So, Chuck Palahniuk races up the aisles of the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art with arm-fulls of huge, inflatable brains, snapping them like Frisbees throughout the eager audience, most of whom look to be in their early- to mid-20s and many of whom are bedazzled with metal…
If the rumors are to be believed, the incidences of fainting during readings of the Chuck Palahniuk short story “Guts” are now up to 73. Some folks, it seems, just can’t handle their Chuck. If you think you can — or if you think passing out in a big museum…
Because Chuck Palahniuk’s the guy who once wrote the lines, “I want to have your abortion,” and “the condom is the glass slipper of our generation,” [Fight Club, 1996], we weren’t at all certain what to expect when we sat down to talk with the prolific writer about his twelfth…
If ever you find yourself pondering whether Dallas could foster a sex-positive feminist hippie art magazine dedicated to poetry, love and ganja, then rest assured that Let It Bleed’s newest issue, “Yield to Hemp-tation,” offers the surfeit you crave. Last night, women and the men who love them met at…
Over the last three months, the Mixmaster’s resident dancer, Katie Toohil, has allowed us through her Director’s Notes series to peer into the intimate details of producing a show based on the confrontation of sorrow, a unique introspection expressed through emotional, original choreography and contemporary music. Loosely based on the…
SMU students may remember C.W. Smith as the curmudgeonly creative writing prof who had permanent dibs on a particular wooden chair in Dallas Hall; others know him as the mentor and ally who helped them find their voice, or who simply told them for the first time that they were…
If you’re anything like us, you probably have a garage full of weird and unnecessary items morosely collecting dust, but don’t drag them to the curb just yet! Join us on Saturday, October 1, 2011 for the Dallas Arts District’s Art in Motion procession. Grab that jogging stroller that has…
As an artist/writer in Dallas you feel a bit like you’re stationed at an outpost to complete a mission. You have a sense of space around your creative work, and I find that crucial.
Growing up as a nerdy kid on a ranch in rural Texas, there was really only one thing I had in common with my bad-ass, tough-as-nails cowboy dad. We only had two TV channels, both of which he controlled anyway, so we spent most nights wearing out the ribbons on…
Before The Dude (Jeff Bridges) took his mush-mouthed turn as Rooster Cogburn in 2010’s True Grit, there was The Duke, an all-American, alpha-male badass who brought home an Oscar for his 1969 portrayal of the slovenly, tough-as-nails U.S. Marshall Cogburn. John Wayne spent most of his storied, 60-year career, however,…
Gloria Steinem said a that “a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle,” but we’re inclined to think that a woman without a vibrator is just bad policy any way you slice it. Sarah Ruhl’s Tony nominated 2009 play, In the Next Room, Or the Vibrator…
Former English majors will be relieved to learn that master crafts(wo)man George Eliot is no longer relegated to junior-level literature classes. Even better, the gender-bending bad girl of Victorian England is the subject of a new play by Cathy Tempelsman, A Most Dangerous Woman, that is being staged by Echo…
We’re not entirely sure what led to the “implied cracks” crackdown, but the fact that this year’s AnimeFest has explicitly banned them in its dress code guidelines (don’t worry, cleavage and midriffs are still A-OK) only increases our curiosity about the eccentric revelry, both real and implied, at this year’s…
So, picture this: It’s 1998 and you are high school track star, super fast and super hot. Flash forward thirteen years and fifteen pounds and your idea of “super fast” is how quickly the waitress hauls your order to your car at Keller’s. Or, maybe you were the chubby kid…
Those who remember NoViolet Bulawayo as an SMU graduate student in the mid-2000s will likely recall a talented young woman who spoke rarely and modestly. They will not be surprised to learn, however, that it is that it is often the quiet women who have the most to say. Today,…
Of the women I grew up idolizing in the ’90s, only a few have had a lasting effect on my personal style, and Lisa Loeb (her eyeglasses, specifically) is very near the top of that list. But, associating this Renaissance Woman with that decade alone is woefully myopic. Since she…
While not generally regarded as a big science city, Dallas is, however, a hotbed of entrepreneurial innovation, and behind every big business swarms a bevy of nerds, locked away in laboratories churning out prolific data. Should you find your interest piqued through a rare spotting out-of-doors, track down a Mad…
For obvious reasons, last decade saw a deluge of Texans descending onto Capitol Hill in the form of congressional interns, staffers, lobbyists and journalists. Today many of these “expats” are back Lone Star State-side and, impossible to rehabilitate, have since gone to law school, gotten MBAs or continued writing fervently…
Everywhere you look, even in a posh city like Dallas, nerds abound. Sexy nerds, geeks and dorks. While some aren’t willing to claim their nerdery, others are out in the open, letting the geek flag fly. That said, it’s important to know that nerds are not normal humans easily snowed…
