Arts & Culture

If you’ve never seen an installment of Naked Girls Reading, you might have some preconceptions about what exactly is involved. You’d be right on a couple of them: One, there ARE naked girls. Two, they ARE reading. (You’re batting 1.000 so far.) But here’s where things might diverge from what…

During the halcyon days of post-apocalyptic cinema, John Carpenter’s Escape From New York (1981), as well as the dozens of rip-offs it inspired, helped convince a generation of impressionable filmgoers that the 1990s were doomed. Totalitarian rule would reign and cities would be overrun by armies of savage criminals in…

The AT&T Performing Arts Center (2403 Flora St.) is upping Dallas’ classical music game with a brand-new recital series featuring big-name soloists. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, American piano superstar André Watts will take the stage for the series-opening concert in a solo recital featuring the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin…

Fashion & Flea isn’t a stuffy, boring, snoozefest-y event. It’s a spirited treasure hunt where you’ll find “vintage, antique, locally produced or handcrafted items.” It has everything from furniture and décor to clothing, jewelry, toys, games, crowd-pleasing ephemera and more. At the Fashion & Flea you’ll also find Danielle Colby…

Saturday is a great day to visit the Arts District. Whether you go alone, with friends or bring along your familial gaggle, you get free admission at two different museums and grab a complimentary cultural festival at a third. The DMA is always free, so pop in and see what’s…

Nobody knows how to do camp anymore. Humor in modern film and TV is so wrapped up in irony that not a sliver of campiness can wedge in among all that hyper-awareness. Luckily camp’s heyday has left behind a treasure trove of silly but gratifying works that made us squirm…

Do you hate snakes? If so, then stay the hell away from the Texas Motorplex (7500 U.S. 287) in Ennis this Saturday and Sunday. Repticon holds its second Dallas-area show this weekend, baiting in dedicated herpers from across the state. This destination festival allows enthusiasts to show off their most…

Whether you follow football or not is pretty inconsequential when the Big Game rolls around. It’s as much an excuse to drink beer and eat party subs (is that still a thing?) as predicting the outcome in New Jersey. Some of you will use it to show off your heirloom…

You have to choose your level of jackass when you buy a ticket to The Donkey Show. This is not a snarky stab at the third annual fundraiser for the Far North Dallas Richardson Democrats. The various ticket levels actually include “Shrek Donkey,” “Eeyore” and the highest, “Pegasus Donkey.” Either…

The undead of today’s films don’t hold a candle to those of yesteryear. In the 1990 film Ghost, Swayze’s portrayal of ectoplasm haunted film audiences, inspiring sexual fantasies that weirdly involved pottery wheels. In 2012, Broadway saw songwriters Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard resurrect the story of a man stuck…

Dallas’ Second Thought Theatre launches its 10th anniversary season with the award-winning Cock, a play about sexuality, identity, the comedy of human relations — and really complicated love triangles. Love dodecahedrons? Directed by Dallas favorite Alex Organ, Cock follows everyman John (played by Justin Locklear) as he emerges from a…

She’s a beautifully dark force in the world of contemporary art, and North Texas gets easy access to Kiki Smith’s latest exhibition, currently on view at UNT Gallery on the Square (109 N. Elm St., Denton). Transformations shows both the artist’s process and final output through a series of five…

This Friday night, the AT&T Performing Arts Center was to have opened its brand new Winspear Opera House Recital Series with a solo performance by renowned American pianist André Watts. Unfortunately, the organization has just announced that because of illness, Watts will not be able to perform and the recital…

This is it, people. This Sunday, February 2, is the last day the all-weather ice rink at Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway) will be available for your horrible-at-ice-skating ass to fall down on it. For $5. Unless you bring your own skates, and then it’s free. So bring…

Comic Con announced yesterday that Close Encounters and Jaws star, Richard Dreyfuss, will headline February’s Dallas Sci-Fi expo, happening at the Irving Convention Center. He’s an uncommon “get” for one of these gigs, which typically cull television celebs and other non-Academy Award winners for their meet-and-greets. Dreyfuss is different. He…

Contemporary Belgian artist Michaël Borremans’ only U.S. solo museum exhibition ran at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2005. Titled Hallucination and Reality, it focused on his small paintings and sketches on cardboard. His only solo U.S. gallery show was at New York’s David Zwirner in 2009 and featured a…

There are myriad reasons The Ticket has dominated Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves for 20 years, all part of a formula that’s proven to be impossible to replicate. One ingredient that builds a sense of culture around the station is the so-called “Drops.” Small sound bites, usually taken out of context, inserted…

Not only will Eddie Izzard bring his newest sell-out tour, Force Majeure, to Dallas this summer, he’ll do it the most stylish way possible. Rather than filling a soulless stadium for one night, where screams of “Cake or Death” would ricochet off a thousand distant walls, Izzard will hover at…