Arts & Culture

When it comes to classical music superstars, there’s hardly a bigger name than Itzhak Perlman. The famed violinist has performed for queens and presidents (most notably alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma at President Obama’s 2009 inauguration), and has wowed audiences around the world for decades with his impeccable tone, insightful musicality…

The name “Art Festival” is a little misleading. This is more than just a two-day event where people wander around tents and walls and look at artworks. It’s more like an outdoor music festival mixed with a massive art show that anyone with a set of eyes and a sense…

Your dog loves you. Despite the fact that you forgot to restock dog food and gave her questionable leftover spaghetti to tide her over until morning, she loves you. Despite those times when you dragged her to trendy doggy hot spots that are more dude-bro than dachshund, she loves you…

Among Celtic cultures, the Irish get the most publicity, what with all the boozy parades. But while plenty of faux Irish hurl on St. Paddy’s Day, we bet you’ve never seen anyone on Greenville Avenue hurl a nearly 20-foot-long, 175-pound log through the air. That’s called the caber toss, and…

Film introduces you to parts of the globe you may know nothing about, to things you’ve never experienced, to people you’ve never met. You can learn a lot by spending a day at the movies, even if it’s just that Zac Efron defies the law of six abs to a…

This weekend, the worst nightmares of TSA agents climb into reality when swarms of bloodthirsty horror film fans flock to the Hyatt Regency DFW Hotel for Texas Frightmare Weekend. Hopefully, they don’t try to sneak their chain saws into a carry-on. This three-day celebration of gory, grimy movies gives even…

Rarely is the appearance of May such a welcome thing in North Texas. It generally means the arrival of oppressive heat and car-murdering hailstorms. And it still might. But at least it marks what has to be the end of some straight-up weird wintry weather that still had us running…

It was a time when Jennifer Lopez was just a fly girl, Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx were relative unknowns, and Tommy Davidson was just a comedian performing his Sammy Davis Jr. and Sugar Ray Leonard impersonations. Unless you lived in a cave or sketch comedy just wasn’t your thing,…

Everything has its own holiday. In America, we have National Pie Day (yummy); in Spain, they have Goose Day, which is something worth a quick Google. But one holiday spans the galaxies. Star Wars Day is celebrated annually by the universe’s nerds on May 4, because if you’re Daffy Duck,…

The complete burrito, the full taco, the entire flauta, the total tostada, the undivided quesadilla. Oh, excuse me, didn’t see you there. I’m just trying to figure out why it was an enchilada that became the subject of an idiom that really just means “having it all.” Whatever the logic,…

Here’s the Iron Fork deal: Returning champion chef Matt McCallister of FT33 will square off against Richard Gras of Oak in a toque-to-toque competition moderated by restaurateur Kent Rathbun. Each chef receives a basket of ingredients, including one mystery item, and they compete to see who can whip up the…

It’s a decade-long art trick in the making, and an undertaking so intense that most people would say the man behind it is a bit insane, if we didn’t already know him to be Chris Byrne, the co-founder of the Dallas Art Fair. The Magician, a graphic novel comprising 12…

Nothing brings a family together quite like the impending death of an aging grandparent. For most kids, this is the first experience of the void created by the extinguished candle of life. It’s also the first experience many children have with savage familial honesty. Of course, when you’re an adult,…

You’re thinking this is the year you’ll make that island getaway, hop a plane, head to a warm beach with lapping waves and tiki torchlight and make the kind of memories that are found in crackly old photographs. But then reality sets in, and you’re stuck in Dallas this spring,…

Anybody can print a copy of an Ansel Adams photograph. If you have access to your company’s printer, you could do it right now, and you won’t even need the color code, because most of his shots are black and white. But like any piece of art, there’s something about…

Some of the Dallas Chamber Symphony’s most memorable concerts have featured silent film screenings set to newly composed music. In January, the 2-year-old organization announced it was expanding on that success by launching a film competition called Sight of Sound. Contestants chose from a list of short classical pieces and…

Often at museum gift shops, there are scarves colored with patterns from a Monet or a Renoir. Visitors can then wear the art they’ve seen; they adorn themselves with the work of an artist. But where art ends and fashion begins is more complicated than whether or not a famous…

Most anyone who can ride on two wheels can tell you their favorite bike shop. In prepping and shopping for this weekend’s big Bike MS: Sam’s Club Round-Up Ride (aka, the MS 150), it seems I’ve heard raves about almost every one — from tiny hipster outlets to big stores…