Top Hits and Perfect Tens

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…

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery Now Has More Than Just Photos

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,…

Because No One Knows Cool Like Forbes

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…

Eat, Drink and Be a Difficult Broad

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…

United In Art

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…

Support Local Art, Get A T-Shirt

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…

Talking with a Silva Tongue

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…

Life in the Fast Lane

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…

Stanley’s Fine Mess

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…