There’s no shortage of options in how to experience the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, this holiday season. What’s important is that your protagonist fall from grace, learn empathy and — this is a deal breaker — discover the True Meaning of Christmas Through Ghostly Hallucinations. Dallas Theater Center does…
Discussions over preserving the Thomas Building in downtown Dallas were laid to rest Sunday morning, during the vestige cotton building’s implosion. Its bones were weak and the interior had flooded repeatedly, causing erosion to occur at an accelerated rate. Sad about its pending absence but totally stoked about all of…
If a spaceship were to visit Earth, Waxahachie, Texas would make for a solid touchdown location. Its distance from the major, more reactive cities allows for an unassuming arrival. And once landed, I imagine that local art space curators, Julie and Bruce Lee Webb, would be there waiting, ready to…
The Oak Cliff Film Fest leaked a little news this morning about its plans for a second installment in 2013, and it worked. We’re excited. Just a few months back, the group proved that there was, in fact, room for another cinematic celebration here in Dallas. And it did it…
Picking up where the original film left off, Leatherface returns to sling his gas-powered weapon in 3D this January. The crew just released a new, extra Texas-y clip from the upcoming release, and it’s piled high with curse words and night terror potential. Man, too bad barns are made of…
He shaved his head onstage at Fun Fun Fun Fest, so Kilmer should look extra aerodynamic while snatching up his Dallas Star Award this evening at The Art of Film, the Dallas Film Society’s annual Fall fundraiser. The night goes all out, with red carpet arrivals leading into the Hall…
The building’s construction continues for a few more months, but our new Alamo Drafthouse can’t wait that long to meet you. It wants to party NOW. What’s an unfinished theater to do? For the Alamo Richardson, the answer is simple: Take that bash outdoors. Tonight, November 16, our much anticipated…
There’s a rock ‘n’ roll puppet party with spaceship art at Webb Gallery on Sunday! Brace yourselves, Dallas. This weekend is loaded up with visits from famouses, homegrown art, and oodles of oddball things falling somewhere in between. There’s a sci-fi costume party celebrating the military at an Arlington piano…
Mark S. Nelson isn’t a new name around Dallas. He’s been showing his work in our city’s stronghold galleries — Kettle, The Public Trust and Plush — since the early 2000s, giving those walls a hearty dose of cheerful color, layered above peculiarly deviant subject matter. Now, he’s got his…
A group of artists will shake up that currently sedentary snowglobe you know as reality Saturday night in a group show called Co- Re-Creating Spaces. A gathering of more than 20 complicated minds, the shared goal is to contextualize, reframe and reassign meaning to surrounding space, spaces and the pathways…
Dallas Fort Worth area native and artist Esther Pearl Watson has pinned her career on two influential humans: her spaceship-building father and a 15-year-old girl with a lackadaisical diary obsession. In the gallery world, like at Sunday’s opening at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie (209 W. Franklin St.), we’re given a…
A group of local Trekkies are boldly going where no one has gone before on Friday, as the U.S.S. Navras presents a costumed celebration honoring our Earthly military. The officially sanctioned USO party is sci-fi themed, so if you’ve ever wanted to dance with a sailor while dressed as chain-mail…
More than just an experimental cinematic playground, Texas Theatre is an unconventional nightlife hub, a film festival nucleus and a reassuring Jefferson Boulevard business anchor. But life wasn’t always this way. The Oak Cliff Foundation purchased the historic building in 2001 with a financial leg-up from a few dozen generous…
Wheel Of Fortune has been bringing families together, often to shout frustrated expletives at contestants, since 1975. It combines life’s greatest things: a spinny prize wheel, an illuminated version of Hangman and the eternal fountain of grace and youth that is Vanna White. This weekend Dallas Fort Worth watchers will…
You’ve got to wonder if the Cohen brothers were able to predict the pop-culture trajectory of The Big Lebowski. It’s spawned a nationally touring tribute festival, created a new generation of white Russian drunkards and even made the word “nihilist” trendy. Plus, it’s got everyone: John Goodman at his absolute…
She’s a fashion icon, an international celebrity, cyborg and a award-winning clothing designer, and tomorrow, November 14, you can snag a peek at Victoria Beckham when she visits the flagship downtown Neiman Marcus. She’ll be there for a special, private affair to promote her ready-to-wear line, Victoria, but she’ll also…
It’s a rowdy scene for a novice to enter, but as I walked up the ramp leading into Art Con 8, I got excited. Of course I did: The warehouse was reconfigured with stages, interactive drawing boards, auction realms, a bar and a main performance platform for the bands. Each…
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect walking into Tiny Thumbs, the pop-up video art arcade that materialized Saturday evening at CentralTrak. I’d been briefed, but I was still apprehensive. Here’s the thing: I’m terrible at most modern video games and wasn’t looking forward to a room of seasoned players…
It’s the biggest cultural philanthropy event of the year, without a dress code. And this Saturday, November 10, Dallas gets another shot to bid on locally crafted artwork in a high-energy environment at Art Con 8. See Also: Behind the Scenes at Art Con 8, a Slideshow Since launching in…
Trailer for Super Hexagon, a new game by Terry Cavanagh. Film. Literature. Music. Sculpture. All are considered art. But what separates them from their sibling medium, video games? It’s a question that’s being asked more frequently as a new generation of inventors write code that blurs the line between entertainment…
ArtCon8Final from Kyle Kondas on Vimeo. Hey Dallas, I hope you’ve been doing your power lunges because this Saturday requires a full-court sprint. There’s a pop-up video game art arcade at CentralTrak, then that giant philanthropic art-a-palooza bash, Art Con 8, over on Dragon Street, ending off at the Dallas…
It’s rare to find a piece of biographical art history as readable and enjoyable as Cézanne, A Life by Alex Danchev. That’s partially because Cézanne makes for a perfect subject: a brilliant mind plagued by an exacting nature. He wasn’t what you’d call a “budger,” that Cézanne. That stoic build…
