A secret art world has you surrounded. Those hand-lettered signs that color our city walls are created by typography addicts. You rarely consider the artists behind the things, though. Sure, you love the folksy lettering that jells perfectly with the message it pitches, or the punctuating swirl of a clearance…
He’s got a big ol’ potato body, but you love his pasty ass anyway. He was an original cast member on Mr. Show, he’s been on the Sarah Silverman Show, and if you were a fan of Just Shoot Me! (ME!), you might remember his 29-episode arc as Ray Liotta’s…
Though it’s still firmly rooted in the strip club scene, pole dancing has been in daylight for a while now. It may still raise some eyebrows when it shows up on the class schedule at an aerobics studio, but even the most pearl-clutching of housewives will admit that shimmying up…
The Internet cracked open the publishing world. Self-publishing, an effort that just 10 years ago felt like an author’s last resort, is now a treasured pathway for bringing exciting new, DIY talent to the forefront. This is, of course, a mixed blessing. With the rapid increase in books and shorts…
After elementary school, Columbus Day loses a lot of its luster. The day off is nice, but it starts to get harder and harder to really get into Christopher Columbus. You learn that he actually wanted to get to India and about the whole genocide part, and it’s just hard…
As the spookiest of seasons creeps up on us, it’s time for entertainment that warms the black heart of your inner goth. But this year, don’t stop at just dragging out your copy of The Shining — try something with a little more bite. LakeCities Ballet Theater’s production of La…
The likes of Tito Ortiz and Jon Jones have launched mixed martial arts to new heights. Sadly, it also boosted its ticket price. Ignore UFC’s $500 front-row treatment and capture (almost) the same excitement for a fifth of the price in Legacy Fighting Championship 24 Friday at the Allen Event…
The Walking Dead is back, and this season promises to feature chain-link fences, neutral tones and ample zombie struggles. Maybe even a death or two. To find out who gets dead first, meet up at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station at 8 p.m. Sunday and be among your…
Combine the words “magician,” “audience participation” and “Las Vegas” in any sentence and you might expect the word “smarmy” to show up real soon. Luckily, that’s not the case with The Amazing Johnathan, comic and long-time Vegas headliner who explodes the conventions of Vegas cheese with comedy that’s abrasive, ridiculous…
For 26 years this festival has brought Dallas some of the most unexpected finds in contemporary video work and video art. You’ve got curator/organizer/big brain Bart Weiss to thank for that. He travels to conventions that you’ve never heard of to find the movies you need to see. This year’s…
Over the years, vampires have gone from the mystical creatures of Nosferatu to the high societal members of Interview With the Vampire to the dumbasses of Underworld. The voodoos, meanwhile, have evolved from a person sticking pins in a doll to a crazy person stabbing a pin-up doll with a…
Few artists have proved as influential (and poorly mimicked) as Robert Rauschenberg. He was kind of a rock star, an anti-conformist and a man with the ability to simply create masterpieces over and over and over again. You often look at his work — the “Glass Tires” sculptures, his trace-ink…
Modern-day radio stations may be more likely to play his son’s and grandson’s music, but for hardliners, there’s the original Hank Williams. For a man who didn’t live to see 30, Williams had a profound impact on country music that’s still felt today, more than 50 years after his death…
He created the Nasher’s gorgeous housing. (Yes, the one currently getting melanoma from Museum Tower’s death ray.) He designed the Kimbell’s sexy new wing. He’s even been called a “starchitect” — a side effect from winning the acclaimed Pritzker Prize. And for the Nasher’s 10-year anniversary, super stud structure designer…
October may be the traditional time to watch scary movies, but there aren’t many new scary things coming to a theater near you this month, unless you count Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Escape Plan. The Dallas Comedy House has a worthy-sounding alternative to pretending that you wet your pants…
“If you don’t want to see sex with a duck, leave about an hour and 10 minutes in,” says Bart Weiss, Dallas VideoFest’s organizer and programmer. We’re eating a sensible breakfast in Oak Cliff as Weiss describes a historical documentary called Natan, which screens this weekend at VideoFest. It’s about…
In the Dallas arts scene, the urgent question people are finally beginning to ask: where are the young artists? The stunning architecture of the Dallas Arts District yearns to be filled with the creation of young, hungry artists. It’s why the Flora Street Lofts are being developed to bring affordable…
Long before The Daily Show became the most trusted name in fake news, including the one with the smarmy guy from Sportscenter who threw away his late night career to star in a Rob Schneider movie, and even long before the first season of Saturday Night Live gave a much…
*Editor’s Note: Nobody in Dallas is showing Teen Witch? IT’S HALLOWEEN MOVIE SEASON PEOPLE. GET EXCITED! In Dallas, theaters have rolled out the orange carpet to usher in a season of gore, spoof and general Halloweenocity. ( Movie Tavern in Denton The college town go-to hosts a Retro Cinema series…
Home is your safe place. It’s where you hold intimate conversations with loved ones and display meaningful objects. That doesn’t make you shallow, just human. Not everyone has that. Many, like the Dallas families transitioning out of homelessness and poverty, barely have walls. Imagine the increased feeling of pride that…
There’s always something going on in Dallas, so we thought it’d be fun to live vicariously through your adventures. Each week look for our #Dallas Instagram recap of people, places, events, food, and more. This recent #Dallas photoroll turned up a pumpkin village, some serious Dallas Cowboys tailgaters and an…
The Wes Anderson Collection, an artful and comprehensive new coffee table book released today, sheds light on the popular auteur’s films. Featuring a generous spread of rare, behind-the-scenes photos, an introduction by novelist Michael Chabon, critical essays and much more, the book is a must for Anderson fans. The book’s…
