As the calendar flips to September, gallerists across the city sweep the cobwebs from the corners of their gallery as they prepare for the return of the visual art season. One of our favorite spaces in the city, The Power Station, presents Ruth Pinne...
Gaudium dance is back this September! "It's just a jump to the left. And then a step to the right. With your hand on your hips. You bring your knees in tight. But it's the pelvic thrust. That really drives you insane. Let's do the Time Warp agai...
Dana Schultes and Mark Shum in Beyond Therapy. If therapy has ever been in vogue, it started somewhere after the mid-20th century. When Chrisopher Durang's Beyond Therapy first premiered in New York City in 1981, this idea of therapy was almost tr...
The playwrights of PlayPride Festival When Teresa Coleman-Walsh, founder and artistic director of TeCo Theatrical Productions, received a submission to the company's annual New Play competition entitled Three Guys in a Bed, she immediately wanted...
Drinking and comedy have always gone together like peanut butter, jelly and soft, white bread with the crusts carefully removed. Comedy club drinks, however, aren't the tastiest or most reasonably priced concoctions. It's part and parcel for the busi...
Being an artist can be a tough gig, especially if your heart is set on living indoors and enjoying the occasional meal. Naturally most artists find themselves working more than a few odd jobs to keep the lights on. So when California native Gary Swee...
Come November, Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District will be welcoming its newest member, the EXHIBIT3 Art Gallery. The grand opening on November 2 will present art centered on Day of the Dead themes to coincide with the neighborhood's celebrations. The ...
Good news: In the future, caftans make a comeback and toilet technology will be amazing. Bad news: Your house will know where you are and what you're thinking at all times, the water will taste terrible and it will be too hot to ever go outside. ...
When Kelsey Leigh Ervi graduated from Baylor University, moving to Dallas would've been an obvious choice. Quite a few alumni of the theater department land in Dallas, fine tune their mechanics and fly away to a bigger city. And local theaters are ha...
Even scarves don't want you to wear scarves right now. Recently, I asked a scarf if it had a moment to sit with me and talk about why it's in Dallas so much this time of year. The scarf was gracious enough to oblige. Here is our interview: Hey, ...
The first time I met Kenny Goss, he wanted to show me his art collection. We were meeting for an article about the annual fundraiser, MTV:ReDefine, but first, would I like to see his Damien Hirst? While famously associated with the pop singer Georg...
"While most major cities have chamber orchestras, Dallas did not," says McKay. "So in 2011, we started DCS, and by 2012, we were in full operation. Then with the opening of the new Dallas City Performance Hall, we had an opportunity not only to fill ...
You can also catch a free docent-led tour throughout the week-long party; visit mydso.com for the full schedule and more information. ...
In much of Casey Gray's art, there's a humorous tension between message and medium. Imagine if the 17th century Flemish painters had worked in spray paint. Conversely, picture Peter Paul Rubens on a skateboard. See? Funny. This was the crux of much o...
Scream Your Way Through the Weekend Six by Hitch Lonestar Film Society pays tribute to one of film's master directors all weekend by screening six of his best films at The Modern in Fort Worth. Starting Thursday with a screening of one of Alfred ...
An artist's rendering of the new Alamo Drafthouse location in Las Colinas' Music Factory complex Dallas/Fort Worth is getting a third Alamo Drafthouse movie theater to fulfill the needs of the Metroplex's more hardcore and addicted cinephiles. ...
Part of 40-photo essay about all the possible ways this hat may be worn, which showed at Conduit Gallery for TepeQuetzalandia in 2013 Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an...
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Rep II "The Dallas DanceFest is very timely. Dance is surging forward...and it's exciting because there are more emerging dance companies than ever before," says Gayle Halperin, ...
A scene from Spanish Lake, a new documentary about race in a suburb near Ferguson, Missouri. During a recent evening rush-hour, KERA was serving commuters one of its usual panels of NPR experts talking about the news, in this case the death of Mic...
The wonderfully weird cast of Rocky Horror Show. Dan Domenech wears jeans and a casual blue hooded sweater as he sips a root beer. Standing over 6 feet tall, it's easier to imagine him dribbling a basketball than wearing fishnets and eyeliner. Hi...