Your kid is getting too old to keep giving you Popsicle stick snowflakes stuck together with Elmer’s glitter glue for Christmas. This year, stop hanging them on the back of the tree and check out Vetro’s Create Your Ornament glassblowing class. For $25 you pick color mixes, help apply them…
Between all the working, shopping and family drama, the holiday season can be a beating sometimes, giving even the best of us a case of the bah humbugs. Luckily for you, Dallas Theatre Center has just the thing. They’re putting on a production of A Christmas Carol through December 24…
Sausage balls are charming. I find something delightfully underdog-ish about a pan loaded with tasty snacks that bake up to smell so good but look like clumps of dirt. There’s nothing particularly Christmas-y about these little nuggets, but I associate their savory, peppery, sausage-stuffed and cheese-loaded flavor with the season…
Lest we forget our fellow man in the flurry of cookie baking and online shopping, here are a few goings-on in Dallas to tickle your good-will lobe. The Thing: Deep Ellum Outdoor Market The Cause: Local artists, crafters and businesses The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market is setting up shop this…
This week, Dallas food blogs are tittering about what’s new and exciting. We have equal rights for cookies, a new gadget for barbecue, more angles on the possibility of food trucks and (predictably) a new list of places of restaurants willing to work on Christmas Day. And that’s just the…
No matter what Texas bumper stickers say, it’s clear that bigger is not always better. Puppy dogs, hair barrettes, petit fours, buttons: People like some things downsized. That’s the idea behind Small Works: Art + Object, an exhibition of small sculptures by 16 artists on display at the Marty Walker…
The holiday season has a way of making even charity work a treat. Philanthropists around Dallas are letting you give back by giving to yourself. You just have to choose between s’mores, drink specials and cookies. The Thing: OMG S’mores The Cause: North Texas Food Bank Not like you need…
Now that we’re through with Thanksgiving, Dallas food blogs and food writers are warmed up and ready to get going with some serious holiday eating. The party started this week with Chanukah, and we expect it to keep gaining momentum right through New Years. Pegasus News Ever since Sidedish announced…
The 2009 movie Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench was shot on black and white film with a hand-held camera. It’s dark. It’s gritty. It’s raw and heart-wrenching, buoyed only by the prominently featured brassy jazz music. It’s musical mumblecore, and it’s not apologizing for the oxymoron. You see…
My two least favorite things behind spiders and being on fire are running and being cold. And I believe that there is no reason to run unless you’re avoiding spiders or fire or being cold. So I’ll need to change my tune before the White Rock Marathon this Sunday. Officials…
Listen, I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I’ve never get more excited than I do during the holidays. It’s just that I hate Black Friday. Last year I worked two jobs. 7 a.m. found me selling candles at Yankee Candle when there was no one there to buy them. Then…
Let’s talk about Fight Club. In his film Boxing Gym, director Frederick Wiseman got into the ring with a Texas boxing gym. Basically, he planted his tripod in Lord’s Gym in Austin and waited. Wiseman allowed his camera to soak in the gym’s rhythm, without giving direction or asking too…
I don’t get why standing in the dark surrounded by coyotes and strange rustling wouldn’t be a nightmare, but I’m a nature-hating person who sucks down high-fructose corn syrup, dumps pollutants in the ground water, kicks a tree and calls it a day. If you’re a better person, check out…
Among other things, the Thanksgiving cooking class at Stephan Pyles taught me that the main things I know about journalism are wrong. I had a journalism professor open his class with, “You think you’re going to be happy? You’re not. You think this career is going to be easy? It’s…
You might be stressed about cooking dinner next Thursday, but that’s the kind of anxiety Dallas chefs breathe, sleep and eat for breakfast (slow-roasted and lavender-infused, naturally.) Some Dallas restaurants are closing for good, some are revamping their previously underwhelming menus, and others are putting in extra hours to make…
Our parents used to throw us kids in the backseat with a bunch of comforters and then drive around town so we could check out the Christmas lights and displays. It was awesome, and way cheaper than going to the movies. Watters Creek is turning our ritual into an event,…
My mom was a bookkeeper for MJ Designs, and she didn’t get out of there without becoming crafty with glitter-glazed pine cones, wire ribbon and Styrofoam berries. Mom’s busy this year, but you can check out wreaths made by some of the (second) best designers in Dallas at the DIFFA…
The Bath House Cultural Center is ready to kick its 2010 Winter Art Mart into gear. The event will feature more than 35 vendors hawking a variety of artsy stuff, including the painted kinds, the sculpted kinds, the fragile, polished, shiny kinds and much more. The money you spend will…
Guess I should have been a bit more sensitive to my surroundings. But it wasn’t until I stepped out of my car that I realized I had dressed in leather boots and a wool-blend sweater to attend a vegan cooking class called “Holiday Fixins” at the Spiral Diner & Bakery…
If you’re feeling a little guilty that your Thanksgiving is going to feature three turkeys, 27 different sides and the Mississippi River’s worth of wine while others go without, relax. Dallas has plenty of charitable eating options coming up this month. The place: Smashburger The cause: Salvation Army On your…
As any web editor will tell you, the best way to up the “viewage” is a daily list. People love lists. Five Ways to Hack a McRib and Six Things to Do with Disturbing Halloween Candy proved this theory. My pitch for Top Five Sauces to Make Your Shoes Taste…
There are two kinds of Celtic groups in this world: those who cite Neil Diamond as a musical hero and those who don’t. Celtic Thunder is the former. And you’d think with a name like Celtic Thunder they would be forced to forfeit some of their European punch, as their…
