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Feast of Appetizers

Gorge on this year's Oscar-nominated short films.

One Week From Tuesday, Relive Rolling Stones' July 1978 Show at Will Rogers in Fort Worth

We've been here before: the night the Rolling Stones played Will Rogers Auditorium as the "London Green Shoed Cowboys" in the summer of '78. The boot, known as Handsome Girls, remains one of the finest in my collection; I revisit it regularly, particularly that rendering of "Starfucker." No wonder i ... More >>

Tim Halperin Reaches No. 1 on iTunes, Sly Stone Is Now Homeless and Other News and Notes...

Tim Halperin​Last week we ran a quick item about American Idol contestant, Tim Halperin, and his publicity stunt leading up to the release of his new record, Rise & Fall. He was to sit in a mock jail cell at Plano's Shops At Legacy for 28 hours leading up the expiration of his dreaded American ... More >>

Iced In

And Where Will You See Tron on Friday?

​I couldn't make the Tron: Legacy press screening a few days back -- they keep me chained to the desk these days. Besides, the 7-year-old who lives in my house wants to see it, even if he does find (the great?) Steven Lisberger's original '82 film "a little boring and confusing," as he put it when ... More >>

Get Whoa, or: That Robert Duvall Cloning Experiment Did Not Go As Planned

Stephen Masker​Friday night's Robert Duvall speaking engagement at Hall of State went down swell: He and Elvis Mitchell bantered cheerily for an hour about stage and screen in front of an audience that included Mayor Tom, other city officials and various well-heeled arts patrons and Dallas Film So ... More >>

If You'd Like to Get Low With Robert Duvall Saturday Morning, You'd Best Hustle

Robert Duvall will introduce Get Low at a screening at the Cinemark 17 Saturday morning.​Last month we mentioned: Robert Duvall's in town Friday night for a Dallas Film Society fund-raiser at the Hall of State, during which he'll be Q&A'd by Elvis Mitchell. But say you didn't have the $250 to ... More >>

For One Night Only, a Chance, Finally, to See the Rolling Stones Play Fort Worth in 1972

More than once I've directed your attention to the sound track to the long-lost Rolling Stones in-concert doc Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones, filmed during the '72 Exile on Main St. tour. All of the footage comes from Texas -- two shows at the Tarrant County Convention Center, two at the U ... More >>

Matt Seitz's Trip Down Movie Memory Lane Leads Us Back to the NorthPark I & II

NickelrocketThe greatest movie theater in Dallas, at least during my lifetime​On Salon, my old friend and former cubicle-mate Matt Zoller Seitz has asked an eclectic assortment of cinephiles, writers and filmmakers alike, to share The Film Experience That Left a Lasting Impression -- as though, re ... More >>

KC-Based Owner of "Historic" Grand 24 Says It's Already Found Tenant to Take the Space

​Three weeks ago, AMC Entertainment Inc. sent word that 15 years after it revolutionized the big-screen business with the 4,960-seat Grand 24 off Stemmons Freeway and W. Northwest Highway, it was leaving the building. Reason: rent dispute with its Kansas City-based landlord Entertainment Propertie ... More >>

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax Coming to Dallas on June 22. Sort Of.

On June 22nd, a concert billed as The Big Four and featuring a quartet of legendary metal acts can be seen in Dallas. Not at any concert venue, mind you, but at several area movie theaters.The actual concert featuring Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax will take place in, of all places, Bulgari ... More >>

Laid Back On The Lake

​Back when we lived way east on 30 near Zion Road, we nicknamed that giant reservoir out there "Lake Ray Stumpy", for reasons we probably don't have to explain. The weather's been kinder lately, though, and things are looking much fuller. Probably no coincidence that business there has reached ... More >>

Giveaway! Or: Amazingly Enough, I've Never Owned a Star Trek Tee Till, Oh, Today.

Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

Support The Draft...And The Arts

New Century Brewing president and CEO Rhonda Kallman, a Beer Wars subject and discussion panelist.A dozen theaters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be part of tonight's nationwide screening of Anat Baron's documentary Beer Wars, a David vs. Goliath tale about the struggles of independent craft bre ... More >>

Gettin' Jiggy with Holiday Giving at Will Smith's Dallas Premiere

Patrick Michels Will Smith pulls off the jersey and tie almost as heroically as Mayor Tom Leppert. Will Smith is all about good deeds these days, so if you wanted to catch the Dallas premiere of his new feel-good thriller Seven Pounds, you had to come with cans. Which was was cool with hundreds of ... More >>

Are You Still Celebrating the Willenium? Then Are You Ever in Luck, Dallas!

After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after ... More >>

PETA's Stopping By For a Bite at Brinker Shareholder Shindig Tomorrow

Yeah, But Who's Gonna Notice?

Yes, But Can You Batusi?

Hooray for Bollywood!

Cinemasaur

When dinosaurs ruled the screen

Kiss and Tell

Fair Play

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Swing By

A dance, dance revolution

Oh, Canada

Big props to the big films of IMAX

Fine Dining

For a little, they get a lot

Dance Party

The Latino Cultural Center has a folklorico explosion

Run Away

This stallion gallops into the IMAX theater

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Judge Not

Keliher jumps in the boat and takes away some of the fun

Calendar

The Nutcracker and beyond

Reel People

It's about the artists, not the stars at the 31st annual USA Film Festival

Best movie theater

Cinemark 17

Best IMAX theater (tie)

Cinemark 17 & The Science Place

Buzz

Jurist imprudence

The search for a new federal judge reaches the lowest common denominator

Year of the weasel

From Al Lipscomb to Paul Fielding, it was hard to find straight talk in '96

Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Attack of the killer megaplexes

The number of movie screens in Dallas has almost doubled overnight. But that's no cause for applause.

Letters

Letters

Ruffled feathers

Birds chirping, neighbors squabbling--ah, Earth Day in University Park

Dallas' lawyer joke

A legal comedy of errors led to a $5 million tragedy for the city

Luna landing

Chris Luna's deceitful public-service career finally hits bottom

Letters

Whose city is it, anyway?

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