It’s the time of year when we curl up under a blanket, get out our flashlights, and tell terrifying tales of drunken revelers puking on our front lawns and of grown women squatting to urinate in a Chipotle parking lot. That’s right — the annual frightfest known as St. Patrick’s…
Loris Gréaud’s new exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary (161 Glass St.) will largely be a surprise. There are whispers that The Unplayed Notes Museum will include images of clouds, blown glass made of sand from hourglasses and a film with a sex scene captured with thermal photography, but the rest…
Can you feel it? The sun is on its way out. It’s slowly killing off the clouds with its warm rays of light, and soon, possibly in the next day or two, it’s returning to Dallas to brighten our bouts of depression and warm up our chilly bodies. You’ll need…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Danielle Avram Morgan is a photographer turned video artist turned curator, all of which she likely does a great deal better than the average person. Hers is a name you’ll see around Dallas now that…
Mark Tribe: New Landscapes 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…
How much you’ll enjoy Dallas Theater Center’s production of Molière’s The School for Wives might depend upon your tolerance for rhyming dialogue. Can you stand an evening of rhyming couplets without the urge to throwy uplet? It’s a quaint old thing, this 353-year-old French comedy about one man’s desire to…
Unrequited love, that hard right to the heart, that sharp cut to the gut, has inspired two good new solo shows by local actor-writers Van Quattro and Brad McEntire. Quattro’s Standing 8 Count and McEntire’s Cyrano A-Go-Go were audience faves on the opening weekend of the 14th annual Out of…
Last week I made an appointment to see a loft in Exposition Park just before news hit that Amsterdam Bar would be closing. This on the heels of the Meridian Room’s shuttering thinned the neighborhood of its history. Walking to my car from Craft & Growler late Saturday night, the…
There comes a time in every grown-up person’s life when you have to upgrade the crappy particle board furniture that you purchased from IKEA and Big Lots to pieces that actually look presentable in a home. Once you’ve taken down all the posters from the walls and tucked the 6-foot…
“It’s like ‘Miami Vice’ in there,” says artistic director Tina Parker as I wander into the back offices of Kitchen Dog Theater on an overcast Tuesday afternoon. “Complete sensory overload.” For the season’s next play, company member Lee Trull reconfigured the wildly likable Oscar Wilde play, The Importance of Being…
Why do we do this to ourselves? Every year, even the most sane among us stumble down Greenville Avenue like a horde of cottonheaded ninnymuggins. And for what? The only people watching the “parade” are the policeman making overtime to write us indecent exposure tickets when we piss in the…
Despite the frozen tundra that was our city over the past couple of weeks, spring is inevitably coming in the next few weeks. The time has already changed, the trees will soon start to bloom, and that means that it’s time to get your ass outside and enjoy some nature…
Navigating the Loop can be a complicated, down to the wire process. It’s a variegated 10-day festival of theater, dance, and performance, and unless you’ve cleared your schedule, it’s unlikely you’ll get to see it all, so you’ll need to plan accordingly. Critics will give you the rundown of picks…
There are plenty of places to go shopping in Dallas, maybe more than just about any other city in the world. Most of those shops, though, are corporate chains that just don’t need any more of our money. There are dozens of small businesses that we’re happy to support, but…
Live music and live dancers? Avant Chamber Ballet is already busy bringing that back to the stage. Powerful women in dance? Dallas isn’t wanting for dance troupes with strong female representation–after all, ACB is one of them. OK, fine. What about women creating the dance? The argument stands that there…
This past summer, thanks in large part to the contagiously fun success of the U.S. Men’s National Team during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, massive amounts of American’s either became new fans of soccer, or reignited a long lost love of the beautiful game. But to anyone paying close…
Out of the Loop Fringe Festival opens at WaterTower Theatre this weekend. The annual fest up in Addison isn’t afraid to take risks on new work from Dallas-based playwrights, like this year’s Standing 8 Count by Van Quattro. The fest also brings in outside performers, like the return of Jenn…
Last Saturday marked the closing program of Dallas Medianale, the experimental film festival that’s been at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary since early January. The festival has featured seated screenings, video art installations and intermedia performances curated by an array of artists, art educators and curators involved with the Video Association…
CORRECTION: Jeff Beckman, director of corporate communications for The Hershey Co., sent us a letter telling us our statements about the differences between the recipes between Hershey’s version and the British imported version of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk were incorrect. We’ve appended his letter to the bottom of this story. And…
Almost immediately after it was released, the 2011 stealth hit Best Exotic Marigold Hotel became more a punchline than a movie. Who knew “older” people were so starved for pictures featuring gorgeously shot exotic locales, not to mention people falling in love, falling out of love or desperately hoping for…
Late last year, during the run of Draftsmen of the Apocalypse, CentralTrak hosted an artist talk with Thor Johnson and Joachim West that was more performance than analytical discussion of their work. But it some ways, it encouraged more productive conversation than most artist talks. After all, What Is An…
I had my first “aha” moment in math class when I made a realization about the relationship between parts and wholes. Suddenly the visual and the mathematical merged for me, and it changed my perspective on my homework. I was no longer laboring through addition and multiplication of fractions —…
