Wednesday, April 21 Lotería Night Have you ever wanted to play lotería but don’t know Spanish? Well, now’s your chance. Oak Cliff Brewing Co. is hosting its own Loteria Night. All the lotería cards will be projected onto a big screen, so no need to know the difference between El…
Unlike last year’s virtual celebrations, this year’s 420 festivities could allow a good smoke circle among vaccinated friends. We’d also guess that setting up a Zoom meeting might be a challenge depending on how high you are. Disappointed stoners may have flocked to weed-centric movies last year when they couldn’t…
Photographer Tyler Shields is familiar with controversy and cancel culture; his widely controversial images included the “severed” Donald Trump mannequin head (famously held by Kathy Griffin) and a lynching of a KKK member by a Black man, earning him the nickname the Bad Boy of Photography. But his latest series,…
Our favorite quarantine-style reality competition is back. This Wednesday, Netflix released the first four episodes of the second season of The Circle. Last year, we saw Dallas native Chris Sapphire become an audience favorite by charming us with his vibrant, luminous personality. He took fourth place, but was a winner…
The holiest of all holidays, 420, is coming up sometime soon, but we couldn’t tell you exactly in how many days. Some of us have been celebrating early — since last April 21, to be exact — so our sense of time is a bit warped. We did put our…
There was a time long, long ago when the world didn’t have a magical cloud that stores every file they own. Data had to be stored on hard drives or something called a floppy disk, a form of hard copy storage in which small plastic discs, covered in magnetic material…
Madison Mask is an artist but doesn’t have a formal background in art. He went to school for business and works in marketing, where he gained familiarity with in-person experiences: trade shows, conferences and experiential marketing design. This backlog of experience inspired Mask to create Frosty Rainbow, an interactive art…
Wednesday, April 14 Dynasty: The Peculiar Search for TotalityThis multimedia exhibition offers photography, poetry and history to tell the story of an African family’s journey to freedom. The stories of seven women will be conveyed, and amplified, through augmented reality. The event starts at 12 p.m. at the African American Museum of…
The Sonoran Desert stretches a little more than 100,000 square miles across the hardscrabble terrain of California, Arizona and northwestern Mexico. It’s what’s known as a “hot desert” — defined as one of the hottest, largest deserts in North America. Curiously, it’s also known as “the wettest desert on earth”…
After months of speculation, Matthew McConaughey revealed last month that a run for the Texas governorship was something he was “giving consideration.” This wouldn’t be the first time the Academy Award-winning actor has hinted at political aspirations, but his recent comments inspired an onslaught of that routine response many performers…
About six years ago, Chris Tock attended an anime event dressed as an assassin in a get-up that he made himself. This was just the beginning of an extreme side hustle. “I started sewing because I wanted to cosplay,” he says. “I didn’t want to stop after my first convention.”…
One of the grandest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain can be found in Dallas, in the halls of Southern Methodist University. Building on the Boulevard: Celebrating 20 Years of the Meadows’s New Home and the companion exhibition Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections are on display…
The term “fashion statement” can be entirely overused, but not in the case of Myah Hasbany, whose wearable knitted art softly screams for attention. Her most recent works are showstopping displays of human creativity, consisting of amorphous lumps of wool that transform the wearer into strikingly surreal characters in a fashion…
Wednesday, April 7 Love & Kindness in the Time of Quarantine Theatre Three, one Dallas’ oldest theaters, is hosting a unique online set that’s curated by actress and playwright Regina Taylor, who’s best known for her roles in Jordan Peele’s Lovecraft Country, David Mamet’s The Unit and the ’90s series I’ll…
Professional wrestling has long had an audience in Texas, most particularly in Dallas. The home of World Class Championship Wrestling and the Dallas Sportatorium, which began hosting wrestling matches in the 1970s, Dallas is the lucky city that first watched legends such as The Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Austin…
Years before the hashtag #StopAsianHate was created to bring awareness to the rise in violence against Asian Americans, Rosaura Cruz was already looking for ways to partner with Asians in the Dallas community and around the globe. In 2019, Cruz developed a fashion show, Discover Runway Dreams, with Mopai-China Dreams,…
The lesson was brutal. For the simple crime of flirting, a young girl was forced to stand all night long in a kiddie pool brimming with ice water. If she staggered or appeared on the verge of passing out, the boarding school’s program director would douse her with even more…
Are movie theaters back? Well, maybe. The pandemic may have given Dallas audiences more time than ever to sit around and rewatch their favorite movies at home, but it’s no secret that everyone’s been itching to get back to the theater for a big-screen experience. With a wider rollout of…
During the pandemic, street artists like Eric Mancini lost more than the ability to go out and turn neighborhoods into a canvas. The Denton graffiti and portrait artist, who now lives in Denver, has put his trademark squiggle figure portraits and satirical art pieces all over North Texas. His work…
The COVID-19 outbreak erupted into more than one type of pandemic, as violence against Asian Americans rose and the coronavirus became an excuse for open racism and xenophobia. Now, businesses, colleges and organizations in Dallas are starting to pay attention. Following a slew of nationwide acts of violence against Asian Americans,…
Normally, you should be able to maintain a safe distance from others while still enjoying the space to explore art — unless you’re at the Louvre, of course, gawking at the “Mona Lisa.” Lately, it seems many people’s concept of distance and space is as thwarted as a cubist painting,…
Dallas insurrectionist Garret Miller was at the Capitol crashing on Jan. 6, and all he got was a lousy T-shirt. And an arrest warrant. Miller is being held at an Oklahoma City prison after leaving a trail of evidence incriminating him in the January storming of the Capitol on social media,…
