The Denton Black Film Festival happened over the weekend, despite having gone under many folks’ radar during its 2nd year in operation. With a robust programming schedule, the 3-day event was held in Downtown Denton and just three weeks before the 9th annual Thin Line Film Festival hits the downtown…
If you had to distill February down to a couple of key phrases, you’d probably be hard pressed to come up with something beyond unpredictable weather and a wealth of chocolate. But this second month of the year also offers up a diversity of experiences in the arts—from somber remembrances…
Hello Boys and Ghouls, I know it is only February, but one of the most howling good times in Dallas is coming up. Texas Frightmare Weekend has garnered so much attention it now has a fence around it like a graveyard because everyone is dying to get in. Just kidding…
The New York City cultural world has heard the news that Dallas Symphony Orchestra maestro Jaap van Zweden will be taking over the New York Philharmonic, and its reaction is a resounding “meh.” Many critics are underwhelmed by van Zweden’s modest international stature, but there is also more than a…
Dallas music lovers learned on Wednesday that the Dallas Symphony’s music director Jaap van Zweden has accepted the post of music director of the New York Philharmonic, to complete the transition to his new job at the beginning of the 2018-19 season. Thus, what was to have been a fairly…
Earlier this week, NXT announced five matches for their NXT: Takeover Dallas event that will take place at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center the Friday before Wrestlemania. I suppose you can consider it the kickoff event for Wrestlemania Weekend. For who don’t know, NXT is considered to be the…
In his studio, Jeff Parrott has paint in pill bottles. For him, painting is therapeutic, a journey into his mind, an addiction. His imagery is frenetic and crowded. An intensely prolific psychedelic artist, he literally has rooms full of paintings in his home. Parrott is still making final decisions on…
Mark Cuban knows a good investment when he sees one. When Stephan Aarstol pitched his San Diego-based company, Tower Paddle Boards, to the sharks on Shark Tank, he ultimately chose Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Cuban to invest $150,000 for a 30 percent stake in the paddle boarding company. Now,…
Do This! The legendary Harlem Globetrotters dribble into town this weekend, with mind-blowing athletics. Their historic combination of sports and theater will wow crowds at the American Airlines Center (2500 Victory Ave.) at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets start at $28. More info at AmericanAirlinesCenter.com. One of the goals…
This week The Procedure, a short film made with Dallas talent, won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. A man is abducted and forced to endure a strange experiment. Any other details about the plot would spoil it. The…
There’s something special about Ochre House Theater, the small experimental company in Expo Park. Helmed by Matthew Posey, a longtime actor/writer/director, it’s one of the few spaces in the city consistently creating original work. This weekend, the company unveils its newest show, Brothers’ Harvest, a musical about a small town…
Already one of the conducting world’s biggest hoarders of frequent flier miles, van Zweden will be New York’s Music Director Designate during the 2016-17 season, assuming the full duties of his role in fall 2017. His first full-time year in New York will also be his last full-time year in…
Oil & Gas Show Inspiration comes in any number of places. It seems a handful of artists have found inspiration from the oil and gas industry, exploring the political, financial and cultural implications of the industry. This weekend, Level Gallery (2722 Logan St.) — formerly WAAS — brings together the work…
There are worse ways for a television star to transition into film than a horror movie. There are also better movies to do it in than The Boy. Still, Lauren Cohan of The Walking Dead shines bright in William Brent Bell’s dim genre exercise, a vital presence opposite a lifeless…
Here’s an odd thing to say of a lavishly expensive 3D IMAX maritime disaster flick that hits theaters just a month after the last one: They don’t make them like this anymore. There’s a reason for that, of course — the parents and grandparents who like ’em stolid and corny…
It’s hard to watch a group of teenaged boys screaming about who gets to lead a society and not think about the Republican presidential candidate debates. In America, it seems William Golding’s dark bildungsroman, Lord of the Flies, stays forever relevant with its portrayal of power attainment and the violent…
Andrew Bayer is a real sassy bitch. Well, in fairness, he’s a lot of things. He’s a fashion stylist, a seamstress, a re-worker of vintage things, an entrepreneur times two or three, an aspiring photographer, a professional pose striker and basically one of the most interesting people to spend an…
“Every film is a documentary of its actors,” Jean-Luc Godard once said. Starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Haigh’s shattering marital drama 45 Years expands that maxim: As we gaze at and listen to these performers, whose characters reflect on nearly a half-century together — almost as long as…
There’s essentially one joke in the Kung-Fu Panda movies. A ridiculous, adorable creature executes some extravagant action-flick flourish — vaulting over roofs, dropping a bad guy, striking a poster-perfect superhero pose. Then the battle music fades and that adorable creature breaks badass character to remind us it’s totally relatable, even…
It must be true what they say about all good things. On January 31, Zhulong Gallery, one of the city’s most forward-thinking galleries will close for good. An email from the gallery’s PR company says the gallery, which was scheduled to open an exhibition of Stockholm-based artist Johanna Billing’s photographic…
WWE Executive Vice President Triple H made a surprise return to the Royal Rumble last night, winning the match and the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Triple H last eliminated both defending champion Roman Reigns followed by Dean Ambrose to claim his 14th World Championship (2 behind Ric Flair’s record 16)…
Bill Herbert was sweating bullets in his cowboy hat, his face bright red. The 2015 Cowboy’s Professional Rodeo Association saddle bronce champion was moments away from saddling up in front of a sold-out crowd at Cowtown Coliseum Saturday night in the heart of the Fort Worth Stockyards. He was waiting…
