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Getting Back to the Basics
The North Texas Comic Book Show prides itself on being an OG comic-con.
In the past decade or so, fan conventions have grown into a...
Multidisciplinary Storytelling
A key feature of Diane Durant’s creative process caught my attention as I stepped into her Monticello abode and work studio. In lieu of...
Taste Test
A couple of school chums and I gathered at Lola’s Trailer Park recently to hash over old times, and I told them I was...
Stairway to Heaven
Early-’80s Madonna throws off a smoldering, over-the-shoulder look filled with youthful defiance. Debbie Harry tosses her Marilyn Monroe mane of bleached blonde hair back...
When a Cart in a Tree Is Art
I don’t have the academic equipment to articulate what makes art art, but I can mostly get behind the notion that art is whatever...
Gone Too Soon
It’s hard to keep a tally of how many basic artistic constructs and motifs are tweaked or altogether upended in Disappearing –– California c....
Free Play
Every summer, it seems like only two lists of free – or incredibly cheap – summer activity ideas are printed: The PG family-friendly one...
Walls and Boards
From stand-up comedy to vintage Neil Simon, from revivals of classics to a bevy of world premieres, this summer’s theater stages will come to...
Timeless Tales
This year’s Fort Worth Opera Festival concluded with a Mexican-themed work, fulfilling a pledge by former FWO general director Darren Woods to include Spanish-language...
A Cosplayer’s Origin Story
I got into cosplay, which is the act of dressing up as characters from one’s favorite fandoms, because I’ve always been afflicted with tremendous...
