When you get pit stains just from looking out your window, it’s not easy to think about Christmas. But when you realize there are people living out there and there’s something you can do to help, it’s time to put on the ol’ elf hat (preferably a ventilated one) and…
There was a time in America when family dinners were a thing and fast food restaurants weren’t. When a kid’s biggest concern was dodging lawn darts and not virtual insults. Pat Hazell remembers that time. So well, in fact, that he wrote an entire half-theater, half-stand-up routine about it. It’s…
Christopher Nolan’s ponderous, pontifical action movies are written less as screenplays than as operator’s manuals, guiding an audience through assembling their important themes while scrupulously making sure you don’t miss a thing. This is as true of Inception, with its reams of expositional walk-through, as of Nolan’s superhero saga, now…
The world has gone mad today, and good’s bad today, but never mind. Just bounce your worries away with the de-lovely Anything Goes, Artisan Center Theater’s revival of the 1934 Cole Porter classic musical. It’s the usual guy-meets-girl, guy-loses-girl, guy-and-girl unite bouncy comedy spiel, this one set aboard an ocean…
Circuit 12 Contemporary has only been around since the beginning of this year, but the small Dragon Street locale has already received a little national buzz this week when Complex Magazine, a New York publication and self-professed “Ultimate Mens [sic] Buyers Guide,” named the gallery’s spring show, Dream Continuum, in…
Local metal sculptures Casey Melton and Shannah Frank are known better collectively as f. is for frank, the Dallas-based duo behind the city’s most inventive accessories. But it didn’t start out that way. Originally their main focus was furnishings: gorgeously detailed wooden chairs and tables, as well as pewter-crafted lighting…
It’s well known that Snoop Dogg wasn’t “born” in the traditional sense. Instead he materialized, a wee Snoopling, on the set of a rap video, blunt tucked into his diaper. Dancers bounced him from breast to breast, letting him grab their giant earrings. They argued over who was allowed to…
This is not Lori Ann Stephens’ first rodeo. Well, it is in the sense that it is her debut novel that suddenly shot to No. 1 on the Amazon Bestseller List for Top Free Literary Fiction over the Fourth of July. But that novel — Song of the Orange Moons…
I want this. While probably unintentional in its design, just glancing at this girl makes it look as though her body is being censored. The bikini is made by local design company Cover Sun Conscious Clothing, which specializes in sportswear and swimwear with built in UPF 50+ protection. In this…
Forbes posted its list of Top 15 Cities for Young Professionals this month, and Dallas didn’t make the cut. The rankings took job growth, employment rate, cost of living and median income into account, so it feels counterintuitive that Austin holds seat number 11 while Dallas warms the bench. Known…
The puppets have found their people. Theatre Too’s local debut of the musical Avenue Q is such a hit, the run has been extended an additional six weeks. Since it opened earlier this month, every performance of the show has been sold out. Looks like audiences love laughing along with…
London was infiltrated by a host of new “phone boxes” this summer, and while none of them to our knowledge is equipped for time/space travel, there is one in particular that we love. 2010 MasterMinds nominee and Dallas-based Pakistani artist Simeen Farhat’s donation, Outside the Box, is a jigsaw tooled,…
I won’t claim to understand much about the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, though not because I have moral or personal objections to the subject matter. In fact, I’d posit that the key to world peace lies not in economic policy or cultural diplomacy so much as a few good…
“It’s okay, I don’t get art either,” Aralyn McGregor claims when asked about her line of work. After receiving her BFA in studio painting from UNT in 2009, McGregor worked for a while as a middle school and high school art teacher before “retir[ing] at the ripe old age of…
Art Con 8 is coming from TZOM Films on Vimeo. If this video doesn’t get you amped up for Art Con 8, the 2012 installment of the popular non-profit fundraiser, then you’ve probably sprained your philanthropy muscle. Go ahead, rub that out. Now, try again. It’s a teaser for the…
A couple of familiar faces and a whole bunch of new ones filled out the line at yesterday’s auditions for Fashion Star. Aspiring designers tripped over dry cleaning bags and crunched portfolios under their arms as they shuffled through the second-floor furniture department at Macy’s in NorthPark Center, each hoping…
Let’s get our priorities straight: You want to spend your cash on important stuff, like cocktails. And you want to drink a lot of them. It’s death-ray hot out, and science tells us quite clearly that If you don’t chug margaritas like an aspiring sorority pledge, you will die of…
A couple of weeks ago, Dallas’ ranking as the 19th “Best Big City for Art” by AmericanStyle Magazine left us slightly underwhelmed. Sure, it didn’t suck that Dallas got recognized for something other than being the worst city for hipsters, and sometimes you got to let them haters have it,…
See also: The Lie of IMAX Digital: The Dark Knight Rises Problem In a few days, Christopher Nolan’s cheek-clawingly anticipated final installment to his Batman saga will be unleashed. If you’ve been following those moving-picture-things-they release-on-the-web, it looks to go out in cacophonous, gritty bang. So, yes, The Dark Knight…
See also: The Pop Culture Cosplayers of Comic-Con It’s shocking the internets haven’t shut down. This is the weekend the world’s most accomplished geeks unite at Comic-Con in San Diego. Fan boys and girls don their finest tribute ensembles in effort to honor icons in gaming, film, comics and other…
See Also: Watch This Great Time-Lapse Shepard Fairey Video, By You+Dallas Local artists Jason Eatherly and Brandon Snow have been busy. First they collaborated on the above new mural, which decorates the northwest-facing wall of the new Smoke and Mirrors Gallery, at 406 S. Haskell. Then Snow wove this footage…
Saying that I stumbled into a homemade vending machine for art would be an understatement. I collided into it the same way I discover everything: knee first. With the grace of a bow-legged giraffe I hiked back up and focused on my assailant: It appeared to be a gun vault…
