February is the time to celebrate the love in our lives. Now that Leslie Knope (played by Amy Poehler) in Parks and Recreation has gifted us the notion of Galentine’s Day, we can officially recognize that love extends beyond romance. What a relief. There are tons of things in Dallas for…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is under new management — both artistic and administrative — with CEO Kim Noltemy, who took the reins in the middle of the 2017/18 season, and new music director Fabio Luisi. Amidst these monumental changes, the DSO has teased several new initiatives and fresh programming, many…
Add skateboarding to the list of things you can do in Deep Ellum. The Point Skate Shop, a one-stop shop for all skateboarding gear and apparel, is now open. Behind its tinted windows on Main Street, customers are greeted with a variety of shoes, clothes and boards. Then suddenly, their…
Even if the mainstream has squandered media’s powers, television, film and new advancements in virtual technology still possess the amazing ability to transport audiences to new places and perspectives. So many new and exciting ventures are exploring these growing art forms that the Dallas VideoFest can’t share it with just…
In a child’s hands, LEGOs can become a castle or tower. In artist Nathan Sawaya’s hands, they become a global attraction. “The Art of the Brick,” a touring display of life-size LEGO creations, makes its Texas debut when it takes up residence at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science…
Friday A lot can happen in a year and a half. In the summer of 2020, we could be enjoying the spoils of political anarchy. Who knows how that could affect our Summer Olympics viewing plans? So, we recommend front-loading your gymnastics viewing experience, just in case. The 2019 World…
The nearly 100-year-old Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas is one of Texas’ first historical landmarks to gain recognition on the National Register of Historic Places. At 7 p.m. Thursday, it will host Recovery’s Got Talent, a showcase of singers and musicians in recovery from drugs and alcohol. It’s not the kind…
Last year, the Dallas Mavericks added another team to Dallas’ growing roster of esports teams, the Mavs Gaming team for the NBA2K League that plays Take-Two Interactive’s NBA2K basketball title. The season may not have ended with a championship for the gaming or the real team last season, but it’s…
When you’re watching a local-produced sketch or improvisational comedy show, chances are that the performers, writers and other crew members aren’t getting a single cent from the box office or the club housing them. Lindsay Goldapp, the managing director of the nonprofit Stomping Ground Comedy Theater, wrote on the theater’s…
Wednesday Signe Pierce describes herself as a reality artist who uses the concept of reality as an artistic medium and believes an artist’s life and work can be viewed within the same context. In her work, she often explores what is real in the era of hyper-reality, new media and…
Alex Organ, Second Thought Theatre’s artistic director, became interested in British playwright Nick Payne when Dallas Theater Center presented Constellations, a play filled with big thoughts about things like string theory, multiple universes and assisted suicide. Incognito considers equally lofty ideas. Payne uses the strange but true tale of Thomas…
Mark Theurer knew his son Alexander would not be ready for college after he graduated from McKinney Boyd High School. Alexander connects to the world in a different way, and art is his nexus between him and others. He’s been submersed in creativity nearly his whole life. At 3, Alexander…
The Ross at Peak Thrift Store, the shabby, barn-red shop with the sign above the door shouting to passersby that “EVERYTHING MUST GO!” really means it this time. The shop, loved by antique hunters and designers, is falling victim to gentrification. Building owner Mitchell Rasansky says proprietors painted the white…
Films like Troll 2, Plan Nine from Outer Space and Birdemic: Shock and Terror have amassed global fanbases for their terribleness, but The Room has become by critical standards the Citizen Kane of “best worst movies.” The Room doesn’t just aspire for greatness and fails. It falls so hard that…
Friday Modern for modern’s sake is not something John Adams, unarguably one of the most important living composers, has any interest in entertaining. His works undeniably dialogue with contemporary musical trends like modernism and the dark inclinations of so-called “serious art music,” yet the composer positions these threads within the…
Caroline Calloway’s infamous workshop tour is making a stop in Dallas. Calloway, an Instagram influencer who is known for sharing the most intimate moments of her life, has detailed her ups and downs, her relationships and her heartbreaks with lengthy Instagram captions for a few years. The captions got her…
Valentine’s Day is just two weeks away, and if you’re reading this, you most likely fit into one of two categories: Group A: You’re a romantic who’s been planning weeks in advance to give your loved one an experience they’ll never forget. Whatever pronoun they identify with is the love…
You’ve played “Mario Kart” all your life — from the day you could learn how to use your reflexive responses to dodge green turtle shells. This is your moment to actually use those skills to acquire money, and this time, you’ll need more than your thumbs to win. The Mushroom Rally…
Fans of John Cusack can stop waiting outside of his house with a boombox to see him and instead buy a ticket for the Majestic Theatre, where he’ll appear alongside a screening of his 1989 film Say Anything on May 19. Following the presentation of Cusack’s star-making role as Lloyd…
Wednesday The Disney empire is a vast, all-encompassing thing. They’re the masters of the Ice Capades, one of the biggest names in Broadway and have a virtual lock on the kids pajama market. Now, their reach expands to the world of a cappella singing. Yep, the domain once reserved for…
A constantly ringing cellphone is not really unusual. Unless it belongs to a dead man. And when the dead man is involved in an overseas bodily organ trade, has a wife, a mistress – and is also in love with you – the tangled mess grows even more bizarre. Dead…
Chad Dean moved his life, and the happiness of his wife and two children, in positive steps when he appeared on TLC’s My 600-lb Life. Weighing in at 701 pounds, Dean was no longer able to work his job as a long haul trucker and relied on his family for…
