheese. He has lived with that disappointment his whole life, and we can now take part in that sadness by celebrating the moon one day after the anniversary when Armstrong’s…
It might be easy to pigeonhole Doug Benson as a pot comic. Sure, he’s the man-turned-guinea-pig behind Super High Me, a documentary about smoking pot every day for 30 days straight and yeah, his latest comedy album Smug Life features a baked set, but all that betrays his range as…
The League of Animal Protectors sounds like a fur-loving cluster of superheroes. Actually, that’s a fairly accurate description. LAP is a local nonprofit dedicated to rehabilitation, fostering and eventual adoption of stray dogs and cats, and Sunday they’re going to get you wasted. Dog owners already know that Lee Harvey’s…
Pour one out for the recently deceased but still awesome Ernest Borgnine before you enter the theater Tuesday, will ya? And have a drink for his badass wife. No, not Ethel Merman (though badass, they were married less time than a Kardashian to a Humphries), but TV shopping maven Tova…
