Adam Corolla says that women aren’t funny, but that’s pretty judgmental for an inexpensively made Japanese sedan with a “first man” complex. Comic and self-professed “Standup in Stilettos” Christina Pazsitzky’s Twitter response? “That’s [his] opinion — and apparently nobody’s been paying attention to them until now.” A Chelsea Lately roundtable…
When the Ruby Revue graces the House of Blues, “standing at attention” usually is just an awkward side effect, and this summer’s red-hot Stars-n-Bars tribute, The Ruby Revue Salutes the Troops, is no exception. With “burlesque and vaudeville with a blend of ribald humor, tantalizing striptease, singers and original choreography…
It is as if Hitchcock had discovered digital illustration when Alberto Mena steps behind the lens. While not shooting exclusively in black and white, much of Mena’s photography is reminiscent of the chilling but unflinchingly understated shots from the classic filmmaker’s repertoire. Inspired but never derivative, Mena, masterfully drives his…
Back in college, a “power hour” was a drinking game where two very drunk, and likely underage, idiots tried to drink one shot of beer per minute for a full hour. As an adult, we still rock that shit, but now we just call it “happy hour at Goodfriend.” These…
By now, most every paper that matters has thoroughly and appropriately eulogized feminist journalist and funny-woman, Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday evening at the age of 71. In fact, our even trying to characterize her life as beautifully or as intimately as The New York Times or The Atlantic –…
The DeLorean, Bond’s DB5, the Bandit’s Trans Am. Sometimes it’s an iconic car that makes a movie as much as Reynolds’ mustache or Connery’s brogue. (Did Bullitt even have a plot? Your guess is as good as ours.) Well, this just in, today from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m., you can…
It was highway robbery, but no one called the cops. Sunday evening’s ArtSlam saw walls of high-quality, locally-created paintings, photographs, and schwag walk out the doors of Steve Paul Productions in Deep Ellum for just pennies on their estimated values. However, every name scribbled and every hand raised during the…
HOLD UP. This video has a bunch of cursing in it, on account of Youngman’s awesomely filthy mouth. NSFW. It seems like every arts blog in town has been hyping ArtSlam all week. But, if you haven’t yet heard of it, we can understand your confusion at its seemingly violent…
Nestled in a corner of Jackson Armory and adjacent to Snider Plaza, Rosedale Rare Books is as unassuming as, well, one would expect an independently-owned, antiquarian bookstore to be. Due to the nature of its surroundings – the armory specializes in antique weaponry, and its walls are lined with rifles,…
I like animals. Having grown up in rural Texas with cows and “cy-otes” staring me down on a daily basis, and despite the fact that my someday procuring a lion skin rug or gallant 12 point buck for my wall will likely not serve my dating life well, I am…
Tupac’s hologram walks into a bar and drowns its sorrows, wishing its latest performance were half as “bad” as what Mike is putting to us. Hitting Dallas Tuesday and Wednesday, Cirque du Soleil presents Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour, featuring the company’s signature acrobatics to expand upon and honor…
About once per month, the Dragon rears its lustrous head with a boundless offering of artistic glory. Saturday marks one such instance when the Design District’s most ophidian street coordinates a number of gallery openings for the art lover’s pleasure. From fabulous fulmination at Mary Tomás Studio Gallery and Circuit…
It was Keats who wrote, “Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud,” but Dallas painter Aralyn McGregor had to make no such request. For the oil, acrylic, watercolor and dry media artist, the inspiration for her new solo exhibition, Muse, resounded from the words of “Lady Lazarus” herself,…
Among some of his less-remembered acts as governor, George W. Bush declared June 20th an official Texas state holiday back in 1999, honoring Audie Murphy. From meager beginnings as a North Texas plowboy to World War II’s most highly-decorated American soldier, Murphy led a life of immense acclaim as a…
It’s so uncouth, so un-Dallas to even think to hop aboard public transit when one has a perfectly good Land Rover or Audi roadster at hand, but it seems that DART has agreed to add a couple a words to its downtown Pearl Station at the bequest of the Dallas…
Juneteenth is a complicated holiday here in Texas. While it is a national celebration of emancipation, it is too a solemn reminder not only of one of the most shameful periods of American history, but also the fact that slavery did not end in Texas when the Emancipation Proclamation went…
Studio DTFU is curating a new jam called Shoop, but lest there be any confusion, it is not, in fact, an homage to Cher or Whitney. And, while the term “shoop” can likely be connected to an obscure and physically puzzling sex act (like almost everything else found on UrbanDictionary.com),…
If one were to describe photographer Allison V. Smith’s work with just one word, it would be: multifarious … or, variegated. Vivid, nuanced, resplendent, complicated. Conspicuous, but never ostentatious, never distractingly so. In other words, there’s simply no way to condense a multifaceted artist of Smith’s breadth to a single…
Art is Art posted a little reminder yesterday evening on Facebook that there are only two days left to scrounge up some last minute goods for the favorite father figure in your life. What do dads even like? Bill O’Reilly and steak, probably. Maybe a meat basket, if you want…
There’s this great line in Annie Hall where Alvy Singer notices a book in Annie’s collection as she is moving in with him and says, “Sylvia Plath – interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality.” Carefree, gorgeous, ditsy Annie responds with a blithe…
Barry Whistler Gallery announced with sadness yesterday afternoon that visual artist and longtime gallery favorite John Wilcox has passed away. Wilcox lived and worked in the New York arts scene in the late ’80s, and his experiences during the AIDS epidemic there forever informed and impacted his emotional, minimalist work…
Golden Triangle Woodturners, a group of more than 70 artisans who use ancient techniques of manipulating wood through the use of a lathe, are producing the group show, Turning Logs Into Art, on exhibition in the Meadows Gallery through August 10. Displaying a large variety of sculptural pieces — some…
