How to Revive Dallas’ Arts Scene“Writing and all that is great. But performing, that’s where all the feeling and everything comes into play.”
Hugh Boyle Has a Thing for Restoring GuitarsIf Dallas had funded the arts through a hotel tax, it is likely the city wouldn’t be facing millions in deferred maintenance.
How a Female Sportswriter Went From Covering to Coaching Football“We have a company of 600 people at TracyLocke, and there is a lot of pressure that goes along with that,” Boyle says. “Some people go home and chop vegetables.”
The Builder of Glass CitiesWith simple prose, Lewis creates a throwback heroine, dressed in white gloves and a pearl choker, who isn’t afraid to kick off her pumps to run down the field in her stockinged feet.
The Builder of Glass CitiesThe very contradictions and conflict that define the architect’s character have somehow also come to define American cities of the 20th century, especially Dallas.
The Builder of Glass CitiesHe was a modernism evangelist who preached new ways of building and new ways of thinking about architecture and cities.
Author Lance Scott Walker Talks Houston Rap Tapes Ahead of Deep Vellum VisitThere is plenty of architecture in Dallas that does a disservice to the city, and a number of those works were designed by Johnson.
Irving-Based Hollman Inc. Makes the World’s Most Instagrammed LockerWe know the devastating effects of crack cocaine are what produced the conditions that gave us gangster rap as a poetry of the darkness of the crack epidemic.
What Is the Preachy Nasher Prize Trying To Say?“Dallas is a really easy place to do business,” Hollman says. “Success is celebrated here.”
The Old 97’s Celebrate 25 YearsThe Nasher Prize is set up not only to offer validation to the artists it honors, but to weigh in on the very definition of contemporary sculpture.
Augustine Frizzell’s Surefire Way to Make Funny MoviesThe band was called “alt-country” then, but it was more like country-adjacentrock and roll.
Augustine Frizzell’s Surefire Way to Make Funny Movies“After I’d told it so many times, I finally decided to write it down. And when I started writing it, I realized how much I had to say.”
Why Bobby Haas Built a Big Bike Collection“You just keep writing and then people will keep helping and then eventually you can find money and, you know, it just keeps on going.”
More Proof That the Jurassic World Franchise Desperately Needs to Be Stomped Out“I haven’t ridden any bike in here. To me, these are artistic pieces. I wouldn’t use a painting to cut a sandwich on.”
Fallen Kingdom is driven by contrivances from the get-go, and relies on a continuous lack of common sense from characters who are supposed to be scientists and intellectuals.