Over the weekend, I did something heroic, mind-blowing, but ultimately anticlimatic. Well, it was exciting for me but absolutely no one else. I competed in Funniest Reporter in Texas, and no, there is no video proof of it. This happened because my editor — we’ll call him Joe Pappalardo — forced…
Please accept what follows as a considered statement, arrived at through observation and experience, and not as film-review hype or boilerplate: Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock is the rare drug movie that, as you watch it, if you surrender to it, stirs the sensations of having taken drugs. I’m…
Friday Before Nine Inch Nails, Muse or even Marilyn Manson, there was Depeche Mode. A pioneer in popularizing electronic music, the English band peaked in the 1980s, offering a musical alternative to the exhausted bubblegum pop of Top 40 hits. The band has released 14 studio albums since its conception…
Yayoi Kusama occupies an interesting position in the world of contemporary art; few artists have achieved the level of mainstream celebrity this Japanese artist commands. Of course, some in the art world wonder at that status, especially since Kusama’s fame seems tied inextricably to the lines that queue up for…
As temperatures begin to drop in Dallas, it’s perfect weather for sitting outside on a nice lawn with a bottle of wine while watching a stage fill up with blood. For the first time in its 46-year history, Shakespeare Dallas will present one of Shakespeare’s most violent plays, Titus Andronicus…
There’s no delicate way to say this, so I’ll just spit it out. I spent the first 10 minutes of Stronger, David Gordon Green’s eventually potent drama of trauma and recovery, trying to work out whether star Jake Gyllenhaal was intending to suggest that the real-life Bostonian at the story’s…
Arlington’s Frame4Frame Festival gets rolling Thursday, with more than 20 films set to screen during the event. Now in its second year, the festival also features art and live music around downtown Arlington. The film screenings will take place Sept. 22-24 at Studio Movie Grill in Lincoln Square. “There’s a…
Battleborn creative director Randy Varnell announced that updates to the video game would soon be coming to an end, but he followed up with big plans for the future. A forum post on Frisco-based game developer Gearbox’s website outlined details for the game’s final creative stages: Once the previously announced fall…
Thursday Arts Mission Oak Cliff, 410 S. Windomere Ave., is hosting a dance class for everyone. There’s no intimidating structure, no dress code, no previous experience required. In fact, the instructors give full permission to be “bad,” so there’s absolutely zero stress to be found on the dance floor. BAD…
Dallas Contemporary Art Exhibit Community Beer Co. 1530 Inspiration Drive 5-10 p.m. Thursday $20 New York-based Conception Arts describes itself as a platform for linking emerging artists with art patrons by hosting shows of local artists in cities around the world. New York Business Journal named Conception co-founder Rachel Wilkins…
We know your TV schedule is jam-packed and we hate to add another reality show in the mix, but Little Women: Dallas is coming back for a second season. And this is the kind of TV you just can’t look away from. In the season two trailer, one of the…
LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary section of TIFF has a reputation for programming the types of films that can easily compete for audience attention with the narrative juggernauts, and this year is no different. From Agnes Varda’s wacky…
Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is so much movie that critics April Wolfe and Alan Scherstuhl have elected to sync up Pacific Rim-style to take it on. Warning: The discussion below delves right into what we might call spoilers if a movie like Mother! could be spoiled. Now let’s drift. April, Each…
Mavericks fans and charitable folks filled up SMU’s bleachers Saturday night to watch an entertaining mix of professional and amateur tennis players play a few rounds to raise money for Dirk Nowitzki’s charity foundation. The foundation has raised money for a variety of organizations in Dallas, but for the second…
All the characters in Miller, Mississippi at Dallas Theater Center die. And playwright Boo Killebrew traps the audience in the house with the family as the body count piles up. Miller, Mississippi paints a harrowing portrait of a politically active, white family as the civil rights movement shakes the foundations…
The sequel to 2015’s hit Kingsman: The Secret Service won’t make you feel the urgent need to take a shower and/or throw up, like the original probably did. Believe it or not, that’s not always a good thing. Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Matthew Vaughn’s follow-up to his brutal, joyfully degenerate…
Earlier this summer, bike sharing programs hit DFW with gusto. Orange, yellow and green bikes now dot the streets, duking it out in a colorful turf war for two-wheeled supremacy. In Dallas, there are so many bikes that a ride seems to be no more than a few steps from…
Pegasus Reading SeriesThe Wild Detectives 314 W. 8th St. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Free The Wild Detectives, 314 W. Eighth St., offers a night of poetry reading from four North Texas poets: Susana Edith, Melania-Luisa Marte, Johnny Olson and James Barrett Rodehaver. Edith is the founder of Lucha Dallas, an activist…
The Fat Jew is not an Instagram influencer. You might think he is because of his 10 million followers on his account, @thefatjewish, and his occasional brand deals. But he’s not, he promises. “I think it’s a misconception that I am because I’m on Instagram and I have a lot…
Ripley’s Believe It or Not is living up to its name. The kitschy museum we pass by on Interstate 30 on the way to Fort Worth shockingly acquired something of real value to add to its hall of wax presidents and shrunken heads. Last November, Ripley’s bought the dress Marilyn Monroe wore…
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, the cult mystery series that returned this year — 25 years after its initial two-season run on ABC — for a final, mind-bending season on Showtime, is one of the most surreal TV-watching experiences, and it was just as surreal for the people who played the show’s most…
L.A. Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a festival-worthy film still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the folks who tell stories through cinema…
