Each year, pups gather at Lee Park for the annual Pooch Parade (part of the Easter in the Park extravaganza). Here are a handful of dogs from the event, that we find especially adorable. You can check out the entire slideshow here…
He loops the mustard yellow rope into knots, strong fingers pulling it tight around her skin. One hand grips her shoulder, the other drapes the rope around her chest, pulling it into the first of several harnesses for a full-body “takate kote.” It’s taken him years to master box-tie suspension,…
Zhulong Gallery, with its glass façade and dragon shaped gallery space, aims to be a new force in the Dallas new media scene, with international context, a public involvement component and a broad definition of new media that sparks conversations about how to define the popular genre.
If you know much about Dallas, you’ve heard the affordability myth. We lure thousands of young professionals here each year with the promise of inexpensive rent. But if you’re not in finance, oil, accounting or climbing the ladder of a technology company, you’ve probably spent time debunking this yourself. To…
It’s not fair to call the Kids in the Hall’s upcoming show at the Majestic a “reunion.” The troupe and their fans know that fate will always conspire to keep them together. “We’re part of what the Black Crowes call the river,” troupe member Bruce McCulloch said. “We just keep…
Opening night of any show is nerve-wracking. What if someone forgets their lines? Or walks onstage at the wrong cue? What if the lights don’t work or the music won’t play? It can make even the most polished professional feel the urge to nervous puke all over their shoes. Now…
Talking to comedian Doug Stanhope for the first time can be an intimidating experience. It’s not that he’s an angry comic or even an angry person. He’s probably one of the most pleasant, affable comics you’ll ever meet, but he also has a legendary streak of self-loathing that sets the…
Here’s some news you should be excited about: Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Art announced that they will be the first American museum to screen Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s live action film, Jellyfish Eyes. This rare chance to nerd out happens at 7 p.m. May 1 to be followed with…
The 2014 Fort Worth Opera Festival starts this weekend and you know what that means: time to head to Cowtown and binge-watch opera. Instead of spreading productions out across several months, the Fort Worth Opera presents their entire season in just three, short, drama-packed weeks (April 19 through May 11)…
Let’s talk about this week. It’s been a long one. Work has dragged on with sluggish despair and now all you’re waiting for is 5 p.m. on Friday when can park yourself in front of a strong whiskey. Or maybe that’s just me. I’ve got a plan. Let’s start the…
The Design District welcomed its latest decor store, Shastra Home, a few weeks ago. The mid-sized boutique specializes in fair-trade artisan goods created in India…
Hipster, flipsters and finger-poppin’ daddies, it’s time to slip your orbs toward one Lord Buckley. He was a regal cat-daddy, an original, a performer of jazz-infused stand-up drawn from the scribblings of master scribes. Ochre House theater’s own in-house hipster Matthew Posey has penned a new play, and directed it,…
It was a mistake to put a clock on the wall of the set for Gidion’s Knot, the two-character Johnna Adams one-act now running at Kitchen Dog Theater. Set in a schoolroom, the play unfolds in real time, though you’d swear it warps and slows down somewhere in the middle…
Has it ever occurred to contemporary commercial filmmakers that maybe audiences could take a movie’s word for it that a character has been tortured? That perhaps implication and skilled acting could communicate the idea with sufficient power, and that we might all be spared the screaming and limb-breaking and slow-motion…
Going bald is the best thing that ever happened to Jude Law. Britain’s prettiest export did the best he could with his burden of good looks. He played a genetic ideal in Gattaca, a robotic ideal in A.I. Artificial Intelligence and in The Talented Mr. Ripley, his golden god perfection…
The promise of seeing Scarlett Johansson fully nude is probably enough to lure lots of people into Jonathan Glazer’s alien-among-us fantasy Under the Skin, and the vision doesn’t disappoint: Her figure, seen in long shot, is a grand and glowing thing. But her nakedness is the opposite of a sleazy…
Sometimes it’s helpful to know certain details about how a film has come together. And sometimes it’s just so much information. Transcendence, the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan’s go-to cinematographer, Wally Pfister, was shot on film rather than digitally, as most big Hollywood movies (and nearly all small ones) are…
When Wally Pfister won an Oscar for Inception, his sixth film with Christopher Nolan, he went home and put the statuette on his mantel. “And then it moved to the corner, and then my office, and then the closet because you go away for a few months, and then it…
Do you have a burning question you’ve always wanted to ask someone older and wiser than yourself? Do you feel like your lunch hour could be better spent than with water cooler American Idol conversation? Follow-up question: Does anyone still watch American Idol? If you’re looking for wisdom in the…
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear Joe Rogers play. Right this way, your table’s waiting. The monthly Sammons Cabaret is a darn good reason to put down your knitting. Local personality Sheran Goodspeed Keyton takes the stage at 8 p.m. Thursday to channel Etta, croon some…
Marijuana gained acceptance so fast that the country really doesn’t know what to make of it. We’ve got two states on the books that made recreational usage legal with more certain to follow their example. It wasn’t that long ago that we were making anti-drug movies to scare young people…
Robberies, stabbings, murder. Welcome to Thor Johnson’s world. This visually talented Dallas artist’s solo show, Trigger Warning, opens at Ware:Wolf:Haus, 425 Bedford St., with a reception from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Thor said he chose the date of the show because of its historical significance. A few of the…
