Killer Whales

There have been several movies about whales lately, but few seem to really show what they do in their day-to-day lives. So the Museum of Nature & Science is screening an IMAX film called, simply, Whales. The film promises to show the lives of several species of whales in their…

Vacation on a Canvas

The Kettle Art Gallery’s exhibition The Ripple Effect marks the curatorial debut of Amber Campagna, daughter of famed Dallas muralist Frank Campagna. It showcases the art of Richard Ross, Brian Crawford and other local artists as they show their visions of the watery seascapes that seem so distant from Dallas…

I See Dead Scrolls

Straight outta … Israel? The MacGorman Performing Arts Center at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth (4616 Stanley Ave.) will open a new exhibit titled Dead Sea Scrolls & the Bible: Ancient Artifacts, Timeless Treasures starting Monday. The exhibit will display 16 fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including seven that…

Dada for Nada

Apparently the Dallas of the early 1950s looked a lot different than it does today. Or maybe that’s just Dada. Maybe both? The Dallas Museum of Art is exhibiting Flowers of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, showing ’50s Dallas from the eyes of a German Dadaist. In 1952, the…

Damn, Son. Where’d You Get Those Threads?

Andrew Lloyd Webber fans, let’s rap. The Dallas Theater Center is hosting ALW’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which is also known as a completely accurate telling of the famous Old Testament story. That is, if the biblical tale involved rock music, a children’s chorus and a Charleston number…

An Artful Oasis

So much more than just a hotel, the Belmont has been doing a lot to push the arts in Dallas. Alongside its summer concert series, the Belmont continues to showcase local artist with its Art with a View series. This month brings us the photography of Lorie Leigh Lawrence. Lawrence,…

DSO Played Final Fantasy: Emotional Geek Proposed

Final Fantasy and I have had a love/hate relationship over the last 25 years. As I kid, I became something of a connoisseur of the series. In the mid nineties, my Friday nights were spent grinding through the hardest dungeons, fighting and battling until my legion became the biggest bunch…