memorable as the first time Funny or Die brought a comedy showcase to our town. That's not to say it wasn't good. For a lot of comedy nerds in attendance, it will be one of the best and most formative live comedy experiences of their lifetime. It was...
It's one of those lovely projects like Humans of New York that reminds us how alike we all are. Take a few minutes of your Monday morning to watch this charming little ditty. It was brought to our attention by the folks at local zine, THWRD....
Shannon Driscoll & Kayli House Cusick are the chic chicks that run Oil & Cotton. Kayli House Cusick met Shannon Driscoll at a volunteer meeting for the very first Better Block Street Festival in Oak Cliff. They immediately clicked. And for that ...
When a play and the performances in it are as stirring as Jubilee Theatre's The Brothers Size, it's hard to find the right descriptives to do it justice. "Compelling" is too overused by critics. "Awesome," too trite. Just know that the words of p...
Hardly matters anymore if a musical is a hit or a flop on Broadway. Big regional companies like Addison's WaterTower Theatre are so starved for new shows they'll grab rights to anything that played a week or two in New York, as long as there are rol...
Theater companies and arts critics around Dallas have declared recent SMU drama grad Jeffrey Colangelo a budding genius as a playwright, director and fight choreographer. He's certainly a genius at one thing: convincing people he's brilliant with sh...
Last year's first WhoFest broke that one rule and somehow managed to be successful. But this year should be even better because the organizers announced this week that one of the Doctors will materialize at their next convention in April of 2015. O...
At the helm of the self-described Pirates of Dallas theater is Thomas Riccio. A theater professor and scholar, whose studies have taken him all over the world, Riccio's primary interest is in the ideas of ritual and the immersive narrative that is ev...
It's no secret that QueerBomb Dallas has been highly critical of the Alan Ross Freedom Parade that is set to kick off this Sunday afternoon. Earlier this year, QueerBomb hosted their own alternative pride parade that was free of corporate sponsorship...
Neeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones. Special guest Inkoo Kang, film critic at TheWrap and news editor at Indiewire's Women and Hollywood blog, joins Alan Scherstuhl of the Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of the LAWeekly to discuss a variety of t...
You think your family is messed up? Thinner than Water The basis of a good family drama is the unified hatred of the patriarch. Well, hatred might be a strong word. Indifference? If there's one thing most of America can agree upon, it's that our...
Sorry Mr. Valet, but our protest starts at the very bottom of The Man's parking structure. You can't go out in Dallas without the threat of valets. Somehow, in one of the most sprawling cities in America, we've managed to mess up parking to the ...
Portland has Powell's. Dallas has ... not much. In downtown Portland, Powell's Books stretches the length of a city block. Inside, hundreds of wooden bookshelves stuffed to the brim with everything from classic literature to engineering manuals ke...
In early 2013, news broke that New Mexico high schools were banning Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. But this was not the only book on the list. Titles like Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter, and a Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary - because it defines o...
On Monday afternoon, a room full of local journalists did just that when we got the chance to interview the former teen star about his visit to Dallas. That morning, he was the keynote speaker for PepsiCo's Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff event, sayi...
Things will be crazy-go-nuts. This news should strike fear in the fried hearts of many: American Idol will hold auditions for the new season at our great State Fair of Texas on September 26th and 27th-- the first two days of the fair. There is ...
By Monica Hinman I have a friend who has cornered the market on stories. Stuff just happens to her. When we get together, I can count on being regaled with all the details from her latest adventure. She finds a briefcase lying in the stre...
This weekend, the gallery scene expanded in two divergent directions with the opening of both Erin Cluley Gallery and Cydonia. Over the big, white bridge Erin Cluley Gallery became the first commercial art space in Trinity Groves - although not in...
On Friday, The Safe Room at the Texas Theatre will celebrate the opening of a short film entitled Two Story, and also the reunion of the childhood friends who co-directed it. Frank Mosley had grown accustomed to directing solo, when he reconnected wi...
By Sarah Wyatt Aziz Ansari is a man built for an arena act, a master of crowd control. The night's opening act was a Michael Jackson impersonator with his own backing applause soundtrack. It seemed fitting with the ego and presence that Ansari puts...