Blue Planet Is Back to Blow Your Mind, Make You Weep for the Seas
That’s the real thrill: Those mind-blown moments when your perception of what is possible on this Earth expands like a blowfish puffing up its stomach with water
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Events Encouraging Sleep Deprivation Are a Dangerous New Trend
Insufficient sleep is a common problem, but a disturbing new event trend is turning it into a form of recreation. At everything from charity gaming marathons to improv shows, Dallas performers and ticket-holders are asked to forego sleep for the sake of amusement. Dallas Comedy House had its second annual…
21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week
Thu 1/25The meaning of the word “truth” used to be widely understood, but in the last two years, fake news, alternative facts and the like have forced us all to give the concept more thought. The well-timed film and video exhibit Truth: 24 frames per second at the The Dallas…
Dallas Fuel Player Makes Homophobic Comment, Gets Team’s First Suspension, Fine
The Dallas Fuel eSports team’s inaugural season got off to a bad start when one of its starting players was suspended and fined for discriminatory talk about a rival player’s sexual orientation. Felix “xQc” Langyel, who serves as the Dallas Fuel’s “Main Tank” in Blizzard’s newly formed Overwatch League, received a…
Cheap and Free Events in Dallas This Week
ThursdayThe meaning of the word “truth” used to be widely understood, but in the last two years, fake news, alternative facts and the like have forced us all to give the concept more thought. The well-timed film and video exhibit Truth: 24 frames per second at the The Dallas Museum…
Longtime Gas Monkey Mechanic Aaron Kaufman Will Destroy Cars on Shifting Gears
When you fly into Dallas, Gas Monkey is one of the first things you see. Richard Rawlings’ hot rod garage near Interstate 35 and Royal Lane has become one of the city’s biggest exports. It has spawned multiple reality TV shows, the most famous of which is Discovery’s Fast ‘N…
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Don’t Give Your Money to Co-Working Spaces; Give it to Dallas’ Public Libraries
A dozen strangers are typing away on computers inside a open, modern and brightly lit space on a weekday afternoon. In an adjacent private room, a group is preparing a presentation. Printers are operating at full capacity. Flyers on the walls announce lectures to take place that weekend. At the…
Too Bad The Death Cure Fixes What Was Right With an Imperfect Franchise
The latest film, the long-delayed The Death Cure, opens with a train heist that suggests, at once, the Mad Max films, the Fast & Furious franchise, and The Wild Bunch by way of Young Guns by way of a Gap ad
Michelle Obama Doubled the Number of ‘Hear Here’ Subscriptions in One Day
The AT&T Performing Arts Center’s “Hear Here” speaker series just added another name to its list of distinguished speakers, and as they say in show business, this one’s a biggie. Former first lady Michelle Obama will be the guest of honor in a moderated speaker show March 8 at the…
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Three Dallas-Centric Episodes of Trading Spaces That Need to Happen
In September, TLC announced it is rebooting Trading Spaces, which ran on the network from 2000-08. Fans of the show were particularly excited when they found out that Paige Davis, the show’s effervescent, longtime host, would return to spearhead the new incarnation. Davis is a Philadelphia native who graduated from…
For Better or Worse, Den of Thieves Gives Gerard Butler 140 Minutes to Ham It Up
Christian Gudegast’s Den of Thieves comes in a cut above the usual trash that Gerard Butler stars in (Law Abiding Citizen, Olympus Has Fallen), which is to say it’s a cut above movies that themselves are already passably diverting …
This Video of Dancers Performing a Fiery Routine Against the Dallas Skyline Is Getting Lots of Attention
You probably can’t tell from the sensual bachata performance in their latest video, but Luis Loredo and Victoria Calamusa have only been dance partners for four months. While Loredo lives in Dallas, Calamusa calls Charlotte, North Carolina, home. The pair set out to showcase the hot Dominican dance by using…
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12 Strong Is the Rare U.S. Desert-War Movie to Tell the Story of an Unambiguous Victory
It’s a somewhat boisterous adventure, a war movie where you cheer not just for the boys to make it home but for them to complete the mission
The Alienist’s Old New York Is Thrillingly Alive — but Its Serial Killer Plotting Is Too Last-Century
The first two episodes each build to a set piece in the city’s bowels, one in a factory’s attic and the other in a brothel catering to men who prefer boys dressed as women
American Crime Story‘s Versace Doesn’t Actually Have Much Versace — And That’s Great
Versace is a puzzle the viewer puts together as it goes on, and with this approach the story seems to ripen with every episode as we move deeper and more intimately into Cunanan’s past
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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend
Fri 1/19 American electronic duo The Crystal Method is a true pioneer of the big-beat genre. Alongside other ’90s luminaries like Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan have helped push the genre to the forefront of mainstream culture. Their ’97 release, Vegas (a nod…
Dallas Artist William Binnie Contemplates America in ‘The Vine that Ate the South’
Sitting in front of a 6’ x 9’ sheet of canvas, his dog Scout curled on a blanket behind him, William Binnie paints what will be one of the most ambitious works in his oeuvre, for one of the biggest shows of his art career. He says the fierce winters…
A Nashville Star Learns What Really Matters in the Too-Obvious Forever My Girl
Where the movie occasionally locates some surprise and resonance is in the tiny exchanges, when Wolf allows her characters to breathe, free of the demands of a schematic narrative
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Daniel Burch, aka the Alfa Romeo Joker, Takes Us for a Ride in His Jokermobile
Daniel Burch of Arlington loves to spend his days off taking his finely tuned 2015 Alfa Romero 4C Spider down the highway and through the streets of downtown Dallas. He doesn’t use his downtime to drive and run errands. He couldn’t if he wanted to — the tiny sports car…
21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week
Thu 1/18 Daisy Goodwin, an effervescent former TV producer who published the novel Victoria in 2016 and writes the majestic PBS period piece of the same name, has been nurturing our obsession with all things British and/or royal over the past couple of years. She meticulously researched and composed her book…
Nicola Benedetti Trades Wynton Marsalis for Beethoven With the DSO
This weekend, superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti will perform a feat of musical versatility. Fresh off two years of performing Wynton Marsalis’ wild, polarizing Concerto in D, she will return to the classical canon and tackle a giant of the past: Beethoven’s revered violin concerto. Benedetti, 30, has been touring Marsalis’…
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10 Dallas Portrait Photographers You Should Be Following
Looking for a Instagram photo fix? These 10 photographers capture the beauty in the humans around us, and the best part is they’re all from Dallas. Upgrade your Instagram by following these local portrait photographers. Jorge Gomez Gomez began his photography career with Tumblr, but he’s continued to develop his craft…