If you were fortunate enough to see Sally Nystuen Vahle in 2015’s harrowing Medea, you saw one of the strongest performance on a Dallas Theater Center stage in a long time. The company cleverly used the “Down Center Stage” space (aka basement) for the production, and no other space could…
Tue 11/29As we watch names of potential cabinet members get tossed around and fear budget cuts to the parks, arts and a number of other things, there are people still very committed to keeping what we hold dear thriving — people like Dr. Jane Chu, the chairman for the National…
Man, cuffing season is already here. And while you don’t know what the hell that means, everyone around you seems to. Here’s the down low for you: It’s the time of the year where it’s cold outside so then you stay inside a lot and then you get lonely because…
Thanksgiving can be a stressful time for those whose relatives spend the entire year glomming onto every political talking point just so they can bring it up at the most awkward times during the holidays. Thanks to the presidential election, they’ve been given a conversation-stopping, fork-dropping gift to make things…
When last we saw Howard Hughes onscreen, Leonardo DiCaprio was repeating “the way of the future” ad infinitum as he gazed into the mirror. Warren Beatty’s long-in-the-making Rules Don’t Apply isn’t nearly as concerned with the future as Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator was, looking instead to the past and all…
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a family to go home to and “put up with” on Thanksgiving. If you don’t have any Thanksgiving plans or just don’t feel like eating a whole turkey by yourself, you might consider giving some of your time to some people who could…
A Dallas theater showed Ben Fountain/Ang Lee’s new film in a very cool way. But then, it vanished. You’d be hard-pressed to find a Dallas nightstand that hasn’t felt the weight of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. The New York Times bestseller, penned by local author/writing superstar Ben Fountain, is…
Showing up at a local watering hole, sliding onto a bar stool and ordering a martini straight up is something that’s easy to take for granted. Bars are everywhere, liquor is plentiful and most bartenders have the required tools (vermouth, bitters, ice, a shaker) at their fingertips. They strain that…
Jay Shinn: Air Space Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., Suite 120 12 to 5 p.m., closing Saturday If you know what a decahedron is, you are either a high school geometry teacher or the artist Jay Shinn. Shinn uses the 10-faced, three-dimensional wooden shapes as canvasses for Air Space,…
Survivors who make it past belly busters and Black Friday specials into the post-Thanksgiving stretch may want to take a breather and kick around these 10 mom-and-pop shops on Small Business Saturday. Houston Street Toy Co. 309 Houston St., Fort Worth This boutique toy store opened its doors in Fort…
There are a lot of tragedies in the world and humans have short attention spans. The memory of one high-profile crime, natural disaster or mass shooting is quickly replaced by another, and we move on. And yet, even 53 years later, the murder of President John F. Kennedy is still…
The craft beer boom has beer makers, local and abroad, spewing out artsy booze labels. The stickers range from cryptically coded to simply stated to everything in between. Whether they are designed exclusively by a beer company’s in-house artist or banged out on a home computer, quite a bit of…
A French Village starts off on June 12, 1940, with a premiere that includes a German fighter plane shooting at children on a school trip. The scene is suspenseful but also staged with deliberate restraint, like a dream slowly turning into a nightmare before anybody quite realizes it. The series…
Oh man, are we in a backlash on liberal, PC culture right now. I mean, if you can call electing the KKK’s and Nazi party’s greatest white hope to the highest office in the world a backlash. I can’t even count how many people — strangers, family, trolls — have…
Maybe it was the agitated, election-induced state of mind I was in when I saw it, but Disney’s Moana feels like a movie about how easy it can be to give up, and how important it is not to. It’s funny, joyful, and sweet, and yet down below, running beneath…
Tue 11/22 Every Tuesday night, the Lemmon Avenue location of Buzzbrews hosts a unique open mic experience with fewer predictably whiny singer/songwriters and more surprisingly talented opera singers, cellists and pianists. You can join the good folks…
When book publisher Will Evans agreed to meet Hollywood film producer Dallas Sonnier at Drugstore Cowboy for coffee, he assumed he’d be the one doing the selling. The meeting had come about because Evans was looking for investors for his bookstore, and Sonnier, who grew up in Highland Park, had…
As Allied opens, Brad Pitt parachutes so gently and quietly onto a stretch of Moroccan desert that at first you think he might be dead. And maybe he sort of is — maybe he has to be. Pitt’s Max Vatan is a pinched, terse figure in the first act of…
In a time when our country seems particularly divided, conversations about our differences can become tense quickly. Ignorance leads to fear in many cases, but it’s often especially true when that ignorance is over cultural differences. With the holidays rapidly approaching, many cultures begin to celebrate traditions that are different…
On the three-year anniversary of his death, Matthew Brinston opened an art show of nearly 50 pieces of his original paintings, drawings and clothing at BREDA Studio, the sleek offices of a watch manufacturing company in Deep Ellum. Brinston was there that night, in the flesh, which would be impossible…
Vintage shopping can be overwhelming. The inventory is often unorganized and priced high. But Est. 1914, a new store in Oak Cliff, is hoping to create a shopping experience that has none of those drawbacks. Dallas Cowboys gear, ugly Christmas sweaters, vintage label dresses and cowboy boots are just some…
Dear Stoner: Will Trump destroy legal weed? Quaking Dear Quaking: Donald Trump said a lot of things during his candidacy, but vowing to destroy legal marijuana was not one of them. Although he’s not as hip to the plant as our man Bernie was, I’d be surprised if President Donny…
