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Floundering For an Identity
By Will Arbery
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 8 June 2009
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Theater Review
Theatre Britain’s revival of Vincent River is a powerful piece of sometimes chilling theater, a worthy follow-up to the play’s success at last year’s Out-of-the-Loop festival. Too bad too few people were there to witness it.

Theatrical Jihad
By Will Arbery
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 1 June 2009
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THEATER REVIEW
Cheap laughs, forced ridiculousness sabotage Yussef El Guindi’s Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, the winner of Kitchen Dog Theater’s annual New Works Festival

Out of Step
By Will Arbery
Posted in Art, Film, Reviews on 21 May 2009
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The documentary Every Little Step is a film about an audition for a play about an audition. But while the set-up seems ripe for delving into the relationship between actors and their craft, this film barely gets under the mask.

MEDIA AND DISCUSSION

Snap Life

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This photo was submitted by Guy Reynolds for the Renegade Bus’ flickr project. To view the project click here.

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Zen Blockbuster

Michael O'Brien

Film Review
John Woo’s new epic, Red Cliff, may lack heart, but it succeeds as a thrilling war film.

A Poetic White Noise

Theater Review
Port Twilight or the History of Science makes its world premiere at the Undermain Theatre through December 12.

Feminism Minced: Slasher at Kitchen Dog

Theater Review
If you are going for a popcorn thriller, it’s easier to achieve mindless if you keep it meaningless. But this isn’t what Allison Moore does in Slasher, making its Southwest premier at the Kitchen Dog Theater.

A Conversation With Mark Nerenhausen

On leaving the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after ten years and coming to Dallas.

“A vision for what culture means to a community.”

On the theater-building urge and the identity of place.

CULTURE CHATTER

Bullets Big In Sweden

If you listen to the much-welcomed, often pretty darn great Music to the Core station (a slogan which sounds to me like a good name for a nostalgic hour-long radio show for KNON that exclusively plays cuts from D.C’s early-80s scene) you’ve likely now heard Dallas’ favorite Brit-pop outfit, the Happy Bullets, co-headed by Oak Cliff’s resident bicycle / urban planning advocate Jason Roberts. KXT is not the only outlet digging the Bullets as of late. One of the group’s songs, “Good Day,” has been picked up by a Swedish ad campaign. You can watch two ads here and here. Via Jason: the band’s royalties so far consist of wooden shoes and IKEA gift cards. (Got the powder but not the gun / got the dog but not the bun, I guess.) So in related news, the Happy Bullets need a manager.

Art On Babble

Boy, it’s been quiet around here lately. I apologize to our regular readers – some changes are afoot and we will fill you in soon. For now, I couldn’t help but break the silence with this little video on Art Babble about photographer Catherine Opie (some of her work was in the Pretty Baby exhibition at the Fort Worth Modern a couple of years back, if you remember). Perhaps you know about Art Babble; I’m just learning about it now. It is a project out of the Indianapolis Museum of Art that aggregates video about art from a variety of sources. As IMA head honcho Max Anderson explains here, there is something about the way video can teach about the visual arts that makes it uniquely engaging and enlightening. Think of Art Babble as a mini-Art 21. Enjoy.

Music Rising

A couple of days ago we mentioned our silent urban spaces. Now comes this via Gorilla vs. Bear: Phoenix’s poetry in the public square. Enjoy.

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