We explored James Cope’s love life last week in our Q&A for Art&Seek…now we will explore his newest project. The Goss-Michael curator gathered four local notable art visionaries for his latest show, Blueprint. The group exhibit, opening tomorrow at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, The MAC, will feature works from artists Brian Fridge, Amy Revier, Edward Setina and [...]

Longview, Texas will soon get its moment to shine on stage. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright (who wrote the book for the Grey Gardens musical and hails from Dallas) has teamed up with lyricist Amanda Green (High Fidelity) to adapt Hands on a Hard Body into a musical.

The 1997 cult doc follows residents of Longview as they compete for [...]

If you picked up a copy of this month’s Dallas Morning News style mag FD Luxe, then you’ve probably spotted Art&Seek follower Willard Spiegelman in its annual HOT issue on page 21 as the “hot” senior scholar (artist and recent SMU grad Amy Revier is featured as hot junior scholar).
Jerome spotlighted the SMU professor on [...]

What I learned from the handful of films I’ve been watching at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas the last few days:
1) Drag was okay, back in the day…at least in Peking opera. Chen Kaige’s riveting autobiographical film about Mei Lanfang, Forever Enthralled, follows China’s top performing opera singer as he rose to international fame in the [...]

If you’ve been following the blog lately, then you’ve probably guessed that I am obsessed with A Chorus Line. The hit mega musical just left the Music Hall yesterday after two weeks in town. I saw it. Chatted with the lead in the tour, Robyn Hurder and also interviewed Baayork Lee, one of the original cast members [...]

There’s only a handful of performances left of A Chorus Line, presented by Dallas Summer Musicals at Fair Park. The ’singular sensation’ leaves town after Sunday’s final 2:00 pm matinee show and heads off to Tokyo. We caught up with original cast member and the revival choreographer for the show, Baayork Lee, who made a quickie stop at the [...]

Full disclosure: Patrick Short makes really strong drinks. The outspoken twenty-three year old bartender at TMC on Cedar Springs has more up his artistic sleeves than concocting shots – he’s also an accomplished artist. Armed with an arts degree from Boston University, he came back home to Dallas after living in Boston and New York to [...]

Artist Paul Slocum is shutting down And/Or Gallery and headed to New York. Betsy got the scoop a while back.
He’s making a final push to sell the remainder of the gallery’s inventory.
Click here to see what’s up for grabs.
My favorite? If you squint hard enough, you can see that’s Corey Haim.  License to Blink, 2009, Chad [...]

A Chorus Line  kicked off at the Music Hall last night in Fair Park to a pretty packed house. The mega hit musical, focusing on dancers auditioning for a show, is in town for a while. Next stop for the group? TOKYO!
After the show, cast members, donors and press attended the cast party hosted by the Dallas [...]

Just received a press release from designers Andrew Bayer and Doug Voisin of House of Dang announcing their move to Oak Cliff. They’re shuttering their retail shop on Bryan Street to focus exclusively on their 4-year old label.
“We’re excited about the next step in growing our business and continuing to design House of Dang,” says Bayer. “The [...]