Head Over Heels for that Painting

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…

Dive Into Dallas Art this Weekend at Seven Gallery Openings

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…

Peek Back in Time With Local Blog ‘Flashback Dallas’

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…

On This Week’s Film Podcast: Godzilla, Neighbors and Chef

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…

Get Drunk on Theater at Kitchen Dog’s New Works Festival

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 Says There’s Poop on the Dallas Skyline

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…

Eight Things to Do in Dallas This Week, May 12 -14

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…

Your A-Z Guide for Dallas Name Dropping

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…

Review: The 2014 Fort Worth Opera Festival

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…

14 Awesome Things to Do this Weekend, May 8 – 11

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…

Big Rig Crafts Choreography From Everyday Experiences for Converge

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…

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…

Thriller Blue Ruin Will Work You Raw

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…