This is the era of unapologetic barbecue worship. Ranking the purveyors of smoked meats is something of a national sport; it sells zillions of magazines and generates tons of blog hits. Taking personal time off to wait in line for an hour at lunchtime is not unheard of — and…
It’s not boastful and it’s not a big leap…though it very well contains a few. It’s perfectly logical that you’d call centerpiece performances of three bold and diverse pieces of choreography, Masterworks. The Texas Ballet Theater presents abstract beauty, life and death through dance, and heady, lilting romance in the…
If walls could talk, the ones in the Continental Gin building would be the life of the party. The building itself goes way back, but for the past 26 years, it’s served as an artist community—housing studios where local sculptors, painters, jewelry-makers, and photographers hash out all their creative ideas…
At the intersection of art and technology, the leading figure is Mark Tribe. An early adopter of new media, in 1996 Tribe started Rhizome.org as an online resource for anyone with similiar curiousity about how emerging technology affects culture. In his artistic practice, he’s interested in using art and media…
Spider-Man is the super hero that all other superheroes envy. He can’t fly like Superman but come on, flying is such a boring and obvious superpower. It’s the Olive Garden of superpowers. Yeah, he’s got dead parents who drove him to his life of crimefighting like Batman but he doesn’t…
This is the big one. Gloriously dark, at turns sublime and brutal, Mozart’s final piece of music serves as a sweeping eschatological assault on death and dying. Aberrantly expressive, sometimes uncomfortably so, The Requiem is a triumphant monument to Mozart’s impossible skill-set. Although arguably one of the most affecting pieces…
Watching magic is a wondrous experience, so it would be wrong to spoil the The Illusionists by saying too much. What we will tell you is that the show is put on by Dallas Summer Musicals at the Music Hall at Fair Park (909 First Ave.), and it features crazy,…
You know what’s fun? Singing a cappella. You know what’s more fun? Singing a cappella on TV as part of a singing competition called The Sing-Off. If you’ve never seen it before, that’s because it’s on NBC and it’s hosted by Nick Lachey, the guy who was in a band…
Oral Fixation started as “what’s that now?” but in four teeny tiny years it’s grown into a personal essay powerhouse. Each showcase has a theme, hundreds of essays are submitted and the ones that make it to the stage are the best of the best. What we’re trying to say…
Achieving the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is an honor, something many dancers strive for. But it’s without a doubt one of the biggest physical, technical, and emotional challenges a dancer can ever face. Long before Black Swan pulled back a fictional and highly exaggerated curtain on the mind…
When Hannah Kirby finished “Gimme Shelter” in The Voice’s battle round, her fate was in the hands of her coach, Blake Shelton. If you’ve never seen The Voice, it’s a singing competition show that strives to cut out the looks and glamour of being a musician and get to the…
Justyna Gorowska: FWJG Photographer Francesca Woodman was fascinated by the female body. During the late 70’s she shot black and white portraiture, often of women in the nude, playing with the camera to blur or smudge the image further submerging the subject into the medium. Woodman’s photographic self-awareness, her sensitive…
No show wears its love for language and land more proudly than FX’s Justified, which ended its six-year run Tuesday night. Based on a novella by Elmore Leonard and starring squinty-eyed sex symbol Timothy Olyphant, the hillbilly noir never received the critical adulation or the audience one might expect for…
It’s near the end of Thursday night’s Dallas Art Fair gala and I’m wandering through the polished halls of the Fashion International Gallery when my companion asks a loaded question, “How many black people have you seen here tonight?” I thought for a second, and local artist and writer Darryl…
A small show that packs a mighty emotional wallop, the four-person musical Ordinary Days has a few more performances by Our Productions Theatre Company in the studio space at Addison’s Theatre Center. If you like bittersweet sung-through mini-musicals like [title of show], this one, just 80 minutes long, will leave…
Whenever a group of comedic movie mockers stage a live commentary for a bad movie screening, the movies are secondary. David Schmader, a writer who has performed live movie commentaries in 2002, wants you to see the movies. Wait, scratch that, just this one movie. He’s done over 50 commentaries…
As a play about football, but not just about football, Colossal packs more action and drama into its four 15-minute quarters (plus 10-minute “halftime show”) than most actual games. Now running at the Wyly Theatre, Dallas Theater Center’s production of Andrew Hinderaker’s 75-minute drama-with-dance, staged by DTC artistic director Kevin…
Reviews and discussion of Ex Machina, Dior and I, Clouds of Sils Maria, The Longest Ride, and About Elly are all on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, which includes Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, and Amy Nicholson of the LA Weekly…
America’s favorite poet Billy Collins and indie singer songwriter Aimee Mann shared the Winspear Opera stage Saturday night as part of the DMA’s Arts and Letters Live. An enthusiastic audience cheered as these two artists performed their most beloved works filling the Winspear with music, poetry, laughter and tears. Touring…
Between the Dallas International Film Festival, a major awards show and the usual hustle and bustle, it’s going to be a busy week in Dallas, folks. If you’re not in the know and don’t have any plans, though, you shouldn’t use the inevitable traffic as an excuse to stay at…
Iconic Mavericks power forward, Dirk Nowitski, is no longer just a star of the basketball court. Now, he’s a star of the big screen as well. The documentary, Nowitski. The Perfect Shot, already premiered to both critical and financial success in Germany last year. At this year’s Dallas International Film…
On a recent, sunny Sunday afternoon, dozens of youth soccer teams were engaged in some pretty serious competition inside Plano’s sizeable Russell Creek Park. Driving into the park, the scene wasn’t unlike the one thousands of families from across the Metroplex witness every weekend. Youth soccer has long been a…
