In the near future, while driving down some secluded highway, you might pass by a handful of giant surrealist murals out in the middle of nowhere. If you’re from North Texas, and particularly if you frequent Deep Ellum, you’ll likely recognize something about these murals. You may not be able…
The word “conduit,” a natural or artificial channel through which something travels, such as a fluid, also applies to art. Ideas, themes or emotions can be conveyed through a variety of media. Conduit is also the name of a contemporary art exhibition at the Frisco Art Gallery, which runs until…
Madison Whitehead stared at the 40-foot shipping container sitting in her backyard. The drywall wouldn’t stay up, it leaked when it rained and she was way over budget. The plan was simple. She was opening the women’s fitness studio of her dreams. Whitehead’s dad told her he’d let her use…
Monday, August 5 Museum of Memories One would imagine the newest pop-up art interactive museum to be some sort of Freudian imaginarium, but the Museum of Memories appeals to the nostalgia belonging to a specific age group: the millennial generation. Practically a BuzzFeed quiz come to life, with a photo…
A party card game called Trial By Trolley is now in development by Explosm Entertainment, the Richardson studio behind the dark cartoon comedy universe Cyanide & Happiness. It has become another lode of board game gold for Explosm and Skybound Entertainment, the comic, TV show and game making powerhouse behind the…
For all of its focus on the future and economic growth, North Texas has been the backdrop for many momentous historical events. Some bring pride, others shame. Throughout our complicated, vibrant history, photographers have been at the front, capturing and preserving the good, the bad and the ugly. Here are…
Scottish-born comedian Daniel Sloss can brag about the rare distinction of being one of the few comics to release two comedy specials on Netflix at once –including the ironically titled Dark and the deeply personal Jigsaw– a claim only reserved for a handful of comedians, like James Acaster, Chris Rock and…
Friday, August 2 First Friday and Art Pop-Up 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2 Dallas Farmers Market Free Every first Friday of the month, Dallasites are encouraged to peruse the Farmers Market to behold local art. First Fridays usually consist of live musical performances, interactive art and local food and happy…
25 years ago, id Software released DOOM, a bloody, unrelenting and challenging first-person shooter game which would change the video game industry and set a very high bar for future generations of programmers and game designers. The concept seemed simple but became far more complex after every grisly character death…
Close to 80 graves, some of them tiny and nameless, rest near some old oak trees along the southern edge of the University of Texas at Arlington. There, at Doug Russell Park, near the intersection of Cooper and Mitchell Streets, lay the remnants of a story that played out during…
DOOM took up the most time and real estate at this year’s QuakeCon gathering at the Gaylord Texan Convention Center because of the iconic first-person shooter’s 25th anniversary. But it wasn’t the only game with a new or impending release on digital and retail store shelves. The Dallas-based game studios…
“Gracias por venir, m’hija.” “Thank you for coming.” Artist and curator Viola Delgado greeted every person who came to the Diez Latinas show. The atmosphere at the Latino Cultural Center on Friday night was that of joy, a celebration of all things Latina. People of all ages and backgrounds, as…
Katie Hamilton didn’t know Lifetime’s Marrying Millions was going to be so money-heavy. To be fair, producers of the show told the 37-year-old it was about couples in two different stages of life, Hamilton says. Hamilton found out the reality show’s name about a month before it aired. “I kind…
They call journalism the “fourth pillar of democracy,” and while it can and should hold powerful individuals accountable, the profession hasn’t exactly answered the one question that is truly on everybody’s mind: How many curse words do each of Quentin Tarantino’s movies use? This question has resurfaced in light of Tarantino’s…
Monday, July 29 You Can’t Take It With YouWhen the straitlaced Kirby family accidentally shows up a day early for a dinner party, their contrast with their hosts, the eccentric Vanderhof-Sycamore-Carmichael family, results in wacky high jinks and heartwarming life lessons in the perpetually popular You Can’t Take It With…
From side-hustling to climbing the corporate ladder, millennial earnings are on the rise. Despite their money no longer being funny or cute, many young people are still holding on to one thing — renting. And Dallas isn’t making things easier in terms of homebuying. According to RealPage, a real estate…
Friday, July 26 Building The Future: Collin Creek Mall Redevelopment Kickoff 6 p.m. Friday, July 26 Collin Creek Mall Free Say goodbye to Plano’s longest-standing mall before it begins a $1 billion renovation project. Relive your awkward teenage years at an ’80s-themed party, eat some nostalgic courtyard food and get…
At a distance, he looks like an old homeless man with a cyborg’s eye and in desperate need of a cane. His spine protrudes down his back like Godzilla’s back spikes. His antlers cast shadows on the ground. Hunched over, he forever reaches for something that only he can see…
You might not know stand-up comedian and actor J.B. Smoove by name, but you should. After all, you’ve seen him on film and television screens, heard his voice on some of your favorite animated shows, and this Saturday at House of Blues, you can see him onstage. Maybe you know…
Dallas Comedy House is only a few weeks away from reopening its doors. The Deep Ellum comedy theater is opening its third — and ideally final — location on Aug. 16, at 3036 Elm St. And it will be bigger and better than ever. If the old rule of comedy…
A thin white line snakes across the floor of Kitchen Dog Theater’s stage before a backdrop of lackluster red wooden pallets, joined by sections of chain-link fence. Then the chanting begins. “Build the wall!” cast members bellow. ”Build the Wall!” It was opening weekend for Crossing the Line, a documentary-style…
For 35 years, theater visionary Katherine Owens created expressive art in a basement in Deep Ellum, taking audiences to far away places and fairy tale lands created by legendary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and David Rabe. As co-founder and co-director of the Undermain Theatre troupe, Owens established North Texas…
