Two salon style shows and three exhibitions enter final weekends for this week’s five art exhibitions to see in Dallas. Yeah, It’s Salon StyleIf you’ve never been to one of Ro2 Art’s high-energy, art deluge shows, aptly-titled Chaos, it would be hard to explain to you exactly what you’re missing…
Hangovers are the actual worst, right? Drinking, the actual best thing on the planet, should not leave you feeling as though you’ve survived combat. The headaches, dehydration, body aches and other awful symptoms of imbibing too much are pretty atrocious, but can generally be managed with Gatorade, naps and marathoning…
Part of what makes writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope so fresh and joyous is that in many key ways it’s not new at all. Here’s a dramatic teen comedy, flavor-crystaled with sex and drugs and innocent raunch, about good friends who get caught up in bad business on their way to…
The first time we cry, as a newborn, might be the purest emotion we ever feel. We sob — a raw mess of tears and terror — and a big human rushes to give comfort. Mentally, the connection is made: My feelings trigger a response, be it hugs or milk…
We know, we know. We weren’t ready to trade in sunshine for rain either. But it happens, and when it does, we call on our cock-eyed optimism to rearrange our plans. There aren’t sunny happy hours in our future, blame it on tropical but there are these wonderful events, plays,…
Nobody gets their fingernails done in Manicures & Monuments, a 30-year-old play by Dallas playwright Vicki Caroline Cheatwood that’s on in a respectably acted but outsized revival at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre. Think of it as Golden Girls meeting Steel Magnolias in a run-down nursing home in rural Oklahoma. Instead of…
A tropical climate rolled into Dallas this weekend, adding an incredible cloud cover over our mid-America urban playground. Look out a window right now and see an array of stratocumulus, nimbostratus, altostratus, and lovely little cumulus clouds. Maybe you’ll even spot a rain cloud blowing in on the horizon. Without…
It’s been quite the week to be a Dallasite. After a national racially-charged controversy and a gunfight at Dallas Police Department headquarters, here’s hoping that the third week of June has much more chill than its predecessors. If you need to take your mind off of the crazy happenings across…
Edward Montes is a Dallas painter drawing inspiration from travel and his love of skateboarding. He has always drawn a particular character, but it’s a nameless character that has constantly changed. “It transforms into whatever mood I’m in,” says Montes. After a few minor local exhibitions, his work drew the…
It’s 11 a.m. Monday morning, and Dustin Orlando is standing inside his new gallery space on Levee Street. It’s a raw, open space that he and his business partner and wife, Gina, are transforming into Circuit 12 Contemporary. For the past three years, their gallery space boasted a Dragon Street…
A few days ago, we got to see Jurassic World. It’s not awful and it’s not great, either — it’s just appetizing enough to enjoy. However, there are a lot of plot holes, continuity, character decisions, and moments in the movie that just don’t make any sense. Here are some…
Even if you’re not really into getting glam, makeup is a fact of life for many women. Having to begrudgingly slap on a coat of mascara and eyeliner before heading off to work isn’t a lot of fun, especially if you’re still using the crappy drugstore products that made you…
Thursday, June 11True West Sibling rivalry goes even better with drinks. Actually, it’s probably worse. True West is a play by Sam Shepard with themes about the flawed “American Dream” and the fake orderliness of the suburbs. While working on a screenplay, Austin housesits for his mother. Then his brother…
Gregg Turkington is one of the greatest comedians of our time and you probably haven’t heard of him. If us girls are being honest here, it’s likely he’ll stay pretty far off your radar. He’s best known for is character Neil Hamburger, a strange alter ego of Turkington that the…
Over the weekend, the great progressive suburb of McKinney barrel rolled into the the national conscience. A video showing footage of the McKinney Police Department’s response to a disturbance at a teenage pool party went viral, viewed by millions within a few hours. Emotions ran high on social media. But…
It started in Waco. Mick Burson, 16 at the time, watched freight trains decorated with graffiti roll past him. The markings felt free to him. They represented a breed of art that wasn’t self-serving or introspective, but mobile, liberated. He absorbed these inscriptions and wondered where the artists were from…
New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke’s cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman’s new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up and nodding out. But Josh and Benny Safdie’s tough,…
In Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park reboot — set 22 years after dinosaurs started walking the Earth, again — brontosauruses, stegosauruses and velociraptors have become old hat, sort of like the mechanical Abe Lincoln at Disneyland. Meanwhile, the habitat around them has gone Vegas: Isla Nublar, home of the…
Audacity Productions’ Dallas Solo Fest at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park is presenting its second celebration of short shows written and performed by brave souls who aren’t afraid to go it alone. The standouts from the first weekend of the eight-show festival were Jill Vice’s Tipped & Tipsy…
The best play running on any Dallas stage right now is Precious Little, currently on at the Bath House Cultural Center. The best actor on any Dallas stage right now is in it — Sherry Jo Ward. In the production of Madeleine George’s strange, brief, beautiful play, directed with gentle…
Why are you leaving? Where are you going? Will you come back? If you’ve ever stuck your nose down in an art history book, you’ve likely learned that master French artist Paul Gauguin spent several years in Tahiti. It’s also likely that you’ve seen one of his resulting paintings, “Nafea…
Rub the sleep out of your eyes, Dallas. Fuel up with a double shot of espresso, a few rips off your roommate’s bong, or whatever it will take you key you up for an especially long weekend of cinematic jouissance. Oak Cliff Film Festival is back for its fourth year…
