Somehow, even with all of the things to do in our very large city, we find ourselves bored. There’s nothing to do, you say, as you start that next episode of Seinfeld and wallow in ennui. You may not be cool enough to get invited to parties on the weeknight, but…
Lucky Dog Books struggled at 633 W. Davis St. for three years. But just as they were closing up shop to make way for a new tenant, the customers showed how much they cared. It was enough to convince the owners to reopen at another location in Oak Cliff. After…
There’s a lot of magic to do in Dallas this weekend. If you find your calendar empty and you’re craving a good time, dig in to our list of places to go, thi Thursday, July 9 Filarmónica Joven de Colombia (Colombian Youth Philharmonic) When we think of music as an…
Dallas Gallery Day is an art fanatic’s dream. Organized by The Public Trust’s Brian Gibb in 2012, Gallery Day is a sort of organized welcome mat that encourages the public to visit an impressive assortment of the city’s best art galleries. If you’re not really dedicated to the art scene,…
The Oddball Comedy Comedy and Curiosity Festival has become more than just an excuse to throw a bunch of comedians together on the same stage. It’s only three years old but it’s quickly become the cultural barometer for comedy in America. If you get a headlining spot on Funny or…
Hollywood lives by the simple, sad axiom “Where there’s money, there’s more money,” which is how we get remakes of movies that sometimes shouldn’t have been made in the first place, two Spider-Man reboots within five years and a Star Wars franchise that ensures our children’s children will revere George…
The death of Amy Winehouse, in July 2011, at age 27, was one of the first great tragedies of 21st-century pop music, an event — like the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain in the last decade of the 20th — that emphasized the jarring contrast between the fragility…
Dallas Gallery Day It’s not often enough that you can be assured nearly every gallery in town will have doors open and art on the walls. That’s exactly what Dallas Gallery Day is for. Previously split into East and West, this year will be the first all-city version. If you’ve…
Though it may have taken years for Dallas to catch up to other cities’ art and culture scenes, the Big D has always been home to incredible shopping of all kinds. From the ascendancy of Neiman Marcus in in the 1950s to the multitude of strip malls and discount stores…
Texas is a huge state, filled with diverse communities of people and places. Many of the bigger cities are beginning to identify themselves as art outposts. Thanks to the arts and design districts in Dallas, the tree-lined museum district in Houston and the stunning Kimbell, Amon Carter and Modern Museum…
A whole lot of “yeehaw!” and yodeling goes on in The Kountry Girls, a new musical that just debuted at Theatre Three. That’s right, “Kountry” with a K. Because misspelled words are the hallmarks of great komedy. The “girls,” Dee Dee (Alexis Nabors) and May (Kelly Silverthorn), sling hash in their…
The first time I watched Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone, I lasted 13 minutes and 32 seconds. I know this because I made sure to jot it down when I turned it off. The movie isn’t horrible by any means — in fact, it’s a rarity of cinema worth your time…
Time is an illusion, said Albert Einstein. No past, no future. Just existence in the dimension we perceive as the present. The theory of relativity might explain why Shakespeare Dallas director Raphael Parry has taken a 90-minute comedy, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), and stretched it out to…
Last month, Dallas-based author Sarah Hepola released her first book, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. The memoir focuses on Hepola’s alcoholism and ultimate recovery, written with a focus on her frequent blackouts. In a tone that’s funny, intimate and often heart-wrenchingly sincere, Hepola shares the early childhood…
After the long weekend, it’s likely that the thought of spending one solitary second outside in this rotisserie oven that we call a city makes you want to puke. The heat is no joke, and we haven’t even reached the hottest point of the year yet. As such, free air…
Everyone is a little bit curious about what exactly happens in the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend Holly Madison published a tell-all book, Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, about her time living in the Playboy Mansion while dating the world’s most…
For more than 30 seasons combined, men and women seeking mates — or seeking something, anyway — have competed for love on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. You can count on one hand how many relationships spawned on the shows have worked out, but long odds didn’t keep about 200…
It’s hot. All you want is a pool to swim in. You need to work on your cannonball, or your suntan. And you want options. Well, we’ve got five for you. And a warning of where you’ll get pool-blocked. Now, get wet. Dallas Fraternal Order of Eagles 3108 (Or, The…
Thursday, July 2 Comedy Crawl Every year we round up you cool cats for a comedy crawl through Deep Ellum. We stop at three bars: Three Links, Twilite, DADA; we listen to three comics: Paul Varghese, Aaron Aryanpur, and Dave Little. The laughs are free and the drinks are cheap. Joe…
The upcoming Amy Winehouse documentary Amy is one of the best music docs Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek has ever seen, and she explains why to Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson this week. Also this week: The confusing (yet really, really enjoyable)…
After 12 years on the air, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart became required viewing during the Dubya years, when much of the nation was desperate to look to almost anyone else for political leadership. The Comedy Central series offered nightly catharsis in five- or eight-minute bursts, voicing the anger and…
If you want to start a hullabaloo in the Dallas arts, tell a theater festival it might be time for a curtain call. That’s what our theater critic Elaine Liner wrote last year about the Festival of Independent Theatres, the annual event at the Bath House Cultural Center meant to…
