A group of friends and fans of local emcee Devin Pike — who frequently works at the Alamo Drafthouse, as well as local conventions — gathered Thursday at the Drafthouse’s Cedars location for a special screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The screening was part of a fundraiser to help…
Chi Omega Christmas Market Fair Parks’ Centennial Hall 1001 Washington St. Thursday-Saturday $12-$15 You finally threw away the pumpkin on your porch, and you’ve only begun to dread the point during Thanksgiving dinner when someone makes you say what you’re thankful for. But it’s halfway through November, and Christmas is…
The movie turns on a series of revelations about the characters, whose hushed, intimate narration — split between Laura, Jamie, Ronsel, Hap and Florence — reveals rich inner lives
The Rev. Peter Johnson holds his denim jacket up before a class of about a dozen University of North Texas students. A sticker attached to one side shows that he has voted. “The reason that’s important to me is I have some friends in the graveyard for the right to…
The Trinity River Distillery is about to host a rather spirited art contest. The downtown Fort Worth distillery is calling upon local artists to submit their work for a chance to become the distillery’s official muralist. While creativity is encouraged, each contestant must create and submit a design that will…
This is the first time a Marvel TV show has stunned me: Why in the era of binge-able continued-narrative TV series would the producers kill dead their momentum
For nearly three years, a quaint red house at 208 W. Eighth St. in Oak Cliff has given comic book devotees a place to browse, gather and feel welcome. But Red Pegasus Comics’ lease is up, and its owners have set their sights on relocating the beloved little shop a…
WaterTower Theatre is in the midst of a season of change. This is its first season with artistic director Joanie Schultz at the wheel, and now the theater has added a new managing director, longtime Dallas attorney Nick Even. “When a theater moves beyond the vision of its founders into…
Wednesday was wet, rainy and bitterly cold. Could there be a better setting for a primordial scream on the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s election? A small but loud crowd of five protesters and one surprise counterprotester showed up at the Continental Avenue pedestrian bridge Wednesday night as part…
When Puerto Rican artist Mariola Rosario shot scenic photos of the forest at Reserva Natural de Humacao on the island this summer, it was lush and green and filled her with awe. She didn’t know that would be the last time she would see it that way. Years before, the…
FridayAlthough they live on opposite sides of the globe, Kurt Vile, a lanky, mumbling Philadelphian, and Courtney Barnett, a reserved Australian rocker, make a perfect musical match. On their debut collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, their jangly guitar chords intertwine and their call-and-response vocals effortlessly weave together. It’s one of…
Set in present-day New York, the film has a classic Hollywood texture and a classic Hollywood conceit: a brilliant old man paired with a beautiful young ingenue
A web series with more than 200 million viewers has turned its attention to Denton. Buzzfeed Unsolved explores true crime and supernatural stories, and the most recent episode of the show centers on the Old Alton Bridge, better known to locals as “The Goatman’s Bridge.” The Old Alton Bridge made our 2015…
The latest project of Kavita Khandekar, the deputy director of the nonprofit Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, began as a fever dream. She and her coworkers at the small agency wanted to host a large-scale fundraiser, but they didn’t want to do a big gala or luncheon like other…
Despite the bright cinematography, there’s something quaint and comforting about this film and its brand of old-fashioned storytelling …
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, BPM (Beats Per Minute), French director Robin Campillo’s stylized, moving drama of AIDS activism and love, sometimes feels like several films at once. It follows the activities of ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s, and for much…
Despite the many troubling trends in our media culture, the movies’ response to the Iraq War has been (gasp) surprisingly admirable. Since the mid-2000s, a steady stream of films have artfully addressed war’s aftermath and the homefront — from Stop-Loss and In the Valley of Elah, to Grace is Gone…
Ruben Ostlund’s The Square, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this past May, probably says more about the times we’re living in than any other film you’re likely to see this year. And yet the beauty of the movie is that everybody will have their own ideas about what,…
One year, back in the early 1990s, an uncle of mine didn’t show up to our family Christmas. I was only 10 and didn’t understand his sudden departure and why nobody would speak of it. A year later, I was at his funeral. He was a playwright and actor in…
On Monday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, the show’s producer, Andy Cohen, questioned Housewife LeeAnne Locken about her violent past and an alleged police record. The episode was part one of the second season’s reunion. Highlights from the season were re-aired, including scenes in which Locken is in…
ThursdayComedians must hear this all the time: “I’ll bet you’re really glad Donald Trump is president right now. The jokes must write themselves!” Comedian Chris Rock knows enough about telling the truth as he sees it and making people laugh that he could mine material from the world even if…
This is not a drill. Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Hearth and Hand with Magnolia line has officially arrived at Target. The Waco couple’s line of home and kitchen decor, with a few random journals thrown in, is kind of hard for us to wrap our minds around. But we are…
