The well-heeled crowd at Winspear Opera House this Friday is going to get the chance to be offended by Dallas Opera’s production of Show Boat. The first-ever opening night audience on Broadway 90 years ago may have had a little jolt at seeing an all-black chorus, including women, onstage as…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 1 Recap “Everything’s Bigger in Dallas” Inside Marie Reyes’ home, friends and guests drink wine and champagne. Reyes runs around, turning on all the TVs in the home, while her husband, Angel, mingles with guests. “I just saw a preview for the show,” one…
Randi Silverman didn’t know if her son Tim would make it to adulthood. At just 9 years old, he was so anxious that he said he didn’t want to live and resisted leaving their house in Westchester, New York. Without any known trauma to explain his behavior, Silverman turned to…
Narrowing down your cultural calendar this week is going to be a little daunting. To say that there’s a lot going on is something of an understatement: Spring always brings with it an embarrassment of artistic riches in these parts, thanks to tolerable weather and savvy planning. Theater directors, festival…
Dallas cinephiles, we have a problem. Sort of. For the first time in history, two of Dallas’ biggest film festivals are happening at the exact same time. It’s the clash of the celluloid titans. It could be disastrous, but lucky for you, you have us and we know which films…
Fighter and the Kid is a popular podcast with a rabid fan base. The fighter is Brendan Schaub, a mixed martial artist who fought several times as a heavyweight in the UFC. The kid is longtime comedian and actor Bryan Callen. Unedited and uncensored, the two friends riff on fighting…
Video games are more a part of our daily lives than ever. Those cranky parents who complained about their child’s sedentary gaming habits never saw this coming. We can not only frag strangers from the comfort of our couches through an Xbox One or PlayStation 4, we can also kill…
The Real Housewives of Dallas are as ready as they will ever be. They walked the red carpet Tuesday night at The Chandelier Room in the Design District while the media fawned. The show officially premieres April 11, but before you watch these ladies on the small screen, wouldn’t it interest you to…
Entering through the mouth after being sprayed with mouthwash, a 15” sword goes down into a stomach. More precisely, it goes all the way down the esophagus past the voice box, entering the chest in between the lungs. It even nudges the heart on the way down. Further down, it…
They’re the books you see middle-aged women reading on the beach. Or the books you buy in the airport. Or the books you have in your home but you swear to all guests you’ve never actually read. They are the cheesy romance novels that are so painfully over the top,…
You’ve seen a lot of movies like Too Late, and yet you haven’t. Shot over several years on 35mm, Dennis Hauck’s neo-noir detective drama is only being shown theatrically in that increasingly rarefied format — a bold financial move for an independent film at a time when so many others…
When everything’s a game, it’s easier to forget the wrongdoing perpetrated during play. We see this in sports, but we also see it in war, young men and women coping with stress by envisioning their targets as the bad guys in a first-person shooter. In Pablo Trapero’s bleak but occasionally…
Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition presents an interesting experiment: What if you told a story of tragedy but withheld all the tenderness and emotion from it, so that you were left — at least until the very end — with just literal and figurative wreckage, disconnected fragments seeking to be put back…
Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 high school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways it feels closer to his animated 2001 philosophy bull session Waking Life — a freewheeling grab bag of ideas, ruminations and loose ends…
A she-wolf of Wall Street with a spiky ginger Suze Orman shag, Michelle Darnell, the anti-heroine of fitfully funny The Boss, is the latest of the Rabelaisian wonders played by Melissa McCarthy. The actress specializes in characters with indestructible bravado, no matter where they stand on the socioeconomic ladder; Michelle,…
You are sitting among the Real Housewives of Dallas and trying to figure out if there’s any tension among the women. You don’t want to flat out ask, because it’s assumed they would say no. So you observe closely and fixate on the little clues. The Housewives are eating and…
On April 7, two of rock history’s star witnesses will be sharing their life stories at The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. Pattie Boyd is music’s Helen of Troy; she has inspired many epic guitar wars. Her first husband, George Harrison, immortalized the way she moved in the Beatles’ “Something,”…
Bearings Down at The Goss-Michael Foundation Paula Crown serves on President Obama’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. Balancing traditional studio time while engaging technology, her art is about mapping experiences. Crown’s work centers on places and landscapes, exploring how they can exist as objects. This is an immersive installation…
Years ago, the Occupy Wall Street protests played out in the media. You remember it. They were the people crazy and passionate enough to live in tents in New York’s Financial District to represent what they called the 99 percent. But what happened to the protesters after they were evicted…
If you don’t have a pet, you probably don’t understand the obsessive amount of time, money and energy that goes into taking care of a ridiculously spoiled dog or cat. Pets are like family members, which means that they need the same organic food, fancy toys and pampering experiences that…
It was squared circle nirvana this past weekend for over 100,000 fans in North Texas as Wrestlemania swept through town. The marquee event of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has grown from a single-day card into a multi-day entertainment extravaganza. The numbers show wrestling’s enduring power. The announced attendance…
Find yourself feeling a little bit of spring fever creeping in? We’ve got just the cure: take five of these local arts and culture happenings this week, invite a friend or two to join you, wash them down with a cocktail…and see if you don’t feel better. There’s a wide…
