Street Mural – Nicky Davis from Nicky Davis on Vimeo.Timelapse of artist Nicky Davis making Houston a little artier. This year’s 35 Denton showcase took its vitamins and grew extra massive. Now its lineup is fortified with bands like Built to Spill, Thee Oh Sees and The Jesus and Mary…
Is that numbing pain in your shoulder diminishing? It can only mean one thing: The weekend is coming! Unwind from your stressball career with runway shows, stand-up comedy and drag queen brunch. It’s all happening this weekend, kids. Here’s a little guide to cool stuff happening around town. Share it…
If the cast of Chelsea Lately were to burn their bras, it would not be an act of defiance so much as a drunken scheme, and it certainly wouldn’t take place at a political forum. If Sarah, Whitney, Heather and Chelsea spark up their boulder holders it’s in order to…
In a city fueled by fashion there are few runway shows featuring work by independent designers. The Pin Show, an annual worship service to all things glamour, mends that tear in our city’s style coverage. After taking a one-year hiatus, the garment fete is back and packed with more enticing…
Chihuly, Central Market, that crazy bridge — they’re all being billed as the saving grace of Dallas, or rather stuff that makes our already valuable stuff more valuable. Fine, you can have your bridge and your heart-healthy prepared meals and your blown-glass chandeliers, but none of those things will get…
When cartoonist/illustrator/story teller Don Hertzfeldt spoke at Texas Theatre last Friday, he mentioned what he likes to watch at film festivals. Surprisingly, it isn’t other animated shorts or even feature buzz-heavy full-lengths; he watches the documentaries. His logic was sound: “You realize that if you watch a feature film and…
Act of Valor is a fictional film that uses currently serving U.S. military to express the daily struggles endured by our camouflaged men and women through dramatic reenactment. It premieres this evening at Cinemark West Plano and will be presented by Congressman Pete Sessions, Councilmember Sheffie Kadane and U.S. Navy…
This Friday you’ll crave one. That’s just what happens when America’s favorite gas-fueled hot dog comes rolling into town. (If the sight of it doesn’t make you salivate, the theme music will.) Between 3 and 8 p.m. on Friday, February 24, you can visit a modern Wienermobile at the Irving…
Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez! It’s the last day before repentance, how are you going to spend it? If you feel like getting sauced and earning those eight cent strings of plastic beads, you’re in good company. A whole gaggle of nightclubs are featuring DJs, shirt lifting and drink specials,…
The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park has a new resident, a big fat alligator snapping turtle that remained nameless until this morning. Thanks to the Carey family from Lewisville, the ancient reptile now goes by Spike and because of some very cautious handling at the Children’s Aquarium we now know…
I made my first trip to the Frisco IKEA yesterday. In the course of my journey I saw families ripped apart, friendships tested and entirely too many things promising to solve my organizational dilemmas. Yes, I left disorientated with two carts of “AUSKS” and “FULKVIKS.” The problem with IKEA is…
Forrest Solis takes a meditative look at maturation in her new solo exhibition at Galleri Urbane. The figure painter mashes up early 20th century etiquette books with contemporary oil paintings of young women and pairs them together on canvas in her new Self and Sex Series: What A Young Woman…
Welcome to DOGTV, a “scientifically developed” channel created by humans for dogs. Focusing on three central themes: Relaxation, Stimulation and Exposure, the digital channel is designed to act as Fido’s ultimate babysitter so that you, the self-centered human, can go about your daily life while your retriever’s brain atrophies to…
“All the zombies are our tonight,” shouted the guardian of Smokin’ Joe’s hot dog cart to a passing patrol cop. “OOOOOOOh, it’s going to be wiiiiild!” he thundered, fist in the air. The cop rolled down his window, assessed the spectacle occurring in front of The Church and looked severely…
Fresh off a week of recent Dallas escapades, Shepard Fairey has been cast in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons called “Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart.” Now in its 23rd season (Wha-hoo!) the city of Springfield is faced with a new scourge: Bart Simpson turned rebellious street artist. His muse? Homer,…
Tonight select Dallas theaters will participate in the one night exclusive showing of Re:Generation, a pumped up intellectual look at how today’s top DJs deconstruct music into polyphonic fractions, permute and then reassemble them so your eardrums never grow stale. It’s this quest for new sounds that leads each DJ…
Our friends over at You Plus Dallas put together this comprehensive time-lapse footage of Shepard Fairey creating his murals in the Big D. Take a short break and enjoy the proceess as it played out from the street. Follow the Mixmaster on Twitter and Facebook…
You did it! You managed to keep your head low and your gaze straight as you soldiered through another work week, and for that you should be rewarded. Here’s a little congratulations prize for your efforts (spoiler alert: it’s a list of fun stuff to do around town). Click each…
John Leguizamo, by all scientific standards, is only one man but you suspect otherwise during his stage shows. Is he channeling dark magic? Is he demolishing the laws of physics by existing in multiplicity? How the hell does that guy become so many characters so quickly? “That’s the thing about…
In his famous short film Rejected, Don Hertzfeldt depicts himself as a down-on-his luck illustrator who acts out his spiraling madness through squiggly cartoon stickmen. Each segment grows progressively more insane until characters are bludgeoning one another for their inappropriate selection of head wear. God we love this man. He’s…
(Clip from Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best) The Dallas Film Society announced the first 15 entries to be officially accepted into this year’s Dallas International Film Festival, which occurs from April 12 to the 22.While many so far are documentaries, a few feel-goods have weaseled their way in, and so…
Holy crap. You better go ahead and sew your liver an apology sling right now, because Saturday is going to be a major rager. GayBingo has had Dallas by the weave for ten glorious years, so we know how packed the Rose Room will be when the hard partying Mardi…
