This is it, people. This Sunday, February 2, is the last day the all-weather ice rink at Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway) will be available for your horrible-at-ice-skating ass to fall down on it. For $5. Unless you bring your own skates, and then it’s free. So bring…
How many dick mentions are in an interview with a comedy collective? Only three, surprisingly — at least when you interview Riley Morris and Naaman Rodges of Shut Up and Prance. Instead they lead with homicide and wiretapping. Morris was calling in from Los Angeles and said he was forced…
Comic Con announced yesterday that Close Encounters and Jaws star, Richard Dreyfuss, will headline February’s Dallas Sci-Fi expo, happening at the Irving Convention Center. He’s an uncommon “get” for one of these gigs, which typically cull television celebs and other non-Academy Award winners for their meet-and-greets. Dreyfuss is different. He…
Contemporary Belgian artist Michaël Borremans’ only U.S. solo museum exhibition ran at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2005. Titled Hallucination and Reality, it focused on his small paintings and sketches on cardboard. His only solo U.S. gallery show was at New York’s David Zwirner in 2009 and featured a…
With so many Academy Award nominees currently in theaters, it’s natural for your competitive side to activate. But there’s still a month before you don an old prom dress, eat a shrimp ring and watch the Oscars — that’s plenty of time. Be decadent this week: Treat yourself to eight…
Five years ago, Dallas Comedy House founder Amanada Austin risked a cushy job at a Lexus dealership to follow a dream of bringing Chicago-style improv comedy to Dallas/Fort Worth at a time when its comedy scene was still in its infancy. “When we opened, I was really more concerned with…
There are myriad reasons The Ticket has dominated Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves for 20 years, all part of a formula that’s proven to be impossible to replicate. One ingredient that builds a sense of culture around the station is the so-called “Drops.” Small sound bites, usually taken out of context, inserted…
Not only will Eddie Izzard bring his newest sell-out tour, Force Majeure, to Dallas this summer, he’ll do it the most stylish way possible. Rather than filling a soulless stadium for one night, where screams of “Cake or Death” would ricochet off a thousand distant walls, Izzard will hover at…
Rangers fans piled into the ballpark Saturday to get a little facetime with their favorite players. Autograph sessions, Q&As, tours of the dugout and a chance to run the bases rounded out the afternoon’s events. We sent photographer Rachel Parker to weave through the masses and find our favorites. While…
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. Shannon Driscoll has been immersed in art most of her adult life. She’s a former art conservator, co-owner Oil & Cotton, and the teeniest…
A trio of University of North Texas (UNT) improvisers who went to Austin to compete in the College Improv Tournament came back to Denton with a first-place plaque. UNT seniors Daniel Matthews, Colten Winburn and Ryan Goldsberry, known collectively as Cell Block Tango, beat 11 other teams to win the…
So far in 2014, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has been solidly stuck in the late Romantic period. Of the five pieces the orchestra performed last week and this, four were composed in the final two decades of the 19th century. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In the late 1800s,…
Being nervous about sketch comedy is natural. One bad experience and you’re convinced the medium disagrees with you. Like that time you drank all of the melon-flavored whiskey and said, “Nope. Never again.” But maybe you just drank the wrong shit, right? Nobody should drink melon-flavored whiskey, especially when the…
DFW Vintage Toys’ Jayden Frost has a hard time turning away just about any toy that someone brings into the store. He doesn’t just have mainstream vintage fare like unopened G.I. Joe Skystrikers, plastic molded comic book characters and a room dedicated to Star Wars. He has some of the…
On South Locust Street in Denton, between the Davis Purity Bakery and El Guapo’s, sits a small brick building. Inside, children’s stuffed animals, kitchen tea towels, handbags and a menagerie of other items are lined along the walls and arranged on tabletops, in baskets and even on an old stove…
Let’s start with the ending: the closing credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been done by one of the eight…
STAG! Comedy, our favorite Austin sketch troupe, slays punchlines like malnourished dinosaurs. (See Saturday.) Break out the paper cocktail umbrellas, Dallas. Do it. I’ll wait. [Whistles. Stares vacantly out window.] Got ’em? Good. Stick one in your coffee, ‘cuz this weekend is loaded up with life’s best stuff. Free pie?…
It’s 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning and Dr. Charissa Terranova is regretting last night’s purchase of the iPhone 5. “I’m really not happy with Apple as a company right now,” she explains. “I may take it back and get the new Samsung.” This week she may be deliberating on her…
The Sundance InstituteEvery Sundance there’s a crowd-pleaser, and most years it’s got one degree of separation from the Little Miss Sunshine crew. But the most delightful flick of the 2014 fest is an unconventional documentary with no plot, no dialogue, and nothing but party. Living Stars, a fleet 63-minute film…
For years, one of the hallmarks of The Musers — the morning drive show on KTCK-AM 1310 The Ticket — is the parade of characters Gordon Keith rolls out on a daily basis. P1s have collectively cracked up at Fake Jerry Jones’ incoherent ramblings, Fake Nolan Ryan’s fixation on snow…
It’s been a good year for Kennedy Waterman. She earned a DFW Theater Critics Forum Award for her performance in a re-imagining of Glengarry Glen Ross, she’s premiering her first solo performance piece this week and she’s about halfway through seventh grade. Her short play Allergic Me, directed by Dallas…
Make no mistake, there’s a big Boo Boo in this year’s Broadway Our Way, the upbeat annual musical comedy fundraiser put on by Uptown Players at Kalita Humphreys Theater. You’ll recognize Honey Boo Boo, the reality TV starlet, played for Uptown by the drag-mazing comic actor B.J. Cleveland. Out (s)he…
