Poor, poor bassoon. No one understands you. They don’t appreciate your double reeds and they’re intimidated by your stature. To be fair, it isn’t every day that someone gets serenaded by a woodwind the size of a 10-year-old. So here’s what you’re going to do: Call up some of your…
While the masses prepare for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness, his second installment in the Star Trek reboot, real purists (and all children of the ’80s) know that there is only one Star Trek sequel, and that’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Considered by some to be…
Before making your weekly trip to the Texas Theatre, touch base with Mom and Dad. It’s important to know if your awkward and embarrassing childhood home videos are safely tucked away in the attic, far from prying eyes. If not, you may find yourself nervously watching Thursday’s Found Footage Festival,…
A high school principal flashing his junk in front of his students would be a debacle for Dallas ISD. But for School Class, it’s just third period. Nestled at 1222 W. Davis, in a little storefront next door to The Kessler Theater, School Class is a new experiment (and experience)…
It’s hard to resist the sound of a good Afrobeat tune, and we have one man to thank for its prevalence in modern culture — Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The Nigerian musician, composer and social and political activist led the life that musical legends are made of. And with some help…
How often do you find yourself watching a cooking challenge on TV and longing for just one bite? Top Chef, Chopped, Iron Chef — they’re all entertainingly fun to watch, but nothing is better than witnessing a chef challenge in person. That’s why we’d love to invite you to Dallas…
Story time ain’t just for the kiddos these days. Much as we love curling up with a good book, we love it even more when someone wants to do the reading legwork on our behalf, which is why we’re thrilled about the Dallas Museum of Art’s Texas Bound series. The…
Is that a pencil in your pocket, or are you just happy to see Taffeta Darling? The pin-up model and perennial Comic Con costume sweetheart is the model for this month’s Dr. Sketchy sketching session, a whole new experience in drawing classes. To hell with bowls of fruit and strategically…
True story: Five middle-aged guys from Utah have managed to become a real live touring act after they covered One Direction with a piano and deconstructed cello. Thanks, YouTube! Known as The Piano Guys (though only one plays the piano), they offer a special brand of classically tweaked pop songs…
People sometimes wonder why Terrence Malick is everyone’s favorite Texas boy done good. For a man who has only made six movies in a directing career that has lasted more than 40 years (this could have something to do with a 20-year hiatus), the Austin recluse has made his mark…
Did you dream a dream that you were belting out the Les Misérables songbook during last year’s big-screen blockbuster? Sorry champ, that was Anne Hathaway. But if you think that your vocal skills could give Anne and the rest of the Les Mis cast a run for their money, then…
You only thought you knew about Charles Schulz’s world of cheerful, dancing cartoon characters. Then, you watch Bert V. Royal’s play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead and see that offstage, everything turned to shit. Snoopy offed his good buddy Woodstock after a rabies situation. And in typical…
Though only a scant few miles separate them, the architectural worlds of Turtle Creek and White Rock couldn’t be more different, and this weekend the two neighborhoods are throwing down like Jets versus Sharks. In the ultimate battle of east versus west residential domination, which we will now dub the…
Love him or hate him, David Lynch has produced some of film’s most discussed specimens, and his surrealist style has secured him his place in cinematic history. Eraserhead, the film that introduced the masses to Lynch’s brand of entertainment, has spent the past 30-something years working its way from being…
If you like your stage experience outside of the norm, you probably love the Undermain Theatre, whose latest offering is exceptionally wackadoodle. Written more than a hundred years ago, August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata is the model of modernist chamber plays and experimental theater, so it’s a given that it…
It seems a bit antithetical to include a film screening as part of The Big Read (the National Endowment for the Arts program to promote the dying practice of reading for enjoyment), but really, it’s pretty brilliant. Teaming up with the NEA and D Magazine, the Texas Theatre presents a…
Forget celebrities and the paparazzi who stalk them. Elizabethan royals and their subjects mastered the art of sex, lies and mysteries long ago, and historians have been trying to make sense of it for centuries. Take, for example, the subjects of Shakespeare’s sonnets. People have tried to uncover the identities…
Somewhere along the line, opera got a bad rap. Modern masses quickly bolt at the sight of a fat lady singing, and few people still know what it’s like to spend a night at the opera. Perhaps that’s why the Dallas Opera has joined forces with the Dallas Foundation in…
The best way to turn future generations into film lovers is to start them young. If you give younglings a fun afternoon in the sun, filled with live music, crafting activities, bounce houses and balloon animals, and let it all culminate in the screening of family favorite The Sandlot, then…
Grab your favorite taffeta dress, book a radical stretch limo and get ready for a night to remember, because Burlesque Prom is upon us. Putting an adults-only twist on one of high school’s most time-honored traditions, Viva Dallas Burlesque brings a new kind of formal to the Lakewood Theater (1825…
It’s National Poetry Month, and we’re reminded that fewer things are better than seeing a poet read their own work. Yes, there’s a lot to be said for personal interpretation, but sometimes it’s just best to hear the words in the voices from which they came. And when those voices…
Word coming out of the film extravaganza known as SXSW is that the Evil Dead remake is pretty entertaining. And while we don’t doubt that the new flick from Fede Alvarez is great (it is, after all, produced by the original team of Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert)…
