Chippendales is coming to the House of Blues (2200 N. Lamar St.), and it’s not the Rescue Rangers version. It’s the male-strip-down-to-a-banana-hammock version. So if your great aunt is in town — or any sheltered housewife with an alcohol tolerance of a single Cape Cod — you officially have plans…
James Franco’s hourlong sort-of documentary Interior. Leather Bar. hit 2013’s festival circuit around the same time Oz The Great and Powerful released worldwide. Stew on that for a minute. Franco and co-collaborator Travis Mathews bill the lower-budget project as an examination/recreation of the 40 minutes of gay S&M footage the…
It’s true: There are so, so many fish in the sea. But you’ve managed to get one on the line — a real keeper, it seems — and now it’s time to celebrate your good fortune with the holy trinity of (printable) Valentine’s activities: chocolates, restaurant reservations and a little…
Composer Tod Machover is a musical mad scientist. The MIT professor and technology whiz has wowed audiences in Europe, Boston and Chicago with his futuristic opera Death and the Powers. Now it’s our turn. On Wednesday, The Dallas Opera will open its production of Machover’s sci-fi tale inside the Winspear…
Milton Glaser, designer of the most frequently imitated logo design in human history, is finally coming to Dallas. The legend behind the I ♥ NY logo is also famous for his poster of Bob Dylan with psychedelic hair and Brooklyn Brewery’s branding and packaging. His Dallas show is part of…
The creepy town where dogs and people aren’t allowed in the dog park because of mysterious hooded figures and the sun seems to have trouble setting on time is coming to our neck of the woods. Commonplace Books is doing a live recording tour of their popular radio-style podcast Welcome…
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Valentine’s Day is stupid. And you jerks keep making it stupider by being so horrible at valentines-ing. I will now attempt to save you from your horrible selves. Here are some don’ts for this Valentine’s Day. Cheers to not being the worst at this fake holiday from now on. Don’t…
We’ve been closely tracking the trajectory of Halt and Catch Fire, a forthcoming AMC drama set during the 1980s PC boom in Dallas. It was co-created by a Plano native, Chris Cantwell, and is being produced by some of the folks behind Breaking Bad. Hopes, ours and critics’, are high…
The world hasn’t been the same since the video game arcade started to die a slow death. The rise and power of the home console almost made coin-ops obsolete. Now, you can play whatever game you want without having to wait for some joystick jockey to get off the damn…
When artist/magician Edward Ruiz — who goes by Confetti Eddie on stage — announced a parlor-style performance at his studio space, I instinctively clicked “Join.” Nobody’s ever offered me a night of magic before, and I was curious. Curious about all of it, really. Who else would pay to spend…
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. Who are you and what do you do? Julie Jackson. Subversive Cross Stitch and Kitty Wigs [websites that offer pretty much what their names…
It’s time for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and although I am British and thus bitter that we never win anything (apart from the really fancy sports, like rowing or cycling, that require very expensive equipment to compete in, thus ruling out a lot of countries), I understand America…
You may have seen them at local bands’ concerts, or maybe a printing event at Rubber Gloves, or perhaps at the Denton Holiday Lighting Festival. Behind a multi-colored mountain of T-shirts, a six-armed printing press looms, spun ’round and ’round by a group of guys as the duds are pressed…
OK, nerds, it’s February and those money-hungry card and candy companies are at it again, reminding you that just having a profile on OKCupid isn’t the same as actually going out with your crush IRL. So stop obsessively checking that special someone’s online profile and impress them with tickets to…
Comedy Central’s newest sitcom Broad City is only two episodes into the current season, but it has already gained an impressive audience, heaps of critical praise and some wel-deserved buzz. The network is so impressed with the show’s opening that its stars Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson are getting their…
In January, SXSW announced that supernova heartthrob/astrophysicist/author/educator Neil deGrasse Tyson is a confirmed keynote interview for this year’s Interactive. Well Dallas, if you didn’t buy a laminate, get excited. The AT&T Center has announced that Tyson will speak at the Winspear in May. He’s the author of 10 — count…
Quentin Tarantino named Big, Bad Wolves his favorite movie of the year. Certainly this film’s quiet, playful treatment of torture and its excessively bloody denouement is in the Tarantino vein. But Wolves derives its rampant ick factor from darker, less self-aware sensibilities than Tarantino. After debuting on the festival circuit…
A solo performance by renowned American pianist André Watts planned for this Friday night has been rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 2. Watts originally was intended to open the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s new Winspear Opera House Recital Series but had to cancel because of illness, the center announced…
FOREVER Trailer from Jason Reimer on Vimeo. Xchange, Nasher’s citywide public art initiative, wraps on February 16, and they’ve saved a little something special for the end. Or rather, dual-time zone art collective Good/Bad has. The group has constructed a short film designed to sell an existential secret, redeemable on…
Early this month, we learned that Guy Fieri was casting for the second season of his new TV show, and we realized we forgot something: Guy has a new TV show! Guy has a new TV show much of the time, but it’s not like us to simply ignore a…
Films, like most epic art projects, can get intense. For local movie writer and director Joe Scott, his latest project, Serendipity Moon, is no exception. From the Indiegogo page Scott launched to help fund the flick, to reaching out to his friends at Dallas Comedy House to take starring roles,…
