Perhaps the best indicator that your level of fame has peaked is when you are the subject of a comedy roast. But if Andy Warhol’s prediction that in the future each of us gets 15 minutes of fame, that future is here — at least if you’re an American. Jeff…
What’s got 32 legs, 16 retro up-dos and more balls than a bowling ally? A roller derby team. This resurgent sport is getting its proper due this weekend when Assassination City Roller Derby hosts this years’ Governor’s Cup. Seven teams from across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma are hitting the…
If there’s a traditional way to becoming an actor, Jack Garfein didn’t follow it. At the tender age of 13, Garfein survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. There, in the throes of absolute devastation, he developed a passion for escape through acting. After immigrating to America he studied in New York and…
After watching Dallas cyclists fight for their city to catch up with the pack regarding bike lanes and general regard from fellow travelers, the idea of riding from coast to coast on a bicycle seems utterly insane and totally compelling. Completing the task — through the Mojave, Rockies, Appalachians and…
Oh, the weather outside is … mildly unpleasant, necessitating neither a heavy woolen coat nor thermal undies, and while we can understand your confusion during this January relative “heat wave,” the best way to cope is to take it off (your coat, that is) and visit Unadorned: Drawings of the…
When Sarah Palin used, and subsequently apologized for, the phrase “real America,” she touched on uneasy attitudes many Americans have regarding cultural identity. Kevin Kautzman explores these attitudes in his award-winning play Coyote. The production follows two “minutemen,” Vince and Luke, as they patrol a small stretch of the Arizona-Mexico…
Oh, but I would love to know the secrets of the soccer mom. They float onto the playground with their impossibly glossy hair, their North Face gear and their iPhones that chirp at them when it’s time to leave and pick up their other kids from practice. They make it…
Imagine that Cervantes’ quixotic hero weren’t so deluded after all, and that he truly saw fantastic adventures of derring-do that the rest of us Sancho Panzas can hardly conceive. Well, Dallas artist Liz London has just such a vision and would-be Knights Templar will love her exhibition Seeking Infinity, which…
Dallas’ First Modern Home Tour is happening this weekend, and Mixmaster is excited. Not just a little either — we are straight-up mid-century modern, giant windows and xericscape yard, excited. That’s why we paired up with the lovely folks at the FDMHT to get a couple pairs of tickets for…
Dallas is quick to hop in the sack while Houston would rather woo, according to a recent study by dating website HowAboutWe.com. Unlike other popular sites E-Harmony, Match and OK Cupid, HowAboutWe.com keeps it simple: Rather than filling out a lengthy profile, participants suggest their perfect first date. Once they’ve…
One actor, 42 characters, sound effects, musical score and more Hobbits than you can shake a crooked stick at — Charles Ross’ performance of his One Man Lord of the Rings show will open this year’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre on March 1. Ross,…
Two hundred bucks is nothing to laugh at — that’s equivalent to your electric and phone bill, or your rent if you live a very sad, unfunny life in the shadows of a relative’s basement with only a hot plate for snuggling. (Note: when snuggling appliances I’ve found it helps…
The nominees for the cinematic super bowl, the 2012 Academy Awards, were announced yesterday, and as always there were a few of the year’s best pictures and performances that were left warming the bench by the all-powerful Academy. Martin Scorsese’s Hugo leads the game with 11 nods, beating out the…
Breaking into the local art scene can be a struggle. Where you’ve already shown and who your target market is will sometimes play as large of a role as the intention behind the piece itself. But exposing others to your message and how you’ve implemented that vision through your craft…
Finally a toilet fancy enough to keep in the living room of your magnificent, glass-enclosed, hilltop house. This weekend’s First Dallas Modern Home Tour begs the question: Everything else in your retro-futuristic frame is perfect, but how do you hide the commode? Well, if you’re feeling especially flush, you shouldn’t…
William Shatner has done everything. He boldly saved Starship Enterprise’s jumpsuited crew from that devastating plague of Tribbles in ’67. He’s fluent in Esperanto, and likely Klingon. And he recently sacrificed himself for savings in a Priceline commercial. Not to mention his illustrious music career — although really, let’s not…
Tickets are still available for two events on Saturday, February 4 that target youthful supporters of the arts. The Young Professionals of the Dallas Opera are having beers and rapping about Wagner and the Dallas Contemporary has international DJ/Artist/Cool Dude Shepard Fairey spinning a giant bash over in the design…
“I’m going to hell.” That’s how cutting edge theater maker Matthew Posey wraps up his announcement about his next show at his Ochre House studio. It’s called Mean and it’s a musical comedy about the first meeting between creepy 1960s hippie-cult leader Charlie Manson and his accomplice, Tex Watson, who…
WaterTower Theatre puts on a splendidly versatile showcase for the performing arts each year called Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. It was given Best Theater Festival in Dallas for a reason, namely because its organizers have curated a menu of talent that is so delightfully experimental that you, the…
Hi, I’m a lonely weave. Maybe you saw me this weekend, laying all by myself on the sidewalk in front of 7-11. I thought the corner of S. Field and Commerce would be a nice place to meet that special someone, but alas, I’m still single with no head-shaped prospects…
Special effects make-up guru Kevin Kirkpatrick is very much our kind of dork. He’s structured the gore for everything from Tron to True Blood but still managed to squeeze in time to make these amazingly creepy human-like renderings. That’s laced with a bit of irony: Kirkpatrick spent three years perfecting…
Peek behind the white partition at Kirk Hopper Gallery and you see it: a shimmering waterfall of music wires, hundreds of them, cascading out along a horizontal line. Their polar tips crash into polished white porcelain rose stems that hang vertically, like pendulums filled with untapped kinetic force. You need…
