Question The Artist: Illustrator Brian Stauffer

For our latest installment of Question The Artist, we’re proud to be working with and talking to the award-winning editorial illustrator Brian Stauffer. Stauffer’s work has graced our pages before, and we’re fortunate enough to have him grace our pages once again. Coming off of a recent gold medal win…

Louie Starts On FX Tonight, So: Five Of Our Favorite Louis C.K. Bits

The second season of Louis C.K.’s latest half-hour comedy, Louie, starts up at 9:30 Central tonight on FX. If it’s anything like his stand-up, his first show (Lucky Louis on HBO), or the first season of Louie, it will be a wonderfully and purposefully disjointed driving tour of C.K.’s head…

Pottermore: 10 Questions We Want Answered

“Accio Pottermore!” For a full week, hundreds of thousands of Potter Heads have uttered this command as they waited for the unveiling of JK Rowling’s website and wondered what it would actually be. The time finally came today. Pottermore is an exclusive interactive website for fans of all ages, and…

Bad Teacher and the Downside of Equal Rights in Hollywood

From Tad Friend’s New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline “Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates Women”) to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned to last month’s Bridesmaids (which has thus far outgrossed every previous Judd Apatow project since Knocked Up), a case could be made that 2011…

Buck: Horse Whisperer Speaks Up

The documentary Audience Award winner at this year’s Sundance festival, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly astounding methods in four-day clinics around the country. If that sounds as exciting as watching hay turn yellow, director Cindy Meehl finds the real story…

Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop: Try Harder

“I am angry,” Conan O’Brien admits in Rodman Flender’s tour doc Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop. “I’m trying not to be…but sometimes I’m so mad I can’t even breathe.” Prohibited from appearing on television for six months after his early 2010 break with NBC, Conan hit the road, capitalizing on his…

Cars 2: Life in the Breakdown Lane

Pixar’s Cars franchise takes a sharp turn from NASCAR mayhem and red-state-targeted ’50s nostalgia to 007 espionage with the upgraded sequel Cars 2, though in its delivery of Matchbox-machine superheroics for its young male demographic, it stays true to its prime function as an advertising vehicle for merchandise. Nonetheless, if…

Join Us

Who knew? Sometime during the 8th century, between bouts of famine, scurvy and smallpox, dynastic conflict and bloody religious war, the Franks invented “jazz hands.” And when they weren’t hacking away with broadswords, or hacking up a lung, they took time to create bouncy, light pop. It’s amazing what one…

It’s Good to Get Blue

Forget about the scrapbooking this weekend and create your own unique fabric instead. Sure, it’s easy to find some pretty nifty pillows at a department store, but it doesn’t beat the ones you’ll create on your own. Join instructor Shannon Driscoll as she teaches Cyanotype Photograms on Fabric with botanical…

Sit Down, Watch the Boat Rock

Everybody loves a bad boy, especially one who dazzles you by flying you to Havana and getting you drunk on tropical cocktails. And especially, that is, if you are a female missionary dedicated to saving the soul of said bad boy. This love story is just one thread in the…

Do A 180 And Head To 360

The Nasher Sculpture Center continues its 360 Series this Saturday, bringing in a one-two punch of gifted sculptures, painters, and collage-ers in Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago. The 360 Series represents a conversation with featured artists about the ever-expanding world of contemporary art, while Curry and Houseago represent two bad-ass…

Happy 100, White Rock!

White Rock Lake is turning 100 and you’re invited to the centennial party. Originally constructed in 1909 to meet Dallas’ growing water needs, the lake was completed on April 24, 1911. Since then Lewisville Lake has come to shoulder the city’s water needs but White Rock Lake has remained the…

Track Her Down

Rowdy enthusiasts, fishnets and total ass-kicking: The Assassination City Roller Derby is in its sixth season of competitive, fierce and unconventional mayhem. The women of the league are divided into six teams, each decked in team colors. All teams welcome daring, untamed women to prove they have what it takes…

Finger Paint the Weekend

Are you jealous of all the carefree youngsters who are grabbing their pretty paint palettes and heading off to summer arts camp? Then today is your lucky day! Ink on Your Fingers, Color on Your Soul is a grown-up-friendly creative lifestyle and art workshop that will fuel your creative mojo…

Give Him His Coloured Coat

Imagine you are a 14-year-old girl on a school trip to Washington, D.C. You hail from a very conservative Baptist section of Texas. As a part of the “educational” trip, your teacher has scheduled a dinner theater performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The churchgoing chaperones approve. But…

Plum Good Reading

I’m not really a fan of popular fiction. As a librarian on the front lines at a public library, this can be problematic. A patron will approach the reference desk, looking for suggestions, and I have very little to tell them off the top of my head, having to revert…