T.N.B. preview from Thomas Riccio on Vimeo.

Hellbent on keeping it left-of-center, Dead White Zombies leaked this teaser video for its new show T.N.B., which opens for previews at the end of the month. Housed in a former drug den and billed as a "healing in the hood," the intimate performance is limited to 20 people per show.

Now, let's guess what the hell is going down in this extremely bizarre, abstract hype video.

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(Clay and Lannette Stinnett's commode.)

Saturday's Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Tour was proof that decorative inspiration doesn't end with throw pillows. Not for 'Bump artists, anyway. Each home was such a vivid representation of its owner's aesthetic that their little touches and personal styles carried all the way to their respective thrones.

Over the course of the night we visited six different artists' homes, one gallery and one open studio, and we asked to use each of their restrooms. Here's my favorite commode decor from a day of Oak Cliff art-hopping.

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Photos by Amanda Potter

When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive.

It was a humid evening at this month's 'til Midnight at the Nasher, but that didn't stop the crowd from enjoying Air Review's ethereal tunes or the outdoor screening of Life of Pi. Check out some of the most interesting looks from the night.

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Not only are we, like we're sure you are, genuinely excited about the return of Arrested Development on May 26, we also have absolutely no idea what will happen. The family, those blowhards, could be scattered around the globe, and indeed initial reports suggested that there wouldn't be a massive amount of family interaction.

So after extensive playtesting that saw us receive treatment for alcohol poisoning on not one but five separate occasions, we present to you the result of being forced to watch Arrested Development and drink alcohol for our jobs.

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Photos by Javier Veldez

Do-gooders and art promoters ArtLoveMagic held their annual art party in the basement of South Side on Lamar over the weekend. The heat and an overkill of art-centric activities conspired to kept the crowd modest, and maybe that's also why the attendees, their plastic cups of wine sloshing, were slow to plunk down cash for the available art.

But "Underground," as the party's known, has other, more perennial issues.

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If you see two birds who look like this, it's probably them.

*** Update: Park officials recieved a call just after noon from a family in the East Dallas neighborhood of Little Forest Hills. Two parrots were perched in a tree in the back yard. Bird handlers were immediately sent out and have confirmed that these are the missing 13-year old macaws, Curly and Joe. They're being reunited with their fellow co-workers.

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Summer Adventures in Fair Park, the new seasonal State Fair offshoot, would like to know if you've seen any unusual parrot activity in the last 22 hours.

Yesterday's 20 mph wind gusts caused an unpredicted scene as two macaws were lifted away, mid-performance, during the one o'clock afternoon edition of Wings of Wonder. They are still at large.

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Audra Schroeder

A young lady as Maka Albarn, from the Japanese series Soul Eater

The first time I heard the alert for a lost child in the main convention hall, I was reminded how much Irving Convention Center feels like a suburban mall. From the outside, it looks sort of like an unfinished Rubik's Cube. Being in that space for my first Dallas Comic Con on Saturday afternoon was much like being in a very crowded mall, where nearly everyone is costumed. This might seem like a nightmare scenario to some, but others thrive on its essence. And there is a lot of essence.

There were some crowd-flow issues. Early in the afternoon, one escalator let off too many people, who collided with a line of people waiting to get into a talk on the second floor. There was a sudden comedic pile up of bodies, a pen-and-ink whir of arms and legs, and then a very real pang of fear that I might be trampled to death at Comic Con. The man behind me yelled, "It happened again!"

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All Photos by Ed Steele

Dallas Comic-Con is a magical place where Wookiees high-five Cylons while William Shatner lurks behind potted plants. It is a true nerd oasis, and that's precisely why we love it. Photographer Ed Steele set up camp at the Irving Convention Center to capture the most innovative, weird and flat-out cool costumes of the weekend. We sifted through the geekly treasures and selected our ten favorites.

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Who's on first: Artist (left) and analyst at CentralTrak

Last Saturday night, I swept my eyes from left to right, then back again, over photographer Denise Prince's four pieces at CentralTrak as if I was flipping through pages in a magazine. On another wall, there was a bigger neon display, its bold blues and pinks distracting you from the bigger picture: In one corner, there is an impossibly polished model, and in the other, you are looking at a dead woman.

Over the last few years, Prince, who grew up in Dallas, has been recreating images from a 2009 Missoni ad campaign, called Replication and Breakdown of the Missoni Estate Line Catalog. She assigned the model roles to women and men who'd experienced physical trauma or deformity. In the above case, she photographed a recently deceased woman in India and juxtaposed her with the ad's original model.

The pieces were part of CentralTrak's current That Mortal Coil exhibit, which focuses on more radical depictions of the body and contemporary beauty and fashion. Her models were there among Ari Richter's heavily contested "Wolf Dong," R.E. Cox's architecturally precarious prosthetic leg sculptures, and Nina Schwanse's "Squirting" video series. It was a lot to take in.

Which is why I was so excited to know Prince's work would be psychoanalyzed by Dr. Charles Merward, her L.A.-based shrink, at CentralTrak a few days later, during a talk called "Not on Speaking Terms."

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There was nary a nose ring in site at last night's A Way With Words event at Lakewood Theater. The grammar geeks filed in cheerfully, dressed in springtime pastels and pausing just long enough to order Malbec doubles at the bar.

Yes! A Way With Words Comes to Dallas was the hyper-liberal's version of a gawdamn rock show, and someone there probably had a Hemingway tattoo. Now, let's crowd surf through the night's highlights.

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NPR celebs Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett did some awkwardly bookish dancing to Cameo's "Word Up." Which was more painful to watch than the original video, featuring lead singer Larry Ernest Blackmon in a red leather codpiece.

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