The Walton name is recognized around the world because of Walmart, the department store Sam Walton founded in 1962 in Bentonville, Arkansas, and which has become the largest private employer and largest company by revenue in the world under his children’s leadership. But his daughter and heir Alice Walton is…
Stanley Marcus Home10 Nonesuch Road A Dallas city landmark, the Stanley Marcus home sits on approximately three acres. The property originally consisted of six acres and, according to CBSDFW, was a gift to retail wizard Stanley Marcus from his father, Herbert, cofounder of Neiman Marcus. Lore has it that Marcus…
What does it take for a woman to win the trust it takes to become an action director? For Anna Foerster, it took two decades, an expert’s knowledge of visual effects and cinematography and a directing gig on key episodes of a cult television show — Starz’s Outlander. Now she’s…
Once upon a time, in the dark ages of not-that-long-ago, foreign television was a mysterious land beyond our reach. Aside from the occasional British import, the wonders of international series were limited to those equipped with multi-region DVD players. Scandinavian gloom mostly stayed in Scandinavia. Thanks to streaming, it’s now…
Martin Scorsese opens his foreword to the latest edition of Shusaku Endo’s Silence with a simple, impossible question: “How do you tell the story of Christian faith?” The director isn’t presumptuous enough to present his adaptation of that beloved novel as a definitive answer, but his film does read as…
Everyone has a neglected piece of art stored somewhere in their garage. When people decide to do their spring cleaning on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, they sometimes find out those works of art are worth thousands of dollars — other times, they’re worth $15. But Houston resident James Kenner received only…
The fan attendees of the Marvelous Nerd Year’s Eve convention in Dallas found themselves grieving a loss in the midst of an otherwise raucous celebration. Carrie Fisher, the iconic Hollywood actress best known for playing Princess Leia in the first three Star Wars films as well as director J.J. Abrams’ Star…
Ahead of his stop through Dallas on Saturday at Samuel Lynn Gallery, we caught up with “bad boy” photographer Tyler Shields. The L.A.-based jack of all trades, who has worked with Lindsay Lohan, Emma Roberts, Demi Lovato, Aaron Paul and plenty others, just released his latest collection of work titled…
Tue 1/3If getting lost in at least one good book is a resolution of yours this new year, it may be easier surrounded by some like-minded individuals in a cozy cafe. The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s book club is hosting a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3,…
From Stars Hollow to Afghanistan, 2016’s film and television creators produced plenty of work that was good, bad or ugly — but always interesting. Here are some of the stories about this year’s crop that caught our readers’ eyes. 13 Hours Trades Truth for Explosions — But It’s Not Truly…
Like many people after Carrie Fisher’s untimely passing on Tuesday, Dec. 27, I was moved to revisit Postcards From the Edge, the Mike Nichols–directed film that Fisher adapted from her own novel. This was the sole feature screenwriting credit for the actress-novelist, despite the fact that she was for decades…
“With all respect, sir, may I ask, who are you?” “What you see before you is a man, a simple monk.” “Are you the Lord Buddha?” “I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, and I try to be a good man, you…
Sha Brewer, president of the Wilmer-Hutchins High School marching band’s booster club, was still sewing patches to band uniforms Wednesday, just days before she would pile into a bus and head to New Orleans, along with 80 high school students, marching band staff members and chaperones. Five years after forming, the…
AJ Goin’s hands are shaking after he crashes his AWK210 mini-quad drone on his second attempt at a new line he’s just found at a not-quite-abandoned building (the old Decker Detention Center) along the I-35 access road in the Design District. It’s not because he’s just wasted hundreds of dollars;…
Dear Stoner: My favorite marijuana strain is Lamb’s Bread. Does that name mean anything, or is it just made up at a grower? Burt Smiley Dear Burt: Marijuana names definitely mean something, especially for the strain you mention. Lamb’s Bread is an iconic Jamaican sativa that Bob Marley reportedly liked to…
2016 brought more noteworthy movies than can fit on the usual year-end top 10 list. Here’s the complete lineup of a films we named critics’ picks this year. Not all of them played on big screens in Dallas, and some are still coming this way, but all of them are…
Whenever voice actor Maurice LaMarche gets together with his fellow actors at the numerous fan conventions they attend, he says they often spend their downtime exploring some of the better restaurants in whatever city they happen to be in for that weekend. “The beauty of voice actors is nobody knows…
Like craft beers or your news feed, Netflix’s niche-viewing categories are forever growing more micro-specific. Its new drama series, an eight-part bafflement called The OA, could only be categorized as a Sexually Frank Spiritual Locked-Room Suburban Afterlife Mad Scientist Communitarian Interpretive-Dance Ripped-From-the-Headlines Horror Puzzle Mystery. Its flavors never unite into…
For some, suiting up for a day at the office or fashioning the perfect latte in a crowded cafe is simply a means to fund what they really love: creating intimate works of art that transcend any old college student’s “art appreciation” project. It’s not easy stepping into a real-world…
Anna Elise Johnson — Inner WorkingsCris Worley Fine Arts 1845 Levee St., Suite 110 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday Anna Elise Johnson’s three-dimensional collages use photographs of political, economic and diplomatic meetings to create small-ish mise-en-scéne containing ambiguous yet striking narratives with characters frozen in time. Delicate mists of spray…
Moonlight Serenade Photographs: Do Not Bend Gallery 154 Glass St., Suite 104 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday Free These are the last few days to check out two thought-provoking solo exhibitions at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery featuring the work of two new-to-the-gallery talents who hail from Japan and…
Ava DuVernay’s breakthrough 2014 film, Selma, earned her a Golden Globe nomination for best director, the first for a female African-American auteur.
