A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story…
Fairy tales were meant to be oral stories. Translating the tangents of old women in far-flung villages (whose chips on their shoulders about, say, their brother’s failed shipping business might inspire long asides about the shipping industry) into written texts doesn’t always make for the most linear, easy read. In…
Fair Park once again opened its gates for Earth Day Texas. One of the biggest attractions this year was the neighborhood of tiny houses nestled in front of the Hall of State. Thousands lined up to tour the tiny homes, hosted by their normal-sized inhabitants. B.A. Norrgard, who has organized…
In 2009, when Jeff Baker retired from a 35-year career as a commercial photographer in New York City, he moved back to his hometown, Dallas, and began to feel directionless. He also began to feel portents of death in the form of three serious diseases: atrial fibrillation, macular degeneration in…
For some people, creative writing is a luxury, Andrea Amosson says, but for her it was always a need. The Chilean-born journalist and author had few resources available to help her develop her writing when she was growing up, so now she’s made it her mission to provide those resources…
Back in 2009, just as the Dallas Theater Center was moving into its brand new home in the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Wyly Theatre, DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty sat in the audience for a performance of Cara Mia Theatre Co.’s original production of Crystal City 1969. Although it was his…
Fifty-two years ago this July, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was walking home in New York City when she was brutally murdered. Hauntingly, it took two separate stabbings to kill her: After the first attack she ran screaming through the streets for help, but no one came to her aid. Conspiracies surrounding…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 3 Recap “Making Frenemies” Finally, the real action starts. Women get mad at one another. Shit hits the fan because LeeAnne Locken finally can’t take it anymore. This is the episode where enemy lines are drawn and it’s time you pick a side. Are…
Anyone alive in November 23, 1963, remembers the nightmarish quality of that day—and the international stigma it attached to Dallas and to the whole state of Texas. Saturday night at Bass Performance Hall, with the premiere of David T. Little’s opera JFK, Fort Worth came face to face with its…
April showers bring, well, arts festivals, meet-ups and new theatrical productions. And last week’s heavy downpours have left an arts-heavy week in their wake, finishing out the month with a full slate of cultural offerings that range from feel-good baseball flicks to musicals about the mid-century Memphis music scene. Find…
The second season of Amazon’s Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late ‘80s and ‘90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mouthed resuscitation on the operating table after one too many Garry Marshall–fueled heart attacks like Valentine’s Day. (Or New Year’s Eve? It doesn’t…
Standing out as an artist in the comic book industry seems like a near impossibility. Not only does the medium have more artists than it needs but it can be difficult to develop a unique style when editors expect another rehash of muscle-bound superheroes and bosomy superheroines. Robert Wilson IV…
Nearly every Alien movie begins the same way: in the vast loneliness of space, in a ship that’s running on its own. In the first film, Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), the camera slowly glides through the dark, lifeless corridors of the commercial towing vehicle Nostromo before locating the sleeping bodies…
Two years into its development, the upcoming Museum of Street Culture (MoSC) is ready for an experienced midwife to bring it to life. So when Paris-based museographic designer Adrien Gardère comes to town this Saturday to lead a discussion about the museum’s design, it’s more significant than just a public event. Located…
Do This!Obsessed with the HGTV show Tiny House Hunters? You’ve got at least one good reason to join the free Earth Day Texas celebrations at Fair Park this weekend, which will educate visitors about the environment and how us rotten humans can co-exist more peacefully with it. During festival hours, 10 a.m.-6…
Yesterday we learned that attendance for the Dallas Art Fair last weekend broke the record, with 12,500 people passing through the halls of the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue. In its eighth year, the fair seemed more vital than ever. As we mentioned in our coverage of the fair…
It’s the morning of my workout with Danielle Girdano, who has been named one of the top three personal trainers in the country by IDEA Health & Fitness Association. She will find out if she’s No. 1 this July at a ceremony in Los Angeles. It’s referred to as the…
On Wednesday, LeeAnne Locken, star of The Real Housewives of Dallas, visited with the Plano mayor, Harry LaRosiliere, for a great PR move to clear up that whole “It’s a little Plano in here” line she mumbled while fellow housewives Brandi Redmond and Stephanie Hollman were joking about poop during…
Butch female characters have been too few and far between in film history. In most cases, you’ll find them in so-called “gay and lesbian” genres, as though a character’s sexuality entirely defines his or her story. But in 1986, Private First Class Jenette Vasquez, expertly played by Jenette Goldstein, destroyed…
The musician biopic might be stale and stupid as a genre, but it will endure. Each new one offers the possibility of the wondrous thing that made Hollywood into Hollywood: presence. You can guess from the trailers that I Saw the Light might be a botch job as drama, but…
Superhero fans may not know stunt coordinator Philip J Silvera’s name, but they do know his work. Silvera’s choreography turned heads in such recent comic-book adaptations as the Arkham Knight and Arkham Origins Batman video games, the record-breaking Deadpool film and Netflix’s Daredevil. Silvera’s imaginative, brutal work on Daredevil’s first…
In Karyn Kusama’s newest feature film, The Invitation, a group of old friends gathers in a secluded house in the Hollywood Hills, reuniting after two years of radio silence from their hosts. What follows is slow-burning suspense, testing belief systems and social niceties, under the guise of a dinner party…
