At least Rough Night, Lucia Aniello’s dutifully raucous new bachelorette-party comedy, achieves verisimilitude. It’s a rough watch and an evening killer, this film about friends who seem not to love, like or even really know one another. If you enjoy strained fun with people who have grown apart from you,…
Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm is a playwright learning to channel his rage. In 2014, the St. Louis native was away from home when a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, a northern suburb of the city. The riots and protests that followed the highly disputed and emotionally charged…
Sister’s Sticker Collection Ro2 Art at the Magnolia Theatre 1501 S. Ervay St. 12-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays beginning Wednesday, June 14 Free Like a tween dream hopped up on Pixy sticks, Adam Palmer’s solo exhibit Sister’s Sticker Collection is throwing it back to the ’90s, the decade whose progenies…
The late Adam West wasn’t just a pioneering actor in the world of comic book adaptations and camp cult TV shows. West, who died Saturday at the age of 88, was also one of the first and longest-serving celebrities on the now-billion-dollar convention circuit. His legendary stint as the star of…
A film often smartly attuned to language, Beatriz at Dinner — a sober comedy about class clash and soft-to-hard racism directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White — operates in several different idioms. English and Spanish (sometimes unsubtitled) are spoken, as are the lexicons of healing and affluence…
Sometime after you moved out of your childhood home, your parents probably gave away all of your toys. A few of your dolls or action figures may have ended up broken at the bottom of a donation bin. But that’s where artist and comedian David Jessup comes in. He’s given…
It’s only after three encounters, a night on molly, a blow-up argument, an impassioned recitation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “First Fig,” and some tender May-December — late December — sex that Sam Elliott’s The Hero character can be bothered to ask what Laura Prepon’s does for a living. Turns…
A yoga-based fitness regime often incorporates other techniques. On top of stretching, in a yoga class you might also meditate or do breathing exercises. And one yoga collective in Deep Ellum is branching out even further: It’s incorporating 20 baby pygmy goats into its classes. “I was an event planner;…
Lucia Aniello’s ensemble comedy Rough Night might look, from its marketing, like a gender-flipped Very Bad Things. Both comedies feature a pre-wedding party that goes off the rails when a stripper accidentally gets killed by the rowdiest member of the crew. But Aniello’s film — which stars Scarlett Johansson, Zoë…
Here’s something I never guessed I would say: It might be worth going into the new Cars movie spoiler-free. Without giving anything away, I can tell you that, at its climax, this latest installment in a springtime of sequels the world doesn’t need eases into a surprising new gear and…
Demetri Martin performs at the Majestic Theatre on Thursday, June 15. Between national tour dates and pesky deadlines for his third book, If It’s Not Funny, It’s Art — due out later this year — comedian Demetri Martin has a pretty hectic schedule. Last year, he decided to complicate his life…
Heather Chandler is popular, pretty and pitiless. She says things like, “Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw.” She treats her friends, two of them also named Heather, with deep contempt, and she treats her enemies worse. Another girl invites her to lick up a puddle of vomit. One morning,…
DSO Parks Concerts Multiple Locations 8:15 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday Free The Dallas Symphony Orchestra doesn’t believe in making you wait until July to hear some epic Americana under the great wide open. And it doesn’t hold off on musical fireworks either. The DSO Parks Concerts bring fun, classical music to venues…
Matt Lyle knows a thing or two about straddling worlds. The 38-year-old, Dallas-based playwright and dad got his chops doing theater in high school and college but realized early on that performing comedy was also in his bones, and he just couldn’t live without it. This month, he’s merging those…
Friday Mark Chen’s Windtopia originated as a visual art project of photos and videos but has evolved into a full-blown multimedia collaboration among artists in visual art, sound art, graphic design, creative writing and performance. It also includes collaborations with nonartists in fields such as engineering and climate science. Windtopia…
Over the years, Tom Cruise has been many things, but he’s almost never been marginalized — not in one of his own movies. Oh, he’s played supporting parts and done cameos here and there, but even in those smaller roles (in films like Tropic Thunder or Rock of Ages), he…
Fans of The Bachelorette who showed up to Sundown at Granada on Monday to watch the latest episode of Rachel Lindsay’s quest for love got to watch more than that. Toward the end of the show, Lindsay, a Dallas native, walked out onto the rooftop patio. “Everyone cheered — we…
The Hill, a 275,000-square-foot development at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway, just got its first business, and it’s already breaking records. TreeHouse, a store that sells sustainable home improvements, is also Dallas’ first energy-positive building. TreeHouse has been dubbed the “Whole Foods of home improvement.” The company’s CEO and co-founder,…
For more than 10 years, a group of goth engineers and vehicle enthusiasts has gathered together to speed down Flag Pole Hill at 30-plus miles an hour, strapped in coffin-shaped boxes fashioned out of plywood and prayers. If that’s something you simply have to witness, you can this Saturday at…
ThursdayIf you happen to love It Happened One Night, the Frank Capra classic starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, you’ve probably learned to ignore all the patriarchal annoyances (father’s ownership of daughter, weird Stockholm syndrome overtones) and love it for its endearingly screwball plot lines and trope-setting scenes. It wasn’t…
Since last November, we’ve been asked to understand, if not necessarily sympathize with, the furious resentments of the racists, misogynists, homophobes and plutocrats who have brought us to this point of political calamity. The fifth season of Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) appears to be its own kind of…
Megan Leavey is a war picture, but the scenes of combat, while suitably tense, are not its selling point. Instead, the film, based on a true story, follows aimless young Leavey (Kate Mara), who in 2003 leaves home to become a Marine. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite condenses the scenes of boot…
