The Nasher Sculpture Center’s (2001 Flora St.) Gallery Lab series taps two Undermain Theatre talents on Thursday to enlighten us on the art of set design. Undermain artistic director Katherine Owens and scenic designer John Arnone talk about how a play goes from script to stage, how to balance word…
Earlier this year, Naked Girls Reading — that clutch of lit-loving ladies in the buff — presented their Southern-themed event, with selections from Flannery O’Connor, Dolly Parton, Nora Roberts and a recipe for a cake made with Tang and Mountain Dew. This Friday night, they return to Quixotic World (2824…
In the case of burlesque, you may not think that venue is all that important. Professional movers and shakers could tease and reveal just about anywhere, and you’d be hooked, right? But the vaudevillian roots of burlesque have a special kinship with atmosphere. There’s something about a place with character…
Does your dad threaten to abandon you and join the circus? Are you still searching for a way to win back his affection via the perfect Father’s Day gift? Look no further because June 15 is World Juggling Day. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (601 East Palace Parkway, Grand Prairie)…
Boxing is alive, but it’s not well, as mixed martial arts replaces it as popular culture’s combat sport of choice — EA stalling new Fight Night video games to focus on Sports UFC is the latest liver punch to pugilism’s popularity. Suggestions to help the sweet science make a comeback:…
You know him. You love him. You wanna get stoned and eat popcorn with him. Comedian Doug Benson is on tour, and he’s recording an episode of his podcast Doug Loves Movies at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub (5321 Mockingbird Lane) during a special 4:20 p.m. show on Saturday. Benson believes in…
Rodeo season has galloped into North Texas, bringing sweaty bandanas, sturdy cowboys and rope tricks that punctuate the summer air with dusty red plumes. And no matter how much you might think you’re immune to the charms of extreme livestock wrangling, it’s hard to resist the excitement of all that…
He made a lot of empty threats during your childhood while keeping all of his promises, and for both of those reasons you’ll thank your dad today. In Dallas, you’ve got options for expressing your affection; the grandest of those is the transformative dining and rodeo experience of Medieval Times…
Superman is an idea. OK, fine. Technically he’s an intellectual property — a set of data points slammed together by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1930s, sold for $130 to National Allied Publications (later DC Comics/TimeWarner), and subsequently transformed into a nugget of multivariously exploitable content that has…
As wily as modern politicians are, they’ve got nothing on their classic Roman counterparts. Those guys were as crooked as a barrel of fish hooks, and damned if they didn’t come up with effective ways to overthrow their adversaries. Like, say, including a guy’s best friend in a conspiracy to…
You’ve spent a lifetime at the driving range perfecting your swing, and an ungodly amount of money building a great golf game. But do you know who loves you for you, regardless of your handicap? The homeless and abandoned cats and dogs at the Humane Society. They think you’re an…
If you glean most of your world knowledge from talk shows and reality TV like Project Runway, then you know that the guys in Thunder from Down Under are built like no other men on God’s green earth. These guys put Chippendales to shame, with their chiseled, rock-hard abs and…
Unjuried art shows are a bit like estate sales. Behind the mostly emptied cosmetics containers, and just to the left of the Lone Star bottle cap collection, you find it: that thing you didn’t know existed and completely gives purpose to your hunt. For the second year, local collective art…
The Trinity Shakespeare Festival returns for its summer run at Texas Christian University (2800 S. University Drive, Fort Worth), with two of the Bard’s most well-known plays: Julius Caesar and The Taming of the Shrew. The latter, directed by festival artistic director T.J. Walsh, is Shakespeare’s tale of two sisters:…
If you heard a piece of theater described as “a film noir homage to a book author whose narrative intertwines the Hollywood machine, a detective story and real life” you’d shrug and say “that’s confusing.” But when the same plot comes to life on stage, as it does in the…
The courtyard pool of the Lumen Hotel is surrounded by chaise lounges and waterside cabanas, but you’ll need a room key if you want to dip a toe. Soon, that changes. The recently renovated hotel, which just picked up a few Brad Oldham sculptures, announced today that it’s extending its…
If you Google the Indonesian term dhalang, Wikipedia will give you a simple definition: a puppeteer from the island of Java. But last night, the capacity crowd that watched a master dhalang perform at the Dallas Museum of Art discovered there is way more to it than that. Ki Purbo…
On a sun-bathed Saturday morning, as I arrived at Irving’s Hackberry Creek Country Club, happy golfers greeted each other as they met for early tee times. But it wasn’t until I spotted a pair of long coattails and a top hat saunter past the women’s aerobics class on the front…
Lucy Kirkman’s solo show at That That, a hard-to-find new art space in a Deep Ellum building that you’ve passed a million times (think of the Finley Shirts window on Main Street), is rooted in the Jorge Luis Borges short story “Library of Babel,” 10 dense and challenging pages of…
Elite classical musicians are often compared to pro athletes, at least by other classical musicians. We make the comparison because when we see a pitcher hurl a perfectly placed fastball into the strike zone at 97 mph, watch an Olympic gymnast flip backward through the air and land solidly on…
As we reported a while back, The Book of Mormon, the Broadway show with nine Tony Awards under its belt and written by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, will finally be in Dallas this fall, as part of the 2013/2014 Lexus Broadway Series at the AT&T Performing…
“Things really took a turn after that rape” is something I said aloud on Friday while standing in the living room of a former crack house. We have to get there first, though. Siri reluctantly guides us to the ramshackle West Dallas residence, which sits on an overgrown plot behind…
