The Safe Word Is “Tiny”

Perched in an upstairs hideaway within Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) is Dallas’ newest small gallery, The Safe Room. It’s brought intimate works by local and formerly local talents since materializing magically earlier this year. Its latest offering is the peculiarly crafted Nothing Fits! Told in two stories, united…

Someone Needs A Holy Water Enema

Life is stress. Either you learn to manage it or it manifests into an intestinal gremlin hellbent on exacting revenge. Or at least that’s the kicker plotpoint of Bad Milo!, a dark comedy starring Ken Marino (Party Down, The State, Wet Hot American Summer) that screens at the Texas Theatre…

His Science Is Too Tight!

Friday is Social Science night, the event that recently won the Dallas Observer’s Best Night at the Museum award, and it’s sold out. Now, we aren’t telling you this news to ruin your day. We’re telling you so that you can A) get excited if you bought a ticket early,…

That Building Sure Can Talk

During last year’s Expanded Cinema project, which put local video art onto the OMNI’s giant canvas, cars sat abandoned, piled up along the road like the vehicular aftermath of an apocalypse. Fields filled with viewers like some out-of-season Fourth of July. And art did what we knew it could: pulled…

The 10 Best Murals in Dallas (Photos)

Dallas’ murals are as disjointed as the architecture they’re painted on. The high-end commissioned works, like the walls Shepard Fairey and Faile did for the Dallas Contemporary, are balanced by spaces where local artists were allowed to get handsy. What we don’t have much of — well, never for long…

Dallas’ Five Best Adult Novelty Stores

Sex shops are like snowflakes — assuming snowflakes wanted to get you laid, like real bad. They each have their own feels and specialties. You shouldn’t drive out of your way for bachelorette party accessories just to find only hand-blown glass anal plugs. Or vice versa. Some shops cater more…

Austin’s Funniest Comic, Mac Blake, Performs Tonight at Texas Theatre

Austin’s comedy scene has become a big conversation. Unconventional venues have sprung up across the city, improv classes are a standard activity for young adults and events like Moontower Comedy Festival pair big names (Maria Bamford, Anthony Jeselnik, Reggie Watts, and Amy Schumer) with the best in upcoming stand-up, sketch…

First Look: The 2013 Chinese Lantern Festival, in Photos

Last night they flipped the breaker, turning on this year’s bigger, brighter and more brilliant Chinese Lantern Festival for a private media preview. It’s changed a lot since we last saw it: there are 17 new scenes, making 24 total, and the overall layout and groupings are more orderly. It…

Tex Talk

There’s a spookiness to Big Tex’s new persona. Since the great flambé, we’ve anthropomorphized him into a walking, bilingual, phoenix-like colossus — a super weird way to collectively cope with loss. His “footprints” have been left all over the state like those of some corn dog-divined Sasquatch and public relations…

Shiny Shiny, Shiny Boots of Leather

If the Internet has proven anything, it’s that each touch, taste, smell, sight and emotional and physical interaction has the ability to become fetishized. And for all you know, your grandma’s running a webcam business out of Shady Oakes. So where do all of these kinks get kinky in three-dimensional…

Dallas, Meet Austin Comedy. Now, Let’s Do Shots.

Down in our neighborly city Austin, the comedians have taken over. Local radio programs, movie theaters and start-up venues blast the stuff out nightly, nurturing an increasingly rich talent pool that you should know about. Friday at Texas Theatre’s Behind the Screen Comedy series (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.), where folks…

Beyond Selfies

The “art” of Instagram has its admirers and its detractors. While some say it waters down the craft of photography, lowering the value of the medium as a whole, others would counter that availability creates a more photo-appreciative world. There’s a new show opening Friday that celebrates the filtered square…

Denim and Dirty Rock

There was a time when Dallas was more than an optional post-Austin stop for musicians. From the ’50s to the late ’70s, this city was the Southwestern hub of the music industry and every band worth its spit targeted the place. Dallas was where you went to get your name…

A Prairie Home Companion Will Push Its Powdermilk Biscuits in Dallas

Garrison Keillor’s longevity is an interesting play. Broadcasting live from St. Paul for nearly 40 years, his throwback production honors that relatable, wholesome, oh-so-NPR Middle-Americana. But what’s kept him fascinating is the peculiar subversive undercurrent seeping up between the Powdermilk Biscuit commercials. Keillor isn’t as spit-shined as the Lake Wobegon…

Catching Air: Our Ten Favorite Flugtag Victory Photos

Earlier this morning we looked at Saturday’s greatest Flugtag crashes, and boy were they glorious. But there were also those moments prior to gravity’s embrace. Design, manpower and lots of that trigonometry we never thought we’d use merged, creating prolonged moments of flight. The photos of those quick victories, captured…

(Photos) Our Ten Favorite Flugtag Crashes

Gravity is a funny thing. Despite months of planning and trial runs, each of those dedicated Flugtag experimenters inevitably faced The Big Fall. Sometimes it happened right off the ramp. Others were given a few brief moments of flight before it all came crashing down. Either way, we caught these…

Van-Surf to Alamo Drafthouse: Teen Wolf Screens Tonight in 35mm

Teen Wolf – watch more funny videos From concept to execution, Teen Wolf is a positively perfect ’80s film that makes absolutely no sense. Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) has lived in the same town his entire life. When his adolescent hormones shift, he realizes that he’s a werewolf. This…