Every Tuesday, Taylor Higginbotham, Brad McKenzie and Robbie Scheer invite a comedian to perform some stand-up comedy to a live crowd at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton for their podcast, The Brave Boys. But the comedian’s set is not recorded; only those in the packed room hear it. After the…
Your kids have been cooped up in the house all summer. Why would they go outside? They’ve got their Xboxes and Nintendo Switches and VR headsets that can simulate, down to the nearest pixel, what it’s like to be outdoors. The only ironclad excuse they have to leave the house…
Proposals have gotten a little dramatic. From the insta-engagement party to surprise paparazzi photo teams hiding in bushes, this ain’t a low-key affair. Talk about a lot of pressure on the person popping the question. Regardless, it makes the bride- or groom-to-be happy and feel sparkly in that special moment…
Friday If you’re going to live in a place as hot as a desert, you might as well see something that fits the climate. The Uptown Players are staging the Tony-winning musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Priscilla: Queen of the Desert at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek…
Shock and Awe is a 90-minute liberal told-you-so, a polemic that, like a long Rachel Maddow segment, is more cheery than thunderous, even as it names the names that must be named
… It’s nice that writer/director Shana Feste’s family comic drama Boundaries shows an adult woman reluctant to let her vagabond dad back into her life — for good reason
Reed and Rudd deliver plenty of the goofy antics we’ve now come to expect from Ant-Man: size-change cock-ups, charming incompetence on the macho bluster front, etc.
The film even confronts its own audience in some ways, as it goes from a tale of three people learning more about their identities, to one about the very nature of human identity itself …
… The plot’s developments at times could seem tenuous, but I found them totally daring and confident, as though Riley knew the rules of every screenwriting guide and the demand for “realism,” and he said, “Nah, I’m good,” because he had bigger points to make …
Skyscraper is a family-bonding adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell and two elementary-aged children who are as good at appearing darling (in the early scenes) as they are at playacting the role of traumatized hostages (in the later scenes)
Married At First Sight Dallas is underway, and viewers will get a peek into Dallas nightlife when the three couples — who don’t know each other — will hit up some area date spots to try and get to know each other. Here is a list of all the places…
The magic of moviemaking convinces an audience that it’s seeing far-away, sometimes magical places when in reality it’s a series of green screens and camera tricks. The streets of Victorian-era London are just a soundstage in Atlanta, the deserts of Egypt are a plot of land in New Mexico and…
Toys ‘R’ Us announced in March that it was closing all of its stores, ending the saga of its massive bankruptcy and struggling sales. On Friday, the company finally closed all of its locations. Toys ‘R’ Us faced competition from online companies such as Amazon. It seemed to be making…
On four of the hottest weekends of the Dallas summer, the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake will host some of the city’s most forward-thinking performers and artists when Dallas’ Festival of Independent Theatres returns for its 20th iteration. This year, the festival will also feature two art…
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport just added another way to pass that slow time before your flight. Gameway has opened two gaming lounge terminals — the first of their kind. “Airports are a very boring place,” says Jordan Walbridge, president and founder of Gameway. “You’re trapped there and you have nowhere…
We’ve all been there. Minding your own business, browsing the nutrition facts on a box of Whole Foods crackers you can’t afford, when all of a sudden a hyper-accessorized, immaculately manicured middle-aged woman compliments you. “I just have to tell you, your bone structure is beautiful!” At first you think,…
With summer in full swing, the blistering heat continues to come down even onto the sidewalks shaded by tall buildings, like Marcelo Garcia Jiu-Jitsu of Dallas, a martial arts studio. One might think taking a step indoors is the best escape from the dehydrating air that engulfs this sweaty season…
After four years of competing, Violet S’Arbleu, née Jacob Chaput, was crowned Miss Gay Texas America in 2017. This year, he’s traveled to every city preliminary in Texas to help 27 drag contestants prepare to take the stage in Dallas and compete for the crown. “It’s an educational experience that…
Visual artist Leigha Lugo of Light Era Studios has teamed up with the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs for her musically infused art installation project called Play On, Dallas. Lugo has painted three pianos; one will be placed in Dallas Farmers Market, one in Pegasus Plaza downtown and at Love…
Deep in Frisco’s Discovery Center, a man’s life is laid out in model train tracks in a 3,000-square-foot room. When no one is around, the room is quiet and dark. As the project nears completion, the site of TrainTopia, a new model train exhibit in Frisco, is littered with boxes…
The writers, who include Flynn as well as series creator Marti Noxon (Mad Men, UnREAL, Dietland), don’t exactly hit viewers over the head with the retrograde gender politics of small-town America, but those dynamics are firmly on display
… There’s an urgency and an anger this time around that helps paper over some of the story’s messiness, as well as some of the awkward drama of trying to explain where this whole crazy Purge idea actually came from
