I Love Dick streams on Amazon starting Friday, May 12 I Love Dick, the epistolary novel, is an obsessive confessional story from a woman — a version of the author Chris Kraus — who, in her letters, lusts for an English art critic named Dick. He barely returns the affection…
Twenty-two-year-old Zac Cooner and 21-year-old Chance Hudson have gone from college students to C-suite founders of a company that has garnered more than $600,000-worth of investment since its inception in August 2016. While the young pair is “working for peanuts” to continue to grow their social platform, “Cosmunity,” their progress…
Tue 05/16Who says you have to be a sports-hating snob to appreciate good art? There’s no rule that says you have to roll your eyes every time you flip past ESPN or Fox Sports as you make your way to the Sundance Channel to be a lover of fine artistic…
Last year, Stage West artistic director Dana Schultes came across a playwright who immediately resonated with her: Annie Baker. She’d read Baker’s 2010 The Aliens, which won an Obie Award that year for best new American play. It takes place in the alley behind a Vermont coffee shop and features…
Your dreams have come true. There is a Real Housewives of Oak Cliff on YouTube. But it’s unclear what’s happening in any of the episodes – there are two seasons, each with seven – so please do us a favor and sit down and watch them and let us know…
White Rock Zine Machine: Flight #4 Deep Vellum Books 3000 Commerce St. 7-9 p.m. Friday Free Friday’s event at Deep Vellum Books is more than just a reading from a zine. It’s a launch, a celebration and a bit of a lottery. White Rock Zine Machine is observing its collaboration…
One of the busiest days of the year for restaurants is Mother’s Day. You’ll be tempted to join the throngs and make the same brunch reservations you do every year, but what about skipping the crowded restaurants and panicked waiters? Choose one of these 10 experiences this Sunday and you…
“I am garbage,” Amy Schumer’s Emily Middleton, on a vacation in Ecuador with her ma, Linda (Goldie Hawn), that’s gone all wrong, chimes in agreement with someone who’s leveled the insult at her — and who’s also holding the two women for ransom — in Snatched. Your enjoyment of this…
King Arthur is neither Guy Ritchie’s worst film nor his best, but it might well be his most frustrating. A compendium of all the things that make the British director so occasionally exciting and so often irritating, this new, hyper-stylized take on the Arthurian legends veers between genius and idiocy…
The true heart of Michael Mann’s Heat is revealed a little more than an hour into the film. No, I’m not talking about the classic coffee conversation between Robert De Niro’s master thief, Neil McCauley, and Al Pacino’s obsessed LAPD cop, Vincent Hanna — that fantastic and immortal face-off comes…
Dan Savage will speak tonight, Thursday, May 11, at The Kessler Theater Longtime sex-columnist and LGTBQ activist Dan Savage is this generation’s Dear Prudence, his sage advice delivered with the confident bluntness of Judge Judy. Through his podcast Savage Love, which is in its 11th year, Savage has literally redefined…
As the Oak Cliff Film Festival enters its sixth year, you see it growing into its future. Filmmaker friends of the festival have become more established, giving the content added weight – along with highly anticipated regional and statewide premieres. Left-of-center visionaries keep a revolving seat at the table for…
MakeShift PhotoRama – Significance ImposedKettle Art 2650 Main St. Opening reception 7-10 p.m. Thursday Twelve Dallas photographers paired up with 12 Dallas writers and took a Texas-soaked road trip. Significance Imposed is the collection of photos, landscapes, characters and words that resulted from the statewide jaunt. Prediction: There will be…
Each week on HBO’s Crashing, budding comic Pete Holmes stays on the couch of a different, established comic as he struggles to build a career in New York City. This story is a familiar one to Della Temple, who also endured homelessness on the path to a career in comedy…
Ahead of her stop at Samuel Lynne Galleries Saturday night for the opening reception of Buddha Goes Punk, Miami-based artist Metis Atash tells us what inspires her to create her pieces, which contain up to 24,000 Swarovski crystals, and weave her love of fashion and pop art from the 1970s…
A committed (and controversial) performance from Elle Fanning as a high school kid born Ramona — but identifying as Ray — is diced up and short-shrifted in this muddled comedy-drama. The title suggests the chief trouble: Director and co-writer Gaby Dellal’s attention is divided among three generations, with Ray’s mother…
America is going to hate this movie. Doug Liman’s The Wall — whose title will forever demand that, when bringing up the film in conversation, you’ll have to say, “No, the other Wall” — is a mean little thriller set in our desert wars, and its only American soldiers are…
Contractors who’ll soon be hired to renovate the 112-year-old Ambassador Hotel are strongly advised to brace themselves before they open the closets. They might find charred human remains or a foot-long prosthetic penis. For three weeks beginning mid-March, the hotel’s carpeted hallways were showered with blood from cannons being fired…
While cattle ranches remain a staple across Texas, shaping its character and fueling its economy, other ranches use their land in more unusual ways. The ones on this list are home to everything from body farms to vintage vehicles and bordellos, proving that Texas ranches are as diverse as the…
It’s not easy to wrap one’s head around the work of theater troupe Dead White Zombies (DWZ), but why would it be? It’s the brainchild of Thomas Riccio, a University of Texas at Dallas drama professor, world traveler and metaphysical hobbyist who’s all about bucking convention. DWZ always engage the…
Tue 5/9 Your grandfather is a legendary storyteller. When he spins a yarn about going fishing on the bayou and getting chased out by an alligator, everyone in your family gathers round, and listens transfixed. But even your grandfather is no match for Garrison Keillor, best known for his 42-year…
Serial Mom is available in a new Blu-ray edition from Shout Factory. John Waters’ response to boxes — the kind in which we tend to place others and ourselves — is to vomit on them. And then sell them, his pencil-thin mustache twisting in a good-humored smirk. Throughout his career…
