Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s The Seventh Fire opens on dark, grainy footage of a highway at dusk before cutting to an overhead shot of a long stretch of forest, and then to two Native American men in a canoe, harvesting worms from a quiet lake. They take the worms home, where…
Long-time Oak Cliff resident Carlos de la Fuente spun paper mache and crepe paper into gold when he made his first Donald Trump piñata. Last June, when media outlets and political commenters were scoffing at Donald Trump’s attempt on the presidency, Fuente saw something different: a chance to capitalize on…
Putting together a comedy festival requires time, dedication and patience. Or if you’re comedian Dan Danzy, all you have to do is joke with one of your fans to make it happen, and watch them take it seriously. Danzy was performing at Andy’s Basement Bar and Grill on Denton’s North Locust…
Durational art like film forces its creators to imagine how viewers will perceive it. How long do you have to communicate your message before something else calls their attention and they walk away? It’s a problem inherent to all contemporary art, but one to which film is especially susceptible. Lip service…
Alec Baldwin is no Steve Harvey. Unlike Harvey, Baldwin seems diminished on the set of a retro ’70s game show dedicated to getting contestants to say gently dirty nonsense. On ABC’s baggy, boozy Match Game, Baldwin crabs into a skinny last-century microphone about how everything’s stupid: his celebrity panelists, the…
Everyone has a great idea that’s going to make them rich. But more times than not, they wake up the next day, sober, and don’t follow through with it. But what happens when you do? What happens when you take that in-the-moment, genius idea you and your friends schemed up…
There’s a shop full of motorcycles in various states of disassembly at the intersection of Highways 183 and 35E. The inside looks like a motorcycle graveyard but it’s really a place for resurrection, where bikes are taken apart, repaired, painted and put together under a completely new skin. Two guys…
Last week when Live Nation and Funny or Die announced the lineup for Oddball’s fourth tour, it was a disappointment to say the least. The next tour will kick off at the end of August and return to Dallas’ Gexa Energy Pavilion on Friday, September 23, with Dane Cook and…
Last week, the Texas preliminary to America’s most prestigious drag pageant, Miss Gay America, took place at the Rose Room inside Cedar Springs nightclub S4. After two preliminary nights and a review show, where 30 contestants were judged across five categories, on Friday Sofia Anderson was crowned Miss Gay Texas…
In the past century, theater practitioners have engaged in a campaign to retranslate the Bard’s work from a traditional Elizabethan context into increasingly innovative settings: the Wild West, the Roaring Twenties, post nuclear holocaust, even the moon. This week, the high school artists in Junior Players’ The Taming of the Shrew…
Indoor activities are where it’s at right now, and thankfully Dallas is blessed with a variety of them. From TV geek-fun to stand-up comedy mayhem, there’s something for everyone this week. Our plans for you are as follows: Game of Thrones Trivia Night9 p.m. Monday, July 25 Vickery Park 2810…
Do This! Think vending machines are just for Peanut M&Ms and hot fries? Think again. Deep Vellum Books (3000 St.) is throwing a party from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday to celebrate their new White Rock Zine Machine, which doles out zines by local poets and artists in exchange for…
Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…
It’s a few hours before dawn, and there’s a mysterious, low rumble emanating from behind the hangars at Addison Airport. It’s explained in a scene straight out of The Fast and the Furious, when a troop of Lamborghinis emerges, one by one. The cars have been assembled at the airport…
Anna Gunn actually gets to do things in Meera Menon’s expansive high-finance drama Equity, which is almost reason enough to recommend it right there. The Breaking Bad co-star tears into the role of a rainmaking banker taking a Silicon Valley company public. For once it’s Gunn whose character gets to…
Local teenage chess prodigies Jeffery Xiong and Ruifeng Li straightened their pieces and set their minds to the task of winning during the opening round of the U.S. Junior Closed Chess Championship, which concluded in St. Louis on Monday. By the end of the 10-day tournament, hosted by the Chess…
The internet is populated with videos of all kinds of cute animals, but it’s no secret that the cat is king. The very first cat video, of a cat playing with a piece of a rope, was posted by one of YouTube’s founders to the site in 2005, and cat…
Most comedians were inspired to pursue comedy as a career because they enjoyed the feeling of being the funny person in their family or friend group. Comedian Shawn Wayans didn’t have that luxury; he grew up in one of the biggest comedy families in American comedy history. “It’s actually easy…
Café Society is surprisingly ambitious by the standards of late-period Woody Allen — a veritable epic taking in a broad swath of a young man’s life and charting his progress from wide-eyed innocent to cold, confident operator. But that’s also why the film, in some senses, could only have been…
Like the real 1980s, Stranger Things gets more unsettling as it goes. The opening episode of the Netflix show, created by the Duffer Brothers, gives us swear-y, scruffy kids playing D&D and then, beneath a lavish suburban starscape, encountering the unknown — which one of the boys promptly hides in…
Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams-ified Trek era. That is to say, it’s the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do. That’s not…
To understand what Absolutely Fabulous (first a TV show and now a movie) means to Brits, you’d have to go back to the TV premiere in 1992. Margaret Thatcher had their economy in a stranglehold until her departure as Prime Minister two years earlier, and when every sensible citizen was…
