Friday Iron Maiden has not visited North Texas for several years, but the wait is always worth it. And you can expect more new material than last time — when the British six-piece played nothing beyond its output up to ’92 — since it’s touring off of its new album,…
Twenty-one things to do in Dallas from Thursday, June 22, through Wednesday, June 28: Thursday An entertaining animated fantasy film for audiences of all ages, Ponyo centers on a friendship between 5-year-old Sõsuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, who is the young daughter of a sea wizard and a…
Mondays Don’t Suck Action Park Grand Prairie 1002 Lone Star Parkway 6-10 p.m. Monday Free Mondays are no longer for complaining about Mondays, thanks in part to the aptly named “Mondays Don’t Suck” hosted monthly by Action Park Grand Prairie, 1002 Lone Star Parkway. If you’ve ever watched any of…
Friday During his time working for The Dallas Morning News from 1907-57, John Knott created many cartoons and characters, many of which were reprinted across America. But his “Old Man Texas” character was meant to represent rural property owners who desired low taxes along with honest politicians. Spend Friday night…
ThursdayDuring his time working for The Dallas Morning News from 1907-57, John Knott created many cartoons and characters, many of which were reprinted across America. But his “Old Man Texas” character was meant to represent rural property owners who desired low taxes along with honest politicians. Spend Friday night at…
DSO Parks Concerts Multiple Locations 8:15 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday Free The Dallas Symphony Orchestra doesn’t believe in making you wait until July to hear some epic Americana under the great wide open. And it doesn’t hold off on musical fireworks either. The DSO Parks Concerts bring fun, classical music to venues…
Friday Mark Chen’s Windtopia originated as a visual art project of photos and videos but has evolved into a full-blown multimedia collaboration among artists in visual art, sound art, graphic design, creative writing and performance. It also includes collaborations with nonartists in fields such as engineering and climate science. Windtopia…
ThursdayIf you happen to love It Happened One Night, the Frank Capra classic starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, you’ve probably learned to ignore all the patriarchal annoyances (father’s ownership of daughter, weird Stockholm syndrome overtones) and love it for its endearingly screwball plot lines and trope-setting scenes. It wasn’t…
First Monday Social Run Spillway at White Rock Lake Garland Road at Winsted Drive 6:30 p.m. Monday Free It’s hard, especially when it gets hot in Texas, to keep up a workout routine. And maybe we don’t always have the time to stick to a regular schedule of burpees, sit-ups…
Tue 5/30 It’s hard to be ethereal and industrial at the same time, but Roni Horn’s exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St., accomplishes exactly that. Her massive, heavy glass sculptures could double as some sort of construction equipment – until you get up close and realize the…
First Anniversary Celebration Amsterdam Falafelshop 2651 Commerce St. 4-7 p.m. Friday Free When life presents certain opportunities — a dream job, capuchin babysitting, dollar falafel bowls — you take them without question. To mark the first year of business at its Deep Ellum location, Amsterdam Falafelshop is throwing a party…
Tue 05/23 It’s hard to be ethereal and industrial at the same time, but Roni Horn’s exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St., accomplishes exactly that. Her massive, heavy glass sculptures could double as some sort of construction equipment — until you get close and realize the marvelous…
The Native Listening Party Off the Record 2716 Elm St. 8 p.m. Friday Free with RSVP This week, we profiled local six-piece country band Vandoliers, which has also recently been named a country act to watch by none other than Rolling Stone. On May 26, the group will release its…
Tue 05/16Who says you have to be a sports-hating snob to appreciate good art? There’s no rule that says you have to roll your eyes every time you flip past ESPN or Fox Sports as you make your way to the Sundance Channel to be a lover of fine artistic…
White Rock Zine Machine: Flight #4 Deep Vellum Books 3000 Commerce St. 7-9 p.m. Friday Free Friday’s event at Deep Vellum Books is more than just a reading from a zine. It’s a launch, a celebration and a bit of a lottery. White Rock Zine Machine is observing its collaboration…
Tue 5/9 Your grandfather is a legendary storyteller. When he spins a yarn about going fishing on the bayou and getting chased out by an alligator, everyone in your family gathers round, and listens transfixed. But even your grandfather is no match for Garrison Keillor, best known for his 42-year…
From Stars Hollow to Afghanistan, 2016’s film and television creators produced plenty of work that was good, bad or ugly — but always interesting. Here are some of the stories about this year’s crop that caught our readers’ eyes. 13 Hours Trades Truth for Explosions — But It’s Not Truly…
2016 brought more noteworthy movies than can fit on the usual year-end top 10 list. Here’s the complete lineup of a films we named critics’ picks this year. Not all of them played on big screens in Dallas, and some are still coming this way, but all of them are…
Do This! Each year the Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade and Festival treks down two miles of Greenville Avenue from Blackwell Street to Yale Boulevard with somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 floats in tow, each flinging approximately 7 millions strands of dangerously projectile green necklaces. Parade-goers can expect green-hued dogs, a…
LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson found out first-hand that Michael Shannon is a pretty stern Monopoly player during a recent game with the actor, who portrays a tortured Orlando real-estate baron in the upcoming 99 Homes. Nicholson and Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl open this week’s Voice Film…
The upcoming Steve Jobs documentary from Alex Gibney (Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine) is worth seeing even if you’re tired of Apple fanboys — if only for the curious parallels between Apple worshippers and the members of the Church of Scientology, the subject of Gibney’s other recent doc…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with Amy Nicholson of the LA Weekly, run down the worst and best of the movies they saw this summer, which as summers go, wasn’t so terrible! Among the best performances were those by Sam Elliott, wonderful in two movies,…
