Iris Apfel isn’t exactly a household name, unless we’re talking about very stylish households. From 1950 to 1992 Apfel ran Old World Weavers, the business she co-founded with her husband, Carl, which faithfully re-created antique textiles for use in home decorating: From grand Park Avenue drapes to demure White House…
This doesn’t feel like a film that exists. How is George Miller’s bonkers, exhausting, no-future smash-’em-up Mad Max: Fury Road not one of those almost-was boondoggles mourned and dreamed of by fans, a revered director’s impossible vision that, thanks to the un-stout hearts of studio bean-counters, never actually vaulted from…
Last weekend the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders saw hundreds of women high kick their way through the preliminary auditions for one of the most coveted titles in the cheerleading industry. Love ’em or hate ’em, it wasn’t difficult to talk our clubs editor, Drew Blackburn, into spending an hour with the…
Last April on a Friday morning in the middle of the Dallas Art Fair, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra lured a number of journalists, artists and visiting gallerists into the Meyerson with the promise of coffee, pastries and an exciting announcement. A woman known only in social circles introduced herself to…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I have learned a lot in my time in Dallas. This is a beautiful and…
This weekend is packed with art to see in Dallas. It seems everyone on Dragon Street and beyond is opening an exhibition. Limiting this list to just five is impossible, so there are a few more than that here, plus additional shows to see when you’re out and about this…
For nearly a quarter century, Brent Kollock has been painting and drawing with a unique visual language that cannot be confused with anyone else. He is also an accomplished writer of short stories and poetry. But in the last few months, Kollock may have found his true calling as an…
At the center of an enormous, lushly green landscape sits a bright white sheep, head cocked in interest, staring directly at the onlooker. The animal is on the other side of a metal fence. Separate from the flock, the animal couldn’t have known that when Letitia Huckaby captured him through…
You may not have heard of Anne Waldman, though you’ve heard of her friends. She was the co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado; she was the director of NYC’s St. Mark’s Poetry Project for more than a decade;…
The curtain has closed on the core of Oral Fixation’s fourth season of storytelling, but there’s one special show to go, Destination: America, and it’s dear to Oral Fixation creator Nicole Stewart’s heart. The cast of storytellers for Destination: America is made up of immigrants who will share their experience…
The title of the Nate Lowman’s exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary is the punchline to a joke: Why is everyone always saying “God Bless America?” Because America Sneezes. It’s a simple introduction into the brain of an artist whose work as a painter often emerges from observations about American culture…
Sunday night, the African American Museum transformed into a television studio with many channels. After preparing for a year and a half, Adu launched his art exhibit, AFRICANamedia, with a moving performance piece he wrote and directed. Keeping the crowd guessing with tonal shifts from start to finish, performers stepped…
Now that we’ve survived Mother’s Day, we enter a slow grind until the end of the month, when you can finally drink all your cares away on Memorial Day weekend. These next few weeks might not be easy, but they don’t have to be boring. It’s going to be difficult…
A sweeping novel like Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility isn’t one that travels easily to the stage. Too many picnics, rainstorms, carriage rides and strolls down country lanes in the 19th-century classic. The 1995 film did it right. Director Ang Lee had an all-star British cast led by actress Emma…
Imagine walking in a dark forest. The dense trees make it almost impossible to see a hint of moonlight. A cool, eerie wind blows from behind you causing the trees’ branches to sway as if they are just trying to remind you they are there in the darkness. It’s so…
Don’t be embarrassed. We know why you’re here. You forgot. Entirely forgot that this is the weekend Hallmark has decided everyone should celebrate the woman who gave you life. The woman crucial to your existence. She wanted to bring a human life into the world, and that human life was…
The first, and far too obvious, question desperate to fall from my lips when Anne Waldman answers my phone call is, “What was it like to hang out with Allen Ginsberg?” It’s the unfulfilled dream of this poetry student to sit in the room with a creative force like Ginsberg,…
Do you know what a baby penguin looks like? I didn’t until I saw the adorable news this morning on the Dallas Zoo’s blog that the African black-footed penguin couple,Tazo and Tulip, are now the proud parents of a little chick. The animal kingdom is an “aww”-inspiring place this morning…
Tut, tut, Pooh Bear’s friend always said, looks like rain. No need to be an Eeyore about the bad weather this weekend. Embrace your inner Tigger and leave the house to do something cultured and fun. Do that, and we promise to stop referring to your social life in Disney…
“I’m over people who think they’re funnier than the movie,” says LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson, in the wake of her recent piece, “Stop Laughing At Old Movies, You $@%&ing Hipsters.” Joining her — *in the same room, for the first time ever on the podcast* — as usual…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro Dallas has been an incredible learning experience. I never expected that canceling an exhibition would…
Sofía Vergara is built like an amphora, a living testament to the form ceramicists throughout the centuries have adored. In the fleet and gloriously ridiculous comedy Hot Pursuit, Vergara plays Daniella Riva, a mobster’s wife who needs to be escorted from San Antonio to Dallas, where she’ll testify against the…
