I am not an American Ninja Warrior. I thought I was. I was an athlete for a long stretch of my life, and even a good one for spurts. But I ran the G4 American Ninja Warrior obstacle course during the show’s South Central region competition Thursday at Fair Park,…
Being on a float in the St. Patrick’s Day parade feels like being a minor celebrity for about an hour. People cheer for you like you’re Princess Kate, or better, like you’re Pippa’s rockin booty, laced in Jell-O shots. But this year my friends and I realized that we didn’t…
Over the weekend (March 16-18), The Dallas Opera and the Dallas Theater Center collaborated for the first time to produce British composer Peter Maxwell Davies’ eerie 1979 chamber opera, The Lighthouse. The collaboration between the two companies resulted in a strange yet engrossing musical and theatrical experience. Here’s a few…
Adaptations of TV shows on the silver screen is nothing new (1966’s Batman with the original caped crusader, Adam West, and 1955’s Marty with Ernest Borgnine are two early ones that come to mind) and I wouldn’t expect them to stop anytime soon, with TV to movie flicks like Mission:Impossible,…
Greenville: After the obvious (Greenville St. Patty’s Day parade, and the Dallas Observer concert with headliner Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses and featuring Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights) nosh up with $5 food over at the Granada’s new restaurant, Sundown. Help to grow a little green at Barcadia’s…
Quixotic World was waist-deep in geek love last night as Vinyl Thought presented its newest show “The Next Level.” Based on early gaming and the characters the genre inspired, the gallery show/sale brought collectable toy fans out by the hundreds. Hoarding vinyl toy art was ranked a phenomenon about five…
Eric Steele is a busy young Dallas playwright and screenwriter who thinks theater and film aren’t mutually exclusive art forms. With his show The Midwest Trilogy, now playing through April 7 at Second Thought Theatre, he’s combined two films and one live actor into a single 90-minute production. Just off…
Name: Fred Holston Location: North Texas State Fairgrounds Style influences: Anita Pallenberg, Brian Jones, Brian Eno, Keith Richards, a bunch of hot bitches from the ’60s…
Dallas International Film Festival has completed its selections for this year’s star-soaked offerings and posted the final list. While early documentary picks and features have been slowly filling out the two-week cinematic meal plan, DIFF has seasoned it with finishing touches, like the selected short films and two World Premiers…
The last time you heard the Dallas Symphony Orchestra perform, you pulled up to the Meyerson in a big yellow bus. Fifth Grade was a long time ago, you’re due for another field trip. This weekend (Thursday through Sunday), Music Director Jaap Van Zweden leads the DSO in a performance…
Scorsese’s Hugo swept the Oscars this year, taking home five of those little golden men. The 3-D creation is spooky, imaginative and delightful, and this Friday night, it’s also free. The Nasher Sculpture Center is hosting the Spring Break wrap-up party in its beautiful courtyard — and when the Nasher…
Dallas, commence fist pumping. It’s St. Patty’s Day weekend! We’ve kept the party monster well cared for, but hungry, and we’re about to release him from the crate. Look out: It’s going to be total destruction as that crazy parade tears (slowly) down Greenville and every bar in town throws…
The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 and ran until 1991, launching the career of Johnny Depp (who cameos here). As a sign of the irrefutable progress made since the fear-mongering, anti-hedonist Reagan-Bush era, the mixed-bag, big-screen 21…
It’s obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He has a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment, confusion and self-doubt. But as the basement-dwelling hero in the Duplass brothers’ new quest movie, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Segel works his entire posture for laughs…
The Oscar-nominated animated musical Chico & Rita opens with a jaw-dropping swoop over modern-day Cuba, a well-grimed and bustling island of densely packed buildings that, here, is immaculately detailed and tinted just so as to make it beam even in squalor. Chico & Rita deserves credit for being the rare…
Squandering a billion dollars is easier than you think. The federal government spends more than that each month trying to keep people from using certain plant products to feel good. It’s just 0.02 of a percent of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far. Mark Cuban…
Kiss your Munny dolls and tuck them in early tonight, because Vinyl Thoughts is bringing their popular show back, and it’s swelled up even bigger than you remember. In the last installment of this celebration of collectable geekdom, Quixotic World was at capacity within an hour of opening — awe…
You know how vintage stuff is awesome, but grave robbing isn’t? And it’s also illegal and totally creepy? Well, hang up your pickaxe and black unitard, The Dallas Vintage Clothing and Jewelry Show is coming to the Grapevine Convention Center. It’s the first of its kind in Texas and will…
When an event’s attendance doubles by more than half like the Dallas Arboretum’s ArtScape has since 2009, the people have spoken, and they clearly want more. In its seventh year, the juried festival takes place each spring among the plush frondescence, featuring more than 100 local artists and artisans, showcasing…
The literature that starts to fill up your house when you have a little one is one of the best parts of being a parent. Board books, pop-up books, picture books and more fill your shelves, litter the floors and scatter underfoot — each taking the most mundane of topics…
Wake up early, stretch, run three miles or so, drink to impressive excess, wave and holler at the fellow inebriated revelers atop parade floats, vomit, pump fists and thrust pelvises to whatever band happens to be playing in Energy Square, then — and only then — hop the DART Rail…
You’ve traversed your way up and down Greenville Avenue since the wee hours of the morning, gone balls out just to snag a set of green beads from a sorority girl on a flat-bed truck and openly wondered how the hell one decides to take up bagpipes as a hobby…
