It’s easy to hate on Dallas. You look outside, see only concrete construction and think “Man, where’s all the cool stuff?” Well, yesterday cool stuff happened. Cyclosomatic is currently in effect, and that means one entire month of completely great events, created solely for your two-wheel pleasure. You don’t need…
Saturday morning’s temperature drop and scattered showers couldn’t keep hundreds of costumed dogs or their P1 owners home. Fort Worth’s new Coyote Drive-In movie park and patio hosted 1310 The Ticket’s annual Dogtoberfest, the Marconi Award-winning sport station’s annual celebration of the “good good puppy dog.” In addition to impressive…
Remember back when they called our generation lazy and unimaginative? Well, whatever awesome parent dressed their daughter as David Bowie from Labyrinth for Comic-Con Fan Days just proved all of them haters wrong! Over the weekend thousands piled into the Irving Convention Center for a little facetime with sci-fi, magical…
If you think children’s theater is just about giving a mouse a cookie or putting a hat on a cat, you haven’t been to Fun House Theatre and Film, this year’s Best of Dallas Best Theater Company. Located in an unglamorous little playhouse behind a Thai restaurant in a Plano…
The tale of the retired wrestler is often a tragic one, as Grantland contributor David Shoemaker has made a career of cataloging. In a way the post-ring career of former multi-WWE champion Mick Foley serves as sort of a fairytale-type alternative scenario for those hoping to leave the business unscathed…
AMC’s original-drama wave crested over the weekend, when a record 10 million people bid a Badfinger-scored farewell to Walter White and Breaking Bad. Walking Dead (which returns next weekend) and Mad Men (next year) will keep things going, but fans will of course want more-more-more. The network is hoping a…
Blue Caprice looks for sense in what, to all other appearances, was a senseless moment in recent history. Over the course of three weeks in October 2002, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized citizens of the Washington D.C. area, and America as a whole, by randomly sniping at least…
If Comic-Con’s gotten a little too mainstream for you or maybe you’re looking for something a little more highbrow, don’t worry — you don’t have to miss out any of the convention fun. This weekend’s FenCon is a literary science fiction and fantasy convention with all the same geekery as…
Does anyone else notice how much modern horror movies suck? Sure there’s an occasional creative hit like the first Paranormal Activity or The Cabin in the Woods, but the second a horror movie shows a modicum of popularity, Hollywood runs into the dirt with an endless series of pointless sequels…
Video by Frank Benlin. Since last year’s Expanded Cinema project, where local artists took control of the OMNI Hotel’s complex and baffling LED-wrapped exterior, we’ve craved another hit. On Friday night, we’ll get it. The 2012 offering was so bold that it left us humbled. It was executed by a…
Demigods and politicians have often used games like the Grand Theft Auto titles as surefire signs of the nation’s moral decay and scapegoats for much bigger problems that require actual work on their part, a theory that’s proving more true today as certain members of the U.S. House and Senate…
GravityOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek both praise Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock), saying the director exhibits a “lovely human touch” with film, which is set in space, and that it’s “so different than anything else he’s…
(Video by Frank Benlin) It’s back. This Friday local video artists take control of the OMNI’s programming for an evening of public art. You’ll want to stake out a great spot early for this 8 p.m. show and make sure you have a radio synched up with KXT’s live musical…
This weekend Klyde Warren Park will be a great place to revel in the North Texas cultural scene. Museums and theater groups will descend on the park for Fall for the Arts, a day long event of music and performances. To make it a full on arts bonanza, Fall for…
What a shitty place to die. Whatever your feelings about Dallas, that’s a pretty harsh assessment. Then again, the character in Peter Landesman’s well-intentioned but unfulfilling Parkland who says it, an aide to fallen President John F. Kennedy, can probably be forgiven for his snotty Yankee attitude. Next month marks…
Some movies are so tense and deeply affecting that they shave years off your life as you’re watching, only to give back that lost time, and more, at the end. Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is one of those movies. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts — one a medical engineer,…
There’s hardly anything more enjoyable in live theater in this town than watching Kitchen Dog’s leading lady Tina Parker perform an onstage emotional meltdown. In her latest role, co-starring in Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy Detroit, Parker is in maximum meltdown mode playing Mary, a nervous paralegal married to gangly laid-off…
Two things could happen for Jeff Swearingen at his low-budget Fun House Theatre in Plano. He’ll either get one of those MacArthur “genius grants” for his innovative and boldly un-P.C. approach to children’s theater or the parents of Plano will form an angry mob wielding torches and pitchforks and run…
Three-time WWE champion, two-time New York Times No. 1 best-selling author and guest on 30 Rock, Mick “The Hardcore Legend” Foley lives up to his name. Whether he’s on the receiving end of a chokeslam through a 16-foot metal cage or behind a podium speaking to the students of the…
The benefits of immersing yourself in the arts are clear: It stimulates the imagination, bolsters critical thinking skills and has positive effects on mood and behavior. But how do you reap the advantages of art if you have a disability that affects the way you see or perceive it? That…
During last year’s Expanded Cinema project, which put local video art onto the OMNI’s giant canvas, cars sat abandoned, piled up along the road like the vehicular aftermath of an apocalypse. Fields filled with viewers like some out-of-season Fourth of July. And art did what we knew it could: pulled…
Friday is Social Science night, the event that recently won the Dallas Observer’s Best Night at the Museum award, and it’s sold out. Now, we aren’t telling you this news to ruin your day. We’re telling you so that you can A) get excited if you bought a ticket early,…
