Friday evening, Luis Valdez, the founding artistic director of El Teatro Campesino, writer and director of Zoot Suit and La Bamba, and the father of Chicano Theater in the United States, was welcomed with a standing ovation at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. The packed house included several city…
With as frequently as artists get approached for charitable donations, it’s interesting to watch the energy shift of an Art Conspiracy event. There, volunteering gets competitive. We saw this again on Saturday night at “Mounted,” where Dallas’ best talents stepped forward to give time, build sets or donate original works…
As early as Thursday night, comic book fans and blockbuster aficionados will finally have the chance to see Man of Steel, the Zack Snyder-Christopher Nolan take on Superman, the all-American superhero. If you’ve been paying attention to the trailers surfacing periodically on Facebook, Twitter, and in theaters (people still go…
I’ve seen some good ones: Louis CK at the Majestic last year. Bill Cosby, who CK himself worships, at the Winspear. I saw Todd Barry in a tiny bar in Kansas City not that long ago, and spent an hour spit-taking my Boulevard Brew. Others, too. But this was damn…
*Like, when Netflix is all, “Here’s 30 new hours of Arrested Development, try being productive now!” You’d think it would be most people’s dream to skip the office, and pants, in favor of working from home. Apparently not so much. The internet, loneliness, creative stagnation and lack of tools are…
We wrote a while back about Nasher Xchange, the sculpture center’s public art initiative which brings 10 artists to Dallas neighborhoods for site-specific pieces. The unveiling happens on October 19 and we’ll soon know more specifics, like precise locations and design elements as news leaks during a ten-week series of…
Walking through the installation room of Wunder-Block, a new exhibition by Katharina Grosse, is an instant lesson in size perception. I feel like I’ve been zapped by a ray gun, transformed and shape-shifted into an ant harvesting dust on a busy MAC cosmetics counter. Mountains of pigments — charged-up royal…
Cristela Alonzo, an alumni of the Dallas comedy scene, recently finished taping her big Comedy Central Half Hour (re-branded from the more famous moniker Comedy Central Presents), which debuts Saturday morning at 12.30 a.m. Tapped by major entertainment website Vulture as one of the top 50 comedians with a chance…
On Tuesday, June 11, we’re having a night of storytelling on the Sundown at Granada’s gorgeous rooftop. We’ve partnered with them, Oral Fixation and some local musicians to make it happen, and we’ll be giving away prizes. All of the stories will be ripped from real life, so grab some…
The birds of a feather flocking together in the Arts District this weekend are members of the Theatre Communications Group, holding their annual conference here. About 1000 regional theater managers, artistic directors, dramaturgs and other arts professionals will be networking and attending seminars following the theme “Learn Do Teach.” (Sans…
For nearly two weeks now, Fort Worth’s Bass Hall has played host to some of the world’s most elite competitive pianists between the ages of 18 and 30. I haven’t seen any blood, but buckets of sweat and I’m sure more than a few tears have been shed during the…
Ask people about their favorite movies and the same titles come up regularly — Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane. But some movies have special meaning for people even if they don’t turn up on lists of established favorites. They’re the secret movies we keep in our pockets like…
Anyone trying to run a civilized country should know that throwing musicians in jail for making music is always a bad idea. That didn’t stop Vladimir Putin’s government from arresting three members of the punk collective Pussy Riot, after the group stormed the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the…
All the world’s a stage, Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It. It makes sense, then, to see some plays outside of conventional theaters once in a while. Like under tall trees in a parking lot next to an alley in Uptown. Or inside a converted Art Deco bath house…
The first weekend of the 15th annual Festival of Independent Theatres, which gives small companies one-hour slots to try out new work at the Bath House Cultural Center, yielded two strong new pieces by Dallas writers: Like Me by gay monologist John Michael Colgin (directed by Donny Covington); and Lydie…
For the past two weeks, 30 of the world’s elite competitive classical pianists between the ages of 18 and 30 have been battling it out on stage at Fort Worth’s Bass Hall (525 Commerce St.) for the title of 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medalist. After two grueling…
Viva Dallas Burlesque is the biggest burlesque show in Texas, and on Friday, comedy is queen. The Dirty Sexy Funny show features music and dancing too, and the night of comedy and cabaret will begin with music-comedian Laura Ainsworth singing songs from her new album Necessary Evil. Following her performance…
Comedy Central named Jerry Seinfeld the 12th funniest comedian of all time on its list of 100, which almost makes up for the fact that the network is solely responsible for Tosh.0. If you don’t know who Seinfeld is and how good he is at doing it, there’s really not…
While last year Art Conspiracy doled out speakers for RZN8, this year’s seed event — which raises money and awareness for the annual party — gets more visually freaky. Saturday’s 2013 seed event, Mounted, will be all taxidermy themed. Participating artists were issued wall plaques for their “trophies,” which tribute…
Have things been a little stale lately between you and your pup? Looking for a way to spice up those mundane Saturday morning walks or dog park excursions? Look no further than this weekend’s 19th Annual Dog Day Afternoon. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Flag Pole Hill Park…
I know, I know. We’re all waiting for Flashdance at the end of the month, but in the meantime, Dallas Summer Musicals presents another Broadway tale of overcoming adversity and learning the value of being yourself: Sister Act. If you thought the plot of this Whoopi Goldberg film could only…
Not every comedian started as an electrical engineer inspired by time spent on the Oldsmobile Cutlass assembly line, but Loni Love isn’t everybody. She’s a former Xerox employee who graduated from Prairie View A&M. I know, right?!? These days, you can find her on Chelsea Lately where she and Chelsea…
