In the last decade, social media and the Internet have assisted in getting more eyes and ears on the subject of autism, giving us a better understanding of what children on the autistic spectrum need on a daily basis, whether or not vaccinations play a role and how to edge…

Is there a more fitting acronym for an art show featuring Austin, Dallas and Denton artists than A.D.D.? Your attention will be drawn to a series of works by 18 emerging and established artists at newish collaborative venue White Space (2001 N. Lamar St., Suite 500), including Bereniche Aguiar, Michael…

Does the phrase book swap get you all hot and bothered? Then get thee to Fair Park’s tiniest project space, the Reading Room (3715 Parry Ave.), between 4 and 9 p.m. Saturday to find yourself paging through some attractive new (or old) finds. Or, if you’ve got a stack of…

Dallas sure has been in a festive mood lately. The North Texas Beer and Wine Festival continues the trend at the Irving Convention Center (500 W. Las Colinas Blvd., Irving), from 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday, with brewing tutorials from Kelly Harris of Homebrew Headquarters, talks with John Sims of…

You have one more month to take in Cindy Sherman’s 30-year career retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 Harwood St.), which features the photographer in various disguises of her own design. From her early ’80s series of women in distress to her more recent collection of tanned and…

Dallas artist Justin Ginsberg debuts his solo exhibition Mesophase at Ro2 Art (110 N. Akard St.) Friday. According to his statement, he attempts to “utilize molten glass in non-traditional means, directing it to engage in extreme, and sometimes violent interactions, with outside forces/materials.” He goes on to cite a certain…

CentralTrak’s spring series of discussions has been getting blood flowing and brains oxygenating in terms of what we need to make Dallas a better place for the arts. A couple weeks ago, the need for art criticism was dissected. Last week, a creative brain trust engaged in “Not Waiting for…

Was Frida Kahlo the original Cindy Sherman? The Mexican artist’s self-portraits were certainly ahead of their time, and painted Kahlo as a rebel, a lover, a documentarian and a woman in tune with the natural world. As she once famously said, “I was born a bitch. I was born a…

Leslye Headland’s hit Broadway play Bachelorette was recently turned into a movie, starring Kirsten Dunst, Rebel Wilson, Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan as a group of high school friends falling down a rabbit hole the night before a friend’s wedding. It was funny, touching and real, unlike many of the…

In the time between her critically lauded 2011 play Tigers Be Still and her new musical Fly By Night, co-written with Michael Mitnick and Will Connolly, playwright Kim Rosenstock has sharpened her comedic knife considerably. Fly By Night, which debuts at the Kalita Humphreys Theater (3636 Turtle Creek Blvd.), revives…

Ex Mus, CentralTrak’s (800 Exposition Ave.) experimental concert series, kicked off last fall with a local collective reinterpreting the music of minimalist Greek composer Anatassis Phillippakopoulous. We get the spring installment of Ex Mus on Saturday, with a performance from Austin percussionist Nick Hennies, who has shared a stage with…

Dallas loves its burlesque. It’s almost hard to keep track of the who’s who when we see it literally every weekend. Thankfully, the Kessler Theater (1230 West Davis St.) is hosting the Burlesque Hall of Fame Queens Tour, to give you an idea of which ladies are currently owning it,…

Boston’s Bill Burr is trying to keep the dignity of the working man’s comic alive. His stand-up sets often focus on the tried-and-true “women are like this, and men are like this” bit, but he also has moments of clarity when his material transcends the generic boundaries of a comedy…

After last week’s hastily organized arts discussion with Mayor Mike, there was much to sift through: Do white men have the answers? Are artists, as the Mayor put it, really just “human capital”? How do we get artists to move here and stay here, and which ones do we thrown…

The Dallas International Film Festival has come and gone, and we only have two months until the Oak Cliff Film Festival unloads another warm laundry basket of cinema onto our laps. Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) is the brain trust, and you should trust said brain on this Monday…

Earlier this month, the Dallas Opera kicked off its spring season with a production of Puccini’s Turandot, which was high on style but lacking in passion — at least on opening night. The Fort Worth Opera keeps the momentum going, as it presents another Puccini opera at Bass Performance Hall…

Record Store Day has its champions and detractors. Some suggest every day should be RSD, while others use the limited-edition special releases to fatten up their vinyl collection. Beyond the pursuit of commerce, RSD is a chance to catch Dallas music fanned out around town. Good Records (1808 Greenville Ave.)…

Back in February, Hurst Conference Center (1601 Campus Drive, Hurst) hosted the first sold-out boxing match in Bud Light’s Pro Fight Series. Friday night, fight number two’s Welterweight Collision Course ropes off some buzzed-about Texas talent, like Irving’s Hector Vazquez, Dallas’ Julio Cesar Rangel and Fort Worth’s Tony Lopez, with…