If it feels like there’s been a bit of a lull in what’s been going on across the city, it’s because there has been. Summertime doldrums are a real thing, and not only because it’s too damn hot to do anything but lie in a cold bath. You might think…
Three of Dallas’ oldest theater companies — Kitchen Dog Theater, Theatre Three and Dallas Theater Center — are undergoing major transitions that could usher in dramatic changes as their shows go on. For Kitchen Dog, it’s a new temporary home inside the Green Zone, a smallish stand-alone performance space on…
Naptown Mike and Menace had an interesting day. Before the evenings big festivities set in, they had already seen a Juggalo version of “The Gong Show” and a Faygo launching contest. When we met back up, Menace’s shorts had blotches of Red Pop soda stains all over them, with confetti…
If you play a lot of video games, you probably consider yourself a nerd, and you’re likely a fan of Star Wars. The Dallas Gaming Expo is a place where a door fee gets you access to bunch of old arcade games, like Cruisin’ USA and Space Invaders, set to…
After spending an ungodly amount of time driving and tailgate partying, I was more than enthused to crawl onto my foam mattress for some shut eye. From 4 a.m. until 10 a.m., I sunk heavily into an ocean of REM sleep. If the sun was acting as my alarm clock,…
Thursday, July 23 Oak Highlands Brewery Launch Party There’s no such thing as too many breweries in a city. That would be like saying you can ever have enough cake, or french fries, or puppies. You can never have too many puppies. What about puppies in a brewery? Now that…
To the unfamiliar, the concept of zines is a little bizarre. The hand-assembled leaflets, covering topics from politics to poetry, are usually printed on someone’s at-home printer, which was a massive upgrade from the ink-blotted copies that came from old school mimeographs. Zines have always often been the products of…
By the time the piercing rays of Ohio’s morning sun started to poke their ugly heads through the hemisphere, I was finally able to sleep. Of course, I was in the driver’s seat of my SUV, sitting in a park-and-ride lot outside of Legend Valley — the venue in Thornville,…
We run down the 10 best movies of 2015 (so far) on this week’s episode of the Voice Film Club. Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, joined by Amy Nicholson at LA Weekly, each share a few of their favorites on this mid-year (well for Hollywood, anyway)…
At this point, Dallas has plenty of places to see and enjoy art. On just about any given evening, you can enjoy an edgy, new theater, or a classical symphony. You could possibly do both in the same night, even. There is no shortage of talented artists in this city,…
It was an excellent day to be at the Dallas City Performance Hall in Dallas Arts district spending a hot Sunday afternoon listening to live classical string music. The auditorium was all but full for a performance of the Basically Beethoven Festival, a free admission series presented by the Fine Arts…
There’s probably only one humanist film that opens with the words, “Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!” accompanied by the proffering of a single, sprinkle-dusted doughnut. In Sean Baker’s Tangerine, best friends, transgender women and prostitutes Sin-Dee and Alexandra (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor) catch up at a doughnut joint on…
Here’s a shocker: In Pixels, his latest, Adam Sandler plays a stunted man-child who turns out to be very, very special. That’s his ecological niche: the Manic Potbellied Dream Dork, or, if you prefer, the fragile Sand-Man. Sandler films have predictable scripts: In two hours or less, he’ll transform from…
“Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow,” declared Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the case of Jimmy Gralton, she took bites and spat him out a couple times. It’s tempting to say some people never learn, but, as played by…
The opening of Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw, shot in gritty, grayed-out tones, is a grim harbinger: A fighter getting ready for the ring holds up his meaty paws for the ritualistic wrapping of gauze and tape. His gloves are slipped over the wrappings, and then they’re taped on too — but…
The opening of Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw, shot in gritty, grayed-out tones, is a grim harbinger: A fighter getting ready for the ring holds up his meaty paws for the ritualistic wrapping of gauze and tape. His gloves are slipped over the wrappings, and then they’re taped on too — but…
The second round of Special Support Grants for artists was announced this week with a large number going to theater companies. This marks a continued effort on the part of the city to support artists at their level, handing out grants of up to $5000 for projects open to the…
This time of year, the only exposure that most of us want to nature is watching it go by in our car windows. It’s just too damn hot to spend too much time outside, especially in the middle of this concrete-crusted city. But if you’re able to drag yourself away…
At last, some performances to get goose pimply about at the Festival of Independent Theatres, going on two more weekends at the Bath House Cultural Center. The first weekend brought forth Danielle Georgiou’s lively demi-dance-musical The Show About Men, which is exactly that and a lot of fun, and the…
You never know when inspiration will strike. It might lurk between the pages of a history textbook. For 17-year-old Chris Rodenbaugh, inspiration struck sometime in the 20th century while reading about the Irish Republican Army. He remembers reading about this violent rebellion for the first time in Tom Clancy’s Patriot…
After months of anticipation my kid brothers’ dreams finally came true on July 17, as the three of us walked into the Embassy Suites Dallas-Frisco/Hotel for the ScrewAttack Gaming Convention. Mikhail and Luka had a pocket full of cash each for the dealer room, a 24-hour arcade with dozens of…
This part of summer is the worst part of summer. We’re still over a month away from Labor Day, the temperatures only continue to rise, and it seems as if most of the cool stuff in our fair city dies down this time of year. Fortunately, there is still plenty…
