Art I’d Buy with my First-Time Homeowner’s Tax Credit

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.

Poetry
Perhaps one day Giuseppe turned left instead of right,
crossed this bridge instead of that,
misread a pharmacopoeia,
bought a glass of wine, did not buy a glass of wine.

Art Review
Ellen Frances Tuchman’s Out of My Mind is not so much insanity as it is savant. Like Raymond in the film, “Rain Man,” Tuchman rapid-fires free associates at the drop of a hackneyed phrase.

Conversation
In part two of his conversation with Renegade Bus’ Peter Simek, AT&T Performing Arts Center CEO Mark Nerenhausen explains how the Arts District transcends its role as a home for great art.

When it comes to the stagnant growth of Dallas’ downtown, the city sweats, residents gripe, and investors point to the lack of foot traffic. But Joan Arbery sees twenty realizable investments that could draw people downtown. (Listed in no particular order.)

Poetry
It’s flat–out impossible to believe there aren’t any good poets in Texas, writes 2005 Texas Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach. Then how come only two poets are featured at this year’s Texas Book Festival? Birkelbach takes a look at the state of the state’s sages. Plus: A poem by Birkelbach.

Art Review
Houstonian Howard Sherman’s bright, chaotic work in a show called Bloodthirsty Animal on Two Legs at Pan American Art Projects is, like the weather outside, ravaging.

A trio of artists, each representing a different country, display works at the UNT Art Gallery that communicate in uncannily similar tones a familiarity with felt loss and the identity of loneliness.

The Ochre House’s Coppertone III: Asylum consists of two sets of loosely-at-best scripted skit, with crammed together whiffs of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Mommy Dearest, and Rocky Horror. The full house opening night audience came prepared to roar with laughter at the lowbrow, kinda lame humor and got a bellyful.