So, what happens when the SMU Meadows School of the Arts and the SMU Cox School of Business get together? No, it’s not a Dharma and Greg re-hash romcom — although that would be delightful. It’s NCAR, the National Center for Arts Research, the non-profit arts community’s new best friend…
According to the Jenga-like stack of publicity materials covering my desk, Kennedy season has peaked. Plays. Readings. Art shows. Lectures. Films. Acrobats. Clown cars. Kitten parades. Cooking demos — who the hell knows? It’s getting JFKrazy out there. When chaos smothers meaning, we look to the arts for answers. From…
I fell in love with Tammi True during this year’s Dallas Videofest. The subject of True Tales, a locally made documentary, True is simply charming. The film takes her back to the late ’50s and early ’60s, when she booted her deadbeat hubby out the door and raised those kids…
H/T Frontburner Get excited nerds of planet Earth. Or Endor, Hoth the Twelve Colonies — wherever your allegiances align. Dallas Comic-Con has announced that for its May, 2014 edition, the convention will move closer, setting up camp at the Dallas Convention Center. That means you’ll no longer have to pack…
Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shuffled awkwardly through Deep Ellum last night. They posed for photos in front of the neighborhood’s iconic murals, searched out crime along its back alleys and pulled out their signature fighting moves inside Serious Pizza. Everywhere they ventured, pedestrians cheered. The turtle suits were all…
We’ve reached cinematic saturation. With the digital universe prepped for instant download, you can see anything you like, anytime you want. Anyone who’s ever grocery shopped while hungry knows where that gets you. The problem with unlimited access isn’t the gluttony spurred, it’s the inevitable complacency. When faced with too…
Texas Theatre drops the needle on Muscle Shoals, beginning Friday. In Fort Worth the Lone Star Film Festival curates a strong collection, blending new and old cinema into a four-day experience. Tonight in Dallas, the USA Film Festival brings a special screening of Bottle Rocket — both the original short…
While we, print’s lowly writers, hope that our words will be read, we understand great photography renders us nearly obsolete. Kettle Art celebrates those who capture life’s images at their most pivotal during Shot in Dallas, a group show featuring work by nine different media photographers. Naturally, there’s a twist…
Two of Dallas’ freakiest art minds have finally gotten together. Wednesday at Steve Paul Productions, a music studio and gallery hybrid at 2814 Main St., Clay Stinnett and Kevin Parmer play with scale in Possessed2. There you’ll get an assortment of Parmer’s psychedelically summoned collages, cut and ribbon-stripped in his…
In 1960s Detroit, Motown Records unleashed the Funk Brothers — a clutch of session players that turned the backbeat up on hundreds of hits, thanks largely to legendary finger-hooked bassist James Jamerson. Meanwhile in Memphis, Stax had its own wrecking crew: Booker T. & the MGs stirred up the rowdier…
Attention Free Peoples of Middle-earth: An epic auditory journey will occur Sunday at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Appointed to task by Dallas Summer Musicals, the Dallas POPS will courageously bear the burden of The Precious and present Howard Shore’s score of The Fellowship of the Ring (aka: the…
There have been a lot of great pairings in history. Batman and Robin were rad. Kirk and Spock kept each other balanced. It seems fitting that local designer/artist Sleepy Dan and vinyl toy team Monster Bot would finally mind-meld, as they do tonight at ATAMA (5307 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite…
Before Wes Anderson became a dollhousehold name, wallpapering his films with signature diorama decor, he sparked his directorial career with the short film-turned-feature, Bottle Rocket. It was created here, drafted over many Cosmic Cup meetings, a favorite collaboration spot for Anderson and the Wilson brothers. Cosmic was owned by Kumar…
(The award for best sax solo goes to this guy at the one minute mark. Schuller conducts.) He’s played with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. Edited and posthumously released Charles Mingus’ final work Epitaph. He’s won the freaking Pulitzer Prize for Of Reminiscences and Reflections, is a celebrated author and…
The Dallas Contemporary turns officially old this weekend. It celebrates with Alive for 35, an immersive event that invites you into the space — and beyond its walls — for a 35-hour party. They’ve promised to keep the doors unlocked and the lights up from 1 p.m. on Friday until…
Jeff Phillips is more than just the biggest pro-skater to come out of Dallas: He’s one of the sport’s legacy groundbreakers. His 1993 suicide has never been forgotten, especially by the organizers of Saturday’s tribute event Boneless One 3. It culled huge talents like Dave Allen, Jake Brown and more…
Walking into Texas Theatre last night, my friends and I formed an unlikely alliance. A Cathy cartoon, flamingo and Shari Lewis abandoned East Dallas for Oak Cliff, largely thanks to a curious week of Instagram photos spit out by the resurrected art house. They were really hyping this screening of…
When Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Larroquette pair up for their weekly podcast “Uhh, Yeah Dude,” they morph into twinspeak, dissecting American culture’s warbling state through the lens of modern men. It’s a topical kaleidoscope, ripped from the recesses of magazines, newspapers, television, science reports or just all-around living. What keeps…
Texas Theatre sets The Tingler loose tonight! (Pro Tip: Gargle first. Screaming could save your life.) Happy Halloween, goons. This week’s list has it all: Halloween parties, freaky films, art, live podcast recordings and a huge skateboarding tribute event for Dallas icon, Jeff Phillips. Share this list with your coven…
The Dallas Museum of Art will display excavated items from an Etruscan tomb beginning tomorrow, November 1. The art objects were discovered in a Spina grave in 1926, but have never been publicly shown until now. There’s a 5th-century B.C. silver fibula, a bronze statuette from the latter half of…
This magician’s crate wouldn’t quite fit as a carry-on. It’s a custom-built blend of wood and metal, perched on casters, painted black and decorated by a white rope pattern that crisscrosses its width. It serves as a sculptural rolling library for the 12 books hiding inside. They slide in and…
Last April Price is Right Live! announced the game show would visit the Majestic. We called in sick to our jobs, using the time to intensively study price points of common consumer goods — blenders, dreaded dinette sets, sexytime hot tubs and jet skis — so that victory would be…
