You know that guy you cross the street to avoid? The preachy, shout-y one who hands out pamphlets about who-knows-what? Oak Cliff’s favorite resource for creative education, Oil and Cotton, wants you to be that guy…
Calling all gamers — old school, new school, of the tabletop and video variety: Hosted by the ScrewAttack network, SGC is back by popular demand after a two-year hiatus. Short for ScrewAttack Gaming Convention, or Southwestern Gaming Convention if that makes you more comfortable, it’s this weekend in Dallas. Here’s…
Immersed in Ink Tattoo Convention returns to Dallas for a weekend-long celebration of needles, skin art and sideshow phenomena this Friday through Sunday. Happening at the Mesquite Convention Center, Ink’s website promises an assault on your tender bits — emotional and otherwise. Human suspensions will be performed onsite, testing the…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. We Are 1976 hosted its Wild Ass Circus Gallery Reception over the weekend. Here are some of…
The cat fights, the tears, the perpetuation of silly, useless stereotypes: Reality shows both rot our brains and, in our moments of weakness, bring us fleeting, empty joy. Or something. And since everything is bigger and better in Texas, it’s no surprise that so many have been set in Dallas…
Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival w/ Dave Chappelle & Flight of the Conchords! – watch more funny videos Funny Or Die, the internet comedy mega-site founded by Will Ferrell et al. has just announced its first major comedy production, and one of the biggest comedy tours ever to hit the…
Doug Benson’s podcast, Doug Loves Movies, has gained a considerable audience in the seven years since it started. One that knows all his inside jokes, catchphrases, and recurring bits. His live taping at Hyena’s on Saturday afternoon was visual proof as the comedy club filled with superfans, many holding up…
The Texas Theatre quantum leaped on Saturday night, landing in a time of feathered fans and come-hither dames. It was La Divina Burlesque’s annual Nouvelle Burlesque Revue, a showcase of emerging and established talent mostly culled from central and North Texas but reaching as far as Hot Springs Arkansas and…
So you’ve got some jokes, right? Think you can make people laugh? Then you might find this list we’ve compiled, of the most prominent comedy open mics in D-FW, particularly useful. We’ve also got local comedy guru Dean Lewis to share his thoughts on not only the venue but the…
Today the Nasher reveals the first of ten pieces of public art being commissioned for Nasher Xchange, the sculpture center’s city-wide arts initiative. The announcement celebration at the Trinity River Audubon Center (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) comes with some family-friendly perks like free admission, nature hikes, homing pigeons and…
Your dad is a man. He may have been tamed by the structure of society and had his teeth dulled by life’s monotony, but he’s in there, lion and all. So with father’s day approaching, what have you gotten him? A tie? A gift card to Best Buy? Maybe a…
Old East Dallas, Old Town, Smash and Grab Headquarters — whatever you want to call it, I live there and I love it. But last week the dose of visual insulin you see above was dismantled, replaced by a boring brown brick exterior. Then I started noticing the other improvements…
He always kept his promises and never followed through on his threats, and for that reason you’ll do something nice for dad on Sunday, right? A–a-a-a-nd it’s the weekend! If you dig boxing, burlesque, art, smarty pants lectures, theater, homing pigeons, juggling, throw-back cinema, naked ladies with literary passions, bucking…
From the nebula stage, a potential star can become a relatively small Red Giant, or a brightly burning Supergiant. Though the life cycle of a Red Giant may be lower lit and last longer than a Supergiant, its intrigue cannot compare to the terribly powerful ending of the Supergiant, the…
Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is a movie event with an actual movie inside, crying to get out. Despite its preposterous self-seriousness, its overblown, CGI’ed-to-death climax and its desperate efforts to depict the destruction of, well, everything on Earth, there’s greatness in this retelling of the origin of Superman, moments…
From the peak of Anchorman to the nadir of Burt Wonderstone, the formula for studio comedies of the last 20 years has been simple: Dude acts like a dick for an hour, turns blandly sweet toward the end and then everyone on the DVD commentary can claim to have made…
The audience just would not leave. Rhythmic Souls, a Dallas tap-dancing troupe, had already taken their bows after a 40-minute performance called Play It by Ear, one of four shows premiering the second weekend of the four-week Festival of Independent Theatres at the Bath House Cultural Center. But the crowd…
Judy Blume’s first novel, The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969, yet it’s only now, 44 years later, that the first big-screen adaptation of her work—Tiger Eyes, based on 1981’s novel of the same name—finally opens in theaters. This is a disgrace. One can…
Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: “It’s now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studio movie starring a woman.” Unfortunately, that number will only increase—to 84 days—until Sandra Bullock and…
Sometimes, there’s just too damn much to say about a movie than can fit into any one review. (Even Stephanie Zacharek’s exhaustive, excellent one.) So, here’s more: Stephanie Zacharek, our lead film critic, and Film Editor Alan Scherstuhl hashing over all the portentous craziness in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel…
During a spring when things have been blown up or blown down with disturbing frequency, it’s easy to lose track of all the people in need of help. Luckily for the people in Granbury whose homes were damaged by a tornado May 15, students in the award-winning photography program at…
TED Talks have become our modern lecture series, taking the talk out of the classroom and putting it on an interactive, global stage. They engage at nearly every cultural level — art, music, tech, business, politics — and touch on more personal stories as well. They’ve become a future-casting event,…
