See also: Dallas Handmade Arts Market’s Grand Opening is This Weekend Sometimes you have to take the plunge, no matter how terrifying. Early this year, Jorge Herrera walked away from a successful and secure career in the financial world because he had a dream, both for his own professional gratification…
See also: Lucien Freud’s Portraits are Skilled, Smart and Sad, and He Probably Had Sex with Them At times like this, I don’t mind having two virtually useless degrees in the humanities, though it is a crushing reality that would normally inspire any reasonable person to routinely sob herself to…
I can’t imagine the headache that the Sundown at Granada must be on weekends, because with patios like that, its Thursday through Sunday crowd must be hanging over the rooftop’s railings. But for a lazy and breezy Wednesday evening, the atmosphere can’t be beat. Fact: scientific research has proven that…
We’re feeling so jacked about Dallas Handmade Arts Market, it makes us want to just … tip back our heads, belting “With Arms Wide Open” to the heavens. OK, nothing would make us do that. But we can hardly contain ourselves at Dallas’ first indoor art market, an ongoing weekendly…
If we all had an evil twin, it would make being in two places at once so much easier or so much more complicated. For Eric Zimmerman, running concurrent exhibitions at The Reading Room in Dallas and Art Palace in Houston is simply an exercise in harmonious discord. Telltale Ashes,…
Imagine if Dirty Dancing had a “slightly-less-dirty” but still totally cute, younger Australian cousin. Wait, don’t imagine that — just come on Saturday as the AT&T Performing Arts Center and Dallas Film Society pair up for another great Sunset Screening. Strictly Ballroom (1992, PG) is the tale of Scott Hastings,…
Who needs October in order to fest? This year’s crop of Franconia Oktoberfestbeer ran through the filter yesterday and is loaded up on their environment-friendly trucks to head out on Thursday for the Katy Trail Ice House, where they’ll tap this year’s first wooden keg and give away free steins…
See also: Here’s What Stylish SMUers Wore During Their First Week Back on Campus Sassy fashionista, blogger and breakout star of Most Eligible Dallas, Courtney Kerr has scored her own Bravo show, Courtney Loves Dallas, set for the 2013 lineup. We’re told it will center on Kerr’s travails among the…
Beer and college go hand-in-hand, but Denton’s Oak St. Drafthouse has just made the connection a bit stronger. Set in the city’s third oldest house, with antiques “strewn across the lawn,” the bar at 308 E. Oak St. has been open since March, and for their first “back to school”…
See also: * Dallas’ Seven Best Post-Theater Hangouts Don’t let ’em fool you. Dallas is a gay city. Big hair, shimmering rhinestone dresses, skin tight Wranglers. Think about it. In the Miss Gay America’s 39 years, six titleholders have hailed from Dallas, and our fair city has hosted the pageant…
If you’re like us and didn’t even know that the Cattle Baron’s Ball is a real thing, you might be tickled to know that for a mere $750 (per single ticket), you too can help fight cancer by attending a private Blake Shelton concert. Or you could buy a few…
On any given weekend, Dallas is teeming with burlesque. It seems counter-intuitive; while the stereotypes may be overblown, the city is regarded as socially conservative, with an predilection for ostentatious displays of real or imagined wealth and “high-brow” entertainment. Burlesque culture is a different animal, but not entirely. It is…
Vickery Park likes to keep it in the family — well, as they more conservatively put it, “Keep It Local for Labor Day” — and this long weekend, the Henderson Avenue beer-and-brunchery, helmed by the tattooed teddy bear Matt Tobin, is focusing (almost) exclusively on Dallas-made brews. The aptly named…
You know what Dallas needs? A weekly indoor marketplace connecting local artisans with potential clients that also promises free beer and wine. You know what Dallas is getting? Bingo. This upcoming three-day weekend is full of promise, but none as big as the Dallas Handmade Arts Market Grand Opening on…
It was the “slut” heard ’round the world: Back on Leap Day, you’ll recall, talkshow host Rush Limbaugh famously criticized [read: slandered] a Georgetown University law student named Sandra Fluke, calling her a “slut” after she testified before congress about the need for insurance companies to cover birth control. Limbaugh…
If you’ve been looking to try the creative-sounding new dessert that The Blue Goose rolled out the second week of August, today is the day. The Goose is offering free Sopapilla Sundaes today only as a Back to School celebration. Take a gander at the Goose’s Facebook page, where you…
Ah, 2011. Back then you could occupy anything. So much hope, so much vigor. So many billy clubs and cans of pepper spray. Where did the time go? And how, in a post-OWS world, could MIttens be polling so well? We cannot guarantee that Kitchen Dog Theater has the answers,…
We’d be remiss to allow an entire College Week to pass without mention of the college life’s main goal (well, you know except for the main-main one): procuring, hoarding and drinking booze. It’s a universal feeling, the simultaneous confusion and wistful nostalgia that comes with the memory of one’s former…
If Ariel were here, she’d be shitting herself. Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat / wouldn’t you think my collection’s complete … Actually we’re not all that clear on the digestive workings of little mermaids, but you get the point. SCAB is presenting Sink or Swim (BYOBS) at “Pool…
It’s one of the more elaborate television-related protests we’ve seen. AMC has created a farcical presidential candidate who is now on a cross-country campaign, which will hits Tampa and Charlotte for the Republican and Democratic conventions, respectively, before culminating in New York on September 5. Dallas happens to be the…
See Also: *The College Diet: Breaking Down the Food at SMU’s Cafeteria *Digg’s Taco Shop: Yeah, We Can Dig It Well, RFOC is out. Big surprise. I distinctly remember finding the choices so taste-numbing that I once ate nothing but a bowl of croutons for dinner during my freshman year…
Don’t think of all the money you dropped this summer on band or football camp for the kids; just remember the good times. Sitting alone in silence, cursing indiscriminately, watching DVR’d episodes of Breaking Bad in broad daylight, without regard for curious little eyes and ears. Camps are the best…
