Moon Day, a seven-hour celebration of the other moonwalk, happens Saturday. Art superfans, stretch now: this is a marathon weekend. We’ve got Dallasites: Available Space kicking off at the DMA Friday just next door to ‘Til Midnight at the Nasher; Design District Gallery Day blocks out Saturday afternoon and there’s…

Let those day-drunk journalists blow cash to rub elbows with Susan Orlean and Ben Fountain at the Mayborn today. Everyone else will post up at Oil and Cotton (837 W. 7th St., Oak Cliff) for Read-Rite Market: a free celebration of the written word and the social practice of reading…

Geekly bylaws dictate that members of the nerd community observe several lesser-known holidays. Honoring the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter is a must-do on Pi Day, March 14. Lightsaber salutes better happen on May the Fourth be With You. And Free Comic Book Day? Well, true nerds…

Just a few hours south in sister city Austin, you can’t swing a recycled, naturally dyed, hand-knit, multi-use grocery/sleeping bag without knocking down six to 14 sketch comics. Try it, it’s fun to do. Especially outside of Wheatsville Co-op, where they have extra-weakened soy legs. Here in Dallas, we experience…

You’ve been shouting it for years anyway. The tantrum phrase has been helpful for: shutting down aggressive dudes at bars; gaining your own seat on subway travel; and pre-holiday shopping, from the Pepperidge Farm mall kiosk to the Honey Baked Ham pick-up counter. (Note to self: You give shitty gifts.)…

Space tourism. Whether you view it as the ultimate rich man’s mini-vacation or a means to offset funding for important work, those seats start at $95,000. That’s unattainable for most people, making space exploration an inherently elitist treasure. That’s something Edward Wright would like to change through the Dallas-based nonprofit…

God I miss Rebecca Sealfon, ’97 Spelling Bee Champ. There’s little information so far, save for one lonely Facebook invitation, but Dan’s Silver Leaf will halt musical programming Tuesday night and switch gears. They’re throwing a drunken competitive word party for nerds who hate their livers, called “BUZZ BEE -…

Bastille Day in Bishop Arts just makes sense. Silly hats, scarves, mustaches and heavy gesticulating while holding wine? Oak Cliffers were probably doing that stuff anyway. Sunday was the fourth annual street party for the city’s francophiles, and they came out by the striped-shirt thousands to sample food by Dallas…

World War G – watch more funny videos It’s been less than a month since former U.S. senator and GOP candidate Rick Santorum jumped into the movie biz, taking a CEO position with EchoLight, the super Jesus-y faith-based film studio out of Flower Mound. It’s about time someone made fun…

That’s right, it’s the weekend and that means: L-I-V-I-N. Alamo Drafthouse has a free, outdoor screening of Dazed and Confused on Saturday, the Inwood shows Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure as a midnight quote-along and Texas Theatre completes the throw-back triad with a weekend dedicated to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’s…

The Asian Film Festival Dallas reached maximum occupancy in 2012, so for its 2013 run, July 11 to 18, the showcase tackles a larger venue, filling the Angelika (5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, #230) with a week’s worth of vetted works, costumed screenings and films that you simply would not see…

A wise cartoon rat once pontificated that “a fair is a veritable smorgasbord.” Nowhere is that more true than Fair Park (1121 1st Ave.) Friday through Sunday as the grounds convert into a foodie oasis for the 27th Annual Taste of Dallas. Coated in a saucy barbecue theme, this year’s…

“Taxidermy mannequins, foam, push pins, fake roses, poured plastic, glitter” are the listed ingredients in “Cluster,” a piece by Ann Wood that straddles the line of installation and sculpture. Wood’s tendency to draw from multiple conflicting influences is what gives her work its interesting points of juxtaposition, which you can…

Dallas’ population density can be an asset, or it can be a point of division because as we pack in tighter, we seem to know fewer neighbors. But imagine if we did: If we unified our voices, talents and passions to improve the area we inhabit, we could create utopia…

A gal will be painting expressionist landscape art nails out of a 1968 Shasta Compact trailer at Doublewide on Thursday. Do not panic: That’s Breanne Trammell, and she’s legit. A RISD grad out of Wassaic New York, Trammell’s an artist who works across mediums, from print making, sculpture and painting…

You often consider how much better the world would be if someone would simply respond to your letter-writing campaign. Your wants are simple and concise: draft a stage production that marries your love of “rival camps on opposite sides of the lake” story lines to Caddyshack (the first one, naturally)…

Tuesday Night Trash, Texas Theatre’s now monthly-ish offering, has shifted substantially in recent screenings. It’s jumped from presenting the Garbage Pail Kids Movie to a recent special edition of old Transgression cinema guest-curated by Michael Morris to this Tuesday’s screening of Blank Generation, by filmmaker (and guitarist for Blondie, Iggy…

It’s unclear exactly when our society become so masochistic, but it has. It really, really has. Take the Color Mob 5K for example, an event that involves 1) running for fun in the heat of a Texas summer and 2) people throwing neon powder at a sweaty, hot and hyperventilating…