It's also a sport of trends. The staples of the sport have been passed down from generation to generation dating back to one pioneering warrior who dared to pull off the first suplex or sneak a folding chair into the ring behind the ref's back. The t...
The Dallas VideoFest announced that the star of Saturday Night Live, This is Spinal Tap and The Simpsons will receive this year's Ernie Kovacs Award, a special recognition that honors "the career and talents of some of television's greatest visionari...
It's an atypical design exhibition, as its neither a retrospective (at just 44, Heatherwick has projects planned for years to come) and it doesn't come bearing the signature of the architect. There are no sketches leading to models, culminating in bu...
Don't you want to lick it? I'm not for dessert after dinner. Honestly, I'm not much for sugar. I don't put it in my coffee; I don't crave pumpkin pie in the fall; and icing gives me a headache. But when it comes to art, my personal taste would m...
By Justin Hunt On Sunday, 500X Gallery concluded its first show of the season, Ripe Produce: 500X Members Exhibition. An annual tradition of displaying member works, this year's show introduced twelve new members into the sixteen-person collective. ...
The walls of the Dallas Contemporary's main gallery wear unfamiliarly dark shades of black and maroon. When it's empty, the space seems more reverent, more immersive. All you hear is the click of your heel meeting the floor, and all you see are the r...
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...