“The Aviary invites you to join us at 500X Gallery (500 Exposition Ave, Dallas TX 75226-1789) on Sunday, December 21st at 7:00pm for a public reading of Advent, a new play by Montgomery Sutton, as the inaugural entry in our “Hatchlings” play reading series. In Advent, two brothers isolate themselves…
You’re running out of time to spend with the rat king. With Christmas swiftly appraoching, there are only a few days during which the viewing The Nutcracker is appropriate. It’s a longstanding tradition for families to drag Dad to the theater for the dancing sugarplums. And for 30 years, it’s…
Is the holiday season getting you down? Do you feel pressured to find the right gift, attend all the parties you’re invited to, and sing along with every single Christmas song you hear? Are all those sleigh bells ringing, jinglin’, ring ting tinglin’, leaving you feeling a little jangled? Well,…
There’s nothing quite like the holidays to make you feel like a kid again, even if you’re a bona fide grownup with a career and a 401k and your very own medical debt. Because when you walk into your parents’ home for holiday celebrations, all those adult things just kind…
There’s nothing quite like the holidays to make you feel like a kid again, even if you’re a bona fide grownup with a career and a 401k and your very own medical debt. Because when you walk into your parents’ home for holiday celebrations, all those adult things just kind…
Holiday stories have been done many different ways. There are comforting storybooks, quaint cartoons, heartwarming movies, frothy ballets and even sparse Christmas plays. In so many of these, the cheery holiday message takes center stage, while the medium takes a backseat. Not so with Lightwire Theater’s A Very Electric Christmas…
You know what you’re missing? The smooooooth sounds of jazz. For the last month, you’ve been surrounded by jarring renditions of “Santa Baby” and resurrected Wham! Songs. Now your poor nerves are inflamed and the opening notes of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” have started to feel like…
You’ve survived the crowded shopping. You’ve suffered through Jim Carrey’s desecration of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You’ve sat through tassled titties celebrating the birth of Christ, and ironic Nutcrackers and — shudder — traditional Christmas chorale music. You’re near the finish line, so take this day to relax. Head…
By Inkoo Kang TV continued to unmoor from its origins and transform into something else this year. No longer tethered to a specific appliance, a particular kind of storytelling, or even commercial concerns, “television” now feels like an increasingly obsolete word. But that’s a discussion for another time, for we’ve…
Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive Dissonance is something most adults understand, and relate to. That two things you believe or value could be in direct conflict with one another is a frustrating, anxiety-filled way to live in this gray-shaded world. The new series of work by Dallas-based artist Gaeb Cardinale shares a…
What kind of circle is time again? A year after blowing the doors off our annual critics’ poll, golden boy Matthew McConaughey won just a single vote for his turn in the loudest movie of the year, Christopher Nolan’s tears-in-space effort Interstellar, which has tied with the unprescient Transcendence as…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. The touch of artist Margaret Meehan is delicate. Which is not to say that her work is sugarcoated, but respectful, intricate and sensitive. Gleaning subject matter from history and literature, much of Meehan’s work pulls…
If you have soured on The Nutcracker or are humbugged by too many Christmas Carols, pull into The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical, now onstage at WaterTower Theatre in Addison. It’s a hot mug of sassy-crass tea, two hours of low comedy with a high-caliber cast. Christmas season has…
With more than 20 years of annual viewing, lines from Home Alone and Christmas Vacation have become part of my family’s holidayspeak. Even the easily ignored lines like, “Buzz, your girlfriend, Woof!” or when Clark is wandering the supermarket with his brother-in-law Eddie says, “And Clark, make sure you get…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Thor Johnson has great stories. A lot of great stories. And a lot of shocking ones too. He’s been in and out of the art scene in Dallas since the 80’s, with his first exhibition…
Near the back of my closet, I have two bright pink costume dresses I’ve worn to theme parties; I have my sister’s garish red prom dress; five versions of the little black dress that hit too close to my kneecaps to be properly labeled little; and tucked somewhere near the…
The Dallas dance scene is alive and well, and if 2014 is any indication, 2015 is going to provide us with a lot of entertainment, opportunities to perform and chances to expand the community. In an effort not to sugarcoat anything, I will say that we are still facing issues…
This week, we continue our hunt for Dallas’ fugliest building. So far we’ve attacked the AT&T corporate office, the Dallas World Trade Center and the Turley Law Center. But the next building on the list is so…out there, it proved polarizing even before this article was written — the Irving…
By Amy McCarthy & Jaime Paul Falcon You poor people, you’re on your way home for the holidays, and the reality that you can’t steal away to the bar every night sinks in right around the time your mother insists that you actually talk to your grandparents instead of just…
This time of year, you’re either deeply enamored with all the holiday music and Christmas lights, or trying to figure out how to put your head in a vise so it will all just go away. If you fall into the latter camp, finding something to do during the holiday…
If you’ve ever wanted to meet a real Time Lord and one of their companions, well, someone should probably tell you that they don’t really exist. As far as modern science knows, it’s not possible for a police box or any public communication cubicle to traverse across different plains of…
The end of October was the deadline for applications to participate in the city’s Public Art Program, which is the initiative of the Office of Cultural Affairs to promote the commission of new public art. At the beginning of December, the OCA announced that they had narrowed down some 273…
