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This Thursday, Elm Street Bar will be home to native Dallas fashion designers Becca Jett and Rosemary Susat and stylists Mayra Ruiz and Toni Martin. Martin and Ruiz, 21, who owns Rag Parlor in Deep Ellum have put together a retro collection of looks ...
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"Orchestras across America are having to find different ways to adapt the delivery of their core product, which is live symphonic classical music," says Jonathan Martin. "The traditional concert experience hasn't experienced any fundamental changes i...
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The view from the Bath House Cultural Center.
Public art in Dallas is a complicated world. In front of City Hall, we have a Henry Moore sculpture; then, this year, the city offered 50 measly dollars for artists to yarn bomb parking meters. Like a...
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The view from the future Cedars Union.
There's an energy percolating in downtown Dallas. Well, not downtown, exactly. South. In a neighborhood known as The Cedars. On the heels of the Alamo Drafthouse announcing it will make its first Dallas home...
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Artist Stephen Lapthisophon has made his mark on Dallas in more ways than one. Born in Houston, he attended undergraduate at UT Austin and went on to get his MFA in Chicago, where he also studied comparative literature at Northwestern. In the early 2...
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Set a show like this in Highland Park? Sure, it sounds awful, but you know you'd watch at least one episode.
Vinnie Potestivo of Vinnie Potestivo Entertainment is looking to make a Laguna Beach-type show -- but in our very own Highland Park.
If y...
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For some people, this week kicks off with a holiday celebrating the accidental discovery of Christopher Columbus. In the spirit of exploration, we've compiled a few awesome ways to spend your evenings this week. Monday, October 13
Oral Fixation: Go...
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Deep down, every comic book fan wishes for some kind of superpower that would allow them to dish out world justice or attract men or women with a made-for-spandex body.
Next year, fans will get their chance to act out superhero fantasies with The Ma...
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Saturday night, the Stafford sisters open their final art exhibition on Dragon Street. Aptly titled, Always and Forever, it's a show revolving around memento mori - or objects that warn or remind of death.
But their gallery isn't dying; it's growin...
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Y'all have been taking some mighty pretty shots on your smart phones. We thought we'd share a few of our favorites, like this here photo of the slides from Photofox5000. The only picture I could snap was of Big Tex's bony butt, so thank you for shari...
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In 2012, Avant Chamber Ballet gavotted into Dallas promptly presenting more than a dozen world premiere ballets, as well as two regional premieres. The collaborative efforts of Artistic Director Katie Puder and Music Director David Cooper keeps the o...
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It started with a stink.
After one of Ben Kusin's usual smoke breaks and before an important work meeting, he stopped by a gas station for something to freshen up his clothes.
"He had a conversation with the clerk and he suggested Purell and breath...
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This weekend, the longest-running neo-burlesque troupe in DFW is dancing their way through their twisted, sexified Halloween show, arguably their most anticipated show of the year. The sultry members of the Lollie Bombs present "Ghouls! Ghouls! Ghoul...
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Gallery hopping is not just the pastime of the art collector. It can also be a great way for anyone interested in art to take a peek at what Dallas artists are creating, and gallerists are curating. This weekend, many of the Design District spots hav...
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1) It's Matthew McConaughey in space.
2) Chris Nolan did that little film called The Dark Knight.
3) MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY --> IN SPACE.
The official synopsis goes like this: "A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass...
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"We thought maybe we should go in a Halloween direction," says Brian Satterwhite, a composer and film aficionado who served as a consultant for this year's live silent film orchestral performance for the VideoFest. "So we started looking at suspense ...
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Ilana and Abbi, America's favorite young bitches who've puff-puff-passed slacker comedy to females, announced today on the Broad City Facebook page that they're bringing their jokes to Dallas next month.
They've been promising to bring the live act...
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even this historic theater has to change with the times and that means making the jump to digital distribution.
Such an undertaking can be expensive. All the equipment that's needed to upgrade a theater to the digital age can cost thousands of doll...
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Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly's Amy Nicholson, open this week's podcast with a brief discussion of Twin Peaks, which comes back to TV via a series on Showtime in 2016, and move onto The Judge, starr...
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Another October means movie theaters yet again rolling out the orange carpet for their Halloween themed programming, and since we are the foremost experts of Halloweenocity in the area, we pulled all the best screenings together for you. Weirdly enou...
