Today is like Easter for would-be runners. Sure, church happens every week, but your bed is never more comfortable than it is on Sunday mornings. Similarly, sweating in the Texas heat will never sound as good as meeting your friends for happy hour. But if you want to extend the…
Music saved Lev Aronson’s life. He told his students this countless times. Recalling songs by memory not only allowed him to sustain hope while imprisoned in concentration camps, it also allowed him to keep track of time. One of his vivid memories was having to load and then unload a…
Can you imagine Dallas without creativity? What would this city be like without its artists, thinkers, poets, dreamers, creators? Let’s hope we never find out. These cultural entrepreneurs are making life in this city worth living, vivifying the scene with art, dance, music, events, and so much more. We thought…
Last year at Austin’s experimental theater festival, Fusebox, the Rude Mechs workshopped a little show about wealth, societal expectations, and greed. It was two parts Pygmalion, one part musical, a little bit tap show and a whole lot of theatrics. This troupe of theater provocateurs would go on to premiere…
Your week has begun. Get cultured. Monday, June 2 Andre Watts André Watts’ big break came when he was just 16 years old. In 1963, Leonard Bernstein invited the tall, lanky teenager to make his professional debut with the New York Philharmonic. Almost overnight the young African-American/Hungarian pianist was a…
Sure, it started late, but this week has felt like a never-ending hangover from the three-day weekend. Maybe I’m just getting too old for Memorial Day Jell-o shots. It’s been a slow slog to Friday, but it’s finally arriving. You’ve barely touched your work this week, why start now? Let’s…
The story of how the Meadows Museum came to host its current exhibit starts somewhere in the 17th century when a group of Spanish artists decided to establish an academy in Seville. Or perhaps, it would be more accurate to begin the story in the 18th century when the academy…
Los Angeles based artist Mark Grotjahn has earned a following across the world for his focus on textures, colors and forms. In his Face and Butterfly painting series, he uses color to sear the canvas to what some have described as a hallucinogenic effect. Opening at 11 a.m. Saturday, the…
Your Instagram feed is a work of art. You’ve spent hours perfecting it, getting the perfect angle for that shot of your breakfast or of the puppy you recently adopted. Everyone needs to see your adoption story. Hashtag puppy. Hashtag look how good I am. Hashtag down with puppy mills…
If you weren’t an only child, then you surely understand the realities of relatives in family dynamics. As the middle child, I fell between the first child strictures and the spoils of being the baby, which means I was allowed to date, but not given a car to drive to…
The first time the cute boy from science class typed “lol” into our AIM chat, my heart fluttered. Of course, later my older, wiser sister had to explain to me that these three letters were internet speak for “laugh out loud,” not “lots of love” as I’d hoped. This easy…
Have you ever wondered what museum directors talk about when they get together? I’ve always wondered if it was small ego battle where they get together and one-up one another with recently acquired works. Who wins, I wonder, when the director of the Louvre pulls out the Mona Lisa and…
Can you name the seven deadly sins? Furthermore, are they really that deadly? Sure, gluttony will kill you, but so will starving yourself. Besides, aren’t we all on a slow path to death anyway? On our way to hell, why not stop by the Wits End (2724 Elm St.) for…
We’ve been talking about AMC’s new show Halt and Catch Fire for months. If we sound a bit excited, it’s because we are. In fact, we’ve been nerding out so hard, we convinced our cool friends over at Sundown at the Granada to invite us over to watch it on…
I should open this blog post with a caveat. These are the 10 best theater companies in town that aren’t the Dallas Theater Center. The budget of the Dallas Theater Center sweeps it out of the competition. It’s our local member of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT), which implies,…
If you haven’t seen the hashtag #YesAllWomen pop up in your newsfeed this week, you have the wrong friends. In the wake of the Elliot Rodger shootings, women across the globe began to stand together, sharing harassment and assault experiences, in order to draw attention to the continued reality of…
Jim Henson created some of film’s most lovable characters. Kermit the Frog, Gonzo and the gang only grow more endearing with age. But Henson also created quite a few fantastical monsters that scared the bejeezus out of little kids. The creatures in the mystical, often scary world of Henson’s The…
Something’s been missing from the past few years of the Festival of Independent Theaters. It’s been difficult to pinpoint exactly what was missing and the upbeat festival organizers aren’t ones to complain. But it seemed from the outside that must have been a lack of truly engaging submissions. Of course,…
From the outside, the Dallas arts world is filled with enigmas. Certain projects, galleries, or even artists, demand definition or exposition or at the very least a label that says, “This is art.” Two puzzlers linked arms last month, skipping into the much deserved spotlight. The local anachronistic zine, semigloss…
If you’ve never seen a Muay Thai demonstration, you’ll need to put the Thai Culture & Food Festival on your calendar. The world champion of the sport known as the “art of eight limbs” takes the stage of the two-day culture showcase Saturday and Sunday at The Buddhist Center of…
If your stomach growls when you read Hamburger Kunsthalle, I’m right there with you. But we’re not talking about a Dutchman’s beef sandwich. In fact, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is one of the Germany’s most important art museums. And it’s sending paintings our way. The Spanish Gesture: Drawings from Murillo to…
In Texan suburbs, relationships between neighbors are like Tim Allen and Wilson on Home Improvement. We build fences so that no one can just “pop in,” making backyard barbecues overblown, usually awkward affairs. And when the newlywed couple from down the block begins to discuss their cat’s bowel movements, you…
