Thursday, Feb. 22 On the 60th anniversary of Van Cliburn’s win at the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, the is celebrating its namesake’s legacy. It sounds like a fairy tale now: Local pianist flies to Russian for an international competition in the midst of the Cold War and returns victorious…
On Friday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced its 2018-19 season schedule, one loaded with prominent guest stars. Indeed, the schedule is nothing but guest stars, because music director Jaap van Zweden leaves this May and the symphony is still looking for his replacement. Who will take the top job? Nobody…
Horror fans will finally have an excuse to read something besides the latest Stephen King novel they are legally required to read whether or not it’s actually a horror story. The Dallas-based movie and publishing studio Cinestate announced that it’s reviving the horror movie magazine Fangoria for print and setting…
Tue 2/20 “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognize as food. Avoid the evils of processed foodlike stuffs. Microwave ovens are bad. Devote more time to cooking your own food. Grow a garden. Make cheese. Jesus, award-winning food journalist Michael Pollan must…
While it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, sites like Airbnb give people a homey alternative to the hotels and motels of yore. Instead of holing up in one of dozens of cookie-cutter rooms, a cavalcade of homeowners and enterprising entrepreneurs, have opened up their extra living space for…
People who hate together, stay together. Or something like that. At least that’s what Hater, the dating app that connects people based on things they hate, hopes. Hater, which launched in 2016, got a deal with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Shark Tank. Hater has about 10,000 users in…
While eager comic book fans line up for Marvel’s latest installment in the blockbuster cinematic universe, one local theater is planning on putting a few other felines in the spotlight. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, six kittens and one adult cat from Operation Kindness will be in…
Fri 2/16 Some artists create music that transcends any one era. Book of Love’s original ’80s synth-pop, made popular again in the 2000s, could serve as backing tracks on a number of current chart-toppers. But it’s not just the music; Book of Love’s lyrics could be inspired by today’s discussions…
Last time we saw artists Billi London-Gray and Daniel Bernard Gray, they were hosting a political pop-up at Umbrella Gallery in Deep Ellum that featured a pile of dirt and a Trump-inspired hairpiece. The duo is back with another installation to satisfy your appetite for unconventional art, but this time the…
The performing arts are in trouble. Go to a live performance at any theater, and you will likely see an audience dominated by an older generation. These are the people who fill the seats and support the arts financially. The news reminds us daily that the United States is in…
If you found yourself alone on Valentine’s Day, you’re not alone. The whole city is full of people who think there’s no one out there in this big, ugly world who’s just for them. They are out there waiting for you to walk up and say, “Hiya.” Maybe you’re a…
On the quiet sixth floor of the University of Texas at Arlington library, Etta Hulme’s political cartoons speak loudly. The artist’s laconic, keen wit and uncanny insight mesh in the display Drawn to Politics: The Editorial Art of Etta Hulme, which runs through August. “Hulme’s ability to boil things down…
Dallas is a city on the rise. In nearly every corner, the metallic hum of construction equipment can be heard while masses of orange-vested workers push buildings higher and higher into the sky. Mixed-used developments, sprawling apartment complexes and new Dallas Area Rapid Transit rails are all on the horizon…
The narrative is needlessly complicated, and it all seems crafted just to build to a single joke voiced in the third act
If comedian Joshua Fischer saw you perform a set, he’d be your biggest supporter no matter how well you did. “You could bomb, and he would tell you that you did great,” said comedian and friend Lawrence Rosales. “When you needed it, he was there.” Fischer didn’t just aspire to…
Tiptoeing toward the hot tub of camp without quite diving in, Double Lover starts to fracture Chloe’s point of view, resulting in at least one fabulous Cronenbergian dream scene …
Here’s the Marvel movie even non-Marvel fans are prepared to root for, the rare black superhero film, one boasting not only an almost-all black cast but helmed by a black director as well
Within a few steps in Dallas you’ll be barraged with the abrasive orange, green or yellow of ride-share bikes. They’re everywhere. They’re an eyesore, and we’re looking for a way to have fewer of them. It’s not unlike how Dallas once felt about streetwalkers. (We still do, presumably, but there…
Hard to believe it was 10 years ago that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra heralded the arrival of a new conductor with billboards and banners implying the man only frowned and only stood in dark lighting. But in that time, talk about the orchestra evolved from “They’re playing Mozart this weekend?…
As the rather sparse crowd settled into their seats before Friday’s opening performance of The Ring of Polykrates, most look confused. For Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s piece at The Dallas Opera, the orchestra sat atop the stage rather than below because they performed Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major prior to his…
Another big name from the small and the big screens has been added to the list of celebrities for the Fan Expo Dallas in April. You first knew him as Pee-wee Herman, but you eventually learned that his real name is Paul Reubens. The star of the cult comedy film…
This year marks the final performance of the University of North Texas comedy improv troupe Sparky, but it’ll go out in a big way. The troupe will perform in a national improv tournament. The comedy troupe consisting of UNT students Sean Byrne, Alex Wiggins, Tierney Conley, Christian Campbell and Nathan Lawrence will…
