How well do you know Dallas history? We’re not talking about conspiracy theories or assassinations. Although we’re not not talking about those things. The Dallas Historical Society wants to delve into the other things that comprise this city we call home. They host numerous events throughout the year to bring…
One of the country’s most interesting theater troupes resides in Austin. Just a quick ride down 35 will guide you to the backyard of the Rude Mechanicals, a group that creates off-the-wall, intellectually challengingly and wildly fun theater. It’s worth the drive every time, whether they’re workshopping a piece, or…
It’s Friday night at Station 4 and Jenna Skyy is dressed and ready to perform. She is drinking an Angry Orchard and “tribbling” — a term she uses to describe mingling. A young man gropes her ass, but she is polite…
Watching Danny O’Connor’s new dark comedy one-act The Down Low, set in a 956-square-foot house on East Mockingbird Lane, is like living inside a Tarantino film for 75 minutes. Bad things happen to people just inches away from where you’re sitting. Hilarious things, too. Every time there’s a knock on…
Josephine Durkin: Maps, Flora and Highlighters Sculptures come in all shapes, sizes, colors and beautiful packages. Especially in the art of Josephine Durkin, a Greenville, Texas-based artist whose colorfully abstract sculptural pieces will be on display in a solo exhibition at Erin Cluley Gallery (414 Fabrication St) that opens at…
Perhaps one of the most beautiful sights in the world is a ballet dancer pirouetting on water. It doesn’t happen everyday. But in honor of the Soluna festival sashaying into our lives this week, we present the graceful ladies of Avant Chamber Ballet, along with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s cellist,…
When Matthew Posey, the creative genius at the tiny Ochre House theater, decides to get silly with a new play, he gets crazy-silly. That’s a good thing right now. We need some lighthearted whimsy to ward off the heavy bad-news blues, and The Egg Salesman, Posey’s ova-easy new comedy, is…
Us millennials may be onto something. Less and less of us are having kids. Maybe it’s our recognition of a difficult economy that’s oversaturated with student debt while trying to find our place in the job market during explicit episodes of an existential crisis? Or maybe it’s the fact that…
By Jeremy Hallock Throughout his career, Phillip Collins has focused on giving African-American artists exposure. An accomplished art historian and curator, he established himself as an important voice in the Dallas arts community and then used his position to re-cast the spotlight. In his 60s, he retired from his Chief…
BY CODY NEATHERY Nearly 81 years ago, on May 23, 1934, two of America’s most wanted outlaws met their deaths alongside Highway 154 south of Gibsland, Louisiana. The roar of the guns from the six-member posse lead by Texas lawman Frank Hamer was so deafening the lawmen were temporarily deafened…
Some of the killers wore masks, while others simply wore concert T-shirts with a hockey mask imprinted on their baseball caps. Some carried long machetes, and others simply dragged a long, bloody hatchet behind. But they came by the dozens. Zombies and demons, familiar monsters from old horror movies, all…
This week the Dallas Symphony Orchestra brings to life its newest project. The Soluna Festival packs music, art, dance and storytelling into a three-week extravaganza. There’s a lot to chose from, and the website is beautiful but unfriendly, so we asked our classical music writer, Jonathan Patrick to sink his…
Believe it or not, we are just a few short weeks away from summer, also known as the time where it is completely unbearable to be in the outdoors for more than just a few seconds. It may seem as if winter was just over yesterday, but it’s important that…
The world is a magical place, especially if you’re spending time in the parlor of Confetti Eddie. He’s one of the magicians that walks among us, point his wand and making sexy magic. Every month he invites audiences into his studio in Expo Park (it’s the one with the dinosaur…
This has been quite the spring in terms of new initiatives both public and private that seek to financially support, not just the arts, but the artists. This morning, the Nasher Sculpture Center announced the recipients of its new microgrants. These $1000 awards are meant to help artists offset costs…
Three years ago, Erin and John Paul Hossley opened the doors to their Bishop Arts store {neighborhood}. Their symbiotic professions, interior design and architecture, respectively, gave them a leg up on other design/decor stores in the city. After all, they could offer both their services and their good taste. They…
Texas Frightmare Weekend is a magical event where one can see creepy costumes, scary stars and bathe in red corn syrup until their heart’s content. Thanks to Dallas native, David Park and his friends from Dr. God – the “improv group/production company/medical deity,” audiences will also get the chance to…
Depending on whom you talk to, we live in an era of conformity or one of anything-goes individuality; in a golden age of television or the brightest of movie galaxies. But just about everyone will agree that we’re ruled by screens of all sizes, which means it’s harder than ever…
A chance conversation with a few of my friends occurred earlier this week. We’d skirted around talking about our lives, our jobs or what was going on in the rest of the country, to instead discuss Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, otherwise known as “The Fight of The Century” or…
This weekend the weather predictions are magnificent. I’m talking 80 degrees and sunny all the way through. Enjoy it while you can. There are plenty of festivals and events to attend. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post said the Thai Culture and Food Festival was this weekend. Our information…
Newsies is Annie with boys. And not young boys either, at least not the cast of the touring production currently tapping, back-flipping and flexed-foot kicking across the stage at the Winspear Opera House. These aren’t moppets or teenagers. This is a bunch of cute but short-statured young men pretending to…
Dance nerds, classical music fans, and even lovers of the fairy tale should have their tickets in hand already for this weekend’s productions of Cinderella by French company Malandain Ballet Biarritz. For a night of stunning entertainment, it falls in the 10-zone. But…on a scale of one to 10, just…
