It’s here, finally. Well, if you count Thursday as the weekend. And we do. No need to slack off, get planning on how you’ll make your fun this weekend. What’s that expression? Oh yeah, carpe diem…

For his latest work, John Pomara found himself interested in the way digital technology simultaneously connects us and disconnects us. Everyone has that friend who’s in constant communication with everyone except the people in front of him. These communicative “visual distractions” were the impetus for his new abstract works that…

For its newest show Cara Mia Theatre Company lugged ton after ton of sand into an abandoned warehouse in Trinity Groves. The actors in Teotl: the Sand Show play in what at first glance looks like an oversized sand box. Designed in collaboration with Prism Co., a fledgling company earning…

Earlier this year, USA Today named the Dallas skyline Readers’ Choice for 2014 Best International Skyline. Look, I love Reunion Tower as much as the next Dallas lifer, but I’m guessing a lot of the votes were swayed by Justin Terveen’s stunning images. The Trinity River has never looked better…

A coworker recently pointed out to me that without fail, iPhones will autocorrect “Deep Ellum” into “Deep Vellum.” Now, we’re not saying that this was the impetus for the new Dallas-based translation company’s name. But it could’ve been. After all, it’s not like they’re actually going to publish on “Vellum:…

When it comes to contemporary art, especially in New York City, Carlo McCormick is one of your go-to guys. The culture critic and curator will be in Fort Worth as part of the Tuesday Evenings at The Modern series, at which he will discuss “Crashing the After-Party: Revelries & Radicalisms…

Shakespeare isn’t just one of the theater’s greatest writers, he also wrote some damn good poems. He was particularly talented at penning those little 14 line monsters known as sonnets. This weekend Shakespeare Dallas, in keeping with its goal to stage every word the Bard ever wrote, presents Sonnets with…

You can’t predict love. Certainly, when James Carville met Mary Matalin, we’re guessing he wasn’t thinking, “She’s perfect.” After all, he’s a democratic politician and she’s a consultant to the Republican party. But as it stands, 20 years later, their romance is still going strong, disagreements aside. They even wrote…

If you’ve filled up on corny dogs and the variety of fried novelty foods packed into calorie heavy balls at the State Fair of Texas, you can clean out your stomach at the 2014 Texas Veggie Fair. This fiber-conscious event will leave you feeling better than you arrived. Styled in…

Those campfire stories of yesteryear are about to look like child’s play in light of Rawlins Gilliland’s Happy Murder Stories. The unofficial Dallas Poet in Residence channels Edgar Allen Poe as he regales a packed house at the Kessler Theatre (1230 W. Davis St.) with the all-too-true stories of his…

“Orchestras across America are having to find different ways to adapt the delivery of their core product, which is live symphonic classical music,” says Jonathan Martin. “The traditional concert experience hasn’t experienced any fundamental changes in 100 years. What has changed is how the public engages with this particular art…

Public art in Dallas is a complicated world. In front of City Hall, we have a Henry Moore sculpture; then, this year, the city offered 50 measly dollars for artists to yarn bomb parking meters. Like a lot of things in Dallas, the cost of maintenance and preservation looms more…

There’s an energy percolating in downtown Dallas. Well, not downtown, exactly. South. In a neighborhood known as The Cedars. On the heels of the Alamo Drafthouse announcing it will make its first Dallas home on Lamar Street, murmurs of other new developments are cropping up. Some remain merely rumors; others…

For some people, this week kicks off with a holiday celebrating the accidental discovery of Christopher Columbus. In the spirit of exploration, we’ve compiled a few awesome ways to spend your evenings this week…

Y’all have been taking some mighty pretty shots on your smart phones. We thought we’d share a few of our favorites, like this here photo of the slides from Photofox5000. The only picture I could snap was of Big Tex’s bony butt, so thank you for sharing your much more…

Gallery hopping is not just the pastime of the art collector. It can also be a great way for anyone interested in art to take a peek at what Dallas artists are creating, and gallerists are curating. This weekend, many of the Design District spots have openings, with receptions from…

After kicking off with Expanded Cinema Sunday night, Dallas VideoFest 27enters full swing this week with screenings taking over Alamo Drafthouse through October 19. Thursday’s films include 7 p.m. screenings of An Honest Liar – a documentary about world famous magician James “The Amazing” Randi – and Regarding Susan Sontag,…

It’s safe to say that the Oral Fixation storytelling series has become something of a Dallas phenomenon, as it continues to grow larger audiences and an expansive storytelling base. This month’s theme is “Go With the Flow” and has the series first “headliner” (at least that we’re aware of) in…