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Big Rig Crafts Choreography From Everyday Experiences for Converge

By Amelia Jaycen
May 8, 2014

North Texas is springing up with creative dance companies full of talented artists looking to expand their skills beyond their graduate studies and carry college projects through to workable careers in the metroplex. Meaning for you: there are a plethora of interesting physically creative shows happening nearby. For instance, Big...
No Sand. No Sea. But Possibly Rum.

By Amelia Jaycen
May 1, 2014

You’re thinking this is the year you’ll make that island getaway, hop a plane, head to a warm beach with lapping waves and tiki torchlight and make the kind of memories that are found in crackly old photographs. But then reality sets in, and you’re stuck in Dallas this spring,...
A Play by Play of the Denton Arts & Jazz Fest

By Amelia Jaycen
Apr 24, 2014

Every April thousands of north Texas musicians, aficionados, artists and party-lovers from all life's walks come out of the woodwork and converge on a 20-acre historic park in Denton to enjoy seven stages of music and an arts exhibition space of 17,000 square feet. Thousands more travel from across the...
Dragon Street's Zhulong Gallery is a Beacon for New Media Art

By Amelia Jaycen
Apr 21, 2014

Zhulong Gallery, with its glass façade and dragon shaped gallery space, aims to be a new force in the Dallas new media scene, with international context, a public involvement component and a broad definition of new media that sparks conversations about how to define the popular genre.
You're Invited to the Dance Party

By Amelia Jaycen
Apr 10, 2014

The language of the body speaks in haunting tones. For the last 36 years, Dallas Black Dance Theatre has been speaking this language to audiences, pairing professional dancers with a mix of modern, jazz, ethnic and spiritual musical works by nationally and internationally known choreographers. DBDT II features the most...
Unleash Your Inner Voyeur

By Amelia Jaycen
Mar 20, 2014

If you’re a hopeless people-watcher or your ears perk when you overhear bizarre or intimate thoughts, you’ll be interested in The Ties that Bind, the latest from Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live series, with authors Claire Messud and Meg Wolitzer. Wolitzer’s list of successful novels testifies to...
Out of the Loop's Star Diana Sheehan on the Festival, Living in Texas and Gertrude Lawrence

By Amelia Jaycen
Mar 13, 2014

Diana Sheehan is an award-winning actress and singer who relocated to Dallas five years ago and found herself following a successful New York career with a shining start in Texas, including winning "Best of the Loop" two years in a row at Watertower Theatre's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival,...
Go Ahead, Say It Already

By Amelia Jaycen
Mar 13, 2014

If you're obsessed with true-life storytelling, you're not alone- there are others. Lots of them, fixated on the lives of so-called ordinary Dallas people who are proving to be anything but. Like Dallas native Nicole Stewart, who created Oral Fixation, a performance experience backed by an addiction to excavating stories...
Director Cody Lucas Discusses His Bathtub Play Sweet Chariot

By Amelia Jaycen
Mar 11, 2014

Out of the Loop Fringe Festival is an annual event at Watertower Theater featuring a packed schedule of mostly local acts through Sunday. Cody Lucas returns to his hometown for the fest, with Sweet Chariot, a show about a man in a bathtub. There are two more chances to see...
Less Than Kind Gets an American Debut

By Amelia Jaycen
Mar 6, 2014

In the climax of WWII, a politicized teenager on the verge of socialism returns to London, only to find his widowed mother mistress to a man he equates with the enemy. The affair with the boy’s mother distracts a senior minister from the storming of Normandy. Fresh from Canada where...
Something’s Up in the Cereal Aisle

By Amelia Jaycen
Feb 27, 2014

Yucky Children Charmer, Cereal Killer, Cap’n Corn Starch and Kill Frog’s Sugar Smack are snuggled into the breakfast options. On the next aisle over, the chubby Morton salt girl is trailing toward Hilter’s Helper and Rush Brand Oxycontin while boxes of Tupac bullets remind “firearms sold separately.” At Ron English’s...
17 Valentine's Day Events in Dallas, Because This Holiday Is Happening, People

By Amelia Jaycen
Feb 13, 2014

Valentine's Day is back and with it come visions of fat little blonde men in tiny diapers aiming sharp objects at your pulmonary artery. It's the time in late winter when North Texans get bored with the cold and long to take off a few layers and use the energy...
Thin Line Has a Thick Schedule of Film and Music

By Amelia Jaycen
Feb 13, 2014

Denton’s Thin Line Fest brings quality documentaries, a notable awards program and the Docu-Denton 7K video race to Denton’s historic downtown Campus Theater this month. Now in its seventh year, the festival is adding more than 100 bands to its program, including Sebadoh and the local Mexican-American rapper Snow Tha...
Thin Line Fest Expands with 60 films, 100 Bands. A Photo Contest Is Coming Soon.

By Amelia Jaycen
Feb 12, 2014

When Josh Butler took an energetic leap of faith toward his dream, he didn't exactly land on his feet. It was more like a really bummed film junkie who landed in bankruptcy court. Staring at the floor he shook his head, "Why! Why did we just have to have limos...
Meet an Icon of Icons

By Amelia Jaycen
Feb 6, 2014

Milton Glaser, designer of the most frequently imitated logo design in human history, is finally coming to Dallas. The legend behind the I ♥ NY logo is also famous for his poster of Bob Dylan with psychedelic hair and Brooklyn Brewery’s branding and packaging. His Dallas show is part of...
Cock, Directed By An Organ

By Amelia Jaycen
Jan 30, 2014

Dallas’ Second Thought Theatre launches its 10th anniversary season with the award-winning Cock, a play about sexuality, identity, the comedy of human relations — and really complicated love triangles. Love dodecahedrons? Directed by Dallas favorite Alex Organ, Cock follows everyman John (played by Justin Locklear) as he emerges from a...
An Artist, To The Bone

By Amelia Jaycen
Jan 23, 2014

Denton’s art scene gains momentum with the inclusion of world-renowned artist Kiki Smith, who is serving an artist’s residency at UNT for the 2013-2014 academic year. Known as one of the most influential artists of her generation, Smith spent her childhood in a household she compares to the Addams Family,...