The holiday season brings good food in large doses, family that are good in small doses and travel that requires a heavy dose of a narcotic to get through. More than a few of you will shove clothes into bags and beg friends for rides as you make your way…
Pike’s Colvin is haunted by visions of carnage she has seen, sometimes imagining that her London home is a bombed-out shell of itself, that a little girl she once saw die is lying in her own bed
The film is based on a true story, and its title comes from the guidebook Lip carries, which lists the hotels and motels where black people were welcome back then
Being alone doesn’t have to mean being bored. In fact, some of the best things you can do happen completely by yourself (don’t smirk). Having alone time gives you the freedom to relax, take your time and not be rushed by anyone else while you do your favorite activity (we…
When Leah McElrath tweeted about her calves in relation to Beto O’Rourke’s love-making, it wasn’t about sex. “The idea behind it was an analogy about different candidates’ philosophies about what was necessary in a candidate and a campaign,” McElrath, a freelance writer and activist, tells us over the phone. “I…
Friday Winter in Paris is not the Gallic paradise we typically visit in our Francophile daydreams. It’s a little too soggy, gray and frigid for patio drinking sessions and Instagram-worthy twirls in front of the Eiffel Tower. Oh, we wouldn’t turn down the ticket if it landed in our lap,…
On an Instagram post Thursday afternoon, comedian Amy Schumer told her followers and fans that she must postpone her Texas shows. In the photo she posted alongside the note, Schumer, who was supposed to perform at Winspear Opera House on Thursday night, is in a hospital bed. In the post…
… The Great Buster at heart is an opportunity to hang with Bogdanovich as he screens favorite sequences from ol’ stone face’s 1920s two- and five-reel masterpieces
This thoughtful, textured story — though brutal at times — stands as one of the clearest depictions of turmoil, racism and nepotism in local politics that’s ever been drawn onscreen
Last year, 12-year-old ventriloquist Darci Lynne won a million dollars, and even more hearts, (even the notoriously heartless Simon Cowell’s) on season 12 of America’s Got Talent. The prodigy, who’d only been practicing ventriloquism for two years at the time of her audition, proved that she would out-sing anyone in…
Tricia Wood prefers to move forward in life and not look back. Even though Power House of Dance, the studio she taught at for 17 years, unexpectedly closed recently, she doesn’t spend a lot of time discussing her thoughts and feelings about its closure. That’s not making light of the…
Wednesday Attention people who think a fun Saturday night includes playing Battleship: BGG.CON, the five-day convention for all board game enthusiasts is here. Finally, it’s your chance to see and try out all the new board games this world has to offer. Special guests, who are celebrities in the board…
Bollywood returned to Dallas last week as Spice in the City hosted Ark of the Rainbow’s biggest annual fundraiser. The event, which drew a full house, attracted supporters in Indian-themed attire hoping to alleviate poverty and human trafficking overseas through education. Dallas resident Christine Allen says she experienced life in…
From Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and John Romita and many more came the great flowering of ‘60s superheroes, the ones who seemed like human beings in ways that Superman or Batman didn’t
Stan Lee, for better or worse the most recognizable face in the history of the comic book, insists he has no love for rehashing his past. He claims to take no great joy from talking about long-ago yesterdays spent in smoky rooms co-creating the likes of the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man,…
After almost being kidnapped in Venezuela nearly four years ago, Alejandra Camargo and her husband moved to Dallas to escape a social and economic crisis. “It happened in 2009,” she says. “I was with my best friend, these guys block our car, and this guy with a black mask was…
Lee Chang-dong’s dexterity with the telling minutiae of human interactions ensures that Burning makes for an emotionally gripping film
One lord scowls with even more surliness than the rest: Chris Pine is Robert the Bruce, a Scot who will, eventually, declare himself king of his country and wage guerrilla war against Edward
She’s been a boozer, a user and a loser, an anthropomorphic Persian cat and TV’s most beloved homemaker. And now she’s an Ernie Kovacs Award winner. Actress, writer and comedian Amy Sedaris will be the next recipient of the Ernie Kovacs Award at the Dallas VideoFest 31 and the first…
Friday It’s time to compost your pumpkins and start setting out those Christmas decorations, y’all: the holidays are coming, and along with them, the annual barrage of parties, shopping and traffic. Before things get too stressful, take some time to ease yourself into the holiday spirit at the Dallas Arboretum,…
Whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat or Wiccan, there is one thing that unites everyone: sex. Everyone wants it, but one particular group is a little less willing to spread their wallets to make it happen. A new survey of more than 400 Dallas residents showed that Republican men are…
By and large, this latest entry in Lisbeth’s adventures … offers a drab genre piece that’s more like an attempt to establish a James Bond-like franchise for Lisbeth than a compelling exploration of the character
