Audtitions are just around the corner, and the mad geniuses behind the Mavericks’ dance squad think you should take this prep class. There are 25 of ’em total starting on Monday, May 21 and they cost $15 bucks a-pop, with a price decrease if you purchase them in chunks. That’s…
Last night closed out season one of Dallas’ new storytelling series, Oral Fixation. Created by Actress, Writer, Pilates Guru, and story telling sorceress, Nicole Stewart, these evenings give us a monthly night of pause to hear true tales from seven, brave tellers. While some, like recurring presenter Mac Lower are…
Make sure you’ve got your inhalers in hand, fellow nerds, because you’re about to get winded. Every major fan boy icon is going to be in town this weekend for Dallas Comic Con, a two-day affair of geektastic proportions. Captain Jean Luc Picard and Q from Star Trek: TNG? Yes!…
Last night during its “Composer Conversations” event, The Dallas Opera announced a commission of a new opera, Everest, by composer Joby Talbot and librettist Gene Scheer. The one-act work will mark the first collaboration between Talbot and Scheer, as well as Talbot’s first operatic endeavor. The two will begin creating…
Now one of the country’s most unique parks, I first learned about the High Line as a dopey out-of-towner, visiting New York’s MOMA on Free Day. They had an installation piece, a model of the project and short video work detailing how the city would reclaim the abandoned train tracks,…
He wrote the score for the film Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and is the musical force behind the Canadian ballet production of Alice In Wonderland, and tonight you lucky devils can spend an evening in Joby Talbot’s company. He’ll speak at the Winspear’s Hamon Hall in a conversation moderated…
My desk is where freebies and sample go to die. Just call it the Florida of unloved promotions. I’ve gotten used to stacking folders on top of books penned by Jersey Shore stars and wore a bandana over my mouth when that terrible bottle of stroganoff-scented cologne was broken during…
Name: Desiree Griffith Location: Deep Ellum Style influences: “I do a lot of different things, it depends on my mood, on the weekends I like to relax, right now I’m [dressed] pretty chill.” Style breakdown: American Apparel top and jeans, Steve Madden sandals, Louis Vuitton mini purse and bracelets, Betsey…
So, you’re a necktie-noosed corporate hound eating takeout at your desk over a pile of TPS reports. What happened to you, man? You were a Creative Writing major, or a budding studio artist. Or, maybe you banged Steinways in the basement while your roommates shotgunned Natty Lights back in the…
Dear Friends of the Arts, I know we don’t chat too often, but I’d like to change that. See, there’s this bully in town and he’s been pestering my friend. It didn’t start out this way — I guess it never does. Initially I thought MT and Nash would get…
To the tired, the weary, the overly-energy-drink-indulged participants of the 24-Hour Video Race: We salute you. The annual competition concluded last week and gave a few parameters: a phrase, a theme, a prop and location for all participants to include in their films. After that, they had 24 fleeting hours…
Join the swarm at the regional premiere of the kids’ musical comedy Diary of a Worm, a Spider & a Fly, now onstage at Dallas Children’s Theater. They do things big at DCT, but this may be their biggest show yet. Directed by Bob Hess, acted by grown-up professionals, it’s…
This Saturday, things got ree–eeee—eeeal dorky at Bolt Studios as Diorama-O-Rama gathered followers of the dark, nerdly arts for a day of craftivism. The event raises loot for local charities, with this installment’s kitty getting kicked toward Café Momentum, a group that teaches culinary skills to at-risk youth in the…
Aw, there are going to be some big heads floating around now that the DMA has officially released its 2012 award winners – ten big ol’ heads, to be exact. In a city like Dallas, that could get dangerous. So, to see just how worried we should be with the…
Roughly a hundred people were gathered in Oak Cliff on Sunday to watch Erica Felicella emerge from her performance art piece, “Visible Shell,” including one very concerned young girl. “We’ve house sat for her before and she’s got a king-size bed,” she reported to me while petting my dog. Her…
It takes an army to weave a work of art. Here’s a quick video of the Nasher crew assembling “Cuddle on the Tight Rope,” the exciting, fun, uplifting (stop me, I’ll go on forever) new work by Ernesto Neto. It opens to the public on Saturday, May 12. Check it…
The first time I tried meditation, I failed. We sat by the fireplace in my friend’s living room as she guided us, peacefully through the steps. “Focus your mind forward and imagine a constant, something you’ve seen and trusted the existence of your entire life — the moon, the sun…
1. Hollie Cavanagh’s puh-fect Idol dream ends: We were all thinking it. “She’s adorable, but how is our half-British McKinney flower still going strong on American Idol, when so many superior performers have been kicked to the curb before her?” But somehow, some way, our Hollie got by on a…
James Franco is in the area today, serving as Keynote speaker for the UT Arlington graduating class of 2012 at the Levitt Pavilion, in Arlington. The fest looks major, with fireworks, music and a bunch of other stuff that will distract the group of scholars from the dismal job market…
“It reminds me of Bauhaus,” gushed Natalie Vaughn while scampering around the newly created Nerv Gallery in preparation for Friday and Saturday night’s grand opening. She’s talking about the space’s ability to unite varying artistic styles when referencing the famous German institution, which has been the cornerstone of this project…
Your mom doesn’t want anything fancy for Mother’s Day, so stop stressing over it. She wants what every mom wants: a little quality time with you. Mom’s Night Out at Mockingbird Station goes down tonight at 7 p.m. and features goodies from The People’s Last Stand and purchasable snacks from…
The whiff of menace enters the room right at the top of The Birthday Party, the 1958 Harold Pinter dark comedy now on view at Deep Ellum’s Undermain Theatre. An older couple, Petey and Meg (T.A. Taylor and Mary Lang), are going about their daily breakfast ritual in the dining…
