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…
Strong Island premieres on Netflix on Sept. 15 The tragic truth remains that all it takes in America for a white person to get away with killing a black person is for the white person to convince the right people — a judge, a jury, a prosecutor — of his…
On Wednesday, Nintendo announced a port of 2016’s Doom to the Nintendo Switch. Developed by Richardson-based id Software, Doom is a reimagining of the classic series the company developed in 1993. It’s one two games published by Bethesda — the other is Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus — scheduled for release…
Friday Pandora’s Box prides itself on selecting only the most original and thought-provoking poets throughout North Texas for its less-than-family-friendly showcases of poetic literature. To celebrate this year’s Banned Book Week — which honors thousands of authors whose work society has, at least once, dubbed too inappropriate for schools, public…
LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Writer-director Dee Rees is breaking all the rules with her third feature, Mudbound. In film school, they tell you, “No voiceovers,” yet this film about two WWII and post-war Mississippi families — one black, one…
Matthew Paul Olmos sometimes gets a little embarrassed when he hears the words he’s written. In the soft-spoken playwright’s unconventional script, women play male characters. And not just any male characters: Mexican drug cartel members. The dialogue is a little rough. The play, so go the ghosts of méxico, part…
NFL Hall of Famer and all-time leading rusher Emmitt Smith is hosting a single-day, multiclass cycling event later this month that will engage local and national professional cyclists, as well as weekend riders. The former Dallas Cowboy, who is also a passionate cyclist, launched the annual Emmitt Smith Gran Fondo in…
Fun Home is onstage through Sept. 24 at the Winspear Opera House. In 2006, Alison Bechdel wrote a graphic memoir, Fun Home, about her life growing up in a restored Victorian home in rural Pennsylvania that doubled as a funeral home. Bechdel’s father, who worked as a schoolteacher in addition…
April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. I’d gone into the theater knowing nothing of the Chloe Zhao’s The Rider except that my colleague Bilge Ebiri adored it — and that I’d get to to witness some breathtaking cinematography capturing the dusky pastels streaking the…
April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Dictators are a certain kind of selfish, insecure insanity made manifest, and if you’re going to study them, Joseph Stalin is a good place to start. “Stalin” wasn’t even his real name. When he was 30, he changed…
When actor/writer/director Justin Chon was 11, his father took in early news reports about the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and left without a word to drive to the family’s shoe store in Paramount, a relatively poor 4.8-square-mile city bordered by Compton and Downey. “In a lot of Korean families,…
First They Killed My Father premieres on Netflix on Sept. 15 It would have been easy for Angelina Jolie’s adaptation of Cambodian genocide survivor Loung Ung’s 2000 memoir to go ruthlessly and repeatedly for the emotional jugular. First They Killed My Father is, after all, the story of a young…
Top of the Lake: China Girl airs on SundanceTV Jane Campion’s initial plan for Top of the Lake, her SundanceTV drama about sexual violence in a rural New Zealand town, was for the story of haunted detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) to come to a full stop at the end…
In Eliza Hittman’s debut feature, It Felt Like Love, a young girl tests the waters of adult sexuality, offering her body up to the statuesque bros who live in her Eastern Seaboard beach town. She tries her hardest to mimic the women in pornos, the ones all the boys want,…
Scott Hilton and Kenda North Dallas Center for Photography 4756 Algiers St. 7-9 p.m. Thursday $5 Dallas Center for Photography Speaker Series presents Scott Hilton and Kenda North from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at 4756 Algiers St. Both speakers are members of the University of Texas at Arlington photography…
Thursday The concept of the Great American Frontier haunts Modest Mouse’s music — even if it’s a twisted version of it. Panoramas of vast, dusty deserts, both brutal and beautiful, streak across each of the indie rock group’s records, like blurred landscapes glimpsed through a car window. The indifferent evils…
In the essay “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion wrote, “It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.” Justin Lemieux, looking back on a childhood friendship in his poignant solo play Warm Soda, has a similar problem. He doesn’t remember the last time…
Picking a color is the only hard part of a visit to a nail salon, other than paying the bill. Almost all salons offer dozens of options with names like “Bikini So Teeny” and “Size Matters.” But at one salon on Oak Lawn Avenue, Nailuscious, the job just became even…
Margana Wood, Miss Texas America 2018, is a lot of things. She’s named after her two grandmothers, Martha and Gayna. She’s the fourth runner-up in the Miss America 2018 competition. She’s a dancer. She’s a former victim of bullying. And as of Sunday night, she’s also an outspoken critic of President…
During Season 2 of The Real Housewives of Dallas, some of the Housewives choose to deal with their issues in a healthy way. Therapy is a major storyline during this season. In the first few episodes, Housewife LeeAnne Locken visits with her therapist, Elizabeth Scrivner of Park Cities Counseling, about…
Young men and women are waiting outside Fabletics in Plano’s Legacy West. The line wraps around the surrounding buildings. Some have been waiting since the wee hours of the morning, hoping their early arrival will improve their chances of meeting their idol, pop star Demi Lovato. The Texas native visited…
