The Alexander String Quartet has been together for 38 years — long enough that the quartet’s four members claim that while performing, they breathe in unison. In that time, the San Francisco-based ensemble has become a California institution, known for its rich-sound, contrast-heavy approach, low turnover and affinity for big-scaled…
Friday The North Texas Irish Festival returns with its annual family-friendly celebration of Irish and Celtic tradition and culture. Don’t be fooled by the “family-friendly” tag, however. Rest assured there will be plenty of genuine Irish whiskey and beer to enjoy all weekend long, along with dance performances, storytelling, pet…
9 a.m. Ahh, how wonderful it feels to sleep in on the weekends! Seize the day with the energy you have from a full night’s sleep. 9:03 a.m. LOL. What is this, dorm life? Disneyland? Sleeping past 7 a.m. is for youths. Whether you woke up early for your child,…
Last fall, hundreds of Dallas denizens flocked to the Crescent shopping complex to immerse themselves in a unique art experience. Curated by Bivins Gallery, the show Psychedelic Robot took the city and social media by storm. Visitors shared photo after photo of rooms covered with graffiti, paint and neon lights…
Tonight one red carpet premiere is forgoing the luxury of an upscale cinema for the Ron Kirk Pedestrian Bridge. I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, a new Lifetime movie starring Ginnifer Goodwin and Angela Fairley, will screen as part of the festivities scheduled at the annual Promise to…
Aren’t we all just a fool for love? The Classics Theatre Project’s 2019 season will kick off with Fool For Love by Sam Shepard at Fair Park’s Margo Jones Theatre. The season will also feature plays by two other iconic American playwrights, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. “It’s our all-American classics…
Wednesday The Women’s Adventure Film Tour is making its stop in Dallas at Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. The event will feature a screening of short films, including Katie Walsh’s Surfing to Cope, about American surfer Brianna Cope. There are showings at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets…
Boutique apartment buildings and cleared, muddy plots marked with signs advertising “Coming Soon: Homes Starting at $400,000” are hints of the latest massive gentrification rolling through Old East Dallas. By decree, though, the bulldozers clearing the way for progress aren’t allowed to touch certain spots. During region-wide redevelopment in the…
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is finally ready to share her point of view with Dallas. On April 1, Hasselbeck will be at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake to host a Girl’s Night Out: Refocusing Our Point of View Together. Refocusing Our Point of View Together? If you think that sounds…
There’s a lot more classical music in Dallas than just our world-class symphony and the glamorous opera house next door. But many of the events elsewhere in town are hard to find or downright obscure. Over the years, we’ve missed many exciting concerts because we just didn’t know they existed…
The Texas Rangers Golf Club opened last week in Arlington without a ticker tape parade, but those willing to brave the chill were welcomed with a double lineup of snazzy golf carts. The first tee time at the newly renovated course dodged a frost delay to open as scheduled at…
Visitors to downtown Dallas no longer need to enter American Airlines Center to see Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic in action. A new augmented reality mural featuring Doncic performing his stepback jumper has been revealed, drawing attention and deceiving eyes. Across the back of the T. Boone Pickens YMCA on…
Secure your wigs, Dallas, because the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race has more drag queens from North Texas than any other season in drag race herstory. (See what we did there? Haha? Laugh.) Although no queen from Texas has ever snatched the crown to be America’s next drag superstar…
Friday Giacomo Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut contains one of the most spirited, individualistic, timeless and tragic female protagonists in the repertory. The young Manon ultimately finds herself pulled between two mutually exclusive paths: a glitzy life of luxury or true love. The result is intensely discouraging, and at once both…
Dallas’ gayborhood will soon get a makeover. For decades, the strip on Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs has served as a bar district and nightlife destination for Dallas’ LGBTQ+ community. Changes are underway to make the gayborhood safer. Work will be done on the sidewalks to make them more compliant…
Dallas is one of the sexiest cities in America, and it’s not the first time we’ve been called that. Earlier this month, Dallas landed at No. 6 on a list, which was based on more than simply curb appeal, and created by Pink Cherry, an online sex toy vendor out…
The Artisan Center Theater in Hurst turned into a crime scene earlier this month when burglars broke into the theater’s offices and stole thousands in cash and electronics. Richard Blair, the ACT’s executive producer and co-founder, says the burglary happened sometime in the late hours of Monday, Feb. 11, or…
Free Play Arcade, the local retro arcade chain, will build a fourth location near downtown Fort Worth and halt plans to open a pinball arcade in the Oak Cliff neighborhood. Corey Hayden, owner and founder of the chain, which opened its first location in Richardson in 2015, says the Fort…
With your nose inches away from the portrait, you would swear the toy gun in front of you was real. The way light bounces off the plastic, the curve of the handle seemingly within graspable reach, it’s inconceivable that the image in front of you is oil paint arranged meticulously…
Wednesday Attention all women: You cannot really change a man, no matter what the movies and TV tell you. If he’s a con artist who goes around town asking for money for a marching band that does not exist, it doesn’t matter how cute you look when you’re stacking books…
Like a three-act opera filled with surprise, disappointment, multiple plot twists and, possibly a happy ending, the story of Keith Cerny’s yearlong journey from leading The Dallas Opera to the top job at the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, with a stop along the way in western Canada, is replete with…
Dex Nichols loves bad movies. Cheap props, wooden dialogue and monsters with obvious zipper lines are the building blocks to a movie night at Nichols’ home in McKinney. And for one night each month, he wants you to watch them with him. Each month Nichols selects a bad movie or two, stocks…
