Arts & Culture

It’s difficult to believe that 500X Gallery is 33 years old. The Exposition Park arts venue has hung in through trends and trials and remained a vibrant hub of local work, never seeming to age–save for whatever the art gallery equivalent of a little distinguished gray around the temples might…

Moral lessons are more interesting when delivered by bears. Although we’re most familiar with Goldilocks’ story (lesson: don’t nap after breaking, entering and porridge-eating), we can’t discount pearls of wisdom from lesser-known bears. The Berenstain Bears, stars of children’s books and a few cartoon specials, are a family that has…

Her curvy body moves in unison with the music as her long fingers move up her fully fit fishnet thighs. Her lips are luscious and her hair is done. There’s not a man or woman in the room that can take their wide eyes off her acrobatic grace and form…

The world can be a harsh, lonely place when your loyalty is split between two opposing factions. The little mermaid loved her finned kin of the underwater kingdom, but she also longed to be with her beloved fish-eating prince on land. That kid from Glee was a macho football player…

The cure for the winter blues is not in some sad bastard country album. The empathy that offers is tempting, but ultimately you’re forced to open a beer, take a big sigh, and agree wholeheartedly that everything sucks. What we all need (and some of us more than others, for…

“O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?” Irish poet William Butler Yeats mused. Dancing, some say, is physical poetry. And if movement is an act of self-expression, then it stands to reason the dance is the dancer, just as poetry…

If you can’t stand any more of that old margarita mix you’ve got laying around the house, head to Blue Mesa this week. At 7 p.m. Thursday, the restaurant hosts a Milagro Tequila Interactive Dinner Party at their Southlake location, 1586 Southlake Blvd. (you can also catch it at the…

Special effects may have made some serious advances in the 30-plus years since Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Suspiria, but no matter how accurately colored the blood spurting from an arterial wound may look in a modern CGI-enhanced horror movie, few come even close to matching the gut-wrenching, cold-blooded brutality…

What’s not to love about this campy sci-fi plot synopsis? On the distant planet Mongo, New York Jets quarterback “Flash” Gordon fights to save the earth from certain destruction at the hands of the merciless Emperor Ming…all with aid of the brilliant Dr. Hans Zarkov and the beautiful, um, travel…

Mom…now there was a crabby cook. Ah, a man can still hear her in the kitchen opening up cans of vegetables and searing meat in old grease scooped from a can atop the stove. Bam! Dirty word! Bang! Really dirty word! And finally: “Come eat your damn dinner before I…

Ever since starting point guard Antonio Daniels went out with hand injury, the Texas Legends have struggled, dropping to ninth in the D-League standings, one spot out of playoff contention. They got a brief boost when Mavericks rookie Dominique Jones spent a few games in the D-League, but now that…

While a bored bourgeois French housewife and a sexy Spanish contractor can’t have much in common, the film Leaving proves that for the sake of a movie, sexual compatibility is enough. The film, produced in 2009, stars British actress Kristin Scott Thomas looking elegant and refined even as she pays…

Painter Gary Komarin was a student of the late neo-expressionist Philip Guston, though, from what we’ve seen, it seems Komarin’s work hews closer to the abstract expressionism Guston abandoned in his later years, with bursts of color and random squiggly lines betraying no real figures or subjects whatsoever. He has…

Fitting that Sleep Whale, or at least some members of the experimental ambient instrumental band, would perform at the opening reception for Slow Cheetah at Plush Gallery. The three-artist show includes abstract resin figures created by C.J. Davis, formerly the label rep for Sleep Whale, back when they were known…

What exactly is This? This is complicated. This is middle age and not being “OK.” It’s potential without muse and parenting without lessons, all the while showing four best friends making what they can out of the messiness of life. Fort Worth’s Stage West (821 W. Vickery Blvd.) presents This,…

Lint can be annoying. I mean, why can’t it just fall somewhere and disintegrate? Not only can lint be pretty annoying, but just about every small particle hanging around the house. But what if those annoying little things around the house became the inspiration of an entire are exhibition? That’s…

The Dallas Children’s Theater is staging its first show of the New Year for children and families, and, surprisingly, it’s in a courtroom. The hilarious musical-theater adaptation of John Scieszka and Lane Smith’s book: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs will run until February 27 at the Rosewood…

I’m a card carrying member of the Ed Ruscha fan club for a reason. Like several of his more popular pop art brethren, Ruscha can be all about the bright colors and recognizable icons (see: the well known Standard Stations paintings), but he’s much more than that. Historically his work…

Ceramics can be both an art and a craft. When a potter sits down with a lump of clay, he or she can form it into an abstract, powerful sculpture or a humble, useful bowl. And either way–art or craft–a piece can be beautiful and durable, lasting thousands of years…