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…
Sarah Jessica Parker will be in Dallas on March 9 to promote her shoe line and probably make Nordstrom’s in NorthPark a giant nightmare of starstruck women of all ages. The department store won’t be safe to go near for an entire afternoon. SJP is best known as her New…
Alien ass-kicker and record-breaking misogynist Duke Nukem has gotten into a lot of scrapes over the years, whether it was preventing a race of aliens from using their spawn to take over the planet or getting back at them for daring to take the Earth’s babe resources. He’s been relatively…
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…
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…
Dallas International Film Festival released the first 10 films of its lineup on Monday and we’re liking the way it looks so far. Among the films announced is a flick produced by local Lascaux films called Words and Pictures , the world premiere of a movie starring Nick Offerman, and…
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…
Last night, the Oscars happened. The set had tons of Oscars condoms blown up like balloons in the background. Epic. And lots of people watched as Oscars were given to the movies that were the most Oscar-y for being super Oscar-y. But more important: WOMEN IN DRESSES. There were boobie…
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…
It took them a little bit longer than originally predicted, but over the weekend The Wild Detectives, Oak Cliff’s new bookstore and cafe, opened on 8th Street. It is easy to miss the small sign that distinguishes the orange bungalow from the others, but it’s worth the hunt. Inside, a…
“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…
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…
Several weeks back I listened to two long, in-depth interviews with the actor and comedian Will Forte, one with Chris Hardwick and one with Marc Maron. Forte was charming and silly and is apparently unlucky in love, a family man worried he’ll never have a family, and he’s profoundly weird…
WES from Alejandro Prullansky on Vimeo. If you’re into movies with smart characters who secretly feel shunned by society and scenes with supremely low frame rates, you’re in luck. The Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson is having a mini-film fest of director Wes Anderson’s films all next week. The Drafthouse’s “Week…
Three musicians who stuff all the bleeps and bloops from your favorite new and classic video games into new compositions and songs are bringing their 8-bit instruments to Dallas next week as part of a national Total Destruction Tour. Lyricist Brent “brentalfloss” Black, rapper Raheem “Mega Ran” Jarbo and Dan…
Morning news shows have to fill a lot of time for audiences who are barely awake or so hungover that they don’t realize the TV is actually on, so they have a little more leeway with their content. That’s why you’ve never seen folks like Brian Williams doing cooking segments…
English is known for his brightly saturated critique of consumerism that leaves a taste of the bizarre in your mouth. He is the creator of the character MC Supersized used in the film “Super Size Me.” He has painted on the Berlin Wall, and once he appeared as a character on The Simpsons.
Have you ever been to an art show and asked yourself, is this guy shitting me? At Joshua Goode’s exhibit that opens at RO2 Art this weekend, the answer is yes. Ostensibly, Artifacts from the Burial Site of the Unicorn T-Rex contains Goode’s findings from a dig in Germany, where…
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. If we were your great grandmother, we’d say Tom Sale is a character. Mostly because he is. These days Sale is widely known as…
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…
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…
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:…
