The Turtle Creek Chorale’s 31th anniversary season is about to come to a close. Last night, at the Meyerson, they performed their final offering, Night and Day: The Music of Cole Porter. But you still have a chance to see the final performance at 8 p.m. Sunday. Audiences will be…
Mary Anne Cox, 28. Purchasing Manager for Lights Fantastic. Coal Vines, Uptown. “I’m wearing jeans from Urban Outfitters, a necklace from Buffalo Exchange, vintage shoes, and a shirt from Ross, yes, Ross. I’m inspired by Free People, music, Pintrest.com, art, street fashion and my best friends, Carla and Jen.”…
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…
So you’ve got your Dirk Is My Homeboy shirt and tattoo, but do you have this? Local artist Cabe Booth created this oil on wood masterpiece appropriately titled “Dirk Nowitzki,” and it’s available for purchase for $750 or the highest bid. As of last night, the highest bid was $500…
Before being cast as Georgeanne in Contemporary Theatre of Dallas’ current comedy hit, Alan Ball’s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Dallas actress Barrett Nash had played a lot of angst-y teenagers. Looking a decade younger than her real age (27), Nash, a UT-Austin grad, had been a standout playing…
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…
“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…
For most people, Mondays suck, but not for playwright Kristoffer Diaz who got to do triple the celebrating this past Monday. First, The New York Times crowned him as the 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright, and then The Public Theater in New York awarded him with the first Gail…
Derek Dilday is a really big Mavs fan. He recently got the above tattoo. Here he is talking about why: The inspiration came from being a huge Dirk fan, obviously. Knowing how much Dirk wanted this championship and the struggles he has been through with this team for the past…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
