Jane the Virgin is this fall's most charming new show. BY INKOO KANG There's more television today than at any other point in the medium's history, but there's a good chance you're stuck in a TiVo rut. That's because, with a handful of exception...
This is the old space; the new space is about twice as large. Last night, the popular, beloved even, storytelling series Oral Fixation presented another round-up of true life tales. It was the third or fourth time I attended -- this time to see m...
"I've got a great ambition to die from exhaustion rather than boredom" -- Thomas Carlyle What our Scottish philosopher friend is trying to say is that instead of being bored you need to be out there making the most of life instead of being that pers...
SMU's Meadows School of the Arts dance program is known for putting on really good shows. The college's dance program not only teaches its students form and choreography, it also brings in celebrated guest artists, whose work challenges both the stud...
Yeah, we don't get it either. Teenaged girls are a peculiar species. And Twitter is an even weirder place. Put those two together and you have today's No. 1 trending topic that is #alexfromtarget. Yes, a young girl tweeted a picture of a long-ha...
Many years ago something happened that made me question the nature of music, and ultimately all "art" for that matter. I was at a friend's house playing a record (Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music), when his mom complained about the noise. She asked, "w...
Denton, Color Us Impressed. Halloween comes once a year, and there's a lot to see. We dispatched photographers all over Dallas to capture some of the best. From Deep Ellum to Denton and Uptown to Slipknot, here are some of the best costumes from ...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Chad Houser loves his job. The former co-chef-owner at Parigi in Oak Lawn is living his dream, and giving the same opportunity to disadvantaged ...
Maybe you read about the sand show in the Trinity Groves warehouse and thought to yourself, I wonder what they're going to do with all that sand? Build a private beach? Donate it to the local sand volleyball league? At this point, all the theater com...
Deborah Voigt is fabulous. She's one of those once-in-a-lifetime performers on an imagined performing arts bucket list. Like Alan Cumming in Cabaret, or Joshua Bell on violin (who will be at the Winspear next week, coincidentally). And if you're goin...
This is a pic of Chris & Tina at Halloween a few years ago... they don't always look like this... Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Christopher Carlos and Tina Parker often s...
I have a confession. I didn't grow up listening to the radio. I imagined I was like most young people in that way, but over the last couple of weeks, I've learned that's not the case. When I've mentioned plans to attend an evening with Garrison Keill...
Of course, it wasn't with a swinging pocket watch or a spinning spiral. Sometimes, nagging someone enough is its own form of hypnotism. Orley, a comic hypnotist from Lafayette, La. who has become a regular fixture at the Addison Improv, dabbed in t...
The second opera of the season, Salome, opens Thursday. Salome Look, there's a lot of sex in the Bible. Chances are, you didn't talk about any of it in Sunday school. Salome, for example, the seductress who set her sights on the unattainable Joh...
Mixmaster contributor Danny Gallagher shows no fear at the Zombie Safari ... until the bus starts actually moving and the zombies show up. Every fanboy who open carries a Star Trek phaser or a replica of Ashley Williams' stump mounted chainsaw ho...
Draftsmen of the Apocalypse CentralTrak opens a group exhibition that explores violence and "mankind's eventual doom." All the artists in this exhibition use their work to pinpoint or illuminate aspects of violence in either history or the present d...
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On this week's Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes). We also scoop out some time for John Wick, which helps restore our faith in...
John Pomara exhibited artwork before the Internet. With degrees in studio art, and exhibitions on his resume dating back to the 80's, it was more than a decade into his practice before he took an interest in technology. Now, he brings a painterly eye...
Most of us would much rather buy something than make it, especially if it's hand-made by a much more creative and talented person. Fortunately, the rise of Etsy and the DIY trend has made it much easier to find unique goods crafted by individual arti...