Bowl Right Over That Hangover

Some New Year’s Day football is just what you need to prevent, assuage or postpone your hangover, depending on how you party the night before. The Heart of Dallas Bowl pits the 8-4 UNT Eagles against the 7-5 UNLV Rebels at 11 a.m. at the Cotton Bowl, 3750 Midway Plaza…

Keep Your House Apes Occupied

The presents are opened, the leftovers are questionable and you still have your kids at home for another week. It’s beginning to look a lot like … a total nightmare. Don’t fret. There are still plenty of holiday holdovers to occupy those precious little snowflakes — like the Sparkle! spectacular…

Big Top 2.0

The old-style, big-tent circus couldn’t feel more like an antiquated form of entertainment if the venue were powered by steam engine. The Dallas Children’s Theater, in partnership with Lone Star Circus, has found a way to make it look and sound more like the modern spectacle that all circuses should…

Mexico Shakes Up the Art World

Flowers can blossom in the harshest environments, much like the art scene that bloomed in Mexico City after the devastating 1985 earthquake. The ’90s was a time of growing violence, economic disruption and widespread political corruption. It also saw an explosion of contemporary artists rising to explore the social changes…

Art’s Best Stuff

Some art is rooted in lofty thought, meant to be sifted and worked over philosophically. Then, there’s the kind of art currently on display at RO2 Gallery’s (110 N. Akard St.) show Objectified. Here you get to play, think and admire, because a whole slew of sculptors, object makers and…

Counting Down 2013’s Best and Worst Moments In Dallas Culture

Blunders, politicking and a few points of honest success topped culture headlines in 2013. Some of it was exciting, pointing to a new era of community interaction and cultural immersion. Other times it felt like we had allowed those old notions of what Dallas is — socialites bickering, sexist opportunists…

Eight Ways to Improve The Arts in Dallas

If you’re looking for a panel discussion on the current eco-balance of the arts in Dallas, no problem: Art panels are like AA meetings, another one starts somewhere in about 15 minutes. Unlike AA meetings, nobody chain smokes or reaches a grand realization at an arts panel. Implementable ideas are…

The Top 10 Mixmaster Photos from 2013

Scenes from the Natural Hair Parade 2013 was an event-filled year for Dallasites with festivals, art shows, charity events and conventions galore. Here is a look at some of our favorite photos from the year. You can check out the entire year through thousands of photos in our slideshow section…

14 Awesome Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend, December 19 to 22

Alamo shows your favorite cartoons — with a cereal sidecar — on Saturday morning. That’s not all. We’ve got a Dallas-centric rock doc tonight at the Kessler. A riot grrrl party at Texas Theatre on Friday, where the awesomely named Girls Rock Camp band Sparkle Revolution open for the new…

American Hustle Is a Con To Fall For

The best movies about con artists work a bit of flimflammery themselves. They’re not necessarily dishonest; they just can’t resist making the truth shinier than it is in real life. There may not be much behind the sparkling tinsel curtain of David O. Russell’s extraordinarily entertaining American Hustle. But what…

Saving Mr. Banks Mansplains, Disney-style

How stubborn was Walt Disney? He spent 26 years wheedling Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers to sell him the film rights to her book — call it determination or bullying. Travers thought he was a hack who would louse up her story with cartoon penguins. Walt thought she was a…

Madea vs. Christmas, Logic, and Larry the Cable Guy

Someday there will be a serious academic study on Tyler Perry, the battered and sexually abused child who legally changed his first name at 16 to distance himself from his estranged father and grew rich playing a caricature of his mother in pantyhose and a dress, like a sass-talking Norman…

We Built This City

Dallas today may not be known for the highest degree of rockage, but it’s important to remember that once upon a time Dallas did, in fact, rock. For two decades starting in the ’50s, Dallas was the seat of music in the Southwest and the vinyl record distribution hub for…

Buckle Up And Explode

The Lollie Bombs are exactly what you’re thinking — sweet, but they’ll also explode in your face. With boobs!!! The best kind of blow up. Sure, they’re tasseled boobs, but you know, beggars and choosers. Join them Friday for their holiday show, Mischief & Mistletoe, where they promise “four lovely…

Seasonal Symphonic Splendor

As much as you box your ears when you hear the words “holiday concert,” something magical happens when the Dallas Symphony plays those candy cane licks. They bring the stuff to life in that way that relaxes you and lets you enjoy the holidays, rather than panic over unbought gifts…