WTF is DADA?

There’s no official word from Delkus, but the DADA Fall Gallery Walk may be the perfect way officially usher in the season. Keep in mind that by this point in September, temperatures in the 80s mean fall has arrived. With this 29th annual event, you can arrive yourself…at more than…

Traditions On Stage

Returning for its ninth year, DanceAfrica is ready to get you on your feet dancing! Hosted by the effervescent Baba Chuck Davis, DanceAfrica promises to stimulate the senses with the melodic drum rhythms, the alluring motion of the human body, and the majesty of the ceremonial traditions deeply rooted in…

Stand Out in a Crowd

Every year, the gay community in Dallas celebrates the freedom of being “out.” After 31 years, the annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade has grown into quite the event with its march taking over Cedar Springs Road with huge displays of pride and support. This year, catch the route from…

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World

As a city, Dallas has plenty of experience with conspiracy theories, corruption, and making headlines. But enough about us. At 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) screens a 35-mm print of The Parallax View, which follows a reporter as he unravels a multinational corporation’s conspiracy that…

Complex and Monstrous

Even apart from its contents, Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 is poignant. Completed just two years before the composer’s death, The Ninth serves as a complex, monstrous and terribly profound farewell to this man of genius. The sound of death, dying? The sound of anger? Melancholy? It’s all these things—a portrait…

Nothing But Hot Air

Get your head in the clouds, y’all—summer is finally over, the temps outside are once again mostly bearable, and outdoor recreation is once again a thing we can do without considerable discomfort. And the sky’s the limit this particular weekend, kind of literally, as the Plano Balloon Festival lifts off…

Drink ‘Til You Say Nein Danke

Addison may be a far cry from Munich, but your eyes will deceive you this weekend when 70,000 Germanophiles descend upon the city for its annual Oktoberfest celebration that startas at 6 p.m. Thursday. There’s something for everyone —drunks, health nuts, thrill-seekers and children alike. Paulaner Bier is sponsoring the…

Drink Play Love

It’s like that book about traveling, but skinnier and less religious. While we don’t recommend forgoing food or inner peace, there’s something about this yoga and cocktails event that we do recommend. Maybe it’s the price tag, which is a big, fat zero dollars. Drink-Play-Love at the Fairmont Hotel is…

Inspirational Instruction

Many of the today’s contemporary artists are inspired by the same masters. You’ll see the work of master painters emulated in young artists as they develop their own careers that often take wildly different paths. The same is true for students who study under the same teacher, which is the…

You Think Your Family Is a Mess?

The basis of a good family drama is the unified hatred of the patriarch. Well, hatred might be a strong word. Indifference? If there’s one thing most of America can agree upon, it’s that our parents fucked us up and we’re not to blame for our deteriorating lives. The combustibility…

Ghoulish Carnivals

Halloween is about more than trick-or-treaters and revealing costumes. It’s the one time of year when society encourages the type of frightening behavior normally reserved for gatherings of juggalos and cough syrup connoisseurs. Nothing says Halloween quite like being accosted by strangers dressed up as killer clowns, and the Strangling…

Autumn at the Arboretum

While we’re on the subject of the weather, which our weather gods tell us is changing from hot to slightly less hot, let’s discuss one of the best places in Dallas to enjoy the great outdoors. It must be nice to be the Arboretum, which celebrates the four seasons like…

Urban Theater

A great museum exhibition can serve as a time capsule. When The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth opens its newest exhibit, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, visitors will be sent back to one of the most exciting decades in contemporary art history. Think Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff…

Valets Suck, So Here Are Five Ways To Mess With Them

You can’t go out in Dallas without the threat of valets. Somehow, in one of the most sprawling cities in America, we’ve managed to mess up parking to the extent where valets are legally required, and to get to them you have to drive past the parking spaces they will…

Where Is Dallas’ Iconic Bookstore?

In downtown Portland, Powell’s Books stretches the length of a city block. Inside, hundreds of wooden bookshelves stuffed to the brim with everything from classic literature to engineering manuals keep crowds of regulars and tourists engrossed. When you go to Portland, you have to go to Powell’s. Even readers who…

Erin Cluley Gallery, Cydonia Gallery Are Now Open

This weekend, the gallery scene expanded in two divergent directions with the opening of both Erin Cluley Gallery and Cydonia. Over the big, white bridge Erin Cluley Gallery became the first commercial art space in Trinity Groves – although not in the area’s conventional strip mall of restaurants. Tucked into…