Shakespeare isn’t just one of the theater’s greatest writers, he also wrote some damn good poems. He was particularly talented at penning those little 14 line monsters known as sonnets. This weekend Shakespeare Dallas, in keeping with its goal to stage every word the Bard ever wrote, presents Sonnets with…
When it comes to contemporary art, especially in New York City, Carlo McCormick is one of your go-to guys. The culture critic and curator will be in Fort Worth as part of the Tuesday Evenings at The Modern series, at which he will discuss “Crashing the After-Party: Revelries & Radicalisms…
Comedian Jim Gaffigan has made a living talk about his love of food but unlike some snooty Food Network talking head who treats sustenance as some kind of sexual valhalla, Gaffigan treats like a long, enduring marriage. He clearly loves such an important part of his life, even if it’s…
A coworker recently pointed out to me that without fail, iPhones will autocorrect “Deep Ellum” into “Deep Vellum.” Now, we’re not saying that this was the impetus for the new Dallas-based translation company’s name. But it could’ve been. After all, it’s not like they’re actually going to publish on “Vellum:…
Earlier this year, USA Today named the Dallas skyline Readers’ Choice for 2014 Best International Skyline. Look, I love Reunion Tower as much as the next Dallas lifer, but I’m guessing a lot of the votes were swayed by Justin Terveen’s stunning images. The Trinity River has never looked better…
For its newest show Cara Mia Theatre Company lugged ton after ton of sand into an abandoned warehouse in Trinity Groves. The actors in Teotl: the Sand Show play in what at first glance looks like an oversized sand box. Designed in collaboration with Prism Co., a fledgling company earning…
Starting October 16th, Dallas Theater Center hosts Pulitzer-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The play, made ever more famous by its subsequent film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, follows the generational progression of the relationship between a well-to-do Southern woman and her chauffeur. At once…
For his latest work, John Pomara found himself interested in the way digital technology simultaneously connects us and disconnects us. Everyone has that friend who’s in constant communication with everyone except the people in front of him. These communicative “visual distractions” were the impetus for his new abstract works that…
With the news that Paul Feig is going to reboot Ghostbusters with an all-female cast, we wonder on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast what it would be like if they re-did another ’80s classic: Young Guns. We then move onto the latest Brad Pitt World War II movie, Fury,…
The midpoint of this list seemed the appropriate time to acknowledge the Dallas Arts District. Decades in the making, the Dallas Arts District signals not only the city’s dedication to the arts, but is a significant promise to future generations. It’s reshaped how Dallas thinks and talks about the arts,…
Last year, Dallas got down and dirty with costumes. And nowhere outshone the Cedar Springs block party. Of course, that’s usually the case in this city. If you want to see Halloween in all its gory glory, you head to the gayborhood for a night of revelry. This year, with…
This Thursday, Elm Street Bar will be home to native Dallas fashion designers Becca Jett and Rosemary Susat and stylists Mayra Ruiz and Toni Martin. Martin and Ruiz, 21, who owns Rag Parlor in Deep Ellum have put together a retro collection of looks pulled straight from the store. Jett…
“Orchestras across America are having to find different ways to adapt the delivery of their core product, which is live symphonic classical music,” says Jonathan Martin. “The traditional concert experience hasn’t experienced any fundamental changes in 100 years. What has changed is how the public engages with this particular art…
Public art in Dallas is a complicated world. In front of City Hall, we have a Henry Moore sculpture; then, this year, the city offered 50 measly dollars for artists to yarn bomb parking meters. Like a lot of things in Dallas, the cost of maintenance and preservation looms more…
There’s an energy percolating in downtown Dallas. Well, not downtown, exactly. South. In a neighborhood known as The Cedars. On the heels of the Alamo Drafthouse announcing it will make its first Dallas home on Lamar Street, murmurs of other new developments are cropping up. Some remain merely rumors; others…
Artist Stephen Lapthisophon has made his mark on Dallas in more ways than one. Born in Houston, he attended undergraduate at UT Austin and went on to get his MFA in Chicago, where he also studied comparative literature at Northwestern. In the early 2000s, he was looking for new opportunities…
Vinnie Potestivo of Vinnie Potestivo Entertainment is looking to make a Laguna Beach-type show — but in our very own Highland Park. If you don’t remember MTV’s Laguna Beach because you had better things to do than watch spoiled California kids get drunk, then you missed out on MTV’s prime…
For some people, this week kicks off with a holiday celebrating the accidental discovery of Christopher Columbus. In the spirit of exploration, we’ve compiled a few awesome ways to spend your evenings this week…
Deep down, every comic book fan wishes for some kind of superpower that would allow them to dish out world justice or attract men or women with a made-for-spandex body. Next year, fans will get their chance to act out superhero fantasies with The Marvel Experience, a new interactive ride,…
Saturday night, the Stafford sisters open their final art exhibition on Dragon Street. Aptly titled, Always and Forever, it’s a show revolving around memento mori – or objects that warn or remind of death. But their gallery isn’t dying; it’s growing. “We had two options, we could close or we…
Y’all have been taking some mighty pretty shots on your smart phones. We thought we’d share a few of our favorites, like this here photo of the slides from Photofox5000. The only picture I could snap was of Big Tex’s bony butt, so thank you for sharing your much more…
In 2012, Avant Chamber Ballet gavotted into Dallas promptly presenting more than a dozen world premiere ballets, as well as two regional premieres. The collaborative efforts of Artistic Director Katie Puder and Music Director David Cooper keeps the organization on its toes, pairing live chamber music with original choreography. With…
