In a play within a play, it can sometimes be difficult to discern reality. The actors are always acting, but are they acting that they’re acting or are they just being themselves? Phew, I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Where reality stops and the show begins might be exactly the…
You know what the Renaissance was missing? Sex. And lizards. And a little leather play. Leave your Bosch hell mouths and self-flagellation at the door as the MAC’s large gallery opens Masami Teraoka’s bold take on the issues of the Roman Catholic Church. His work addresses serious themes, such as…
The last thing a writer feels like doing on a day when it seems that everything is just out of his reach is bask in the glory of another writer who actually made it. Sometimes the days can consist of getting your ego beaten as if it owed someone money…
Somewhere in the ether of geographic nothingness exists a small desert town that’s more cut off from society than even the most heavily fortified separatist compound. It’s got all the things that every small town has: a high school, a City Hall and an all-night diner. However, it also has…
The people in charge of the fifth annual Dallas Comedy Festival are doing things a bit differently this year. “We really wanted to be diverse with our headliners this year,” says festival Co-Executive Producer, Sarah Adams. “Booking Rory (Scovel) to open the festival is a new concept for us. We…
Out of the Loop Fringe Festival is an annual event at Watertower Theater featuring a packed schedule of mostly local acts through Sunday. Cody Lucas returns to his hometown for the fest, with Sweet Chariot, a show about a man in a bathtub. There are two more chances to see…
In our city, the major museums are the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and the Kimbell Art Musuem and The Modern, if you count Fort Worth. This means our major arts leaders are Max Anderson, Jeremy Strick, Eric M. Lee and Dr. Marla Price, respectively. It probably…
Get to know the people behind some of Dallas’ more interesting, unique, art-inspired local businesses. Know any good ones? Drop us a tip in the comments. Connor Hill is a hard worker in slacker dude clothing. He has no less than one million jobs, does his best to work “penis”…
First of all right off the bat and here at the top, let me say that the Trinity Forest Adventure Park — a tree-top park combining zip lining with a kind of ropes course — is fun, brand-new, clean, well-run and operated by very nice people. But that would bring…
Apparently, this is the weekend to play dress up in Dallas. We’ve got All-Con all weekend, the bunch of bananas Friday night, then the Greenville Ave. “parade,” where more than 100,000 people will dress up in green and play drunk in the streets. Here’s one more for you: “Brides of…
Saturday evening, I participated in the activity known in New York City or Los Angeles as “gallery hopping,” which is exactly what it sounds like. I just often forget you can do it in Dallas. On nights packed with openings, it can be the perfect pre-dinner or concert activity. Swing…
This weekend, live your dream of dressing up as a phallic fruit and consuming way too much vodka by joining the madness at the 4th annual Dallas Banana Bar Crawl. Brought you by the crazy misfits over at Cyanide & Happiness, the fun starts at The Green Room at 8…
This Saturday, more than 125,000 people will stuff themselves into Greenville Avenue’s taint to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day exactly as one would in Ireland: with a beads parade, corn dogs and green beer. At 11 a.m., the 35th Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade will puke all-green-errything upon Blackwell Street…
The Internet has not been kind to the printed word. It’s deformed language, crippled print journalism, and perhaps most depressing of all, it’s suffocating books. You know, the bouquets of paper you check out from libraries; the gently used paperback you rescue from Half-Priced Books; America’s next great novel available…
Video games have become such a huge entertainment force to be reckoned with that almost every aspect of their development can be classified as its own art form.
If you don’t know about Cards Against Humanity or even what it is and why it’s still the top selling toy and game on Amazon.com, I weep for you.
This weekend conductor Tito Muñoz joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for its second ReMix concert. The orchestra’s new series touts a “faster-paced” experience, which is basically symphony marketing code for “we want young people to buy tickets to this concert” and “you can bring your drinks into the hall.” This…
For the past five years, Dallas Theater Center has commissioned or collaborated on quite a few new musicals. Perhaps the most exciting commission yet opens this weekend. Based on Jonathan Lethem’s stunning novel, The Fortress of Solitude is a musical journey through 1970s Brooklyn, as two friends, obsessed with superheroes,…
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights gets pulled out of the nightstand drawer this weekend as Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) gives it a 35-mm big-screen run this Friday through Sunday. Several of the film’s funniest moments involve drug-addled cocksman Dirk Diggler’s attempts to record “You Got The Touch” and…
Cross the forlorn siblings in Chekhov’s Three Sisters with the squabbling kin in Arrested Development and you get a good idea what the family is like in Christopher Durang’s Tony-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. It’s a brilliant, funny play getting a brilliant production at Uptown Players,…
Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There’s something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and…
“I’ve got a certain amount of fame, I’ve got money — I wish I could fuckin’ drive,” 86-year-old Elaine Stritch carps just a breath into Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a gift of a documentary celebrating its subject’s brittle brilliance, still-here indomitability, brash comic truth-telling and principled refusal to wear anything…
