On the Screen, American Pastoral Loses Its Rich Sweep

“How could a big man like you fuck up like this?” That’s the question that Nathan Zuckerman fears being asked — in Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning American Pastoral (1997) — if he were to show the book he’s written about the tragic life of his old Newark classmate Seymour “Swede” Levov…

10 Things to Do in Dallas for $10 or Less, October 21-23

Toasting Texas Lands The Foundry 2303 Pittman St. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday Free Show your appreciation for Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, the 120-acre public park recently hailed as best hiking by a highly respected alt-weekly publication which shall remain unnamed. The Texas Land Conservancy will host Toasting Texas Lands,…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, October 21-23

Jay Shinn: Air Space Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., Suite 120 6 to 8 p.m. Friday If you know what a decahedron is, you are probably either A) a high school geometry teacher or B) the artist Jay Shinn. Shinn uses the 10-faced, three-dimensional wooden shapes as canvasses for…

21 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week

Wed 10/19 If there’s something that’s truly necessary when watching the presidential debates of this election season, it’s food and drink. Food that will satisfy instincts to eat emotionally, while preventing yelling. Possibly several stiff drinks to numb the pain. Camaraderie also helps, so both the Dallas and Richardson locations…

The 10 Events You Must Attend at Dallas VideoFest This Year

Dallas VideoFest enters its 29th year on Tuesday, Oct. 18, and that means more than 150 boundary-pushing things to see and do. Its programmer/creator, Bart Weiss, is a local counter-culture staple who’s helped push new media to the forefront of Dallas life for more than three decades. His reach runs…

Keeping Up with the Joneses Has Every Reason to Be Jealous

Even those of us with a soft spot for dumb, high-concept Hollywood comedies might be outraged by the limp, unfunny nothingburger that is Keeping Up with the Joneses. A wan attempt to mix the comedy of domestic anxiety with the comedy of inept espionage — think Neighbors meets Central Intelligence…

A Biopic of a Distraught Journalist Does Too Little with Too Much

In one of the more bizarre coincidences of film scheduling, the brief life of a TV journalist whose biggest scoop was announcing her own death on air is recapitulated for the second time this year. Released in August, Robert Greene’s porous documentary Kate Plays Christine highlights the impossibility, even the…

10 Things to Do in Dallas for $10 or Less, October 14-16

Better Block Market — Swingtober Edition The Better Block 700 W. Davis St. 7-11 p.m. Friday, free Swing into action this weekend when the Better Block hosts a party featuring swing dance lessons with a live band. There will also be a mini flea market in the backyard where local…