Thursday Dave Chappelle has been doing stand-up since he was 14. He appeared in movies such as Blue Streak and Half Baked, which he helped write with director Neal Brennan. He and Brennan also created his groundbreaking sketch comedy series, Chappelle’s Show, for Comedy Central and walked away from the…
During season two of The Real Housewives of Dallas, LeeAnne Locken starts a rumor about the husband of fellow Housewife Cary Deuber. “Her husband gets his dick sucked at the Round-Up. I know the boys who did it,” a drugged-up Locken confesses to fellow Housewife Brandi Redmond before a plastic surgery…
Maybe it’s encouraging, in a way, that an America in crisis struggles so mightily to make crowd-pleasing war movies. Whatever their politics, no studio exec today would let a wide-release desert-war drama come right out and say what even the GOP increasingly admits: that Iraq was a mistake, that Afghanistan has…
Gyms and yoga studios are famous for the bait and switch. “Come for a first-time free session,” they say. A few months later, your wallet has lost more inches than your waistline. Any exercise routine has to be consistent to produce results. Below are nine exercise options in Dallas that…
We Slaughter Barbecue isn’t easy to find. On the outskirts of Bastrop about 30 miles east of Austin, it sits off the side of state Highway 304 in what was once known as the Last Chance Gas Station. It was the only full-service gas station for miles around, and it had the…
Rob Paulsen and Randy Rogel bring Animaniacs Live! to Arlington Music Hall this Friday. Every child of the ’90s remembers the Warner Bros. cartoon Animaniacs. The zany show featured a cast of wise-cracking, physics ignoring, violence-prone characters presented in a loosely connected series of animated shorts like a moving comic…
The three-act French opera Samson and Dalila, first performed in 1877, seemed like an odd choice to start the Dallas Opera’s 2017-18 season. But Friday’s opening-night performance proved that it has stood the test of time. Composer Camille Saint-Saëns recognized that opera is all about drama, and Dallas Opera’s interpretation…
Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament Trinity Hall 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane 7:15 p.m. Monday Free Someone once said that if you’re playing “a friendly game of poker” then you’re really not playing poker at all. Poker is a game of deception, psychological manipulation and occasional cruelty. It’s about fleecing your fellow…
A Lifetime channel reality show that uses a team of relationship experts to pair strangers in wedlock is casting its next season in Dallas. Individuals who are “single and brave,” “appear to be between 26 and 35,” have “exhausted all dating options” and are “ready to find the love of…
Maggie Betts’ Novitiate bears all the signs of an exceptional talent. It follows the experiences of Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), a teenager who enters a convent in the early 1960s just as the Catholic Church was starting to undergo the reforms of Vatican II. The title refers to the girls’ yearlong…
South Park airs on Comedy Central Last year, just days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone told a reporter that the next season of their show wouldn’t take aim at Trump, because “satire has become reality.” After 20 years of…
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold premieres Oct. 27 on Netflix Joan Didion has set an impossible standard for any documentarian who would want to cover her life. She’s essentially already done it herself, brilliantly, in her essays, novels and films. Still, Didion’s nephew, actor/director Griffin Dunne, takes a…
Fifty years ago, in 1967, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, In the Heat of the Night and The Dirty Dozen rocked American cinemas. And somewhere in a field outside Pittsburgh, George Romero and John Russo were shooting on black-and-white 16mm film a low-budget movie that would found…
What’s it like to have millions of dollars to blow on fantasy gifts from the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book? We don’t have an effing clue. But we used our imagination. Here are four made-up stories about the people buying this year’s fantasy gifts. Get Madame Alexander dolls for a year,…
At first, it sounded like a flock of birds had been released into the back of the auditorium at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The source of the high-pitched chatter became evident as dozens of fifth-graders from Garland ISD’s Watson Technology Center filed into the room. Even guest…
State Rep. Matt Shaheen of Plano has been one of the leading voices calling for the abolition of state spending and programs designed to help bring film and TV productions to Texas. Earlier this week, Shaheen used the growing sexual abuse scandal involving Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to widen the…
Friday Pop quiz time! Without resorting to Google, name three ballets. Swan Lake, OK, that’s pretty obvious. Yeah, The Nutcracker’s another. Easy peasy, since Christmas is only two months away and that thing gets performed, like, a zillion times. But what’s another one? If you came up with an answer…
In playwright Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the droll, headstrong protagonist, Lizzy Bennett, tells her sisters that love is a game. So it makes sense that WaterTower’s production of the play, onstage through Nov. 5, opens with a basketball game. Actors sit on the benches, waiting…
Mattresses. Rock candy. Blenders. Knives. Pots and pans. Caricature artists. These are some of the things you’ll find in the vendor halls at the State Fair of Texas. Oh, and of course, pitchmen and women roping you in with witty puns and kitschy gimmicks. But behind the smiles and fluorescent…
Halloween is everywhere. Advertisements for haunted houses are all over our Facebook feeds, pumpkin spiced foods are stacked high in grocery stores and movie theater marquees bear the names of classic scary movies. This year, celebration of the holiday can even be incorporated into your skin regimen. I’ve been hearing…
ThursdayBy now, we know what to expect from House Party Theatre: surprises and unexpectedly good theater. The nontraditional theater company has racked up accolades since its inception in 2014, putting together smart and concise pieces that range from goofy to downright intellectual. HPT’s latest play, Shadow Woman by Claire Carson,…
In the opening shot of Only the Brave, a flaming bear — not just a bear that happens to be burning but one that looks as if it had been created entirely from fire — lunges at the camera in the middle of a blazing forest. The image returns a…
