… This first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Virzi (Human Capital, Like Crazy) is at times moving in its sincerity, thanks to stellar casting and the director’s clear-eyed perspective on aging and dementia …
Car collector and builder Dave Scott McDonough always gets noticed when he goes for a drive. The car he uses to drive to work and take his kids to school is a model of the Ecto-1 used in the movie Ghostbusters. His backup ride is a Jeep fashioned to look like…
So you’re not at SXSW or some Southern Californian beach this spring break. You’re a nerd, or a mom, or broke AF. Blast your favorite playlist or quietly begin a new podcast binge and head for one of these sights well worth an hour-ish drive. National Cowgirl Museum and Hall…
FCC, the first and only all-black sketch comedy troupe in Dallas, is here to give audiences an irreverent dose of sketch comedy you won’t see on censored late-night TV. FCC (the meaning is a mystery to anyone outside the group — the troupe has never gone on record with any…
Here is a movie made for and about the people who believe they are the essence of American normalcy, a movie that dutifully flatters and celebrates them even as it works to expand who that normalcy actually includes
Alamo Drafthouse is expanding once again. Alamo Drafthouse Lake Highlands, in Dallas’ Creekside Shopping Center, will host its soft open March 20 and its official grand opening March 28. This is the movie chain’s third location in DFW. The Lake Highlands theater will include everything that makes the chain so famous and…
7 a.m. Rise and shine for your morning workout! A jog around the neighborhood is exactly what you need to balance out a day of bangers, mash and green food coloring. 7:10 a.m. Be serious. Hit snooze and give up on New Year’s resolutions and Lent promises like the rest…
The Dallas Fuel’s first season in the new Overwatch League, the competitive gaming league centered around Blizzard Entertainment’s frantic first-person shooter game Overwatch, is off to a shaky start on and off the virtual field. The Fuel ranks 10th out of 12 teams this season, and some players have caught…
It’s a breezy and sunny Friday in March, the last day of school before spring break, and boys in jackets and ties are quietly studying in the library when the bell rings. A noisy throng races through the foyer, where a marble and steel crucifix hangs alongside a painting of…
The Dallas Opera presented the U.S. premier Friday night of Sunken Garden, a modern one-act opera first performed in 2013 at the English National Opera. The innovative composer Michel van der Aa collaborated with novelist David Mitchell, who wrote the libretto, to create a multimedia dramatic performance that is part opera…
Deep Ellum was formed roughly 145 years ago, which is also the same wait time to get a table at Pecan Lodge. While the area has gone through many changes, Deep Ellum has consistently maintained itself as a destination for artists, musicians and anyone looking to have a good time…
Sex and power are stripped down and put on full-frontal display in GiANT Entertainment’s production of Terry Johnson’s Hitchcock Blonde — a pitch black, dark comedy timed perfectly for the era of Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump. “GiANT Entertainment started last year,” says the play’s producer, Ryan Matthieu Smith, “and…
Michel van der Aa and I have a bad connection. We’re chatting through Facetime to sidestep international calling fees, but my tech reality isn’t equal to the Grawemeyer Award-winner’s. He’s explaining how he created, composed and filmed the world’s first 3D opera, Sunken Garden, which gets its U.S. debut in…
It has impenetrable technobabble jutting up against awkward football metaphors and a reverie on peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches sandwiched between a monologue on climate change and the triumphant revelation of a character’s hidden home arsenal.
Providing for pups and pounding pints, one of Dallas’ premier dog parks is pouring up cold ones for a cause. Mutts Canine Cantina has teamed with Austin-based nonprofit Pints for Pups to raise both money and awareness for local animal shelter Paws in the City. The event will be from…
Fri 3/9 A$AP Ferg With Denzel Curry and IDK, 7 p.m. Friday, Mar. 9, House of Blues, 2200 N. Lamar St., 214-978-2583 or houseofblues.com/dallas, $30 and up A$AP Mob was in town a few months ago for its collective tour, but the hustling, multitalented A$AP Ferg is already back on…
Kersey is the everyman, and Roth’s movie, whether he likes it or not, is the good-guy-with-a-gun propaganda the NRA is just lapping up straight out of the toilet
Thoroughbreds’ best trick is to convince us, through the aching stillness of its stars’ eyes, that it might not actually be a twisty, twisted thriller inspired by the likes of Strangers on a Train
Performance night for the Mavericks ManiAACs, the all-male dance team that has spent the last 16 years shaking their exposed guts for adoring crowds at American Airlines Center, starts long before the ref throws the opening jumpball. At last Wednesday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the ManiAACS’ duties began as…
Passion, satire and professionalism collided when Day of Absence cast members met in the basement of Oak Cliff’s Arts Mission this week for rehearsal. “The play is a reverse minstrel show,” says director Aaron Zilbermann, “which means it has an almost entirely black cast that is made up in white…
Just when you thought you were safe in the confines of your own home, the finale of The Bachelor took a dramatic turn. Before you knew it, you were frantically tweeting about how upset you were. The man you grew to love over the past six weeks wasn’t who you…
The film sends the simultaneous messages that it’s futile to coddle children but also that it’s OK to feel the icky stuff that you feel, because even your weaknesses can be transformed to strengths
