What keeps Dallas alive and vital is not the giant retail centers, the towering glass office-buildings perched on freeway frontage, or the teeming roadways that connect them. Those things create revenue, and revenue pays for more concrete and glass and roadway. But the true lifeblood of the city — the…
The point in our lives when we get the most exposure to great works of literature is the point in our lives when we least give a shit. In the high school and early college years, lit is something that stands between you and your social life — you get…
Brahmin Bulls will make its Texas premiere during the South Asian Film Festival. The film centers around a father who makes a surprise trip to Los Angeles, where he visits his estranged son. But as the two begin to build their relationship, Sid discovers his father was actually there to…
The sky is blue. Grass is green. Dogs are boys. Cats are girls. And men are from Mars and women are from Venus. These are all stone-cold facts. From John Gray’s New York Times best-selling book comes a one-man stand-up show about dating and relationships and marriage and everything else…
Distinctively Russian, uniquely Tchaikovsky, the composer’s first symphony, Winter Daydreams, remains one of the most fascinating and influential symphonic outings in history. It would forever change Russian musical culture. Its ambition would ruffle feathers and ignite spirits. It nearly drove the upstart Tchaikovsky to madness, almost to his grave. The…
At the age of 7, Ryan Anthony began playing the trumpet and was instantly considered a child prodigy. At the age of 17, he soloed with both the Detroit Symphony and the Cleveland Institute of Music. By 2003, he became one of the most sought after trumpet players in the…
Make no mistake; spelling bees are highly competitive events. In the splendid 2002 documentary Spellbound, viewers watched as a wide range of young students showed off their smarts and colorful personalities en route to the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee. So, what could be more entertaining than little geniuses spelling…
For his new play Mississippi Goddamn, Dallas playwright Jonathan Norton does something unexpected and a bit radical in his look back at the 1960s civil rights movement. Instead of simply lionizing Medgar Evers, the NAACP field secretary who worked to overturn Jim Crow laws and was assassinated on his own…
Well, this is sad news. The mammoth Lucky Dog Books location in Oak Cliff, announced via Facebook this morning that it has reached its final chapter. After a campaign last month to raise money via gift card sales and donations, the Oak Cliff Advocate reports that the used bookstore will…
The number of galleries in the Design District continues to grow. Over the past year, new galleries like Zhulong Gallery and Cydonia have popped up in the neighborhood. Last month Cris Worley and Holly Johnson’s eponymous galleries traded spaces, moving onto the main stretch of Dragon Street. Today, Liliana Bloch…
There’s not much in your way of typical exhibition openings, so you’ll only see one of those on this list. If you’re looking to get your art fix you’ll have to be a bit more adventurous. Check out one of these five events to attend. We lead off with one…
A year in the making, ESPN’s 30 for 30 short film chronicling the rise and tragedy of Dallas’ famous Von Erich wrestling family is set to air at 5 p.m. Friday. The news, confirmed by D Magazine and Kevin Von Erich on Twitter marks a new addition to the long…
There was an awkward moment between Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson and her mom, Melanie Griffith, on the red carpet before the Oscars on Sunday. But the world got to see Johnson’s impressive talent for pretending uncomfortable situations don’t seem to bother her (see also: Fifty Shades of…
It’s 4 p.m. on a Wednesday and I’m climbing into the body of a 1975 Datsun Z, receiving instructions that amount to “flip this switch and jiggle that one” with the warning that “just know, it will actually be quite startling.” I’m sitting on a false seat in the driver’s…
For musical lovers, the hottest ticket in town is the season subscription for the AT&T Performing Arts Center Broadway Series. These are the people who have brought Book of Mormon to Dallas twice, and continue to book Broadway’s blockbusters. Monday night, the theater announced its 2015/16 season, which doesn’t disappoint…
The rumors are true and the official announcement and link for more details are on the way, but this week Giovanni Valderas, Vice Chair of the Cultural Arts Commission for the city of Dallas announced via Facebook that starting February 27, artists will be able to apply for grants that…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Julie McCullough says that she “stepped into” fashion design but has been blazing quite a trail since arriving in Dallas in 2001. Originally from Michigan, McCullough moved to Chicago to attend school at Columbia College…
Sunday night the Dallas Symphony Orchestra revealed its recipe for the 2015/16 season, which is a delicious cocktail of grand symphonies, music written for opera, and world premieres. They’ve combined the drama of Wagner with Act 1 of Die Walküre with the spice Mahler’s Das klagende Lied and the sugar…
Theater can be pretty inaccessible. It can be too expensive or too intellectual. But now, there are plenty of affordable theater performances so that those of us who are too broke can broaden our intellectual horizons. And God knows we could all use broader horizons. These six performances all have…
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, known together as the infamous Trailer Park Boys, are the best known criminal comedy group in the world. The heavily hairsprayed Ricky, the googly eyed Bubbles and the cocktail clutching Julian get recognized in all four hemispheres, an even more impressive feat for a show that…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Ben Fountain is one of the most successful writers to call Dallas home. His 2007 collection of short stories, Brief Encounters With Che Guevara, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and his first novel, Billy Lynn’s…
Kevin Costner eases white America into the now with McFarland, USA, we hear about the Berlin Film Festival’s highs (Queen of Earth) and lows (Knight of Cups), and dip into the lukewarm waters of a second Hot Tub Time Machine movie. Also, there’s much praise for teen comedy The DUFF…
