“They don’t really photograph well,” says Lucas Martell, as we walk through Lagoon at Circuit 12 Contemporary, the local artist’s first solo exhibition. “It’s impossible to get the green the right color when it’s being photographed.” The Internet opened up possibilities of experience to us. Today we can see the…

Gossip columnists are a strange lot. That there are people whose income is earned by slander, backstabbing, bad behavior and dirty laundry is one of the strangest things about the media industry. But it’s been a reality of newspapers and magazines since their inception. Up in New York, the Post…

We’ve got the most exciting news you’ll hear all day. Have you ever wondered how you were going to channel your love of Rocky Horror into a something worthwhile? Have you ever fancied yourself an undiscovered Broadway star? The Dallas Theater Center is looking for you…

The whining has officially begun. It’s finally hot. The mild summer June introduced us to was stripped away by the rising temps of July and triple digits are on the way. This isn’t your official weather report and to be perfectly honest, from this ice cube of an office I’m…

For Mind’s Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cezanne, co-curators Olivier Meslay and William B. Jordan delved into the Dallas Museum of Art’s holdings and private collections to piece together a stunning exhibition of drawings from some of the 19th and 20th century’s most important artists. The works range…

For Ricardo Paniagua, the canvas is sculpture and his sculpture is a canvas. He uses vivid colors to reconfigure recognizable shapes, suggesting interests in geometry and psychedelia, and to talk to Paniagua is to talk to someone inspired. His self-taught artistry and varied creative outputs are what he considers “assignments”…

Every year tens of thousands of people show up to learn what Dallas tastes like. At least, that’s what the name of the event would seem to imply. In many ways, the Taste of Dallas encapsulates Dallas’ true flavor. These aren’t the trendy restaurants that have found 20 new takes…

It’s a Friday afternoon in June and Frank Mosley is walking into Arlington High School, more than a decade after walking out with a diploma. He’s reserved the auditorium for a short film he’s working on, which opens with a stage set being torn down after the run of a…

When it comes to making fun of movies, having Nicolas Cage in the cast is like soft-balling the set up to the joke. In almost every role, he turns an action film into a campy, over-acted flick that’s more pantomime than drama. Perhaps that’s why the good folks at The…

Friday is Independence Day. If you’re visiting this blog and expecting me to tell you to do anything other than watch fireworks on Friday night, you’ve lost your red, white, and blue marbles. Go stuff your face with apple pie and chug 10 patriotic Budweiser beers. In fact, the Dallas…

There are very few bugs that don’t deserve squashing. Flies deserve a swift, crunchy end to their lives, as do beetles. And no one likes a slug. But everyone loves butterflies. What’s not to love? The ugly ducklings of bugs transform from slinky caterpillars to gorgeous, friendly butterflies, which provide…

If you were looking for Matthew Posey when he lived in Los Angeles, you’d need look no further than the local watering hole. Every night, he’d sit around with “a bunch of drunks making their own religion.” Those experiences, drinking with the likes of Amanda Plummer or Jeff Goldblum, were…

Human beings can make the strangest noises. That little vocal box in your throat can imitate everything from animals to other people. Like the rest of the animal kingdom, we use noise to communicate or entertain. And if your name is Michael Winslow, noise is your personal brand of comedy…

There’s something aggressively patriotic about fireworks over Fair Park. Maybe it’s the stunning art deco architecture or the childhood memories of the State Fair, but seeing sparklers crackle in the night sky while Lee Greenwood plays over the loud speakers brings an American tear to my eye every red, white,…

Even though many would consider soccer a form of art, it’s not often enough that sports and fine art come together in meaningful ways. But Texas-born soccer star Brek Shea is also an artist and he’s bringing his two loves under the same roof at 6 p.m. Thursday for an…

“Sometimes you have to break up to see if you fall back in love.” A boyfriend once told me this as I was trying to end a three-month relationship gone sour. I remember thinking that was the strangest last-ditch plea I’d ever heard. Of course, this idea of appreciative hindsight…