While some politicians still — still — debate whether humans are contributing to climate change, Jill Ahrens, a Fort Worth native and executive producer of the highly acclaimed documentary Chasing Coral, says she and a team of filmmakers found the surest evidence lying at the bottom of the ocean. “It was a…
Despite, or probably because of, the density of its plot, Mr. Robot is almost more enjoyable if you don’t really know what’s going on
It starts off as the portrait of a troubled child, but expands to become a film about community
Here’s a kiddo’s quest to define a self, in this case the descent of young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) into a land of the dead inspired by Dia de los Muertos celebrations
In 2014, Money Magazine named a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth the best place to live in the nation. The honor went to McKinney, and the magazine cited its redeveloped historic downtown with cobblestone streets and brick buildings that house “a mix of art galleries, boutiques, and farm-to-table restaurants, as well as…
Annie Baker’s John, now playing at Undermain Theatre, is a must-see, and it’s as simple as that. What’s not simple is the play itself. It opened at New York’s Signature Theatre Company in 2015, and the regional premiere in Dallas is not one to miss. Baker is a master of…
Whether out of a deep respect to Oliver Stone or just a desire to finally see a positive headline when he Googles himself, President Donald Trump declassified documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. More than 30,000 documents have been released (or in some of cases rereleased)…
Believing a virgin birth? That’s easy. Billions of people do. Believing that manmade emissions are contributing to global warming? Bah, humbug. That’s just crazy talk. So let’s throw a few more tons of coal on the power plants and fire up those holiday lights while we chop down a few…
In the ’80s, cartoonist and Far Side comic strip creator Gary Larson drew a comic with the caption “Hopeful parents” that somehow came to fruition. The comic featured a pair of proud parents looking at their buck-toothed kid playing a video game. The thought bubble above their heads showed the “help wanted”…
The sixth and final exhibit of the late John Wilcox’s work to be shown in his studio, The Wilcox Space, is now open. The exhibit will be up for about six months. Wilcox died from AIDS-related complications in 2012. He had been living and painting in the studio that would…
Friday Oaktopia has delivered another stellar lineup, as versatile as it is fresh. From the cold, hardened storytelling of Atlanta rapper 21 Savage to the candied trap of Lil Yachty to the raunchy electronic music of Tobacco, this year’s festival promises a lot. Notable local talents include Blue, the Misfit…
The games that professional eSports athletes compete on aren’t just netting them tired thumbs and a few pixelated coins. The collegiate and professional eSports industry that’s on the rise in Dallas is fueled by games from a multibillion-dollar media industry and it’s starting to rival the revenues of film and…
Cable TV companies had a economic and geographic choke chains around the necks of some parts of the cable TV market in the ’80s and early ’90s. Only people who could afford satellite dishes, big enough to make their backyards look like mini-SETI projects, had a way out. The wider…
As the holidays and year’s end quickly approach, you may be pondering what to do with a few of those extra vacation days. From winter wonderlands to romantic treehouses, we have rounded up 10 of the best holiday getaways in the Lone Star State. Gaylord Texan Grapevine Distance from Dallas:…
Thursday Journalist Dan Rather will be “in conversation with KERA’s Krys Boyd” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16. The Arts and Letters Live program of the Dallas Museum of Art will take place across the street from the DMA at First United Methodist Church, 1928 Ross Ave. Rather, 86, who…
Action scenes start and stop and then start again, then go in different directions, and it was a few moments into The Big Climactic Face-Off before I realized we’d arrived at The Big Climactic Face-Off
These days, conventions organizers can never stop planning their next fan gatherings. That’s because more conventions than ever are competing to get bigger celebrity guests to mingle and take photos with the fans. The next Fan Expo Dallas gathering doesn’t start until April, but it’s already scored a huge and revered pop…
They spent long periods of time tapping away at a keyboard in isolation and were ballsy enough to tell someone, perhaps a less-than-flattering editor somewhere, only to receive a rejection slip in return. Now, they have an audience. The literary series Rejected: Stories Unsold debuted at Wild Detectives bookstore last…
Tony Dagrosa was burnt out and worn thin. It was the ’80s, and he was five years out of college, banging out a living as a restaurant manager in New York City. Looking for a change, Dagrosa sat down to dinner with his father and uncle, twin brothers who owned…
… In Three Billboards, where livid, grieving mother Mildred (Frances McDormand) taunts the local police for not solving her daughter’s rape and murder (by being burned to death) from nine months prior, McDonagh has taken on a situation that demands we take it seriously.
“I wish I could live through something,” the title character laments to her mother in the opening scene of writer/director Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. Played with comical intensity by Saoirse Ronan, 17-year-old Lady Bird — nee Christine — is too young to realize that she is inescapably living through something,…
It can be difficult to get tickets to a show by a top-selling comedian like Jim Jefferies. The Australian comic tours the world annually and sells out venues such as Dallas’ Majestic Theatre, but there are other ways to see Jefferies if you have the right timing and know the…
