Fri 2/16 Some artists create music that transcends any one era. Book of Love’s original ’80s synth-pop, made popular again in the 2000s, could serve as backing tracks on a number of current chart-toppers. But it’s not just the music; Book of Love’s lyrics could be inspired by today’s discussions…
Last time we saw artists Billi London-Gray and Daniel Bernard Gray, they were hosting a political pop-up at Umbrella Gallery in Deep Ellum that featured a pile of dirt and a Trump-inspired hairpiece. The duo is back with another installation to satisfy your appetite for unconventional art, but this time the…
The performing arts are in trouble. Go to a live performance at any theater, and you will likely see an audience dominated by an older generation. These are the people who fill the seats and support the arts financially. The news reminds us daily that the United States is in…
If you found yourself alone on Valentine’s Day, you’re not alone. The whole city is full of people who think there’s no one out there in this big, ugly world who’s just for them. They are out there waiting for you to walk up and say, “Hiya.” Maybe you’re a…
On the quiet sixth floor of the University of Texas at Arlington library, Etta Hulme’s political cartoons speak loudly. The artist’s laconic, keen wit and uncanny insight mesh in the display Drawn to Politics: The Editorial Art of Etta Hulme, which runs through August. “Hulme’s ability to boil things down…
Dallas is a city on the rise. In nearly every corner, the metallic hum of construction equipment can be heard while masses of orange-vested workers push buildings higher and higher into the sky. Mixed-used developments, sprawling apartment complexes and new Dallas Area Rapid Transit rails are all on the horizon…
The narrative is needlessly complicated, and it all seems crafted just to build to a single joke voiced in the third act
If comedian Joshua Fischer saw you perform a set, he’d be your biggest supporter no matter how well you did. “You could bomb, and he would tell you that you did great,” said comedian and friend Lawrence Rosales. “When you needed it, he was there.” Fischer didn’t just aspire to…
Tiptoeing toward the hot tub of camp without quite diving in, Double Lover starts to fracture Chloe’s point of view, resulting in at least one fabulous Cronenbergian dream scene …
Here’s the Marvel movie even non-Marvel fans are prepared to root for, the rare black superhero film, one boasting not only an almost-all black cast but helmed by a black director as well
Within a few steps in Dallas you’ll be barraged with the abrasive orange, green or yellow of ride-share bikes. They’re everywhere. They’re an eyesore, and we’re looking for a way to have fewer of them. It’s not unlike how Dallas once felt about streetwalkers. (We still do, presumably, but there…
Hard to believe it was 10 years ago that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra heralded the arrival of a new conductor with billboards and banners implying the man only frowned and only stood in dark lighting. But in that time, talk about the orchestra evolved from “They’re playing Mozart this weekend?…
As the rather sparse crowd settled into their seats before Friday’s opening performance of The Ring of Polykrates, most look confused. For Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s piece at The Dallas Opera, the orchestra sat atop the stage rather than below because they performed Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major prior to his…
Another big name from the small and the big screens has been added to the list of celebrities for the Fan Expo Dallas in April. You first knew him as Pee-wee Herman, but you eventually learned that his real name is Paul Reubens. The star of the cult comedy film…
This year marks the final performance of the University of North Texas comedy improv troupe Sparky, but it’ll go out in a big way. The troupe will perform in a national improv tournament. The comedy troupe consisting of UNT students Sean Byrne, Alex Wiggins, Tierney Conley, Christian Campbell and Nathan Lawrence will…
What if a mural had the power to affect change? That’s the concept behind the international Not A Crime mural project, which is spreading awareness about the plight of people of the Baha’i faith in Iran through public art. This minority of the population is jailed, tortured and killed for…
The only fantasies Fifty Shades Freed convincingly fulfills are those of boutique publishers who would like to believe that a debut novel can acquire 250,000 preorders and that a local glossy can employ upwards of 50 full-time staffers, both of which occur in this film
Citizen Rose is strongest at the start, when it juxtaposes McGowan’s present-day anguish with the media coverage of her as a young starlet in the late 1990s and early 2000s
The Ritual finds a quartet of British lads/drips hiking through the deserted woods of northern Sweden, a labyrinth of ancient trees with trunks that stretch up forever
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does buy you 50 Valentine’s dates, which might be the same thing. John Dixon III, self-professed millionaire and founder of Dallas-based Business Society, wanted to do something nice for women, so he posted a Facebook status inviting 20 women to a nice date for…
Fri 2/9 Echo Theatre will create an old supper club setting just in time for Valentine date night with Her Song, a music and dance revue at the Bath House Cultural Center, which overlooks WhiteRock Lake at 521 E. Lawther Drive. Shows start at 8 p.m. Friday and continue through…
Pocket Sandwich Theatre doesn’t take itself seriously. And that’s why, of all the theaters in Dallas, it’s the one you’re most likely to appreciate even if you don’t like the theater. This Dallas institution has called the corner of Mockingbird and Central Plaza home since 1980. On Thursday nights, when Pocket…
