Once upon a time, we were in a high school English class, staring off into space or sleeping during those obligatory Shakespeare lectures. This dead guy has been popular through hundreds of years of English literature, but thou aren’t as witty as he. Lucky for us, Collin College is presenting…
Looks like the pop-up shop might be the next food truck. Last week, a vintage pop-up shop landed in a vacant building next to the Double Wide on Commerce, and now another pop-up shop is springing up at The Belmont Hotel this weekend. Junkie Brand Apparel is selling their line…
In the Saturday afternoon heat, 11 teams of costumed “idiots” mushed their modified and decorated shopping carts across roughly 5 miles of the city’s streets as they competed for kitschy, homemade prizes in the first Dallas version of the urban shopping cart race. (Read our preview from Saturday for more…
The night began mildly enough, though that would change quickly. Motorcycles lined the side-street outside of Lucky 7 Cycles on Haskell Ave; their owners mingled in and out of the garage, pouring beer from a couple kegs, swigging sips of Jager from the bottle. It was last weekend’s celebration…
Today, just after the 1 p.m. launch of Idiotarod Dallas 2011, bands of costumed “idiots” will mush their modified and decorated shopping carts across roughly 5 miles of the city’s streets as they compete for prizes in the first Dallas version of the race. Clearly inspired by Alaska’s annual 1,150-mile…
The final show of Second Thought Theatre’s seventh and so far strongest season is Christopher Shinn’s Dying City (reviewed in this week’s paper). The two-actor (Grace Heid, Rhett Henckel), three-character drama was directed by Dallas Theater Center company member Lee Trull, his first time staging a full-fledged production. Trull’s been…
Sure, centenarians are special. Hell, anyone who makes it to 100 and can still do gardening or enjoy the early bird special is impressive in our book. White Rock Lake turns 100 this year, and even after a slew of festivities that started in March, the lake apparently can still…
I’ve been looking at your photos. I see them on Facebook, Twitter, Path, instagram and Flickr. Occasionally, I plan to post a few that I like, with your permission, in what I like to call, the Smallest Group Show, ever. This installment: scenes from Texas summer. View the show after…
The Turtle Creek Chorale’s 31th anniversary season is about to come to a close. Last night, at the Meyerson, they performed their final offering, Night and Day: The Music of Cole Porter. But you still have a chance to see the final performance at 8 p.m. Sunday. Audiences will be…
Mary Anne Cox, 28. Purchasing Manager for Lights Fantastic. Coal Vines, Uptown. “I’m wearing jeans from Urban Outfitters, a necklace from Buffalo Exchange, vintage shoes, and a shirt from Ross, yes, Ross. I’m inspired by Free People, music, Pintrest.com, art, street fashion and my best friends, Carla and Jen.”…
For our latest installment of Question The Artist, we’re proud to be working with and talking to the award-winning editorial illustrator Brian Stauffer. Stauffer’s work has graced our pages before, and we’re fortunate enough to have him grace our pages once again. Coming off of a recent gold medal win…
So you’ve got your Dirk Is My Homeboy shirt and tattoo, but do you have this? Local artist Cabe Booth created this oil on wood masterpiece appropriately titled “Dirk Nowitzki,” and it’s available for purchase for $750 or the highest bid. As of last night, the highest bid was $500…
Before being cast as Georgeanne in Contemporary Theatre of Dallas’ current comedy hit, Alan Ball’s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Dallas actress Barrett Nash had played a lot of angst-y teenagers. Looking a decade younger than her real age (27), Nash, a UT-Austin grad, had been a standout playing…
The second season of Louis C.K.’s latest half-hour comedy, Louie, starts up at 9:30 Central tonight on FX. If it’s anything like his stand-up, his first show (Lucky Louis on HBO), or the first season of Louie, it will be a wonderfully and purposefully disjointed driving tour of C.K.’s head…
“Accio Pottermore!” For a full week, hundreds of thousands of Potter Heads have uttered this command as they waited for the unveiling of JK Rowling’s website and wondered what it would actually be. The time finally came today. Pottermore is an exclusive interactive website for fans of all ages, and…
For most people, Mondays suck, but not for playwright Kristoffer Diaz who got to do triple the celebrating this past Monday. First, The New York Times crowned him as the 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright, and then The Public Theater in New York awarded him with the first Gail…
Derek Dilday is a really big Mavs fan. He recently got the above tattoo. Here he is talking about why: The inspiration came from being a huge Dirk fan, obviously. Knowing how much Dirk wanted this championship and the struggles he has been through with this team for the past…
From Tad Friend’s New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline “Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates Women”) to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned to last month’s Bridesmaids (which has thus far outgrossed every previous Judd Apatow project since Knocked Up), a case could be made that 2011…
The documentary Audience Award winner at this year’s Sundance festival, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly astounding methods in four-day clinics around the country. If that sounds as exciting as watching hay turn yellow, director Cindy Meehl finds the real story…
“I am angry,” Conan O’Brien admits in Rodman Flender’s tour doc Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop. “I’m trying not to be…but sometimes I’m so mad I can’t even breathe.” Prohibited from appearing on television for six months after his early 2010 break with NBC, Conan hit the road, capitalizing on his…
Pixar’s Cars franchise takes a sharp turn from NASCAR mayhem and red-state-targeted ’50s nostalgia to 007 espionage with the upgraded sequel Cars 2, though in its delivery of Matchbox-machine superheroics for its young male demographic, it stays true to its prime function as an advertising vehicle for merchandise. Nonetheless, if…
Who knew? Sometime during the 8th century, between bouts of famine, scurvy and smallpox, dynastic conflict and bloody religious war, the Franks invented “jazz hands.” And when they weren’t hacking away with broadswords, or hacking up a lung, they took time to create bouncy, light pop. It’s amazing what one…
