Madison Mask is an artist but doesn’t have a formal background in art. He went to school for business and works in marketing, where he gained familiarity with in-person experiences: trade shows, conferences and experiential marketing design. This backlog of experience inspired Mask to create Frosty Rainbow, an interactive art…
Wednesday, April 14 Dynasty: The Peculiar Search for TotalityThis multimedia exhibition offers photography, poetry and history to tell the story of an African family’s journey to freedom. The stories of seven women will be conveyed, and amplified, through augmented reality. The event starts at 12 p.m. at the African American Museum of…
The Sonoran Desert stretches a little more than 100,000 square miles across the hardscrabble terrain of California, Arizona and northwestern Mexico. It’s what’s known as a “hot desert” — defined as one of the hottest, largest deserts in North America. Curiously, it’s also known as “the wettest desert on earth”…
After months of speculation, Matthew McConaughey revealed last month that a run for the Texas governorship was something he was “giving consideration.” This wouldn’t be the first time the Academy Award-winning actor has hinted at political aspirations, but his recent comments inspired an onslaught of that routine response many performers…
About six years ago, Chris Tock attended an anime event dressed as an assassin in a get-up that he made himself. This was just the beginning of an extreme side hustle. “I started sewing because I wanted to cosplay,” he says. “I didn’t want to stop after my first convention.”…
One of the grandest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain can be found in Dallas, in the halls of Southern Methodist University. Building on the Boulevard: Celebrating 20 Years of the Meadows’s New Home and the companion exhibition Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections are on display…
The term “fashion statement” can be entirely overused, but not in the case of Myah Hasbany, whose wearable knitted art softly screams for attention. Her most recent works are showstopping displays of human creativity, consisting of amorphous lumps of wool that transform the wearer into strikingly surreal characters in a fashion…
Wednesday, April 7 Love & Kindness in the Time of Quarantine Theatre Three, one Dallas’ oldest theaters, is hosting a unique online set that’s curated by actress and playwright Regina Taylor, who’s best known for her roles in Jordan Peele’s Lovecraft Country, David Mamet’s The Unit and the ’90s series I’ll…
Professional wrestling has long had an audience in Texas, most particularly in Dallas. The home of World Class Championship Wrestling and the Dallas Sportatorium, which began hosting wrestling matches in the 1970s, Dallas is the lucky city that first watched legends such as The Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Austin…
Years before the hashtag #StopAsianHate was created to bring awareness to the rise in violence against Asian Americans, Rosaura Cruz was already looking for ways to partner with Asians in the Dallas community and around the globe. In 2019, Cruz developed a fashion show, Discover Runway Dreams, with Mopai-China Dreams,…
The lesson was brutal. For the simple crime of flirting, a young girl was forced to stand all night long in a kiddie pool brimming with ice water. If she staggered or appeared on the verge of passing out, the boarding school’s program director would douse her with even more…
Are movie theaters back? Well, maybe. The pandemic may have given Dallas audiences more time than ever to sit around and rewatch their favorite movies at home, but it’s no secret that everyone’s been itching to get back to the theater for a big-screen experience. With a wider rollout of…
During the pandemic, street artists like Eric Mancini lost more than the ability to go out and turn neighborhoods into a canvas. The Denton graffiti and portrait artist, who now lives in Denver, has put his trademark squiggle figure portraits and satirical art pieces all over North Texas. His work…
The COVID-19 outbreak erupted into more than one type of pandemic, as violence against Asian Americans rose and the coronavirus became an excuse for open racism and xenophobia. Now, businesses, colleges and organizations in Dallas are starting to pay attention. Following a slew of nationwide acts of violence against Asian Americans,…
Normally, you should be able to maintain a safe distance from others while still enjoying the space to explore art — unless you’re at the Louvre, of course, gawking at the “Mona Lisa.” Lately, it seems many people’s concept of distance and space is as thwarted as a cubist painting,…
Dallas insurrectionist Garret Miller was at the Capitol crashing on Jan. 6, and all he got was a lousy T-shirt. And an arrest warrant. Miller is being held at an Oklahoma City prison after leaving a trail of evidence incriminating him in the January storming of the Capitol on social media,…
Larry McMurtry was regularly seen out and about in his hometown Archer City, 25 miles southwest of Wichita Falls. He was easily recognizable in his usual ensemble: jeans, a Dr Pepper polo and an air of humility. He didn’t see himself as a star novelist who influenced authors around the…
If you’re one of those people who have the new saying “Don’t California my Texas” then you might want to stay away from Deep Ellum. Kristin Cavalleri was in town this past weekend to bring some of her signature Golden State sparkle to Dallas with a new jewelry store in…
The second of four parks planned for downtown Dallas opened Friday. West End Square is officially open to the public, offering a lush green space and several amenities in the West End historic district at 607 Corbin St., an area which once served as a parking lot. The $6.25 million project…
“One does not simply walk” into a room and find all four hobbits together — unless you’re in the reverse Tolkien world known as Dallas. Put on your Elfin ears and listen up, precioussses: The original hobbits in the Lord of the Rings films will be attending the FanExpo at…
Peacock’s recently released reboot of 1980s sitcom Punky Brewster is as a treat for the original fans as much as it is fresh material for a younger generation. Punky (Soleil Moon Frye) is now a divorced mother of three who has a biological daughter named Hannah (Lauren Lindsey Donzis) and…
Dallas actor Stephen Tobolowsky is perhaps best known for his role as Ned Ryerson, the earnest childhood friend of Bill Murray’s grumpy newscaster Phil Connors in the comedy classic Groundhog Day. You know, the guy who famously said “Phil? Phil Connors? I thought that was you!” countless times in the movie…
