The Dallas Contemporary turns officially old this weekend. It celebrates with Alive for 35, an immersive event that invites you into the space — and beyond its walls — for a 35-hour party. They’ve promised to keep the doors unlocked and the lights up from 1 p.m. on Friday until…
Not since Kristin shot JR have there been such twists and turns like those in the soon-to-be released Dallas Noir — a crime anthology featuring the fictional escapades of detective Betty, Texas Ranger Jeremiah Spur and more set in Dallas and certain seedy suburbs. David Hale Smith is a literary…
Comedian Simon Amstell, sounding a little in awe, summed up the pending live Radiolab show thusly: “You came out here to watch two men sit behind a desk and talk about science.” He was right. The mostly-full Verizon-Theater-worth of people drove out to Grand Prairie on a Monday night to…
UPDATE, 2:40 p.m.: Dan Leal, the center’s executive director, emailed us this statement this afternoon: “The Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County appreciated the generous offer made by the Tattooed Hippie Pirate Mommas organization; however, the money was raised with a pin up calendar that could be perceived by some…
“Do you really cut into someone’s arm during the show?” Dallas-based playwright and performer Brad McEntire hears this question after almost every performance of his kinky solo show Chop. “An uncomfortable number of times, actually,” he says. Since premiering at WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival in 2010,…
Absolute Battle, the biggest competitive video fighting game tournament in Texas since 2009, returns this Saturday at the Crown Plaza Dallas Downtown. For the fourth show in five years, its organizers are expecting players from across the world in an event featuring nine games, including classics like Street Fighter III:…
Game demos, whether they are smaller affairs like Sunday’s Xbox One reveal at a Commerce Street warehouse or massive gang bangs of game industry PR, like the annual E3 conventions in Los Angeles, never seem satisfied to be able to assault the human senses with just video games. They are…
Game shows have been one of my addictions since my younger days when wearing sneakers with lights in the heels wasn’t a fashion a faux-pas and eating my weight in Halloween candy didn’t require a defibrillator. It all started at my late grandparents’ house back in the Uptown section of…
Jeff Phillips is more than just the biggest pro-skater to come out of Dallas: He’s one of the sport’s legacy groundbreakers. His 1993 suicide has never been forgotten, especially by the organizers of Saturday’s tribute event Boneless One 3. It culled huge talents like Dave Allen, Jake Brown and more…
Violin superstar Joshua Bell joins the DSO in this month’s JFK memorial concert. This November, Dallasites will inevitably be bombarded by more than their fair share of words about the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Speeches, articles and commentary are essential to any memorial. Sometimes, though, words fail…
Walking into Texas Theatre last night, my friends and I formed an unlikely alliance. A Cathy cartoon, flamingo and Shari Lewis abandoned East Dallas for Oak Cliff, largely thanks to a curious week of Instagram photos spit out by the resurrected art house. They were really hyping this screening of…
When Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Larroquette pair up for their weekly podcast “Uhh, Yeah Dude,” they morph into twinspeak, dissecting American culture’s warbling state through the lens of modern men. It’s a topical kaleidoscope, ripped from the recesses of magazines, newspapers, television, science reports or just all-around living. What keeps…
Science has never been cooler. We’re living in a time when “I fucking love science” is maybe the most popular thing on Facebook and Neil deGrasse Tyson is a universally accepted badass. So the popularity of a show like Radiolab, from WNYC, New York Public Radio, isn’t surprising. The show…
Building a solid trivia team is a tricky venture – you need a jock, an entertainment junkie, a book worm, a history buff, and at some Dallas venues someone who has really good aim with coasters. My biggest regret about dumping my college boyfriend was losing his endless knowledge of useless facts. Grab your smartest friends or ex-boyfriends and head to these bars to test your trivial strengths.
Texas Theatre sets The Tingler loose tonight! (Pro Tip: Gargle first. Screaming could save your life.) Happy Halloween, goons. This week’s list has it all: Halloween parties, freaky films, art, live podcast recordings and a huge skateboarding tribute event for Dallas icon, Jeff Phillips. Share this list with your coven…
The Dallas Museum of Art will display excavated items from an Etruscan tomb beginning tomorrow, November 1. The art objects were discovered in a Spina grave in 1926, but have never been publicly shown until now. There’s a 5th-century B.C. silver fibula, a bronze statuette from the latter half of…
Come Halloween time, the fearless will drag their easily scared friends to one of any number of haunted house attractions to enjoy the adrenaline that the body produces when its fight or flight instincts kick in and makes them briefly wonder if they’ve lost control over their digestive systems. However,…
This magician’s crate wouldn’t quite fit as a carry-on. It’s a custom-built blend of wood and metal, perched on casters, painted black and decorated by a white rope pattern that crisscrosses its width. It serves as a sculptural rolling library for the 12 books hiding inside. They slide in and…
We’re lucky that some of the great American dramas have graced Dallas stages in recent seasons. To Kill a Mockingbird, Inherit the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath all feature leading characters with a conscience, and they explore with great literary style important themes about justice and enlightenment of the…
One of the tragedies of the Internet age is that sometimes movies get attention for all the wrong reasons. When Abdellatif Kechiche (Secret of the Grain) debuted Blue Is the Warmest Color in Cannes in May, the festival jury was so taken with the film and its two lead performances…
She was a lonely princess. He was a cocky civilian. And after she escaped the palace, the unlikely couple fell in love. It’s the plot of Roman Holiday and — according to this soapy romance from director Oliver Hirschbiegel — the true-enough story of the last two years of Princess…
Recently, Anne Washburn’s astonishing Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play wrapped up a sold-out run at Playwrights Horizons in New York. I saw the show’s world premiere in June 2012 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where I write about theater. It was one of the most imaginative and…
