Dallas Summer Musicals, for many years as the sole provider of Broadway entertainment in the city, has been presenting live theater in Fair Park since 1941. Then in 2009, the AT&T Performing Arts Center — another organization vying for the same productions and the same audience — opened. Its inaugural season included…
Although they came from diverse backgrounds, a common thread links the women in Mary Dodson Wade’s latest book, Amazing Texas Girls. “I wanted to call this book Gumption,” Wade says, “because I see that.” Amazing Texas Girls, released Sunday by publisher Lone Star Books, trails the lives of 15 women,…
Grant Redmond didn’t bother to put on clothes when his partner, Cody Tidmore, told him their comedy short had been nominated for a Webby. “I woke up to Cody yelling at me from his room that we got in,” Redmond says. “I jumped out of bed and ran across the…
Acrimony establishes that Robert is a cheating, lowdown dog and that Melinda has anger management problems that make the Hulk seem docile
Tyra Banks was up at 4 a.m. the day after Easter to appear on the Today show with her mother. They were promoting their new book, Perfect is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me About Beauty, Booty and Being a Boss. But Banks’ mom, Carolyn London isn’t…
A chance encounter in 2014 prompted ex-NFL linebacker David Vobora to reorient his life to serve adaptive athletes — those with injuries or disabilities. Not long after moving to Dallas, Vorbora met U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, a quadruple amputee and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. The two…
Wednesday Second Thought Theatre’s performance of Empathitrax, which opens at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and continues through April 28, deals with a couple (STT company members Jenny Ledel and Drew Wall) trying to fix a broken relationship by merely swallowing pills guaranteed to let each experience what the other is feeling…
Besides telling the story of two rappers who eventually became casualties in the ‘90s ridiculous East Coast/West Coast rap beef, Unsolved is also a double-stacked, occasionally trite, police procedural
This Terror, developed by David Kajganich and certainly the best of AMC’s prestige-TV horror series, is always suspenseful, superbly acted, shrewdly paced and committed to the summoning up what the experience of Arctic isolation might actually have been like
The Fan Expo Dallas convention has had to do some serious celebrity shuffling with less than a week to go before it opens the floodgates for fans. The massive fan convention confirmed Monday that Back to the Future star Michael J. Fox won’t be able to attend the festivities that…
… The ground rules for this desolate new America: Make any sort of sharp, unexpected sound and a mantis-like alien creature will zoom out of nowhere to swoop you away to an instant, grisly death
#The Count refers to the fact that only 22 percent of plays performed in regional theaters are written by women, and only 3 percent are written by women of color. Down for #The Count is a one-act play festival going on through April 15 at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center…
Wednesday Lindi Ortega makes country music for people who don’t typically like country music. Her rockabilly-infused style keeps her a few steps away from today’s commercial country pop rock but not too far from her Nashville base. The Canadian singer-songwriter released Liberty last week. 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, Club Dada,…
The Fitness Ambassadors, a community of fitness bloggers from around Dallas, hosted a silent yoga party last week. On a roof. At sunset. In the middle of the city. Yogis and fitness enthusiasts gathered Thursday night on a rooftop of a parking garage overlooking the American Airlines Center, surrounded by…
Dallas music and performing arts festival Soluna returns next month for its fourth year with the theme “Shadow and Light.” The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s three-week celebration of music and art is May 6-28 in various locations throughout Dallas. Professional skater and multimedia artist Jennifer Wester will present the world premiere…
This Sunday is no ordinary April Fools’ Day. It’s an April Fools’ Day that’s also on Easter Sunday. Such an occurrence hasn’t appeared on the Gregorian calendar since 1956 and it won’t happen again until 2029. This is a perfect time to pull a prank if you’re the kind of shameless…
Getting to fly one of the few remaining operational World War II aircrafts is more than just a thrilling opportunity. “It’s like flying a piece of history,” says pilot Rick “Thug” Kelly of San Antonio, who flew a World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress plane into Love Field on Thursday. “When…
… the film is dedicated to “all who have been persecuted for their faith,” which means that in today’s world, it’s pretty much dedicated to everybody
When the third season begins, in a bit of meta-commentary, the Everlasting producers are scrambling to undo the effects of the bad PR the program endured on its last go-round
Turns out the TV show Dallas isn’t the only thing this great city can claim. Plenty of things (and even some people) have been created here — everything from pedal pushers to a bottled scent that makes your shit not stink. Here’s our list of seven things (and one person) made…
Four tiny heads sculpted about 500 years B.C. were just the start of Sam and Myrna Myers’ Asian art collection. The American couple, who moved to Paris in the 1960s, acquired more than 5,000 pieces, about 450 of which are on display in From the Lands of Asia, which runs…
Friday One of Dallas’ premier craft beer events, Big Texas Beer Fest, is back for its seventh go-round and its third iteration as a two-day event. If you’re a local beer geek, you’ve probably been to a few, run through a 12-sample card or two, fueled up on food-truck grub…
