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These Dallas hip-hop DJs have only seen one fight break out at their sets, and it was not due to turn-up or trap music. A Deep Ellum club owner is trying to ban the ambiguous genres on cause of safety. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

The EP @bosquebrown quietly released late last month bears Maris’ name. LITTLE SEA, Mara Lee Miller calls her daughter, the third in a line of variations on the Latin word for “sea.” Listen to the Fort Worth songwriter's latest: dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

"No deed is too immoral for the two allies, once lovers, who would rather kill or die than fail to earn their dangerous reputations," writes @kate_peebles_ of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' on now at Theatre Three. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Bonus track: this long and real conversation with WAYNE'S WORLD director Penelope Spheeris, who appears in HALF THE PICTURE and IRL Saturday at the festival. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

And finally, listen to some Dallas filmmaking history, and look back at how Oak Cliff has changed through the lens of the Texas Theatre, with its adoptive parents @jasonmreimer and @Barak_Epstein on Earburner. dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…

Are you going to Oak Cliff Film Festival @filmoakcliff this weekend? We have quite a few backstories and guides for you. Commence thread.

Tonight The Get Up Kids play Dallas. They'll be met with fans nostalgic for emo, which is a sort of nostalgia itself -- a genre that Chelsey Norris, who works with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra by day, loves enough to have emphatically pitched this story. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Penelope Spheeris ran the first production company in LA to specialize in music videos, took her daughter to Black Flag shows while she documented the city's punk scene, and directed WAYNE'S WORLD. She's in Dallas this weekend for #OCFF2018 @filmoakcliff dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

The music most helpful in coping with loss or shouldering fear could share a common quality: raw honesty. @JezyGray and Francis Quinlan of @HopAlongtheband sort it out in this great interview. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Good morning! The Oak Cliff Film Festival begins Thursday, with a lineup this year to top the six before it. Check this guide and get tickets before they're gone. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

A select Dallas audience saw Boots Riley's SORRY TO BOTHER YOU before its release. Erykah Badu was among them. "I don’t think I’ve ever seen some shit like that. And I think I’ve seen a lot of different kinds of shit," she said after the screening. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Kanye West and the Louis Vuitton fashion house have benefitted from Takashi Murakami's immersive color-mind. Read about the Superflat founder's latest spectacle, now on view at The Modern in Fort Worth. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

iQ Haus, a 6,000 square-foot event space in the Design District, is painted white floor-to-ceiling between installations, envisioned as a blank canvas that can accommodate anything. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

Dallas artists Sudie and Teddy Georgia Waggy are working together. Peek into the new desert residency where it all began. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra named its next music director. Fabio Luisi rose to fame as the well-loved understudy for an often absent James Levine, the disgraced maestro who spent more than 40 years at the Met's helm. dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…

What does care work— the kind of labor done by teachers, nurses, flight attendants, social workers and parents— look like as art? dmagazine.com/arts-entertain…