In Dallas these days, there’s no shortage of “can’t miss” events. It’s almost impossible to plan a weekend. Looking down a list of events to decide what to do with your weekend can be paralyzing. It’s much easier to sit at home watch Netflix and wait for your friends to…
Let’s get right down to business: the Lone Star Film Festival announced its 2015 lineup, and it’s big. Here’s a fresh reminder from last year: they screened It Follows, The Babadook, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, The Great Invisible, The Imitation Game, Mr. Turner, Wild, Winter Sleep, and…
Fall creeps into Dallas this month with everything pumpkin and, if we’re lucky, glorious weather. The temperatures are dropping below 80 degrees more often and you might just see a few leaves turn to orange. And if you find this weather, makes your want to curl up with a good…
Once a month on a Sunday afternoon, Dick Monday’s Irving home goes from a quiet, suburban refurbishment to a cacophony of strange noises. He doesn’t live in a haunted house or near some bizarre works project where state funding rules only allow work to be done when he’s home trying…
The horror. The horror of following more people on Instagram than you have followers is something unique to Millennials. The disappointment. The disappointment of feeling like a failure because you’re 30 and not famous yet. These ideas and themes are explored in the House Party Theatre play #basic. The play…
Now that it’s October, things are probably about to get really insane. For whatever reason, the last few months of the year just seem to go by much more quickly than those long, dragging summer months. Perhaps it has something to do with just how busy we are this time…
This week, quite a few stories broke in the Dallas arts that were surprising and for the most part, pretty awesome. From the announcement of the recipient of a $100,000 international prize for sculpture to the resignation of the city’s leading art museum, here are the highlights. Doris Salcedo Wins…
Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. When you’re a normal person and you’re renovating your house, you get overwhelmed, drink…
In The Mountaintop, the provocative one-act about Martin Luther King Jr., now playing in the sixth-floor studio at the Wyly Theatre, we learn that the revered civil rights leader smoked Pall Malls on the sly and had smelly feet. He also had a thing for hot coffee and a wandering…
Thursday, Oct. 1 Deep Vellum’s Tram 83 Reading In Tram 83 Fiston Mwazna Mujilla, with the help of translator Roland Glasser, conveys all the grit and even the occasional glamor of an unnamed African city with a distinctly musical voice, something the two plan to replicate when they stop in…
Desperation, anxiety, stubbornly saying yes to survival: If grand struggles are your thing, there are plenty in Ridley Scott’s The Martian, based on Andy Weir’s popular novel, which was first self-published in 2011 and then picked up by Crown in 2014. In both novel and movie, American astronaut Mark Watney…
Since 1963, the Austrian birthrate has halved. You can’t blame Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s Goodnight Mommy for the trend, but it sure isn’t helping. The quiet creepshow follows 11-year-old twins Lukas and Elias (Lukas and Elias Schwarz, great), who suspect their mom (Susanne Wuest) wishes they hadn’t been born…
Those of us who have been waiting forever for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to make a musical now have the next best thing: In Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, this breezy Puck of an actor plays high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who walked the space between the World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974…
The minds of math and science geniuses have long fascinated the makers of crowd-pleasing narrative features, which is curious, as the complexities that fascinate those minds are antithetical to the feelings-first bounce of popular filmmaking. The movies, having settled into candied naturalism, already struggle to suggest interiority, even of characters…
These days Dallas is a place with quite a few film festivals, which gives movie lovers a choice, variety, and a chance to see original, shoe-string budgeted films they may not see anywhere else. In short, Dallas is just getting more awesome. Coming up is the 28th annual Dallas VideoFest…
“In the beginning was the stone and the stone prompted ownership” is how Fiston Mwanza Mujilla’s Tram 83 opens. An epigraph that serves as an elusive foreshadowing of the story that follows. The stone in question is a diamond, African diamonds, to be specific, which have prompted a diamond-rush in…
Travel now back to the 5th century B.C., to the Theatre of Dionysus in ancient Greece. In the shadow of the Parthenon, a couple strolls out of opening night of a new satirical comedy (with satyrs) by early Greek playwright Aristophanes. Scowling, the woman turns to her date and says,…
Don’t let the title fool you. Fix Me, Jesus, the new play by Helen Sneed that just got its premiere at Theatre Three, isn’t about religion. Not unless you put your faith in shopping as an answer to prayer and think of the NorthPark Center Neiman Marcus as the Vatican…
This morning, Dr. Maxwell, L. Anderson, who you know as the guy who has been running the Dallas Museum of Art, stepped down from his post. He will be taking a position as Director of Grant Programs with the New Cities Foundation, an organization which states its vision as “a…
Saffron Herndon and her dad, Steve, are at Uncle Uber’s right next to Dallas Comedy House in Deep Ellum on a Saturday afternoon. The 10-year-old approaches me and shakes my hand. We immediately begin discussing music, including the band The Cure. I embarrassingly tell her I’m unfamiliar with them. “You’re…
Being broke is the actual worst. Not only are you worrying endlessly about paying the bills and having enough cash to support your booze habit, you also can’t afford to get out and do anything to distract you from all that fretting. Fortunately, this week there is plenty of interesting…
Her writing and editing materials are arranged neatly downstairs on a desk at one of those places where people—usually freelancers and contractors—who work alone but who probably shouldn’t work alone all the time—can check out desk space, have a sense of community without having to know anyone on the daily,…
