Wowsa! This year’s Dallas Burlesque Festival featured an especially talented cast of superstars — I mean, this aerial dancer alone leaves me speechless. Here’s our first round of dispatch pics from photographer Mike Brooks, who took one for the team by capturing all of the seduction in action. Picking our…

Fifty entered. But only 16 were chosen to seek romance, a hot meal and tickets to see The xx. This Sunday, we’ll watch things get awkward as those eligible single people compete in the Sundown at Granada’s xx Dating Game. If you, like most, were not selected, come closer. I…

Have you guys looked at the line up for this year’s Dallas Burlesque Festival? You know, that giant production happening this weekend at the House of Blues? It looks astounding. You’ll get en eyeful of local talent, like danger-vixen Black Mariah and those ladies from the Ruby Review, just to…

This totally bitchin’ documentary about fan films, Backyard Blockbusters, is playing at Thin Line. Art lovers and party lovers, listen up: This is a great weekend to meet each other. There are events all over town simply overflowing with complimentary drinks, and if I’m not mistaken, those are your favorite…

I dropped out of UNT’s ceramics program in early ’98. I’d started studying work by heavy-hitters in the field and then, Ken Price. I knew, looking at his intuitive, almost galactic-summoning shapes that I was just an off-key karaoke singer in a world of legitimate musicians. I immediately switched my…

Now in its sixth year, Thin Line Film Festival returns to Denton’s time-trapped downtown square to bring you all things ’ocumentary. Kicking off Friday’s action is a Sundance selection called Blood Brother that will likely shatter your heart as it rocks it gently back and forth. American Rocky Braat refuses…

There are great Sundays and then there are the ideal, goddam gems of afternoons that give purpose to your time off work. We’re going to discuss the latter. Those mischievous scamps over at The Granada have devised a way to please us all in one tidy afternoon. They’ve assembled a…

You’ve seen the organic King Cakes resting awkwardly on Whole Foods’ shelves, which leads to the questions 1.) Man, is it Mardi Gras already? And 2.) Is the cake baby gluten-free? Well, we don’t know details on the bastardized baked goods, but Oak Cliff’s Mardi Gras is ready to show…

It barely feels like a year since the last Phenomenon event over at the Dallas Contemporary (161 Glass St.). Man, remember that party? (Flashback tinkly sounds and smoke go here.) Fresh off his wall-tackling mission around Dallas, Shepard Fairey proved that not all muralists and graffiti artists are also DJs…

Ken Price created morphing, perplexing sculptures for decades, but he didn’t design most work intending that you and I would gawk over them, which we’ll happily do over and over again during the run of Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, which opens to the public on Saturday. Price made work…

Creating your own basic print publication isn’t a simple undertaking. Taking that idea further by sculpting one with a visually stimulating layout that defines and illuminates the topics at hand, and things become even more interesting. But what if you went even further? What if you built the publication around…

I can’t imagine that life has been easy for Whiplash, the dog-riding monkey. He travels the rodeo circuit with his manager, which seems like a lonely life. And I suspect he blows his stipends on bananas and alcohol, as monkeys who ride dogs are prone to do. Also, he’s from…

Attention nerds, dorks and assorted dweebs: You can get your photo taken with Doc Christopher Lloyd AND Lea Thompson this weekend at the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo! There are loads more of your favorites lurking — some of those Battlestar Galactica kids will be on the loose. But most of us…

Those venturing into and out of the American Airlines Center between now and March 31 could get an accidental dose of art, thanks to the Dallas Contemporary. The non-profit currently has a very cool, but easy-to-miss, video art exhibition called Los Americanos, lining its narrow interior gallery’s walls. Soon, you…

Every last photo is by Bianca Montes It was a rather beautiful scene on Friday night, despite the chaos. There’s just something meditatively calming about watching lovely clothes stroll around pool. We got that, repeatedly, at the Texas Next Top Designer Awards Gala. Topping off the evening was the big…

“When I was younger, I had to choose between being a musician and being an artist. I chose artist: I wanted to be responsible for screwing myself up.” — Frank Campagna When Frank Campagna, Kirk Hopper and a tidy pack of painters and photographers assembled Kettle Art in ’05, they…

Theoretically, opera and heavy drinking go well together. Over-the-top spectacles plus a few cocktails should equate to amplified magnificence. And yet, that’s a rookie move. Want to be persona non grata at the Winspear? Just let the booze sleep carry you away, mid-aria. (I’m lookin’ at you Aïda.) The Fort…

See this guy do this thing tonight at Phantasm! (See Thursday) Brace yo’ selves: This weekend’s charging out of the gate with two fashion shows, a boozy tattoo party and underground art. Oh, and did someone say there was a football game on Sunday? DON’T PANIC. We’ve broken it all…

Tuesday, film dorks, you’ve got options. If you dig Werner Herzog, (you’re nodding, of course you are) then you’ll want to casually bro down with the gentle souls of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff (3839 W. Kiest Blvd.). They’re screening his 2011 release, which takes us deep into…