Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

Fri 12/8Video games are a multibillion-dollar business, and it’s not just the games that make the money. People get paid absurd amounts of money to play and (more important) win them in top-dollar eSports tournaments. Major League Gaming will host a key leg of its Call of Duty World League…

10 Best Books of 2017 by Local Authors

This list, arranged in no particular order, is limited to books that were published in 2017 and written by authors who live in Dallas-Fort Worth. The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson This dystopian thriller, published in June, focuses on a formerly privileged girl named Eden who escapes a labor camp…

21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week

Thu 12/7Our prediction for the only snowflakes you’ll see in Dallas in December: Turtle Creek Chorale’s one-of-a-kind holiday show, Snowflakes, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday — plus a matinees at 2:30 p.m. Sunday — at Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. in the Arts District. TCC has grown from…

Kickstarter Campaign May Enable Stomping Ground to Open a Theater

When the Stomping Ground Comedy Theatre hosted its first official show in October, it did so without a theater it could call its own. A new fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter could change that. Last week, nonprofit theater company Stomping Ground launched its first campaign to raise $30,000 to lease space in…

Cheap and Free Events in Dallas This Week

Like Water for Chocolate with Chef Pop-up Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 7 p.m. Wednesday $10 Like Water for Chocolate is one of the more intense, ardent films ever conceived, in no small part because its source material employed food as a symbol for all of life’s passions. It’s…

Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

Fri 12/1CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are close friends who first met onstage at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York. They had such great chemistry onstage that they decided to turn their witty banter and exchanges into a conversation tour filled with funny tales about their…

7 Dallas Artists to Watch in 2018

Hobbes VincentThe word on the street is that sculptor Hobbes Vincent tells one hell of a tall tale. “You never know whether you’re getting an accurate portrait of reality or one that’s been manipulated,” gallery owner Jen Mauldin says. Translated: He’s a bit of a bullshitter. That’s good news for…