You’ve spent more time today staring out the window then you have on those spreadsheets your boss rush ordered from you. You’re distracted by the fading memory of the fresh spring air you felt walking to your car this morning. We’re right there with you. And we’re making plans for…
The fewer people onstage in Theatre Three’s heavily populated Hot Mikado, the more fun the show. A 1986 adaptation by David H. Bell and Rob Bowman of an even older jazz version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, this one is directed and designed with an emphasis on frenetic movement…
The woman we meet in Irish-born writer Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary is no ethereal virgin. She’s a pissed-off mother of a wayward son, tired of the “misfits” who followed him around, angry that 20 years after his death she’s a prisoner of apostles who just want her to…
Hey, you. Yeah, you. The one hunched over the keyboard in that corner cubicle too far away from the window to see that the sun is shining and you’re missing out on one of the few spring days we’ll have this year. It’s glorious outside. The striking splendor of today…
Now that the weather has finally decided to cooperate for good (we hope), you really no longer have any excuse to be a hermit. Filling your brain with reality TV and recipes from Pinterest is fun, sure, but it really doesn’t do much to make you a particularly interesting person…
John Alexander nearly presses his nose against a charcoal image of a lobster and laughs when he says looking into the drawing’s eyes reminds him of his dog. We’re in the downstairs gallery where a series of drawings serve as a prelude to the exhibition at the Meadows Museum, Human/nature…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. It’s been said that nobody leaves a theater humming the scenery. But if you’ve ever seen a show designed by Dallas scenic artist Rodney Dobbs, you might leave singing its praises. Dobbs’ sets often help…
It’s 8 p.m. and I plop myself down at the bar at Off the Record in Deep Ellum. My Uber driver had just given me a grand tour of the area, telling me what hospital she was born in and where in the hood she grew up. To forget about…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Over the span of four months at the beginning of 2014, the Dallas Biennial hosted 12 exhibitions, showing 50 artists. The art of DB14 was all over the city’s map, and artists were both local…
No self respecting comic book convention can call itself such a thing without celebrity guests. It’s like having a baseball team without a ridiculously cartoonish mascot costume worn by a man whose distinct mixture of meth and failure to drive the fans into a frenzy. It’s like a role playing…
When the creepy podcast Welcome to Night Vale came to town last year, the show’s creator dropped one hell of a bombshell on me in our interview. Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink talked about their inspiration for the show and I was surprised to learn that Cranor, a Mesquite native,…
It’s the 1920s! You and your boyfriend/husband/brother/hired friend are Daisy and Gatsby and you’re headed to a costume contest because this is Dallas and we dress up all the time. The Dallas Heritage Village and Art Deco Society of Dallas will host their second annual Dallas Jazz Age Sunday Social…
If you’re not in Austin for South by Southwest, you’re probably going to need something to distract you from the barrage of social media updates your “cooler” friends are posting. We’re here to help. There’s plenty going on in Dallas this weekend and we’ve selected some of the best here,…
Next Tuesday kicks off the 6th annual Dallas Comedy Festival at the Dallas Comedy House. The giant celebration of improv, sketch, stand up and short film comedy has grown tremendously over the years, bringing in performers from all over the country. This year, the festival will host 27 stand up…
By Jenni Hanley If you’d asked several years ago, most people would’ve balked at the idea of waiting more than 15 seconds for a cocktail. But today, double-digit ingredient lists and bartending-as-art are all but expected, and while Dallas is no stranger to the trend, its western cousin has been…
We’re two films in to the kiddie-dystopia Divergent franchise, and it’s still unclear if the sequel’s director, three screenwriters, eight producers and especially original novelist Veronica Roth have bothered to double-check a dictionary. Divergent, and now this new sequel Insurgent, tracks the monotone mishaps of Tris (Shailene Woodley), a very…
The Amazing Randi insists that the public wants to be fooled, that it’s easier and more comforting for us not to see unromantic truths — you can see him proclaiming this, a little sadly, in Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom’s doc An Honest Liar, which plays like a companion piece…
In the action thriller The Gunman, Sean Penn, at age 54, looks neither old nor young. He’s been in training to look this age for a long time. Even as a relative kid, in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, his sailor-on-shore-leave mug had a wry, quizzical roughness to it;…
After studying literature at Oxford, Jo Baker was no longer interested in writing. Reading all of the greats from English literature put a halt in Baker’s creative brain. Thankfully, Baker found her footing again and began to write novel after novel. Her latest, Longbourn, is set at the fictional home…
It’d probably be easier to list the venues pianist Stewart Goodyear has not played than the ones he’s played — it seems the young phenom has already done it all. A composer, concerto soloist and recitalist, Goodyear is one of the most talked-about pianists in the world, and deservedly so…
“The Red Shoes” is the singularly most messed-up fairy tale in Hans Christian Andersen’s oeuvre; reading it as a 5-year-old is a pretty horrifying experience that will not only stunt any inclination toward shoe hoarding, but also burn into your head a long-lasting image of a pair of bright red…
There are people in this world who are diehard runners. Those people don’t make excuses like “It’s too cold outside to run” or “The wind makes my hair frizzy” or “My kid is too big to be strapped in a stroller while I run for two hours.” They get out…
