We will find you acting on your best behavior, drinking wine and browsing paintings. Everybody wants to rule the (art) world. Tears for Fears at Circuit 12 Contemporary is sadly not an appearance from the 1980’s new wave band. It’s a solo exhibition for the paintings of Joshua Von Ammon…
If you’ve been wondering when a seasoned gallery hopper in Dallas hops, it’s nights like this Saturday. Sure, there are the daytime gallery walks a few times a year, but those are for newbies. And we want you to feel like you’re part of the club. That’s why we’ve compiled…
Are you ready for some kick-ass theatre? Brad McEntire is ready to give it to you, if you think you can handle it. Opening Thursday and running until May 25, the Dallas Solo Fest, under McEntire’s helm, is packed full of entertainment to take you out of your weekend rut…
The Internet overflows with long lost treasures. You can find people from your past, research moments in history and dig up photos of bygone years. Local blogger Paula Bosse started Flashback Dallas in February to share her penchant for discovering the way we were. She keeps her site chock-full of…
Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s annual Spring Celebration Performance and Gala is coming around this weekend. Taking the stage at the Winspear Opera House, DBDT will be commemorating the end of their 2013-2014 season and ushering in the end of an era. For the two performances are not just a way…
2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. & Legendary Pictures Productions LLCGodzilla, opening May 16.Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson recommend Neighbors (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron) and Godzilla (Bryan Cranston, Godzilla) and are joined by special guest, James Beard Award-winning L.A. Weekly restaurant…
If you were looking for Tina Parker last month, she was hiding in a dark corner booth somewhere, slurping whiskey mixed with energy drinks, wading through 400 full-length play submissions. Her friends are used to her annual month-long absence though, because this is year 16 for Kitchen Dog Theater’s New…
Clear Channel has had this outdoor board up for a while. (Walter Cronkite voice) “Business is done here. Clear Channel. Dallas Skyline with a filter from 1980.” Maybe years. And every time I see it, I think, “Really, Clear Channel? This is what you went with?” This is what your…
Weekends aren’t enough fun anymore. You asked for weekday events and we heard you. This week, ignore those storm clouds. Life outside your cubicle is beckoning you this week and you should probably show up. If you’re looking for the best concerts this week, head to the music blog. We…
Dallas is a funny place. After you’ve lived here long enough, you’ll grow a strange combination of love and hatred for this place. You’ll also begin to understand the importance of name dropping. If you’re new to town, here’s your humble-bragging how-to. If you don’t want to look like a…
The whole building doesn’t fit in a single shot…
Fort Worth Opera’s 2014 festival wraps up this weekend with finale performances of two contemporary American operas and a classic comedy by Mozart. There’s a lot of room for diversity within the operatic genre and this year’s FWO festival has celebrated the wide range of musical and dramatic styles opera…
Just like Barbie®, there are a variety of different Beethovens. There’s Classical Beethoven. He’s young and playful and optimistic. He takes his cues from Haydn and Mozart, following the formal rules of classicism but always infusing them with his own rhythmic punches. There’s Brooding Beethoven — a personal favorite –…
A huge mural fills the wall of Company Café on Greenville Avenue. The subjects are familiar faces — Big Tex on Fire, Bob the Nomad Keyboardist, a wisp of a woman hovering above a lake… Wait, a minute. What woman? And what lake? We have so many. Turns out the…
It’s that time of the year. Performing arts companies across the city are announcing season line-ups. Just this week, Addison’s WaterTower Theatre, dance presenter TITAS, and Dallas staple Theatre Three revealed 24 promising shows and the dates for the Out of the Loop Festival for 2014-15. But what will we…
Every movie goer knows the pain and anguish of having to shell out money for a movie and realizing that the cash would have been better spent if they threw it into a fire. The modicum amount of heat that burning the cash could produce would give more to a…
You thought books were dead, didn’t you? Well, you just haven’t been paying attention, you illiterate techie. Bibliophilism is alive in Dallas. In March, we introduced you to Oak Cliff’s newest independent bookstore, The Wild Detectives. Now, we’ve got more literary intel…
Want to know the most awesome thing you can do this weekend? Call your mother. Sunday is the annual celebration of all the ways she didn’t mess you up; it’s your chance to practice gratitude, like your therapist keeps suggesting. After you’ve sent flowers and before you pick up the…
North Texas is springing up with creative dance companies full of talented artists looking to expand their skills beyond their graduate studies and carry college projects through to workable careers in the metroplex. Meaning for you: there are a plethora of interesting physically creative shows happening nearby. For instance, Big…
Is getting sand kicked in your face at the beach by a hulking mass of muscles still a common trope? We’re assuming that such unbelievably rude behavior has been drummed out of polite society along with cell phones that you can only transport in a briefcase, neon colored clothing and…
Neighbors Won’t Haze You
Nicholas Stoller’s hilarious Neighbors splashes into summer with the satisfying swish-plop-hooray of a winning beer pong serve, making the director, who also wrote March’s Muppets Most Wanted, the first filmmaker in history to simultaneously have in theaters both a kiddie flick and an R-rated comedy where two men sword-fight with…
Everything in the opening scenes of Jeremy Saulnier’s nerve-wracking revenge drama Blue Ruin is the color of a bruise, from the ocean to the bullet-hole-pocked 1996 Pontiac Bonneville that homeless near-mute Dwight (Macon Blair) calls home. It’s fitting. Dwight has never overcome the pain of his parents’ murder when he…
