While the rest of us are freaking out about what to buy Aunt Fern for the holidays, Conduit Gallery is basically blowing up with shows. There’s Jeremy Red’s solo show of unconventional portraits, Catching Up — his first here since he moved from Denton to Seatle, WA in 2003. There’s…
Winnowing down Dallas’ growing, dynamic community of artists to three MasterMinds involved some tough choices. The process was like lining up at a vast buffet prepared by an outstanding chef: too many wonderful selections and too little room on our plates. On the way to naming the winners, our judges…
The Size of Texas with Clint Howard from Clint Howard Here’s a new brilliant one from Funny or Die, where writer / Director Scott Gairdner parodies Michael Bay’s Armaggedon (or any ridiculous asteroid movie)–specifically the scene where Billy Bob Thorton exclaims the asteroid about to pulverize Earth is “the size…
If you’re the kind of person who thought putting sweaters on dogs was weird only until you owned your first “baby,” then you can understand the power that a little furry face holds over even the most cynical human psyche. In fact, PBS’s Nova reported in its September 2010 “Dogs…
Sharks are a bit of an evolutionary marvel. If you have any doubts, seeing Planet Shark: Predator or Prey, The Exhibition at the Museum of Nature & Science will surely lock it down for you. The exhibit also confirms that, contrary to popular belief, there is far more media hype…
Stephen King made a rare appearance at the 6th Floor Museum recently, touting his new novel, 11/22/63, which was nominated last week for an annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award by the Literary Review. We understand that bad sex might not be the only reasonable gripe about King’s Kennedy-era thriller,…
Tuckered out form the tryptophan-induced turkey coma? Blacked out from the Black Friday shop-a-palooza? Adventure and escape awaits at the cinema. It’s a family friendly weekend at the theater for Thanksgiving weekend so round up the kiddos and the rest of your clan, because here’s what’s new at the movies…..
At the Monday night Open Stage talent show in Richardson, the emcee, Russ Sharek, shows the audience the “Positivity Pill.” It’s a stuffed toy shaped like a capsule and it’s tossed at anyone who doesn’t give the performers upbeat feedback. No booing allowed here and no “keeping score” about which…
You knew there’d be at least one insane-ass Black Friday video. Over on Unfair Park, Robert hat-tipped to a story of a Los Angeles woman who hosed down some shoppers with pepper spray (sorta totally like this dude!). Well, you just knew it was coming: our sister paper the Denver…
Let’s face it, teachers, you’re just riding it out until winter break. Well, you’re in luck, because we know how to knock out — what, a week? — of lesson-planning with the annual Letters About Literature contest. Students are asked to write a conversational letter to authors who have inspired…
Pamela and Dylan, Dowdy Studio We are so very thankful for all the great holiday foods we’re about to pig out on, and also thankful that the menu won’t be including cat sandwiches, because they’re really tricky to prepare and would probably taste like fur balls…
It’s a quarter to 8 on a Monday night at Open Stage, the weekly talent showcase at House of Poets in Richardson, and the incense is growing Vatican-thick. The show happens on a raised platform along one wall of an oblong banquet hall at the back of a shopping center,…
A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg’s new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as it is, this historically scrupulous science-fiction romance concerning the discovery of the unconscious mind might have been titled War of the Worlds or The Beast From 5000 Fathoms. Adapted by Christopher Hampton…
Martin Scorsese’s first foray into big-budget family filmmaking — as well as his inaugural effort in 3-D — Hugo is a personal statement disguised as a sellout. Based on Brian Selznick’s 2007 illustrated kids’ book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Hugo centers on its title character, played by Asa Butterfield,…
Truly owning Dallas Cowboys fandom comes with a lot of responsibility, but not much payoff. One must, for instance, calmly take the ribbing from the rest of the country (bullies!) when a disappointing season circles the drain. There’s also the torturous purgatory between a losing season and a wild-card berth…
You should never — ever — Google the phrase “people dressed as turkeys.” I know in hindsight that’s fairly obvious, but I had the best of intentions as I typed that in, and I was rewarded with images that will forever taint the way I think about Big Bird. Feathers…
They may have been cleared from City Hall grounds and their occupiers sent home (or to jail, in some cases), but less than a week later tents have started going back up around the city, the state and the country. People will brave the elements, take time away from their…
After the leftover turkey has been put away and the last of the relatives has been shipped off, there is a good chance you will be ready to step out on the town. Why not relive your recent holiday memories and have a laugh at the same time? The Inwood…
Long before Tonya Harding’s redneck ass hit the ice, there was a classy little lady named Dorothy Hamill. She was America’s sweetheart, and her hair was our nation’s go-to ’do. Seriously, that thing was bigger than fauxhawks. Well, if you’re curious what Dorothy looks like now or whether she’s still…
Skip Black Friday for Canton in the City The Black Friday shopping spree is almost as American as yelling at the television screen while the Cowboys play on Thanksgiving and the family feasts on a turkey dinner. Hell, it might even be even more ’Merican to spend your hard-earned dollars…
Don “DC” Curry prides himself on telling the truth. He’ll mock your nakedness, give a big eff you to exercise and wonder why you’re all acting so fake. Plus he wears suits with shoulder pads, so he’s kind of like a comedian with a built-in bonus. It’s just one of…
To document the craft of cooking at the highest levels, a pair of authors embedded themselves in some of the most acclaimed restaurant kitchens in the country. The result is Notes from a Kitchen: A Journey Inside Culinary Obsession. Stephan Pyles executive chef Joel Harrington, a featured chef, is celebrating…
