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…
This week, John Adams conducts the Dallas Symphony in a weekend of concerts. Next month, Adams turns 72. For decades, he’s been practicing — and excelling at — one of the world’s most endangered professions: composer of classical music. And, against the public perception of a field led by dead…
If you purchased tickets for comedian Amy Schumer’s show back in November, you’ll get the chance to finally use them in March. The AT&T Performing Arts Center announced that the stand-up comedian and star of the hit Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer rescheduled the show she planned to perform…
The 91st Academy Awards are a month away, but this is still barely enough time to plan the perfect viewing party. Only 30 days to buy a sheet of poster board and create a betting bracket for categories, like longest political acceptance speech. A mere 720 hours to buy snack…
Friday Ella is a girl with a dopey fairy godmother who “blesses” Ella with obedience, which means whatever anyone tells her to do, she does. Even worse, she ends up with a stepmother and stepsisters who know about her quirk and are happy to take advantage. Throw in a handsome…
Local sports radio titan 1310 The Ticket will celebrate its 25th birthday in much the same way it celebrated its very first birthday back in 1995 — in front of thousands of its most devoted listeners for yet another edition of the station’s signature event, Ticketstock. This year’s two-day event…
Dallas visual artist Said Abusaud believes that art should never have an answer and that it should always be in the form of a question. He carries this theme in all of his work, lacing hidden messages in each piece. Viewers would be smart to keep that in mind when…
An upcoming Dallas ticket lottery means that some can watch The Book of Mormon while hanging onto a bigger chunk of their cash. Ticket prices at The Music Hall at Fair Park run the gamut from $46 to hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars. But the lottery will allow a…
