Put your bidding hat on. Art Conspiracy, the coolest art party in Dallas, started a decade ago as a way to raise money for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The brainchild of two Dallas culture-philes, Jason Roberts and Sarah Jane Semrad, th...
By Amy McCarthy & Jaime-Paul Falcon It's hard out there for the single people in Dallas to find a worthy date. After you've exhausted the pool at OkCupid, done a few speed dating events, and struck out at every bar in Dallas, the handheld meat-market...
The Dallas World Trade Center, unfortunately. We're on an architectural hunt to find the fugliest building in Dallas. The first contender was the AT&T building in East Dallas. I get stuck in Dallas traffic a lot. It could be typical 8 a.m. rush...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. The art of Jeff Gibbons defies definition. His work is anything but straightforward, often subduing any obvious meaning in its layers o...
Wrestling or flying? By Chris McDonald The 2014 version of Fun Fun Fun Fest had Neutral Milk Hotel, Judas Priest, and its beloved taco cannon. And tucked away, there also was spandex, body slams, and a 300 pound man doing a backflip off the top ...
Even though there's football on every day of the week, you should probably peel yourself away from the TV and get a little culture now and then. Unfortunately, tickets to the theatre and opera can be prohibitively expensive. That is, of course, unles...
For fans of the overwhelmingly funny, sometimes depressing, always deranged stick figure world of Cyanide & Happiness, this is the moment we've all been waiting for -- the world premiere of its new show. This first season will feature 11 weekly episo...
The NSFW ode used a teen pop sound to celebrate one of the greatest sci-fi writers (he always called himself a "fantasy" writer) of all time. Thanks to some unique timing to Bradbury's birthday and Bloom's powerful singing and comedic voice, it racke...
The Museum of Geometric and MADI Art began 12 years ago when Bill and Dorothy Masterson were first in us explain: The movement encompasses all branches of art (the plastic and pictorial arts, music, literature, theater, architecture, and dance) and p...
When we think about the "LGBT" community, most of us tend to focus on the "L" or the "G." Nell Gaither, executive director of Dallas' Trans Pride Initiative, has been exclusively focusing on what is likely the most underserved population in the LGBT ...
and a series of stunning stunt movies is currently on a live North American tour and they will make a stop at Toyota Stadium in Frisco on Saturday, May 23, 2015. The collective of high-flying freaks is led by Travis Pastrama, the X-Games gold medal...
Karen Parrish, Max Hartman, Jenny Ledel in The Arsonists. When Kitchen Dog Theater mounts a new play, you put on your theater loafers and show up. This weekend, the well-oiled comedy machine mounts a new translation of Swiss playwright Max Frisc...
It's a shame because it wasn't that long ago when VHS tapes were still around and even the most horrid productions gave us hours of awkward, hilarious entertainment. Thankfully, the folks behind The Found Footage Festival are out there collecting the...
Bartok's Bluebeard and his fatefully curious wife. In a month marked by pioneering modernism, concert standards take a backseat to rarely performed masterpieces by the likes of Charles Ives, Gyorgy Ligeti and Bela Bartok (yes, more Bartok, agai...
Christopher Nolan's space epic Interstellar is a big, ambitious picture but it didn't connect with our critics. We discuss the film at the top of this week's podcast before moving onto a few other notable films on screens large and small thi...
#AlexfromTarget will appear on the Ellen Show at 3 p.m. Wednesday, and host Ellen DeGeneres gets to the bottom of the entire viral thing. That's an exaggeration because really the only thing we learn from the segment is that he does in fact work at...
Left Hand First In daily life, pretty is quite the compliment. Sure, it may rank lower than beautiful or stunning. But every good flatterer knows the power of telling a woman she's pretty. In art, pretty is perjorative. You want to insult a serious p...
Randy Guthmiller started a zine to make friends. When he moved back to Dallas after college, he would attend gallery openings and leave without talking to anyone. He needed a conversation starter, an entry point to access the sometimes-insular art sc...
But that isn't really true, at least not in Dallas. Sure, there are special exhibitions and traveling pieces that require you to plunk down a little coin to view, but much of the city's art is accessible entirely for free, meaning that you have no ex...
This past weekend, the fall season of dance in Dallas started off with two very different shows from two very different companies. In the Arts District, Dallas Black Dance Theatre opened its 2014-15 season with The Director's Choice series; in Deep E...