Hard to believe it’s been 25 years since Super Mario Bros. came out, but it’s true. After our parents relented and got us the Nintendo Entertainment System, we spent so many hours trying to rescue the princess that the game’s fantasy world started to bleed over into real life. We’d…
Even though we all thought he was a happy, vivacious performer best enjoyed at a humid outdoor venue or inside minivans, Rick Springfield has had a dark life. And he wants to tell you about it, so read his new autobiography, Late, Late at Night. The book, which Springfield authored…
Imagine traveling through the mountains of Asia, the deserts of Africa and beaches of Mexico, all in one weekend. After dropping a few thousand bucks exploring Asia, you may or may not take that trip down to Africa, and you’ve probably already forgotten about Mexico. This year’s third annual WorldFest…
There are some (like me) who can watch the very first season of Star Trek (aka TOS) and find themselves absolutely giddy at the costuming, the dialogue, the sets, the everything. There are others who are so into The Next Generation that they identify as a Spiner Femme and take…
For everyone who has ever said that Deep Ellum is dead…well, here you go: proof positive. Because throughout the month of October, all manner of dead things will be wandering around in Slaughterhouse 2010 as they set up shop at 2615 Elm St. Slaughterhouse is scarier than the bathrooms at…
If we drew a Venn diagram, how much overlap would there be between Renaissance fair-goers and haunted house lovers? Surely, the folks who don velvet berets and corsets in the spring also enjoy applying fake wounds and black garb in the fall, right? At the very least, there’s a common…
No one wants to say they consult with a fortuneteller. You can call them readers or psychics or seers, but people get offended if you ask them how the latest session with their fortuneteller went. I think they want to disassociate from those terribly vague, cheesy things fortune tellers say…
We’ve all met him, and some of us have even been so unfortunate as to date him–the guy with the Don Giovanni complex. He has to have every woman he sees–like, seriously, all of them–and doesn’t mind getting them by hook, crook or any sneaky tactic that’ll work. Mozart’s famed…
Ever taken a drive for no reason at all other than to empty your head and take in the scenery around you? Well, now you can take a ride through alternate artistic scenes and realities as Plush Gallery reopens it a new space in the Dallas Design District with its…
It’s a jungle out there, a jungle full of Prada-packing future divorcees, cheating husbands and grape juice-sucking toddlers already feeling the mounting pressure to succeed in the hallowed halls of academia. The Bradley Family is no exception in Circle Theatre’s production of Eric Coble’s Bright Ideas. Father Joshua Bradley puts…
The latest exhibition at Gallery 76102 is just as simple as its name. Nicholas Wood’s Flats and Rounds is pretty much just that: capsule-like forms, most of which have a flat side or two, drawn in charcoal and pastel on square sheets of paper, along with sculptures of similar shapes…
See a solo exhibit of 31 paintings by surrealist Cliff Snell III Monday at the Granville Arts Center, 300 N 5th St. in Garland. Known for his “distinctive swirling nature paintings,” Snell became uber popular with the cool kids this year by opening a Facebook fan page. He currently has…
Just so you know, Mexico and Asia have more in common than their brilliant uses of rice and peppers. Take, for instance, their art. While worlds apart, the Kuroshiro, or “Black Current,” connected the traders and artists of Mexico and Japan as far back as the 16th century. With its…
“Screw ‘art for art’s sake.’ We want art for social purpose.” That’s what artists of the Constructivist movement said. Or, something like that. Probably not exactly that, as the original Constructivists were Russian and surely had different colloquialisms, but that’s not important right now. The Museum of Geometric and MADI…
Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever. Not the best. Just the classiest—Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich and Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfuss) can spruce up any pulp. As far as comic-book adaptations go, though, Red is a little closer to the bright side of so-so—somewhere between, let’s say,…
Movie stars make a living peddling distinct, definable personalities. Edward Norton, a movie star who might have enjoyed the comparative anonymity of a character actor if not for the gossip-media market value of a few of his habits (an aggressive perfectionism that has earned him a “reputation” for “being difficult,”…
The Edward Albee one-acts that WingSpan Theatre Company is doing right now taste as bitter and icy as dry martinis. The American Dream and The Sandbox, both directed by Susan Sargeant, are bracing cocktails of absurdist humor. The production at the Bath House Cultural Center serves them with great style…
Horror Remix takes out all the B.S. story lines and lame dialogue leading up to the stabbings and scariness that we all want from a horror movie and distills each film down to 30 to 40 minutes of pure gore, sex, cheesiness, stabbing and awesome. This week, Horror Remix focuses…
Generally speaking, football and art go together like orange juice and toothpaste. It’s not that you can’t appreciate both, it’s just that it’s not really appropriate to pound back a beer, scream at Jason Garrett for another screwy passing game, and then settle back into your chair to discuss how…
There seems to be a new trend: overachievers who decide to participate in marathons. As someone who generally avoids any kind of working out or physical exertion in the presence of any other living soul, I have not come around to this new trend. However, I make one exception to…
Top three rocker dads? Easy: Bono, Slash and Mick Jagger. Unless we count dressing up as Gene Simmons for Halloween or being a world-class steering wheel thumb-drummer, my dad is out of the running (sorry, Pops). While being a father is a full-time job, it’s important to remember to put…
I’ve never personally owned a greyhound, but they run so fast they have a bus line named after them, and that’s good enough for me. This Saturday, the Deep Ellum Foundation and the Greyhound Adoption League of Texas (GALT) are teaming up to bring you the Deep Ellum Pup Crawl…
