Oral Fixation builds a community by getting people to tell their personal stories. The series kicked off its fifth season last night at its new location, the Dallas City Performance Hall. The new performance space is a perfect fit, big enough for the large crowds these events draw, but still…
If you didn’t buy tickets to see Garth Brooks, and you aren’t going to spend the weekend in your basement making clocks, then we’ve assembled this list of awesome things to do in Dallas this weekend just for you. Thursday, September 17 331/3 Party Vinyl used to be the cheapest…
The fall art season is upon us. Last weekend, a bevy of openings brought with it some fantastic art. This weekend, we have even more with numerous museum exhibits opening, as well as an array of gallery shows. This week, because one of the openings features an artist near and…
As you probably know, our fair city has a bit of a dark history. Dallas may not be widely known as the “City of Hate” any more, but there are still plenty of creepy artifacts and spots littering the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Even if you don’t necessarily believe in ghosts…
Arthur Pena and Francisco Moreno have been friends and known each other’s artwork for five years. They both approach painting with a focus on production and labor. Making use of limitations or defining a painting only as an attempt, both artists develop very specific ways of producing paintings. But with…
This weekend marks the true beginning of the fall museum schedule, with shows opening or entering the second week at nearly every major museum in Dallas and Fort Worth. Here, we outline the highlights. Being the River, Repeating the Forest Thoreau once said, “Nature will bear the closet inspection. She…
James “Whitey” Bulger was more like a character from a 17th-century folktale than a late-20th-century criminal, the sort of figure who’d murder innocents on wooded roadways and then, with a shrug, toss their bloody bones to hungry wild dogs. In ’80s and early-’90s Boston, he headed a criminal syndicate known…
The hardest type of guy for an actor to play is one without charisma. That’s the challenge faced by Tobey Maguire in Edward Zwick’s , which tells the story of Cold War–era chess champ and totally strange human being Bobby Fischer. He’s good at it — maybe too good. In…
Consider Dracula––really consider him. Despite what commerce and fandom suggest, the story of Dracula (any vampire, really) is hinged on emotional intelligence and moral complexity. To put a finer point on it, the reader or viewer is forced to confront certain issues in ways that challenge the accepted moral and…
If you’re on the highway Thursday afternoon and you notice a straight couple on a motorcycle, and the girl looks suspiciously like Tibby from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, don’t strain your neck looking. Yes, that’s actress Amber Tamblyn. And no, that role is not the most interesting thing about…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Over the past year or so, the issue of police brutality has, some would say, finally seeped into the mainstream consciousness. The tragic deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown,…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. When she moved to North Texas to work on A Dallas Drinking Fountain Project in 2009, Lauren Woods had been living in San Francisco for 10 years and was…
With every stitch or every tear in the fabric, Diedrick Brackens is creating or, more aptly, unraveling a much larger cloth. In a new exhibition at Conduit Gallery, hearts, hands, and other members, of his latest textile works, Brackens continues his exploration of issues of race, tradition and gender, but…
Not much dialogue, but wow, what sizzling drama in Matthew Posey’s latest play, Buñuel Descending, which enjoyed a short sold-out run at Ochre House. A revival is a must, the sooner the better for this sexy one-act that let music and flamenco dance take the place of words. This is…
Pause now to consider The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter. The 1957 one-act opens the 25th season for Kitchen Dog Theater, now working in its new (temporary) home at The Green Zone on the edge of the Design District. The smaller theater is an awkward fit for a company used…
The headline says it all. Donald Trump is in a city where more than 40% of the residents are Latino, making a campaign trail stop at the American Airlines Center. And if you can bear to spend five more minutes looking at his face you can do some ridiculous things…
It always seems as if September is the calm before the holiday storm. Once Halloween is knocking on the door, the rest of 2015 will fly by as a whirlwind of awkward visits with family and mountains of credit card bills from all that gift buying. The next couple of…
Talk radio overflows with inflated opinions and overgrown egos. Most hosts masquerade as a friendly, or not so friendly, omniscient interviewer. The voice of Krys Boyd, the host and managing editor of the radio and TV chat show “Think,” which airs from 12-2 p.m. and again at night Monday through Thursday on…
There was some yelling but nobody got punched at this year’s DFW Theater Critics Forum luncheon. Nobody left angry either, which might be a first. Every September the print and online theater critics of Dallas and Fort Worth eat chicken and brownies together and hash over the previous year’s productions…
Last June, Claire Wilcher of Indianapolis, Indiana started a trip that most people only get to talk about taking in their lifetime. She quit her job, packed up her stuff and threw into a renovated RV for a 23-city trip that will take her to major cities across the country…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Haylee Ryan has a policy that when an opportunity lands on her plate from out of the blue, she seriously considers it. And that’s more or less how the…
Serving Second Chances begins with a gorgeous shot of the Dallas skyline before the camera pans down to a man sleeping on a bench in front of City Hall. During a Robert Johnson lookalike contest at The Stewpot, guitarist Gerald Williams showed up out of nowhere and won first prize…
