Artists, educators and craftspeople: there are three upcoming deadlines for opportunities to get involved with local arts events. Once known as a city sans culture, Dallas is booming today with innovative thinkers, and we believe that we’re on the ground floor of an arts revolution. But, a real movement requires…
Except for the debut of the Three Stooges trailer, this has been a great month for Hollywood teasing upcoming blockbusters. Over on Apple’s trailer site, you can find Prometheus, The Hobbit, and The Dark Knight Rises first official trailer. Damn fine week, ol’ Hollywood. Which means, it didn’t take long…
Speaking of sprawling, epic trailers… Back in November, the Dallas Theater Center officially announced the cast and creative team for Giant, you know the musical, which is running at the Wyly in 2012 save for some unplanned zombie apocalypse. Now, courtesy of a hat tip from Unfair Park, there’s a…
A few weeks ago a photograph titled “Rhein II” (above) by artist Andreas Gursky was won at auction at Christie’s in New York by an anonymous bidder who paid more than $4 million. It is a digital photo of a river and grass embankments on the Rhine. Gursky manipulates his…
Artist, DJ, worldwide phenom Shepard Fairey is making a stop in Dallas to spin for the Dallas Contemporary, according to the just-in Save the Date. Fairey, who’s been making the rounds recently for the design of the cover of the recent TIME magazine annual ‘Person of the Year’ issue, will…
You forgot. And, even if you didn’t, you’re a self-important ass who has already cashed in all of your good will by referring that time to your spouse as the bang maid. You need to go big, and here’s a way to pad that present for your favorite innamorata. Which,…
The real world beyond their stage doors may have been spinning from disaster to disaster, but somehow in the land of make-believe inside Dallas theaters, 2011 turned out to be an absolute annus mirabilis. There were great shows and memorable performances in grand halls and bijou playhouses all around us…
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher’s sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster directed by Niels Arden Oplev from Stieg Larsson’s rambling thriller, a posthumously published international bestseller and Kindle record-holder, is a recognizably Fincherian caper. The movie, which opens with…
When I told someone I was off to a screening of We Bought a Zoo the other day, the response was an eye-roll. The reaction is understandable: Save for two music docs — an Elton John-Leon Russell album making-of and that Pearl Jam anniversary infomercial — Cameron Crowe has been…
Those kids in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe have all the luck. Not only do they get to go on an epic adventure full of talking animals and magic, but they also get the best Christmas presents ever. A sword and shield, a bow and arrow that never…
If we don’t look too closely, The Women on the 6th Floor appears to be a lighthearted French- and Spanish-language romp, set in the early 1960s and centered on a bored, bourgie French businessman rekindling his life-spark in the flat of some Spanish maids. Look deeper, and it’s possibly another…
Christmas is a time for friends, family and holiday traditions. Christmas is also a time for relaxing and a time to indulge in scrumptious, delights. Engulf yourself in this year’s seasonal merriment and culture by joining Urban Crust for the Feast of the Seven Fishes Dinner. Originating from Medieval Roman…
It’s Chanukah season once again, and midway through the holiday festivities you encounter the same problem that people of all religions suffer this time of year: the nagging parent. Why haven’t you found a nice girl to settle down with? Why are you doing this to them? They’re only getting…
In a development that’s led north Texas hoops fans to proclaim that one “can’t make this stuff up,” the Dallas Mavericks will (finally) begin the defense of their NBA title against the hated, demonic trinity of the Miami Heat. Did we mention that this game, in which the franchise’s first…
Let’s be honest. The last thing you want to do on Christmas Day is spend a bunch of time cooking. Since you deserve a tasty meal after weeks of shopping and wrapping, we recommend taking the spouse and kids over to the Gaylord Texan, 1501 Gaylord Trail in Grapevine, for…
Good comedians are funny. Great comedians can work the crowd. The key to doing it right seems to be balance: You’ve gotta do a little more than a lazy, rhetorical “How’s everybody doing tonight?” without going all Dave Chapelle from The Nutty Professor. Texan comedian Raj Sharma is one of…
These days we speed date, we virtual date, we meet, we greet and we usually sanitize after. We find dips, drips and trolls, but we keep at it. There has to be just one decent person out there, right? Wrong. No, we’re kidding. Of course there is! And no doubt…
Remember the Dallas Freeze? OK, we’ll help you out. They were one of six original members of the Central Hockey League in its inaugural season in 1992. Still no clue? That’s probably because they closed up shop just three years later. (Turns out the Dallas Stars coming to town in…
Got a zany aunt? At the very least you have a fun relative — and by “fun” we mean of the “beat of a different drum” sort. Well, leave your oddball with the more patient folk and get out for an evening on your own at Jubilee Theatre’s Auntee Explains…
Four million lights? Seriously, four million? We’ve met the guy who invented the icicle light in the early ’80s. We’ve seen that special with Mr. Christmas and the lights contest on Food Network. We know about that East Dallas house that hires the live reindeer. We still can’t wrap our…
The story of Anne Frank is the most well-known story of a young Holocaust victim, but approximately 1.5 million of the six million Jews who died during the Holocaust were children. Despite the brutality they witnessed and endured, many of these children found temporary escape from their lives through art…
There’s a very, very good chance you haven’t seen the best movie of 2011. At least, that’s what Karina Longworth is saying in this week’s cover story. Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan’s latest starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, is the best film of the year, Longworth says. So, yep,…
