Powerful Bachelor Seeks New Queen to Live in the Past

Handsome king seeks beautiful young lass for lifetime of revelry as King and Queen of Scarborough Renaissance Festival. Ladies, don your finest wig, tighten your corset and wiggle into silk knickers. The medieval revelry returns to the sweeping plains of Waxahachie April 5, and this time the monarch is available…

DTOX Davies Hosts Graffiti Tours in Deep Ellum

The Mavs championship mural in Deep Ellum, dog portraits in the Bark Park, the mammoth geisha in Chino Chinatown, the patio wall at Bryan Street Tavern: His work surrounds you and you might not even notice. Jerod DTOX Davies is one of three brothers whose artistic endeavors are visible on…

Crossing Punchlines: Dallas Stand-up Comedians Get a Taste of Improv

Stand-up and improvisational comedians seem like they should be mortal enemies — two opposing camps with incompatible views on how to make audiences laugh. They’re the Hatfields and McCoys of funny, with punch-line flingers on one side and scene-building tacticians on the other battling for your admiration and attention, both…

There’s a Crazy Dance Show in Fair Park. You Should Go.

Nobody likes dance shows. It’s an arts statistic we don’t like to talk about. People will wander through free museum exhibits; they’ll show up with their bottles of wine for Shakespeare in Park; they’ll even sell out operas like Carmen and Turandot. But nobody sits through dance anymore, except reluctant…

Our 10 Favorite Photos From Mardi Gras Celebrations

Sunday may have been a bust, with all that terrifying thunder sleet and what not. But the Mardi Gras parties on Friday and Saturday went off without a hitch, thanks to the stunning springtime weather. In Denton on Friday, Walnut Street was filled with revelers wearing masks, covered in body…

Artist Joshua Goode Talks About Latest Discovery: a Unicorn T-Rex

“Last summer I was on a dig in Germany and I discovered artifacts that point toward the existence of an ancient Texas civilization,” artist Joshua Goode says. “It was pretty amazing to find the remains of a Unicorn T-Rex that I determined by the saddle was domesticated and ridden.” We’re…

Ravel Has the Dallas Symphony All Hot and Bothered

Have you ever heard Ravel’s “Boléro” performed live? If your answer is no, then you need to go to the Dallas Symphony this weekend. Splurge on good seats. It’ll be worth it. “Boléro” begins with a whisper of a snare motif (dum, da-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum, dum, dum). As the snare raps…

At Kitchen Dog Theater, Whose Hat Is It Anyway?

Some characters in plays are people you’d like to know in real life. In The Motherfucker with the Hat, the five characters, with maybe one exception, you are happy to walk away from after 95 minutes. That’s how long Stephen Adly Guirgis’ profanity-spewing dark comedy lasts and that’s more than…

Liam Neeson Stomps Right Through Non-Stop

Action heroes with nothing to lose are the best kind, perhaps the only kind worth watching. In the opening seconds of Jaume Collet-Serra’s Non-Stop, Liam Neeson’s federal air marshal Bill Marks slumps in his parked vehicle, sloshing a few glugs of whiskey into a paper cup and stirring it up…

Miyazaki Bows with the Gorgeous The Wind Rises.

In 1998, Douglas Adams published a sweet, funny essay called “Riding the Rays,” about an excursion to Hayman Island to try a kind of underwater jet ski device called a Sub Bug because it afforded an opportunity to swim with manta rays. He wrote of his encounter with the creature:…