Fort Worth native/New York transplant, K8 Hardy isn’t a stranger to fashion. She’s written zines on the topic and has worked as a stylist, but neither of those touchstones will inspire her runway show, scheduled for October 4 at the Dallas Contemporary. This catwalk is a vehicle for performance art…

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Among artistic media, video art is still a young tyke. It didn’t grow into a known and identified category until the late 1960s and early ’70s, so it’s still considered wild terrain. Dallas VideoFest is coming up, showcasing new and avant-guard work from the genre, so you’ll want to get…

The shit-talking comment section of Dallas AnimeFest’s website is already getting heated! Girls are calling each other out for wearing the same cosplay outfit two years in a row (for normal folks, that’s like re-wearing a prom dress). Gamers are threatening each other with avatar annihilation. Old dudes are slow-typing…

Isis Brantley fought a fight that few in Dallas even know existed. A leader in the underground hair-braiding movement, Brantley was arrested in ’95 for practicing her craft without a cosmetology license. Known throughout the international hair community as Naturally Isis, she refused to accept the charge, arguing that cosmetology…

There’s a reason why you fall asleep with Blue Planet’s credit screen playing: The soundtrack is incredibly calming. It, and the score to Planet Earth, were done by film composer George Fenton, whose newest addition to the Earth Triology, Frozen Planet, is coming to Dallas. Kinda. Fenton conducts the Dallas…

When we last saw pomp drag superstar Sharon Needles, she was standing between that To Wong Fu knock-off, Phi Phi O’Hara, and the charming, Cher-conjuring Chad Michaels. Needles was poised in a see-through, skintight, floor-length, seaweed-green lace number with a giant brass guitar pick stuck to her forehead. Then RuPaul…

Popping in for a show at Dallas Comedy House already feels like an intimate experience. The charmingly minimal interior doesn’t allow for a bunch of fuss, and why should it? You’re there to fucking laugh. To laugh until you question if that fourth (fifth?) Bombshell Blonde was such a good…

I love this curvacious bench, which has its formal debutante reveal tonight on the corner of Pittman and Fort Worth Avenue at 7 p.m. It’s a new piece of public art, meant to gussy up the exterior corner of Chicken Scratch’s property, improving pedestrian conditions along the South Dallas strip…

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In its past two installments, Vinyl Thoughts, the local celebration of nerdly arts, has been popular. So much so, that shopping the event came with a door wait. Dallas, it seems, is famished for custom and customizable toys (and free drinks), so the club-style events filled almost instantly, leaving a…

Holler at your Fly Girlz, there’s a nineties party on Saturday! Hold on to your fannypacks, kids. It’s going to be one helluva weekend. You’ll need to clone yourself by Saturday to hit up Art Conspiracy’s RZN8, a pro wrestling match (and wine mixer) in a sports bar, a ’90s…

The most shocking thing about Fifty Shades of Grey is that so many people have read the entire thing. Lacking any literary meat, the book has been dubbed “mommy porn,” and its popularity speaks more to our desire to understand relationships that are different than our own than its credibility…

Aside from the promise of complimentary snacks, there is no better reason to unite than literature. And this weekend, South Dallas has what you need. Now in its 10th year, the Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair and Arts Festival has grown into a full-force, three-day gathering of popular authors, workshops,…

Muscle shirts and denim jackets. Clogs and Catholic-school girl miniskirts. So many hats. The mid-’90s were an especially divisive time in fashion, and still everything paired well with a blazer or a wine cooler. Time loop back to that era of Clueless, Saved by the Bell and other guilty-pleasure adolescent…

If you’re unfamiliar with Art Conspiracy, it’s kind of like a street gang of creative do-gooders on the brink of revolution. Its mainframe rests underground in an undisclosed location, busily engineering elaborate events that raise cash for local non-profits rooted in the arts. Since 2005, AC has raised more than…