Something interesting happens in Oak Cliff this Saturday when Oil and Cotton presents the Read-Rite Market, a free, day-long celebration of words. It’s the kind of event that makes your inner book-loving cheerleader go nuts, kicking off with “Coffee, Cigarettes and a Newspaper,” a program that fulfills your fantasy of…
Update: We’ve been asking for your SyFy film suggestions today and I gotta say: I’d greenlight all of these. Check out our favorite reader’s ideas for new Sharknado follow-up projects. They’re at the bottom. I love crap. According to trending polls, you do too. Case in point: rip-off monster movie…
Update, July 18: After this post went up a couple weeks back, several people pointed that it was a little — OK, a lot — one-dimensional, omitting various demographics of Dallas’ vast LGBT rainbow of a community. So we’ve added to it. Not every mover or shaker or mover-shaker is…
Summer Adventures at Fair Park, the seasonal offshoot of the State Fair of Texas that began this year, announced today that it’s switching to half-priced admission for the rest of its run. That means that entry, which includes unlimited rides, shows and activities is now a flat rate of $14.95…
Moon Day, a seven-hour celebration of the other moonwalk, happens Saturday. Art superfans, stretch now: this is a marathon weekend. We’ve got Dallasites: Available Space kicking off at the DMA Friday just next door to ‘Til Midnight at the Nasher; Design District Gallery Day blocks out Saturday afternoon and there’s…
Be afraid of Virginia Woolf. She’s drunk off her ass. In Edward Albee’s epic 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, main characters George and Martha pour 17 drinks — hard liquor on the rocks — in the first act alone. Nine or 10 more in the second act. Another…
In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, on a platform of Oakland’s Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit Station, a young man named Oscar Grant III was shot in the back by a BART transit officer. The officer later claimed that he meant to reach for his Taser and…
Something like half the running time of the engaging new don’t-go-in-the-basement thriller The Conjuring is devoted to showing us characters proceeding slowly into the basement, or into the maws of basement-like places we know they shouldn’t go, often with just matches or a flashlight to guide them. Twice, deliciously, they’re…
bulk of smelly, cranky humanity. In comedies, filmmakers often render the infinite and otherworldly in the mundane, human terms of bureaucracy, with all the waiting rooms, Muzak, and impossible regulatory complexities that depiction implies. We can’t really envision an afterlife that isn’t somehow modeled on our own psychic landscape. So…
On Thursday night only, Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) offers a screening of Plimpton!, a 2012 documentary on writer George Plimpton. His résumé is enviable: founding editor of The Paris Review, friend of Robert and John F. Kennedy, participated in a boxing match with Archie Moore. The life Plimpton…
You probably know this, but beer is, like, a thing right now. Of course, beer’s never really not been a thing — but there was a time when watery corporate brews were ordered without a second thought. Today, the labels you’re scraping off your amber bottles are of the local,…
Viva Dallas Burlesque, the largest burlesque show in the Lone Star State, brings the latest installment of its monthly spinoff series Cirque du Burlesque Friday at Lakewood Theater (1825 Abrams Road). Jump-start your weekend and your lackluster fantasies with this ultimate adult-themed circus, which includes hoopers, sideshow acts, award-winning aerial…
When summer’s sun hits Dallas, our city streets empty. We become night owls, rising at dusk and venturing outside with the stars. Sadly, we’re missing the operating hours of most museums and amusement options, and kid-friendly activities are traditionally limited to the pre-primetime hours. But not this weekend, because it’s…
Just a few hours south in sister city Austin, you can’t swing a recycled, naturally dyed, hand-knit, multi-use grocery/sleeping bag without knocking down six to 14 sketch comics. Try it, it’s fun to do. Especially outside of Wheatsville Co-op, where they have extra-weakened soy legs. Here in Dallas, we experience…
As much as we complain about Texas summers, we secretly love them. The sticky, hot nights bring their share of mosquitoes and stunning utility bills but their charms come in spades — soaks in the pool, barbecues, cold drinks and sizzling social soirees filled with loquacious party people like you’ll…
Geekly bylaws dictate that members of the nerd community observe several lesser-known holidays. Honoring the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter is a must-do on Pi Day, March 14. Lightsaber salutes better happen on May the Fourth be With You. And Free Comic Book Day? Well, true nerds…
Let those day-drunk journalists blow cash to rub elbows with Susan Orlean and Ben Fountain at the Mayborn today. Everyone else will post up at Oil and Cotton (837 W. 7th St., Oak Cliff) for Read-Rite Market: a free celebration of the written word and the social practice of reading…
The Design District is geared up and ready for its Gallery Day, and on Saturday, you can take in the view on and around Dragon Street. Galleries participating include Red Arrow Contemporary, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Conduit Gallery, Galleri Urbane, the Goss-Michael Foundation, PDNB Gallery, RE Gallery, Holly…
Beer. Meat. Music. What more could you possibly ask for? The Flying Saucer in Addison knows exactly what it takes to keep the locals happy, so it’s serving up the brews, brisket and beats this weekend at the third annual BeerBQ. On the menu of eats will be barbecue faves…
Perhaps you’ve heard stories about UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which starts Friday. Perhaps you’ve heard of its drunken excess, and anyone who has spent a good portion of their lives in journalism school, or around writers or editors, knows these stories are likely true. But the Mayborn is more…
It’s effing hot with no sign of relief in sight. You should be at the damn lake. Oh, you don’t have a boat, you say? You’re in luck. Enjoy the luxury of air conditioning at Dallas Market Hall (2200 N. Stemmons Freeway) Thursday through Sunday and peruse some of the…
Drunk spelling bees, often called “adult” spelling bees, have now become part of your adult life. On Tuesday night, the most responsible of nights, Dan’s Silverleaf (103 Industrial St., Denton) is offering up its own version. It’s officially called Buzz Bee: Dentin’s Ownly Uhdult Spellen Bee(r), and it will be…
