At the Nasher, the party goes on 'til midnight.

The DMA, Nasher and Crow stay open late on Friday night for the annual Dallas Arts District Summer Block Party. We've looked at the evening's itinerary and found exactly one million different things to do -- either with your friends or your family. We've opted to guide you through the night by picking 26 of the best.

Let's do this, from A to Z.

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*Like, when Netflix is all, "Here's 30 new hours of Arrested Development, try being productive now!"

You'd think it would be most people's dream to skip the office, and pants, in favor of working from home. Apparently not so much. The internet, loneliness, creative stagnation and lack of tools are moving more people out of the home and into collective coworking spaces. It's an opportunity to meet new people and access expensive office supplies, and occasionally free beer.

Here's a round-up of Dallas coworking spaces. Think we missed one? Throw it in the comments.

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Cast of Daffodil Girls at Fun House Theatre in Plano.

The birds of a feather flocking together in the Arts District this weekend are members of the Theatre Communications Group, holding their annual conference here. About 1000 regional theater managers, artistic directors, dramaturgs and other arts professionals will be networking and attending seminars following the theme "Learn Do Teach." (Sans commas, apparently.)

Joining conference chiefs Howard Shalwitz, artistic director of Washington, D.C.'s renowned Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Tim Shields, managing director of New Jersey's McCarter Theatre Center, are scheduled speakers Maxwell L. Anderson, Dallas Museum of Art's executive director, and Dallas Theater Center playwright-in-residence Will Power. Among the local attendees are artistic directors from WaterTower Theatre, Dallas Children's Theater, Undermain Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater and many others. (TCG is an umbrella organization for American theater and a publisher of plays.)

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Trying to do warrior pose sandwiched between a stranger and a very old, expensive piece of art is nerve-racking.

"Yoga is for everybody," says Susan, who's ushering our group through a series of ancient postures at Crow Collection's Yoga in the Galleries. "Not every pose is for everybody." The 63-year-old instructor is balanced effortlessly on what appears to be her right toe. Whatever the pose is, it's not for me.

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"There is an intimacy to just hearing someone's voice," Glass said while the entire stage was dark. No one could see him, but the iPad screen bouncing around the stage indicated that he was pacing.

"I tried to convince the Winspear to let me do the whole show like this," Glass said. "They said maybe you should try it when you're in Fort Worth." Apparently the Dallas-Fort Worth divide reminds him of dealing with Israelis and Palestinians. "I'm surprised you guys don't have checkpoints."

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Photos by Catherine Downes

This past weekend, tens of thousands of anime fans from across the country assembled at the Hilton Anantole for the 24th A-Kon convention. Here are a few of our favorite shots from the event. Make sure to check out the full slideshow here.

See also: Red Bull Flugtag is Coming to Dallas

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If you've always wanted to dress up in weird clothes and fly into Lake Carolyn in Las Colinas, this is your year.

Red Bull Flugtag -- this is the flying one, not the crashing-into-shit one -- is coming to DFW on September 21, and is still looking for teams to send their contraptions soaring to destruction.

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This Saturday, Ira Glass, host of the radio show This American Life and creator of the "Ira Glass Abs Workout," will present Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

Glass started doing shows like this back in 1996, when This American Life went national. He tells us, "I saw that I occasionally was getting a day off on the weekend and thought, I gotta stop that."

"Basically," he says, "I get on stage with an iPad from which I can play clips and music and the sound that we use in the show. I both tell stories from the radio show -- which I can make form around me with all the audio -- but also talk about why we're making a show that's so different from everything else on the radio."

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Catherine Downes

A-Kon, the annual summer convention catering to Dallas' anime, Asian-culture and geek aficionados, will be returning for its 24th year this weekend at the Hilton Anatole.

As with Dallas Comic Con, we have compiled a A-to-Z guide to all things A-Kon to give a rundown of the festivities, events and sights for those in and out of the fandom alike.

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Chuck Marcelo

John Michael of, creator of Like Me

Like Me is the title of Dallas writer-actor-comedian John Michael Colgin's latest one-man show; it's also his challenge to the audience. It's every actor's request, come to think of it. They're up there begging for approval.

Colgin's new solo one-act comedy, his fourth as both writer and performer, is part of this year's Festival of Independent Theatres, opening Friday for a four-week run of eight different plays by small local companies, all sharing the stage at the Bath House Cultural Center (through June 22). Moved up a month to coincide with the Theatre Communications Group national conference here June 6-8, FIT competes for the first time with Kitchen Dog Theater's New Works Festival at The MAC, also running through June 22.

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