21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week

Thursday These days, it’s a cat’s world, and we just live in it. These tiny mousers were tasked to warn off rodents in order to earn their keep when they first entered our homes hundreds of years ago. Now, you’ll be hard pressed to get Mittens out of his bed…

Cheap and Free Events in Dallas This Week

Solar Eclipse Party Perot Museum of Nature and Science 2201 N. Field St. 12-2 p.m. Monday Free Solar eclipses happen regularly, but the U.S. hasn’t experienced a total solar eclipse since 1979, making this year’s something to get excited about. Although Texas won’t be in the path of totality, The…

Despite Breakout Role, Noomi Rapace is a Star Hiding in Plain Sight

In one of two new action films Noomi Rapace leads this summer, she plays seven different women — sisters — in a dystopian future in which single-child policies are stringently and violently enforced because of food-and-resource shortages (let’s be honest: global warming). This is Netflix’s What Happened to Monday. In…

8 Best Places to Stargaze (or Watch the Eclipse) Near Dallas

While big-city lights don’t exactly provide the prime backdrop for stargazing, Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas member Dick Gentry has a few favorite spots. The group has already picked some sites for its new, free star parties. “Often, a star party is more about meeting the people and showing them…

Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

FridayHere’s  a fun trick. You can learn someone’s age just by asking them their earliest memory of Arsenio Hall. If someone says Hall is “that guy who starred alongside Eddie Murphy in Coming to America,” then he or she is probably a baby boomer bordering on a gen-Xer. Hosting his…

Whitney: Can I Be Me Surveys the Pressures Faced by a Pop Great

Whitney: Can I Be Me premieres on Aug. 25 on Showtime In the February 2016 issue of ESPN The Magazine, Danyel Smith penned a powerful essay on Whitney Houston’s chill-inducing rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV, perhaps the pinnacle of national anthem performances. Smith frames Houston as…

Art Events for Your Weekend

CHAOS!!!!! Ro2 Art 1501 S. Ervay St. Closing 7 p.m. Friday Free This chaotic gallery show offers patrons a chance to peruse small works by more than 100 artists. For the fifth summer in a row, Ro2 Art presents CHAOS!!!!!, an exhibition featuring artwork of various styles and media hung…

Soderbergh Returns at Last With a Breezy, Comic Real-America Heist

In Steven Soderbergh’s hillbilly heist comedy Logan Lucky, the West Virginia prison where vault specialist Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) resides is pristine and peaceful. This is a high-security facility in a seemingly alternate world, a jail without racial tensions where the prisoners feast on edible food. While only a small…

The Hitman’s Bodyguard: A Giddily Irresponsible Action Comedy

Here’s what Patrick Hughes’ The Hitman’s Bodyguard has going for it: It’s exactly the movie it promises to be, but more so. It’s more wild, more hilarious, more giddily irresponsible — it’s the hard R action comedy that kids sneaking into it might imagine it’s going to be, minus ’70s…

21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week

ThursdaySouth African band Seether has been making loud and aggressive alternative rock for close to 20 years. Trafficking mostly in the various styles popularized by Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and Evanescence, the three-piece (four-piece on the road) recently released Poison the Parish, a 12-song album that is its brashest yet…