There was nary a nose ring in site at last night’s A Way With Words event at Lakewood Theater. The grammar geeks filed in cheerfully, dressed in springtime pastels and pausing just long enough to order Malbec doubles at the bar. Yes! A Way With Words Comes to Dallas was…
Denise Prince’s current collection of photographs sprung from four years of psychoanalysis. It was in the final two when the work became strangely experimental, compulsive and packed tight with neurosis. The show, now completed, hangs on CentralTrak’s back gallery wall, as one part of the new group exhibition That Mortal…
This could be you at Strokers on Saturday! William Shatner is back as a special Dallas Comic Con guest — just another excuse for you to dive into three days comic book digging, celebrity appearances and costume one-upmanship. There’s also a fundraiser at a biker bar, a beer pong battle…
Better upgrade your mapping app and pump up those bicycle tires, because the Oak Cliff Speedbump Tour returns this weekend to bait you inside the homes of stranger artists. (Somewhere right now, your mother is irrationally angry but doesn’t know why.) The 2013 hop-along includes the studios and residences of…
Put on your good pair of pants, the ones that aren’t covered with Cheeto dust, then go undercover as Dallas’ highfalutin Design District opens its newest collection of shows. It’s a big night, with all of your favorite galleries uncorking bottles and showing off prized names before the summer heat…
They summon the footnotes of the Merriam Webster Book of Idioms on demand. They solve your homophonic confusions through etymological dissection. They even exhume the roots of those regional phrases or heirloom colloquialisms that your grandmother imprinted on you — you know, the ones you say that make your friends…
Can’t get it up for the average artist talk? Thursday’s lecture at CentralTrak (800 Exposition Ave.) will forever change that as photographer Denise Prince invites her psychoanalyst, Charles Merward, to fly in from Los Angeles and speak on her behalf. Merward has been Prince’s analyst for several years and the…
Thought all subcultures were already tapped for reality television? Guess again. A new program is gaining momentum and intends to fill its cast with our favorite obsessives, The Nerds of Earth. The Quest has been described by its creator as “Amazing Race in Middle-Earth” and takes its potential crew on…
Dallas’ sprawl is often seen as a weakness, especially when it comes to creating community. But sometimes a little distance is useful. It allows for distinctive pockets of artistic personalities to emerge, and when those pieces click together, as should happen on Saturday, our city’s many influences become visible, tangible…
There’s a lot going on in That Mortal Coil (Rebuking the Ideal in Contemporary Figurative Art), CentralTrak’s newest group show, curated by Heyd Fontenot. The exhibition is a search for beauty in unconventional bodily spaces, and a retaliation to how the human figure is perceived in terms of physical perfection…
Before they were strangers who decided to stop being polite and start getting real, the cast members of Real World were just stars in waiting. MTV’s iconic staple of reality television is now casting for Season 29. The show’s vetters will be in Dallas at Redrock Bar and Grill on…
Embrace your fandom, dig for obscure back issues of your favorite reads and pull on a weird jumpsuit because it’s Comic Con time. This year’s fest sets its phasers to stun on Saturday when Shatner pops by for a visit. Prefer late-model Trek? No problem, special guests Geordi La Forge,…
The audience that packed into last night’s Found Footage Festival at Texas Theatre learned some important lessons. The most haunting stemmed from a video segment regarding the management practices of various open sores, where crudely edited television hosts materialized out of an abscessed toe, or spun a terrifying game of…
While last year Art Con doled out speakers for RZN8, this year’s seed event — which raises money and awareness for the annual party — gets more visually freaky. The gang just announced that the June 8 event, MOUNTED, will be all taxidermy-themed. Participating MOUNTED artists have been issued wall…
(Wait through the ad. It’s worth it) Well, now you’re awake. That was just one snippet from tonight’s Found Footage Festival at Texas Theatre. Add another work week to the body count and get ready for a three-finger pour of not-office. Unstuffy art pops up all over Dallas on Saturday;…
Let ’em rework the model. No game show can match the riveting design perfection of The Price is Right. It’s an unapologetic celebration of consumerism, populated with games of chance — I still get excited when the yodeling starts on Cliffhanger. I’m not alone on this. We all harbor secret…
It’s Mother’s Day and you need The Big Idea. The one that will make up for that time you stole the golf cart and crashed it into a neighbor’s mailbox. Something grand enough to forgive when you blamed your bedroom’s weed-smoke stink on funky gym clothes and Uncle Ron. Basically…
He changed everything about our perceptions of music, including the notions that it exists solely outside of our own bodies or must be made with traditional instruments. For those reasons, you should thank avant garde composer John Cage whenever a man in a gorilla suit climbs on stage, pours marbles…
She’s a top-rated author, lecturer, professor of animal science and is the big, beautiful brain behind the humane reorganization of the slaughterhouse industry for fast-food giants like McDonald’s and Burger King. Also, Dr. Temple Grandin is autistic. She’s dedicated her life to world betterment, and in doing so has shown…
If you have an emotional reaction to art, then you’re on the right blog. If you have an emotional reaction to chairs, then you’ve hit 30. Congratulations to both. Now let’s celebrate by peeking into Saturday’s Chair Art in the Park event happening at Klyde Warren. The event auctions off…
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are professional data sifters. You could also say they watch crap for a living. In fact, let’s say that instead. The pair harvests and compiles snippets from salvaged VHS tapes for their Found Footage Festival, then screens the stuff publicly. It results in analog peculiarity…
The giant neon cowboy peeking over Stemmons Highway and Walnut Hill Lane has gestured folks into Centennial Fine Wine and Spirits since it was welded in 1958. The Big Tex-inspired sign, standing 50 feet tall, exists as a vestige of a past era and a symbol of the resilient Texas…
