Hey. Do you guys remember puppet comedian Jeff Dunham, whose downtrodden Mexican “on a steeeek” character José Jalapeño delighted many a middle-class white American in the ’90s? Well, imagine he blazed up a joint with Bill Maher, wrote a manifesto on atheism and then made a multimillion-dollar animated feature film…
The central conceit of Imperium — Daniel Radcliffe playing an FBI agent who goes undercover as a white supremacist — is laughable, and the film, to its credit, knows this. Harry Potter as a skinhead? Don’t worry, that’s all part of the plan. Well, maybe. Writer/director Daniel Ragussis tries to…
Do This! Show your love to a sport that dates back to Ancient Egypt on Saturday at Bowlmor AMF lanes. It’s National Bowling Day, and if bowlers at AMF lanes collectively knock down a million pins, Bowlmor will donate half a million meals to Feeding America. Show up to an…
Jenny Block is the writer of the Observer’s new sex column, Pillow Talk. She has published three books on the topic, The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex, O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm, and Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage. I get so many emails from women…
Intimacy, perception of space and self-esteem are obvious things affected by being born blind. But how would the lifelong absence of images affect your brain’s ability to conjure dreams? Would your subconscious be able to project images? This is the question that brought 29-year-old French photographer Jerome Poulalier across the…
Movie buffs have it pretty good these days. They have a wide variety of theaters to choose from including art house cinemas that screen non-mainstream fare and luxury cinemas that offer reclining seats and full food menus. They don’t have to go to a theater to get their film fix,…
In one of the bar rooms at American Airlines Center, a pack of painted characters welcomes visitors to clown alley, where a red carpet leads to a couple of trunks topped with circus gear; there are wigs, shoes and one of those horned Viking helmets. The jumpy gang of living,…
Frustrations with the recent closings of art spaces by the fire marshal reached a boiling point on Tuesday as nearly 100 artists, gallerists and others close to the matter assembled in the auditorium at the Central Public Library. The discussion got heated as some artists lashed out at city officials…
In 2012, Brian Gonzales got the role of a lifetime: Francis Henshall in the Broadway production of One Man, Two Guvnors. The play, Richard Bean’s reinterpretation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 Italian comedy Servant of Two Masters, was a smash success, and the portrayal of Francis earned a Tony that year…
In 2014, Missouri passed a law that requires women to wait at least 72 hours between an initial doctor’s appointment and having an abortion. Today, Missouri is one of the hardest states in the country in which to obtain [changed “get” to “obtain”] the procedure. That’s great news for anti-choicers…
Hell or High Water sees a Scottish director making a down-home, West Texas–set movie about cars, guns, brothers, banks and twist-off beers. But this outsider’s perspective is nothing new for David Mackenzie, who has worked with Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche on a Los Angeles romance about a gigolo (2009’s…
This year, the Tony awards introduced the world to something most had never seen before: a musical told entirely through sign language. Deaf West’s revival of Spring Awakening was performed by Deaf and Hard of Hearing performers, with some accompaniment for hearing audiences. The combination of signed and spoken words…
Taking Ecstasy at Lights All Night or tripping on ‘shrooms during a camping trip are pretty common stories of recreational psychedelic use, but it wasn’t until recently that we began hearing stories about Dallasites experimenting with ayahuasca, a brew that extracts the psychedelic DMT from the root of plants such…
House Party Theatre wasn’t joking about the whole “theater in a house” thing: Their next show is going up at the residence of the CEO’s mother. “Coming back to its roots,” says CEO Chris McCreary, “House Party Theatre is returning to the very place where it had its first Dallas…
As Nicole Stewart sits in a Lakewood cafe on a busy Thursday, some 200 miles away in Austin the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is hearing testimony regarding a proposed rule that would require abortion clinics to bury or cremate fetal tissue. Reproductive rights advocates like Stewart — the…
There’s a widely held belief that comedians are socially awkward and insanely jealous when their fellows find success. All you have to do is hang out at a bar after a show in Dallas to learn neither is true; at least not here. In comedy hubs such as New York…
In May, WaterTower Theatre announced big news: Longtime artistic director Terry Martin would be leaving to accept a new position as the head of fine arts at the Greenhill School in Addison. In February, the school announced plans to open a $28 million facility for performing and fine arts, the…
The Big Feat: The World’s Largest Shoe Drive 8 p.m. Monday, August 8 AT&T Plaza at American Airlines Center 2500 Victory Ave. Free The circus has come to town, and it’s brought a challenge for the people of Dallas: Surpass the current World Record for “Most Shoes Donated to a…
Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)…
Fort Worth artist and writer Christopher Blay spent the past few years working out an idea he had during a CentralTrak residency in 2014. Training his imagination on an actual conspiracy theory about a time machine inside the Large Hadron Collider, Blay places the stories of seven black victims of police…
Do This!PC loyalists should head to QuakeCon this weekend. It’s one of the only gaming conventions that favors PC games, and it’s coming to the Hilton Anatole (2201 N. Stemmons Freeway) from Thursday through Sunday. There will be panels, demonstrations, tournaments and previews of upcoming games like Prey and Dishonored…
The Crow doesn’t seem like a comic that Hollywood would be keen on turning into a big-budget motion picture. The title character also known as Eric Draven doesn’t have much in common with Superman, Captain America or Ant-Man, who wear multi-colored costumes and fight to protect the innocent. Eric is angry,…
