Finally, your tax refund check has arrived, and it couldn’t have come soon enough because this refund is your entire vacation fund. As you open the envelope with dreams of Hawaii or Bermuda, you see the amount is not as much as you thought. You remember now that you let…
Fireball Island was the board game that could beat up any other game in a fight in the ’80s if board games suddenly grew arms and feet and developed a taste for hand-to-hand combat. The 1986 board game published by Milton Bradley came in a box four times the size…
With most people having access to the internet or pay-per-view, it is easy to access live fights wherever they occur. It’s easy, but not cheap. When pay-per-viewing a fight costs as much as $100, like the McGregor and Mayweather fight, fans might get more bang for their buck seeing these…
Daisy Eagan began acting when she was 9 years old. Just two years later in 1991, Eagan became the youngest recipient of a Tony Award for her performance in the musical The Secret Garden. On May 8, Eagan comes to Dallas to perform in The Humans, the 2016 Tony Award-winning…
Told through the unique lens of this Latinx family, Vida is a statement on upward mobility and the privilege of being able to outgrow your home
… Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have completed their trilogy of self-delusion with Tully, a gently sardonic look at a 40-year-old woman who finds herself in a cluttered house, with a clueless spouse, preparing to have a third child
It’s no surprise that Avengers: Infinity War is breaking records at the box office. The movie is the latest installment in a well-known franchise, backed by the never-ending money supply that Disney has to offer. Even under a rock, you would have received a spam email about Avengers because Disney is…
A peek into the windowless office of Jennifer Price offers an extraordinary view of the world. Price brought many of the postcards that line the walls with her 25 years ago, she says, when she moved from New York to become Asian and non-Western art curator for the Kimbell Art…
Thursday The Anti-Defamation League reported in February a 57-percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. from 2016-17 — the largest single-year increase since the organization started keeping such records in 1979. The report found “a significant increase in incidents in schools and on college campuses, which nearly doubled for…
It’s official. We’re in one of the strangest and most contentious points in the history of our great democracy. A group of beered-up guys and a smattering of women who kept their clothes on shared the same room with a naked woman on Saturday whom we’ve been told has also…
Four years and three Star Wars movies ago, Shoshana Portnoy, Viva Dallas Burlesque producer, began her preparations. A lifelong fan of both the classic sci-fi series and archaic modes of tantalization, Portnoy says she swiped a garage full of promotional materials from big-box store dumpsters. She’ll be able to clear…
(Joaquin) Phoenix plays a hammer-wielding veteran who is paid to save kidnapped children and who brings all his rage and regret and self-loathing and desire for oblivion to the job
When Dana Adam Shapiro approached Suzanne Mitchell in 2015 about creating a documentary about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Mitchell advised him to hurry. “She said, ‘If you’re serious about this, I would get down here pretty quick because I’m dying,’” Shapiro remembers. Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of…
The West End wants to remind you there’s still life left in the historic Dallas neighborhood. It will host Dallas Fest, a daylong arts festival, on May 5. Dallas Fest will celebrate all things Dallas with concerts from local musicians such as Jessie Frye and Ronnie Heart, artists creating new…
Friday Jazz vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur will lead her ensemble in a concert marking Sammons Center’s 30th anniversary at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. Sax virtuoso Stan Getz discovered Schuur at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1979. Her latest CD, I Remember You (With…
Let the video games begin. The University of North Texas launched its official esports program last week with an intramural Overwatch tournament in front of a crowd of student spectators in the University Union Lyceum theater. Some competitors are on the college’s varsity esports teams, and others hope to be…
You know it’s not real. You know you’re not actually Spider-Man. You know you’re not really standing on top of a collapsing crane overlooking a crowded metropolitan area. You know you’ll still be alive if you don’t attach your web sling on the leg of the helicopter and swing down…
Be kind, rewind. VHS tapes may be a dead media format, but there are still a few who enjoy the nostalgia of collecting them. Since December, Richardson store Piranha Vintage has hosted a monthly one-day Dallas VHS swap. It’s usually the first Sunday of every month, but the next one…
This epic, the first of two final Avengers films, finds the Class of ‘12 — the core Avengers — getting together for one last rager, joined by select newbies and spazzes from the ranks of sophomores and freshmen
On Sunday, Dallas photographer Marrica Evans posted on Instagram a photo questioning the inclusiveness of rewardStyle’s annual conference. The Dallas-based company, founded by fashion blogger Amber Venz Box, partners with bloggers, influencers and brands, allowing influencers to monetize their social media posts. Using rewardStyle, a blogger or influencer can link…
In the small dance room at Green Space Arts Collective in Denton, fully wooded and mirrored for optimal practice, a group of women gathers to practice a routine based off the popular anime Love Live. They all stare intently in the clear glass to hit the right steps and make…
The new Steven Spielberg movie Ready Player One, based on the popular adventure novel by Ernest Cline, takes movie audiences to a not-to-distant future when gamers log on to massively multiplayer online game called The Oasis to be whatever their pop-culture-loving hearts desire. The main character, Wade Watts, played by actor Tye…
