Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Lauren Cross knew she wanted to start a gallery when she was living in London as an undergraduate student. She’d transferred from University of Texas at Arlington, just a car ride from her family, to…
This weekend your Dallas Stars take on the New Jersey Devils on their home rink. Which is good, because on the Devils’ ice, we sometimes don’t receive all our deserved points. Also, I’m beaming with pride that I know this much about sports. My dad would be so proud if…
Editor’s Note: Throughout the year, Art Director Tracie Louck is hard at work creating the face of the paper. Her covers greet you at nearly every coffee shop, bar, restaurant or art space in town. They’re all pretty damn good. But even she has favorites, so at the end of…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Giovanni Valderas runs one of the hottest galleries in town. He programs the work of both up-and-coming and established artists in his comfortable, well-lit space. But you won’t find his space in the Design District…
Christmas comes early thanks to the group over at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park. Nouveau 47 is back with the second annual A Very Nouveau Holiday, and keeping with the group’s commitment to developing new works, the entire show is 100 percent new. All ten of the plays…
Whatever it is Americans want out of life — it’s something we struggle to precisely define ourselves — it was nowhere in evidence on December 3, when a New York grand jury failed to indict the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner in July. We all know we live…
Flip open your Bibles to Numbers 12:3 to find the first inaccuracy in Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings. “Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth,” sayeth the Good Book of our hero, played by Christian Bale, an…
For reasons that are perhaps understandable, stories about women finding themselves — or their voices, or their inner courage, or any number of things that are apparently very easy to mislay — are big business. But even if Cheryl Strayed’s hugely successful 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on…
Let’s face it: all those Pinterest projects you thought you were going to turn into twee little Christmas gifts are not going to happen at this point. Your house is buried in craft supplies, you’re super stressed, and you need a drink. Also, you probably need to do some last-minute…
Did you know Dallas has a budding poetry scene? Yeah, we didn’t either. A poet is like an ivory billed woodpecker -a rare beautiful thing. Which is why we were excited to hear about the newest event at Wild Detectives (314 W. 8th St.) that features the word-driven up and…
Those talented employees at Dallas-based Fossil make some of the prettiest watches, and don’t even get me started on my love for their purses. It should come as little surprise that many of the designers are artists in their own right. This weekend, they’re throwing a little party to celebrate…
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…
Every year around Christmas, my mother would dust off a VHS tape of that Rudolph TV special. It’s one of those television relics that still seems to hold up. Rudolph is adorable; I was legitimately scared of the Abonimable Snowman; and it had the lovely songs of Burl Ives. In…
As an English major at SMU, one of my favorite moments was when I learned the word “Bildungsroman.” It was guttural, sounded slightly obscene and became like a secret handshake with fellow English majors. I’ll let you in on it just this once, it’s a coming of age story. Which…
Demetri Martin is an interesting anomaly in comedy. He’s like a weird, mutant mix of a prop comedian and an observational comic except that unlike most of the people in those two categories, he’s actually funny. Every show features the host of Comedy Central’s “Important Things” and author of the…
Art’s never been so delicious. At 5 p.m. Sunday, RO2 Art presents artist Chelsey Antoinette’s work in – of all places – a cupcake shop. It’s the perfect setting for the aptly named Antoinette’s work, which delectably combines art and fashion. You’ll see her lavish hats, which were inspired by,…
If you can rely on Uptown Players for one thing, it’s their ability to keep the audiences entertained. From musicals to serious plays, they pack their season with stories relevant to the LGBT community and beyond. This year, the company presents its first ever Christmas Our Way, a holiday version…
So, some Mr. Picky Pants classical music critics don’t much care for tenor Andrea Bocelli’s opera singing, describing his voice as resembling a thin, squeaky fart played on a child’s kazoo. (Not their exact words, but we’ve fairly captured the gist of what they’ve written.) Poor man, it must hurt…
The Island of Misfit Toys, per the beloved Rankin/Bass cartoon “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”, hits way close to home for anyone who has ever found themselves on the fringes of “normal” society. Whether you just didn’t dress in an expected manner (like the spotted elephant), didn’t play into rigid…
Surprising his fans is kind of Dave Chappelle’s thing. I’m not sure I fully understand the marketing strategy of announcing things out of nowhere, but it must be working for him. In 2012, he announced it day of, which meant swiftly canceling plans with anyone who didn’t want to move…
The holidays aren’t just about getting together with family, giving each other crap that we don’t need and seeing how much ham and pie we can stuff into ourselves before we collapse and require a stomach pump. It’s also about learning ways that we can help our fellow man and…
TeCo Theatrical Productions opens its 2014-2015 season with Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, a Gospel-style musical version of the classic Nativity story. TeCo’s adaptation features traditional Christmas hymns, holiday songs, and praise dance. Be prepared for the actors to surround you in the theatre, both filling the stage and the aisles—like…
