Usually we use this space to recommend specific performances or events that sound awesome. With this particular event, we can’t promise you the movie will be good because the Alamo Drafthouse won’t tell us what they’re showing. We asked. Apparently the whole point of the AFGA Secret Screening is that…
Hollywood’s awards season is over, and instead of being stuck watching an already self-obsessed industry lavish honors upon itself, we can finally get back to the business of watching that industry’s products. This is the perfect time of year to find a few cinematic gems ahead of the bloated summer…
If you’re a hopeless people-watcher or your ears perk when you overhear bizarre or intimate thoughts, you’ll be interested in The Ties that Bind, the latest from Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live series, with authors Claire Messud and Meg Wolitzer. Wolitzer’s list of successful novels testifies to…
If you’ve never heard of American composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, you’re probably not alone. The early 20th century composer made a name for himself writing film scores, but he also composed some gorgeous dramatic music for the stage, including one very creepy opera. Die tote Stadt, opening at The Dallas…
The world’s favorite red head has been spending the last few weeks prepping for his upcoming visit to Dallas. Beginning March 31, he’ll be filming his show live at the Majestic Theatre. In a continuation of the Conan pandemonium (pandeConian?), today he announced his guests for his week downtown. If…
For a lot of people the art world can seem inaccessible. It’s a playground for the artists and a salesroom for the well-heeled. Across the city, institutions are attempting to overcome this insularity with free museum admission and fun parties. But when art is sold at fancy fundraisers or auctions,…
Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien is already in town running around and doing God-knows-what to our beloved city probably while wearing a ridiculous, oversized cowboy hat. That’s not a crack about his giant head. That’s just what we assume they hand out to out-of-towners as soon as they…
If you’ve ever attended a classical concert, you’ve probably experienced that awkward, hesitant half-clapping that sometimes occurs at the end of a symphonic movement: The music stops, the hall falls silent and, whether out of nervous habit or honest enthusiasm, a few audience members start to clap. But like a…
Spring has been flirting with us all winter, but it finally feels like it’s here to stay. OK, yesterday it might not have, but today it’s sunny. And let’s focus on today, shall we? Stepping outside into the sunny 75-degree weather is enough to put a spring in the step…
Bach’s music performed at borderline speed metal pacing with disco beats, check. Tap dancers doing things that would put you into immediate cardiac arrest, check. Side story about Mozart in a comedic love triangle, check. This is The Bach and Wing–Live Classical Music Tap Dance Extravaganza, the latest tweaked and…
Last week, I met with Kevin Ruben Jacobs, the 25-year-old whiz kid behind Oliver Francis Gallery to chat with him about the local art scene. I asked him what he’s trying to accomplish with his gallery. He shook his head at the word “accomplish,” saying it wasn’t about specific goals…
You’ve probably already seen this on the Internet this morning. Because, Monday. Trust me, we’re as sick of “Let it Go” as you are. Last week I made it through about five seconds of the good looking parents annoying the shit out of their daughter before CTR-ALT-Delete. During the Oscars,…
“Wanna see some shapes?” It’s the first thing Randy Guthmiller ever said to me. We were at The Power Station for a gallery opening, I had walked out to the terrace, looking for a friendly face who might be my next target for cigarette bumming. He was wearing a snug…
In what can only be described as organized pandaemonium, hundreds of bananas (including myself) took over Elm St. in Deep Ellum last Friday for the 4th annual Banana Bar Crawl. Web comic crazies from Cyanide & Happiness, Rob DenBleyker and Dave McElfatrick, led the yellow bunch as we made our…
We’re trying not to go all TMZ here with updates about celebrities doing things that us normals do everyday like stopping for a burger, buying toilet paper in bulk and berating an intern for bringing us the wrong kind of coffee by giving them third-degree burns with it so they’ll…
We start with the smallest triptych. In the corner of the painting, Masami points out a small plate of multi-colored lipsticks. “When I started this one I had just found out that in Iran, people aren’t allowed to wear lipsticks,” he says. ” I was amazed by this. The girls…
The Rockwall man who gave the world the Vanilla Ice and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reunion it didn’t know it wanted just finished throwing one of the biggest pop culture-themed parties that Dallas/Fort Worth has ever seen. Such an endeavor must have taken an insane amount of planning and preparation,…
Your weekend probably revolves around the drunken parade Saturday. We’re not here to judge. The forecast calls for rain that day, and we have plenty of plan B’s for you. Yes, just like Walgreen’s. Speaking of which, Masami Teraoka’s new exhibit at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary gives the Catholic Church…
Diana Sheehan is an award-winning actress and singer who relocated to Dallas five years ago and found herself following a successful New York career with a shining start in Texas, including winning “Best of the Loop” two years in a row at Watertower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival,…
Matt Tolentino and Danielle Bennignus are a black and white photo brought to life. She bobs her hair, wears trousers and dances the Charleston; he wears swallow-tailed suits and trilbies. But this isn’t a special occasion costume, this is everyday. They’re your friendly neighborhood hep cats, with a mid-century lifestyle decorated with boudoir dolls, 78’s and pocket squares.
For a decade cabaret star Jim Caruso has been lighting up Mondays, traditionally Broadway’s performance-free “dark night,” with his late-night Cast Party. It’s a star-studded open mike at Manhattan’s Birdland nightclub, a time for stars to try out new material and unknowns to try to be discovered. Liza Minnelli likes…
See if this plot sounds familiar: Cranky old Jewish comic whose career is kaput is asked to appear for big bucks on a TV special honoring comedy legends. He balks. He picks fights with his writing partner. They argue, make jokes and make amends, and finally do the act. The…
