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.
July 7, 2016, is a day North Texans will always remember. During a peaceful protest against recent police shootings that left black men dead in Louisiana and Minnesota, a heavily armed man opened fired on police officers working the protest in downtown Dallas. Five officers were killed. Nine were injured…
Wed 12/28New year resolutions are so passé. Or at least, calling them resolutions is. See, folks, we can’t sugarcoat it anymore: They’re goals. Not achieving a goal seems like a much bigger tragedy than laying off a resolution two weeks into February, if you catch our drift. Cicely Rue is…
An Oak Cliff corner store with a fire hydrant out front is rebranding as Bruno’s Place, a do-it-yourself dog wash. Despite layers of dust on the showroom floor and an absent ceiling tile overhead signaling the work that lies ahead, co-owner Rochelle McKown says she envisions a February grand opening…
Carrie Fisher was always smarter than the words and roles written for her, smarter than what Hollywood thought it wanted out of a princess. On Christmas Eve of the all-devouring Sarlacc that is 2016, after word had spread that Fisher had suffered a heart attack, a page from her original…
In a profile early this year, the novelist Dana Spiotta told the New York Times, “That’s seductive, being paid attention to.” Several of the films below — those that seduced me — feature pivotal scenes, whether in diners, at picnic tables or at kitchen tables, of one character raptly listening…
In this, the harrowing year of 2016, I could jump into the Oscars talk. I could pick groundbreaking films that reminded me time and again that movies are alive and more vital than ever, like the heartbreaking Moonlight, the soul-stirring Queen of Katwe, the force-of-goodness 13th, the subtle and sweet…
I was fortunate enough this year to be at both Sundance and Cannes, so it was something like agony for me to watch the litany of critics and commentators who spent the summer and early fall complaining about the year in film — all while movies such as Manchester by…
Controversial opinion: Lists are a great way to both organize and digest horrifically large amounts of information. And they’ve never been more relevant than this, the Lord’s year, 2016, in television. There’s just too damn much, and nobody could possibly watch it all — except maybe Scott Bakula on a…
The stage burns up at Drugstore Cowboy in Deep Ellum when a dancing duo who call themselves the Indigos show off their waves, locks and soulful power pops that can move any somber crowd on a typical Friday night. They make a splash when they’re on the floor, whether it’s…
Big changes are in the works for two Dallas-area theater companies. Both Theatre Three and WaterTower Theatre announced new artistic leadership this month. Jeffrey Schmidt will fill the shoes of the late Jac Alder, founder and artistic director for the company. Alder died in 2015. WaterTower has hired Joanie Schultz…
Clint Cummings was known as an award-winning tattoo artist who’d been slinging ink for nearly a decade in the Fort Worth area. His skill with a tattoo gun landed him a spot on the second season of Ink Master, a tattoo competition judged by Miami Ink cast member Chris Núñez…
Comedian Dick Gregory has used his comedy, celebrity and humanity to advocate for civil rights and call out ignorance in America and throughout the world, and he’s been doing it since long before he stepped in front of a microphone. Needless to say, Gregory doesn’t like what he sees now…
Dear Stoner: What are some ways to tastefully incorporate weed into Christmas morning? Holly Dear Kim: Christmas is all about getting cozy, so keep that in mind as visions of sugar nugs dance in your head. And nothing is cozier than Christmas cookies and cocoa, both of which you can…
Some people collect stamps. Others collect dolls or china. Wayne Smith, a homeowner in University Park, collects light-up Santa figurines — more than 70 of them — and sets them up on bleachers in his front yard as part of a giant holiday display which grows more extravagant each year…
Dallas students can continue to step up their creative game next summer thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA will award the Art Works grant to Big Thought, which has teamed up with the city of Dallas and the Dallas Independent School…
Tuba Christmas Thanksgiving Square 1627 Pacific Ave. noon Friday Free to attend; $10 to play Tuba Christmas started back in 1974 at New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza Ice Rink when tuba musician Harvey Phillips wanted to honor the memory of his music teacher. So a group of renowned tuba players…
Accepting the Welt Literature Prize in Berlin on November 10 of this year, the novelist Zadie Smith said, “Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others.” She was speaking, of course, of the conviction among so many white people that there’s…
Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home examines, in its uncertain prose, one of the signal concerns of our age: How do those of us who have grown up in relative comfort square our good luck with the lot of the rest of the world? That question gets feinted at…
In the early scenes of the sci-fi drama Passengers, Chris Pratt gets to be every dope who ever woke up in the middle of the night, thought it was morning and started to make the coffee. Too bad for him, morning is still 90 years away, and the coffee sucks…
The Assassin’s Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous recreations of the roofs and streets of medieval and Renaissance cities. Sometimes you chase floating feathers through Florence. Often, you’ll sneak behind…
