Dick Clark may have passed on to that great Times Square in the sky, but he lives forever in the American collective — well, okay, in our grandparents’ cultural landscape — as the straight Ryan Seacrest. A storied career including four Emmy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of…
Consider us the “Mean” Gene Okerlund of Scrabble. We talked this week with Dallas-based gamer Chris Cree, who psyched himself up for August’s National Scrabble Championship with a growling, groaning pregame interview that would make even the Hulkster shudder. OK, not exactly. The 57-year-old Cree is an affable guy who…
Founded, owned and operated by photographers, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery has firmly established itself as one of the city’s very best venues for artistic photography, pulling in a number of acclaimed artists from around the world. As its name would suggest, the gallery has, since its inception in 1995,…
We just squeed a little. SMU announced today that performance poet, playwright and hip-hop artist Will Power — a former Meadows Prize Winner who will join Meadows School of the Arts Division of Theatre this fall as artist-in-residence — has partnered with the Royal Shakespeare Company to produce a commissioned…
Don’t get us wrong. We love that Dallas’ formal arts scene is backed by faithful supporters able to infuse the likes of George Grosz and Giuseppe Verdi into our cultural consciousness, but this ain’t no Arts District kind of event. And that’s a beautiful thing. Beyond the I.M. Pei curves…
Dude. Forbes. Did you really just begin a sentence with, “‘Cool’ is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as …” Look, we’re thrilled that a publication we’ve actually heard of has given Dallas big props for a change, but there’s a lot going on with this one that has us scratching our…
“I’m looking through the pink of the water, through my own blood, and taking huge, huge, breaths of air,” Rodney Fox says, “and through it, I see the head. Getting bigger.” It was December 1963. Fox was taking part in a spearfishing competition when a Great White shark plowed into…
.gif credit: Alfredo Salazar-Caro While we highly recommend getting out-of-doors for the absurdly awesome marathon of culture happening this weekend, Saturday night presents a rare opportunity for those of us shut in with Kleenex boxes on our feet. Like Congress, but well-deserved, Oliver Francis Gallery is opting for a summer…
Thought we were just being bitchy with that headline, didn’t you. Thought it was run-of-the-mill Mixmaster snark. Not so fast. Larry Hagman’s eyebrows have been charming audiences with their devilish flourishes since the late 1980s, but they — and their stylist — are finally receiving their due thanks to an…
Despite our initial concerns, “gluten intolerance” — and banning the offending protein composite from your menus — is not, in fact, a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As such, Company Cafe has firmly established itself with two locations, catering to the seemingly niche market and revolutionizing our…
It’s okay to admit that you still get a little warm-n-fuzzy whenever Heath Ledger high-steps across the bleachers, belting out “You’re Just Too Good to be True” in 10 Things I Hate About You. We never learned how to “quit” the Aussie heartthrob, either, and as a result of his…
North Texas is full of artistic stars this summer at the Irving Arts Center, which hosts its 12th Annual Art Connection Member’s Exhibition, a non-juried celebration of local artists from a variety of media. Judged by Cheryl Vogel, Curator of Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, the exhibition shows up…
Some people run marathons just to get a free t-shirt. Others donate blood. You can circumvent the lightheadedness associated with both by simply viewing a relative marathon of gallery exhibitions, guzzling free Brooklyn Lager and crunching noms from Dallas’ finest food trucks (after 6:00 p.m.) during the Design District Gallery…
The women of Dallas do a lot of questionable things for fashion: ripping out hair from their nether regions by the roots; teetering within an inch of a sprained ankle on platforms; squatting naked while having cold chemicals sprayed up the length of their bodies, inevitably leaving a trail of…
With the advent of food trucks in DFW and the subsequent craze — the will there/won’t there be a food-truck court suspense rivals the Rachel and Ross chemistry that we all apparently cared about before television ditched the scripts and got “real” — it seems that almost anything can and…
Let’s say you’re a decent human being who believes that people shouldn’t feel like shit for wanting to get off with other happy, productive tax payers. Oh, you are? Great. Come make out with me Friday night, August 3. This is the only instance in which half-buzzed straight girls making…
The Fairmont announced yesterday that Dallas-based artist Mikki Mallow has been chosen as artist-in-residence through September. Mallow, focusing on a bright and bold portraiture series entitled I’m Seeing Someone, has been living at the Fairmont and working in its translucent studio since the first of the month. I’m Seeing Someone…
Having one No. 1 New York Times best seller is kind of a big deal, but if you want a real thrill, try 15. Journalist, television producer and prolific novelist Daniel Silva has just the chops to send each of his spy stories to the top of pack, and this…
Seeing four sides to every coin and burning candles at both ends and the middles, video installation artist Omer Fast perceives and portrays life from angles one might not know existed. A veteran of the Whitney Biennial (2008), where his “Nostalgia” won the prestigious Bucksbaum Award, and the Biennale di…
Before Brando developed an affinity for butter — both eating it and, well, you know — he sweat-stained his way through a not-so-ironic wifebeater in the 1951 version of Tennessee Williams’ iconic American masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. Star-studded, wrenching, empathetic, the multiple Academy Award winner — Vivien Leigh took…
Circuit 12 Contemporary has only been around since the beginning of this year, but the small Dragon Street locale has already received a little national buzz this week when Complex Magazine, a New York publication and self-professed “Ultimate Mens [sic] Buyers Guide,” named the gallery’s spring show, Dream Continuum, in…
This is not Lori Ann Stephens’ first rodeo. Well, it is in the sense that it is her debut novel that suddenly shot to No. 1 on the Amazon Bestseller List for Top Free Literary Fiction over the Fourth of July. But that novel — Song of the Orange Moons…
