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Mother Nature's Day

By Sarah Kramer
Apr 19, 2012

Wearing “I love the Earth” shirts just won’t cut it this Earth Day. Neither will lying in the grass trying to identify the different faces and shapes of the clouds. But saying you attempted (and maybe even achieved) to break the world record for the largest simultaneous global picnic is...
Words as Precious as Gems … No, Really

By Sarah Kramer
Apr 12, 2012

Though he can make diamonds, turn love into money and make music with shooter games, he is not a magician. Instead, Shane Mecklenburger, an assistant professor of art and technology at Ohio State University, is an intermedia artist investigating American culture through media art and performance. Not completely sure what...
Stretch Your Brain

By Sarah Kramer
Apr 5, 2012

Forget badly painted ceramics or knitted dolls and open up your mind to broader avenues of arts, crafts and thinking with the Dallas Museum of Art’s Think Creatively workshops. Dr. Magdalena Grohman, resident creativity expert at the DMA, will lead a two-part program this month: a brain warm-up followed by...
Foot Traffic

By Sarah Kramer
Mar 29, 2012

Let’s hope the turf is ready because this Easter some girls (athletes) won’t be walking on eggshells. And, even if they tried, their cleats would break them. From April 4-8, the Dallas Texans (2013 Wing Point Lane, Plano) are hosting the second annual Dallas International Girls Cup. Nearly 100 soccer...
Soundsuits Must Be Seen To Be Heard

By Sarah Kramer
Mar 29, 2012

If quickly glancing at the Nasher's announcement that it will host a performance of "Heard," Nick Cave's wearable, musical costumes, you might think Grinderman himself has moved into the visual arts. That is not the case. Internationally known for his Soundsuits, Cave’s wearable sculptures compose a unique and natural sound...
Back to the Barrio, via Broadway

By Sarah Kramer
Mar 22, 2012

There are no Sharks and no Jets dancing about onstage, but there are plenty of dreams about life in America going on In the Heights, the Tony and Grammy winning musical that takes you on a three-day journey into New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, a Latino community that’s on the...
That’s “Fronkensteen”

By Sarah Kramer
Mar 8, 2012

For what you are about to see, you must enter quietly into the realm of genius. From the moment Young Frankenstein enters Transylvania Heights, he will make you roar with laughter as he faces the dilemma of continuing life as a brain surgeon or reanimating the dead. The one thing...
Learn From The Masters

By Sarah Kramer
Mar 8, 2012

When most people hear the word “Impressionism,” famous artists such as Monet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec and ordinary subject matters painted with loose brush strokes and creamy blends of color tend to dance across their minds. As one of the most well-know art movements of the 19th century, the period of...
That's a Circus? I Don't See No Elerphants

By Sarah Kramer
Mar 1, 2012

What has 20 wigs, flying acrobats and incorporates 42 different types of cotton? Yes, you guessed it — Cirque de Soleil's magical world of Quidam. Join the show's central character, young Zoe, who's pretty much had it with sitting on the couch while life passes by. The quickest escape is...
Beauty Walks Among Us

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 23, 2012

Can you judge character traits like dignity, pride or selfishness by appearance? That’s the question director Alan Shorter examines in the play The Elephant Man. Originally penned by Bernard Pomerance, Shorter reveals the callous and challenging life of Joseph Merrick. Growing up during the Victorian era wasn’t easy for Merrick,...
It’s Hell to Be a Girl

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 23, 2012

Linda Daugherty offers a sobering look into the destructive world of bullying. She sheds light on what it’s like to be a middle-school girl surrounded by gossip, exclusion, backstabbing, eating disorders, depression and cliques. Based upon interviews with girls who either bullied or were bullied, The Secret Life of Girls...
Run for Love

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 16, 2012

Are you running out of ways to propose to your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day? Well the race is on for you to submit your love story. For the first time, the annual Cupid Dash 10k/5k/fun run wants to help one lucky couple get hitched. Entrants who shared their lovey-dovey stories...
How to Be a Pin-up Girl

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 9, 2012

At a loss for what to give your man this Valentine’s Day? Want to spice things up this year? Instead of being sweet and sappy, why not show off your “million dollar legs?” World-renowned pin-up model Bettina May will be traveling to Dallas to share her glamour secrets Friday. She’ll...
He is Iron Man

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 9, 2012

While edgy is good, poise is equally important — especially when you’re talking about hard, steel constructions. Artist Marko Kratohvil has found the perfect balance between the traditional and the contemporary. Smooth surfaces of iron and steel collide with the sharp and abrupt bends and sudden loops in his sculptures...
Well, Spa-Dee-Frickin’-Dah

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 9, 2012

What woman doesn’t look forward to a Friday spa day with her girlfriends gossiping and discussing their current love lives? But who has the time for that these days? Yet, Sugar Lee Thompkins and her middle-aged friends of Eden Falls, Georgia, find the time to meet every Friday afternoon in...
The Art of Prohibition

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 2, 2012

From the debut of the flapper dress to the Wall Street crash, the United States in the '20s was a country in flux. But how did that affect Texas? Throw on your cowboy boots and experience Texas in the Twenties through approximately 30 works by Texas artists L.O. Griffith, Mary...
Sounds of a Savage

By Sarah Kramer
Feb 2, 2012

Despite his name, Dan Savage is not barbaric or uncivilized. He doesn’t have war paint smeared across his cheeks. (Does he?) Yet, most would agree he is harsh, honest and sometimes aggressive — especially toward social conservatives named Santorum. Savage tells it how it is, which is evident in his...
Shake. Rattle. Roller Derby.

By Sarah Kramer
Jan 26, 2012

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...