Now is the time to get your creative projects off the ground. The Dallas Public Library is opening three maker spaces for creative types and novices to launch storytelling projects, make their own clothing and preserve their family history. Dubbed Creative Spaces, the three studios, a Story Center, Fiber Arts Workroom…
The ongoing investigation into the alleged inappropriate behavior of opera star Plácido Domingo hit home again over the weekend when a Dallas singer, college professor and daughter of Southern Methodist University’s president stated publicly that she was a victim of Domingo’s behavior. Angela Turner Wilson, a seasoned opera singer who…
It’s been a good few weeks for North Texas students. Erykah Badu brought her friend Common to pay a motivational visit to her old stomping grounds, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, at the end of August. This Tuesday, another DFW school got a superstar visitor when…
The days of the rom-com fairy tale illusions are over. In this day and age, the possibilities of meeting the love of your life via a chance encounter on the train or in a grocery store are slim to none, because love at first sight can’t exist if our eyes…
Opera star Plácido Domingo was scheduled to perform in Dallas next year, but after an Associated Press story revealed that nine women accused him of sexually harassing them over the last four decades, the Dallas Opera pulled his tour date from the schedule. The Dallas Opera removed the link to…
Seven years ago, Esé Azénabor made her debut in the Dallas fashion scene. Bright-eyed with passion, she pressed pause on her graduate pursuits at Southern Methodist University and went full force into designing her first ready-to-wear collection — without any financial assistance or immediate support. For four years the Nigerian…
For someone who enjoys saying he’s not just another politician, President Donald Trump sure sounds like one when he talks about violence in movies and video games. He cites it as a contributing factor to gun violence, dating back to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. “We must stop the…
Nostalgia, family and identity are the forces behind Wendi Ruth Valladares’ work. Her new exhibition, Un Medley de Memorias, running until Oct.11 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, reflects her feelings of loss and nostalgia as well as her bilingual upbringing. Valladares collaborated with four local Latino artists. She asked them what they…
On Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Capt. Beverley Bass was flying a routine trip from Paris to Dallas. As she was flying over the middle of the north Atlantic, she got word that one of the Twin Towers was hit. Then 20 minutes later, the other was hit. “In the…
Monday, September 9 Faiths in Conversation These days, it must take a ton of faith and a secure notion of where you stand in the afterlife to bring together people of all faiths to share information about their religions. Shoot, even before the Trumpian age of meanness, religion was a…
When you live in Dallas — and a world of shopping is at your fingertips — there’s really no excuse to fill your space with Home Goods and Target. “But money doesn’t grow on trees!” you cry out. You don’t have to be a Restoration Hardware member to have a…
The first Plano Comedy Festival made quite an impression on Dallas’ comedy community. Comedian and founder Wes Corwin and his crew put together one of the year’s most impressive festivals with a list of local comedians and even some seasoned comics who perform across the country. The festival organizers set…
As I pull up to an unassuming, windowless building on the outskirts of Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth, I find a small sign on the reflective glass doors that reads “Texas Ballet Theater: Press button for entry.” Fort Worth, the town of the cow, railroads and rodeos. This is the…
Friday, September 6 Good Morning Texas – Dance Party 8:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6 WFAA Studios at Victory Park Free Once again, North Texas’ favorite morning show is having another dance party. If you’re catching this as it’s going live, then you still have time to RSVP and get a…
First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress appeared on Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight a week ago to confirm what we have known all along: He will always be there to shill for Donald Trump. In discussing the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ ban…
There’s been a virtual reality boom in DFW’s entertainment offerings, with story-driven experiences that put players in some of their favorite film franchises or in real world landscapes that would cost a fortune to actually visit. However, there hasn’t been a place to do what all gamers truly wish they…
In a fast-paced world teeming with technology, one man is slowing things down to a snail’s pace. “I’m in love with snail mail, always have been,” says Alex Kurkowski, who founded Tellinga, a company whose name is sort of shorthand for “telling a story” and whose goal is to artfully…
If you ever wished you could go to Coachella in your yoga pants, there’s a new festival for you. “The funny thing is people love to use that phrase, ‘Coachella meets fitness festival’,” says Mai Lyn Ngo, founder and CEO of the Dallas Fitness Ambassadors. “And I wish I could…
’Art lovers will have lots to revel about during the fifth annual Party on the Porch at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. The iconic building, named after former Star-Telegram publisher Amon G. Carter Sr., closed in June for an overhaul. And when the doors of…
Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has been at the top of the classical music “charts,” so to speak, for hundreds of years now. One doesn’t even have to be familiar with classical music to recognize the piece, which was written in 1723 as a collection of concertos depicting each season of…
When nostalgically pondering Peter Pan, we suppose that we know what Neverland is. It’s the place you go to forsake growing up for having adventures with pirates and mermaids. Navigating to Neverland is even more instinctual to us than getting pretty much anywhere in Dallas — “second star to the right…
Dallas leads the way when it comes to producing data about the arts. But in terms of producing art itself, not so much, according to the 2019 Arts Vibrancy Index released by Southern Methodist University. The annual study — which is the first to measure the level of supply, demand…
