Fri 12/8Video games are a multibillion-dollar business, and it’s not just the games that make the money. People get paid absurd amounts of money to play and (more important) win them in top-dollar eSports tournaments. Major League Gaming will host a key leg of its Call of Duty World League…
Dallas’ young people are proving once again that they have a voice and are ready to use it. For the first time, the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs is supporting a theatrical production featuring teen actors from the ground up. Stand-Up Tragedy, which opens today, is produced by two of…
My Friend Dahmer, from a graphic memoir of the same name by the pseudonymous Derf Backderf, is a kind of coming-of-age tale that dissects a troubled kid’s descent into murder. Backderf was a high-school pal of the boy who would grow up to become the serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey…
Wright’s film is fleet but not especially thoughtful, wholly convincing in its production design, and in one crucial sense something rare: Here’s a war movie about rhetoric rather than battle scenes
As Ginny and her life unravel, Allen’s sympathy for her seems to dry up, and she becomes something like the villain of the piece
… Just as the story should start to speed up and get more predictably exciting, it becomes weirder, drawn to odd tangents
The recent death of John Dunsworth, the actor who played trailer park supervisor Mr. Lahey on the Canadian comedy series Trailer Park Boys, was a big shock to the show’s legions of fans. It also shocked the show’s stars and creators — John Paul Tremblay, Mike Smith and Robb Wells — who…
This list, arranged in no particular order, is limited to books that were published in 2017 and written by authors who live in Dallas-Fort Worth. The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson This dystopian thriller, published in June, focuses on a formerly privileged girl named Eden who escapes a labor camp…
Thu 12/7Our prediction for the only snowflakes you’ll see in Dallas in December: Turtle Creek Chorale’s one-of-a-kind holiday show, Snowflakes, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday — plus a matinees at 2:30 p.m. Sunday — at Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. in the Arts District. TCC has grown from…
Franco portrays Wiseau as a haughty but charismatic weirdo, someone who isn’t well-liked but who definitely gets noticed
And one of the great delights of this film is the way it charts the shifting waves of allegiances that can occur in a family that loves and argues with equal ferocity
Thousands of runners will take to the streets of Dallas on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 9-10, to test their wills and bodies in the 2017 BMW Dallas Marathon. Although many of the runners participating in the races are Dallasites, the event draws runners from across the world. Events include a…
When the Stomping Ground Comedy Theatre hosted its first official show in October, it did so without a theater it could call its own. A new fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter could change that. Last week, nonprofit theater company Stomping Ground launched its first campaign to raise $30,000 to lease space in…
If you’re an old-school football fan who’s never touched a joystick, you probably look at professional gaming with a confused, scrunched-up face. But there’s at least one football fan in Dallas who’s in the know, and he owns the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones and John Goff, the founder of Goff…
Like Water for Chocolate with Chef Pop-up Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 7 p.m. Wednesday $10 Like Water for Chocolate is one of the more intense, ardent films ever conceived, in no small part because its source material employed food as a symbol for all of life’s passions. It’s…
If you thought Nordstrom’s customer service couldn’t get any better, think again. From Dec. 16 until the store closes Christmas Eve, Nordstrom at NorthPark Center will offer 24/7 curbside pickup. Curbside pickup is already offered during regular Nordstrom business hours. If you buy something online with the option to pick…
First, he was a child prodigy who talked at 7 months. Later, he did enough cocaine to kill a baby rhinoceros. In a new authorized biography titled Everything’s Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman, author Mary Lou Sullivan digs into the Texas Jewboy. And it turns…
It’s been a while since film and TV actor Brad Leland has performed on a stage, but he decided to take a chance and return to it when Dallas Theater Center director Lee Trull asked him to play Ebenezer Scrooge in his latest production of A Christmas Carol. “He said,…
Fri 12/1CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are close friends who first met onstage at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York. They had such great chemistry onstage that they decided to turn their witty banter and exchanges into a conversation tour filled with funny tales about their…
Hobbes VincentThe word on the street is that sculptor Hobbes Vincent tells one hell of a tall tale. “You never know whether you’re getting an accurate portrait of reality or one that’s been manipulated,” gallery owner Jen Mauldin says. Translated: He’s a bit of a bullshitter. That’s good news for…
Last Halloween, theater director DR Hanson went as Freddie Mercury, the late lead singer of Queen. He chose to emulate Mercury’s famous outfit from a World AIDS Day performance. Hanson was sure it would be easily recognized. He was shocked — and disappointed — by the outcome. “So many people, gay…
An article, a book and now a film, Talese’s fascination with Foos’ voyeurism still hasn’t resulted in anything like rigorous journalism
