Valley House has shown the work of Brian Cobble five times now, and one look at his impressive pastels is all you need to see why the gallery books him so frequently. His landscapes are almost photo-realistic, yet still capture something soulful about the settings. Or maybe he’s got compromising…
Artists are pretty gutsy folk. Basically, they hang out and make a thing, and then when they get done, they call up all their friends and a whole bunch of strangers and say, “Hey, you guys, you should totally come look at this thing that I just made. It is…
Dallas artist Cathey Miller says she’s painted on a variety of surfaces, including naked ladies. Unfortunately, no babes in the buff will be included in Miller’s Trigger Happy, an exhibition featuring vintage Hollywood starlets packing heat. However, you’ll come face to face with a crazy-eyed Jane Russell armed with a…
British metal band Iron Maiden has been together almost as long as I have been a person, having formed in 1975. But only one member has been there from the beginning to now, and that is not the iconic and always interesting vocalist Bruce Dickinson, but bass player Steve Harris,…
Why take the Girls Night Out to another stupid Ozona happy hour when you could drive out to The Mound and get all crazy? At 8 p.m. Friday, see A…My Name Is Alice at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre, 830 Parker Square in Flower Mound. It’s a lady musical that’s…
Have you seen the sketches and notes of the writer or director of a movie you truly love? It can make the movie deeper, clearer or more personal. The same goes for a song and its songwriter, or in this case, sculptures and their artist. Rachel Whiteread is a contemporary…
It’s common to celebrate life changes in song–“Happy Birthday,” “Hava Nagila,” “We’ve Only Just Begun.” So it only makes sense that someone (in this case, writer/producer Jeanie Linders) finally decided to put together songs about a big transition in a woman’s life: menopause. Menopause the Musical has been running for…
The Oak Cliff Foundation has scheduled a cinematic fundraiser with connections to the two events that arguably opened and closed the tumultuous period in this country’s history that we now think of as the ’60s. The setting will be the Texas Theater, which is best known for being the spot…
Everyone’s scared of something, be it death or public speaking, but some little fears are silly. For instance, I don’t get it when people are afraid of public restrooms. No, you’re not the first person to ever utilize this space. So what? But we can all agree that some fears…
Thinking about what it means to be a mother is incredibly challenging to someone who has never experienced it. I’m stuck between being totally awestruck and completely terrified. The terrified portion is mostly thanks to a day spent in a Florida airport watching legions of moms battling unwieldy strollers and…
With more than a decade of jamming out their signature 20-minute overtures and epic odysseys behind them, the “improg-rock” band Umphrey’s McGee maintains an unpredictable air and feverish energy while still bringing what it calls its “hardest, darkest and most artistically cohesive” sound yet. No set list is ever the…
Sure, the Texas Rangers may be bankrupt, but at least they’re not the Seattle Mariners. Messy as the home team’s accounts may be, they’re finally looking at a new owner and a good shot at the playoffs. The Mariners? Bankrolled by Nintendo, and they’re still pretty much the worst team…
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’s story hinges on a dagger that can rewind time, a narrative conceit that doubles as a taunt to those who endure this cacophonous, frivolous adaptation of Ubisoft’s Arabian Nights-themed video-game series. Bruckheimered to the hilt with the same rollicking period-piece cheesiness that typified…
Say what you will, Michael Patrick King knows how to stage a fabulous gay nuptial. Sex and the City 2 begins with flair and good humor at the wedding of Stanford (Willie Garson) and Anthony (Mario Cantone), complete with a gay men’s chorus in white top-and-tails crooning a tastefully low-key…
CANNES, France—The jury has their awards, and I have mine. Sometimes they even coincide. Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s modest Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives—the acme of no-budget, Buddhist-animist, faux-naïve magic realism—towered over a shockingly mediocre competition. (Distant runners-up were Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy and South Korean…
Now that we’ve marveled at your lunch plate, laughed at your cat in a pumpkin costume and been rocked by the blurry, blown-out shot of the band you saw last night, one thing’s for certain: The last thing this world needs is another photograph. Now that a snapshot’s as simple…
When Artadia Award recipient David Aylsworth creates a painting, he thinks of the forms as characters, interacting with each other in a theatrical performance. And, more specifically, his latest paintings reference the lightheartedness of musical theater in particular. How appropriate, then, that the title of his new solo exhibition should…
Artist Sam Reveles’ Juarez Paintings were inspired by events just across the border from his home in El Paso, where a cartel war has helped turn Ciudad Juarez into one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Reveles borrows the mandala technique of Buddhism for some of his works,…
One of my first jobs was at small press, the hobby of a lawyer who could find no other outlet for his ham-handed legal thrillers. The series’ main character was a fantasy version of the author who fought his way, literally and figuratively, to victory while fending off advances from…
Ah the golden days of wrestling…back when we were all smelling what the Rock was cooking and Triple-H and Stone Cold Steve Austin were running around and raising hell, all under the ever-watchful (and creepy) eyes of Vince McMahon. Well, in the last decade, a lot and nothing have changed…
Let’s play a little game of “What am I?” Shall we begin? I take up a little over 2/3 of Earth. I’m a chemical substance made up of hydrogen and oxygen. I must be present in your life for you to live. I’m considered a purifier in most religions. Have…
Easter’s over, but celebrating the infamous Peter Rabbit still goes on…in Dallas, at least. Yep, that’s right, kids’ favorite rabbit is hanging out in Dallas for a few months, with a huge display of flowers, of course. Summer at the Arboretum features Peter Rabbit’s Flower Village through July with characters…
