Attention all runners: The Bagel Run is back and ready to give families the run of a lifetime. That’s right, even kids are invited to take on this race. This year’s run will award teams, individuals and even this year’s fastest rabbi. The 25th Annual Bagel Run kicks off Sunday…
If you’re a sweatpants kind of audience member, network TV’s got you covered with American Idol and The Voice. But if you prefer your singing contest with more swank, check out the 23rd annual Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, which features 21 young singers from across Texas. The competition this…
The North Texas Beer Festival isn’t just an educational opportunity to sample from more than 100 craft and import beers. The three-day event is also an opportunity to explore the Great White North, as each part of the festival takes place in a different suburb north of Dallas. The fest…
It’s a well-known truth that the length of time it takes to make a film has little to do with the quality of the finished product. If the opposite were true, then movies like Cleopatra (clocking in a 3-year production time) and Transformers 2 (a year and a half) would…
Wrangle up the posse and head on over to the Fort Worth Stockyards for Frontier Forts Days taking place Friday and Saturday. The event will transfer the historic Stockyard district into a real life representation of what it was like to live in the Texas frontier with interpreters on-sight to…
Eating and drinking are both universal and social connections, bringing people of all ages, all backgrounds and all ethnicity together under one roof to celebrate life, love and relaxation. It doesn’t matter what language you speak or what dish you prefer. Everyone loves to wine, dine and chow down. Everyone…
For many of you, the winter is too cold for running and walking in the park. Your winter workouts were brisk, sub-jog walks between a warm car and a heated building. But by now, you’re probably looking for something to get you back into shape. At the Michelob Ultra No…
If you are the kind of person that really enjoys a good musical, or are fortunate enough to be friends with/related to/dating someone who is, then you are in luck! Dallas’ own Uptown Players are hosting their ninth annual fundraiser, Broadway Our Way, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater through May…
To borrow a line from one of his films: Quentin Tarantino, when you absolutely, positively got to see everyone in a movie get killed. Accept no substitutes. OK, not everyone, but almost everyone. When Tarantino began to garner fame for writing and directing movies, Pulp Fiction probably became the title…
It’s time for a French lesson! If you ask Google Translate what the French word “potiche” means in English, it will give you simply the word “vase.” This definition might satisfy your needs in some cases, but if you were hoping to find out about the film Potiche (2010) based…
In a Depression-era Oklahoma, the Dust Bowl and outlaws like the infamous Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd are ravaging the landscape and threatening the livelihoods of farmers and their families. When a lone stranger drifts in from the desolate plains responding to an outdated ad to rent a…
For those who aren’t schooled in the indigenous people of Panama and Columbia, molas are colorful, ornate fabric panels that comprise part of the traditional costumes worn by the Kuna women. These bright, mesmerizing, geometric panels are created using an incredibly labor-intensive appliqué and reverse appliqué technique. Dallas-based painter and…
The use of human hair as an art medium may seem a bit questionable to some, but for an artist like Rosemary Meza DesPlas, who’s obsessed with the line, it’s a logical choice. Her works focuses on common feminist issues of gender and identity in a unique way using watercolors…
Every season, American Idol is generally hit or miss in its endeavor to crank out a new music superstar. In some cases (ahem, Ruben Studdard), the winner fails to achieve anything memorable after winning the contest, and in others, quickly ousted contestants (Jennifer Hudson, anyone?) go on to accomplish career…
The popular Mexican game of chance La Loteria is nothing like the lottery, but a bit like the Texas Lottery’s “Loteria Texas” scratch off tickets based on the game. A traditional Loteria game is a lot like bingo played with images instead of numbers. A caller officiates the game by…
Traditionally, silver is the choice gift for a 25 year anniversary, but a sculpture or painting from a celebrated local artist is a much better gift than that silver dolphin pendant you got your wife at the mall. Take the wife or any art lover to the XXV Anniversary Exhibition…
History is littered with artists whose works were largely unrecognized until the artists themselves were approaching the ends of their lives or were long since deceased. Perhaps The Dallas Museum of Art had this in mind when they started the Concentrations series in 1981. Concentrations showcases living contemporary artists whose…
Artist Campbell Bosworth lives and works in Marfa, Texas, mere miles from the Mexican border, so it’s no surprise he’s inspired by the ongoing cartel war that’s brought untold violence and drama to our state’s doorstep. Through paintings and carved wooden sculptures, he attempts to tackle the cartel narrative in…
If things are unusually quiet on some local stages right now, it’s because most of the biggest, baddest voices in Dallas musical theater are singing like mad in Broadway Our Way, the annual fundraising revue at Oak Lawn’s Uptown Players. The cast is an all-star lineup of area divas and…
Sink into summer at the très chic Hotel ZaZa with a visit to the hotel’s gallery—not the pool. Wet, an exhibition dedicated to water-themed artwork, will evoke the coconut smell of sunscreen and the sensation of gentle waves. The featured artists hail from states to the west: Eric Zener (painter,…
As a relatively new mom, I’ll admit that the things I don’t know about raising a kid could probably fill all of that empty real estate in Victory Park and then circle round for last call at Ghostbar. For example, while at a 4-year-old’s birthday party a few weeks ago,…
Last night’s Warby Parker event was clearly a success. According to our eyes-on-the-scene, the Nest was jam packed with shoppers in need of corrective lenses…or just a new look. And, apparently, people were really making spectacles of themselves [rimshot!].Oh, and don’t cry your eyes out if you missed last night’s…
