Dallas cameos: Maxwell Anderson at the 3 minute mark and a Rawlings at 4:56. Let’s give it up, São Paulo! [Arsenio arm thing] In June of 2014, the Dallas Arts District will serve as think tank housing for the New Cities Summit, an annual event organized by the New Cities…
It’s unclear how we got quite so lucky, but indie film’s most famous mug, Parker Posey, will read for Art and Letters Live’s 2014 Texas Bound series. The popular showcase pulls well-known actors (Tommy Lee Jones, Kathy Bates and Larry Hagman have all previously lent their voices) to read short…
The icepocalypse is seemingly on its way out. While it was no joke for a lot of people, for some it was an excuse to frolic in the ice with their confused pets, some of whom seemed deeply unsure about the sudden white coating everything had received. We asked Twitter…
We recently treated you to the news that seven different theaters in the Dallas area screen Die Hard in December. And you, dear reader, grew excited, because nothing quite says “Happy Holidays” like John McClain scribbling “Now I have a machine gun. HO HO HO” on a terrorist’s corpse. That…
Imports, muscle cars and general machines of inspiration will rev their engines in non-silent salute to Paul Walker tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson. The event was organized to honor the film star who passed away on Saturday, November 30 at age 40. Walker did more with his career…
The roads are covered with slick ice and have turned the entire Dallas/Fort Worth traffic populace into n deadly Ice Capades. That means we’re all stuck indoors snuggling under blankets while filling up on blood-warming carbohydrates and brain-blanketing alcoholic beverages. When the snow melts and you can actually drive in…
As was prophesied upon primitive bathroom walls and select Laffy Taffy wrappers, A Krampus arrived in Denton yestereve. He flexed his musky, destructive prowess, then proceeded to enslave wayward youth while generously bestowing gifts upon his more cherished. A Krampus then proceeded to fulfill His destiny by unlatching the netherportal…
The Alamo Drafthouse has been in the Dallas/Fort Worth area only a short time, but it has wasted no time bringing actors to the theater so devoted movie buffs can watch their most memorable movies with them. People like Paris Themmen and Julie Dawn Cole who played Mike Teevee and…
We Are 1976 turns four years young this Saturday night, December 7, but with those sweet dance moves? Well dayum — I wouldn’t clock ’em a day over three. It’s a polyesther throwdown, a shag carpet shakedown, and a retro revival of dancetastic proportions. So buff up those platform heels,…
You were sweating in a tank top yesterday, which means freezing ice on Dallas roads this weekend. LET’S GIVE IT UP FOR TEXAS!!! There’s plenty going on this weekend — weather be damned — and because we like you, we’re keeping you (mostly) indoors with gallery shows, films, temperature-raising burlesque,…
Amy Schumer is coming to town next April and tickets go on sale this Friday. In the grand tradition of female comics (or comic — Kathy Griffin) she’ll be performing at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie. If you haven’t heard of Amy Schumer, that’s OK. She’s an up-and-comer so…
2013 was a good year to be bad. This year’s best villains weren’t just goons with guns — although there were a few great examples of those. (Here’s looking at you, Sean Penn.) We also hissed at slave-owners, inventors, seducers, producers, and a couple amazing women who left an impression…
All five people in Other Desert Cities, the 2011 Pulitzer finalist drama by Jon Robin Baitz, now at Theatre Three, talk to each other in a way only characters in grim, smug New York plays like this do. In complete sentences. Complete paragraphs. Using words like “hagiography” (which an actress…
The life of Russell Baze, a steelworker in a Pennsylvania town just outside of Pittsburgh, may be drab and dreary, but he’s a good, hardworking man with a loving girlfriend. His younger brother, Rodney, has it tougher: A war vet suffering from PTSD, he hasn’t been able to readjust to…
Fifteen years ago (December 4, 1998) an unusual movie was released, and roundly rejected: director Gus Van Sant’s off-puttingly faithful remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Fresh off the critical and commercial success of Good Will Hunting, Van Sant could’ve tried for another feel-good hit or a high-profile for-hire gig. Instead,…
The only true way to spend a night honoring the dark days of Prohibition is by drinking however many beers, glasses of wine or cocktails that you wish because, dammit, you can. However, the evening doesn’t just have to be a brain-cell battle zone. You can actually learn something if…
I’ll say it: Strolling through Concentrations 56: Stephen Lapthisophon — coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables, and “Selected Poems,” at the Dallas Museum of Art feels a little…sexy. Dangerous, even. Like you’ve entered the well-appointed bachelor pad of a worldly older man. There’s a rhythm in these works, some scuffed and…
Texas Theatre has hit a stride, narrowing its program schedule to blend new releases with repertory films for see-’em-now-or-miss-’em-forever weekend runs. Plus, there’s always a dance party. But even three years ago when Aviation Cinemas first took the keys, they had a master plan. They would show all of that…
Few cultures knew how to mess up a family as efficiently as the Greeks. The story of Oedipus is the granddaddy of all messed-up families, but it’s actually only the first part of the story. Aeschylus continued it with two more parts, the last of which is Seven Against Thebes,…
Give yourself an early Christmas present and celebrate the holidays with a bevy of burlesque babes for a worthy cause. Texas’ biggest burlesque show, Viva Dallas Burlesque, is bringing back its annual Christmas showcase Festivus Follies for its fourth annual offering, just in time for the holidays. Starting at 8…
Pack up the poop bags and head to the Pet Expo in Fair Park from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and HOLY SHIT WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT SO CLOSE TO CHRISTMAS??? I HAVE TO GO SHOPPING, PUNCH A GRANNY AND LOOT HER CART. All right, everyone just calm…
Some of art history’s richest points of creativity came from fringe artists uniting. The Fluxists? Those kids were dope. How about the artwork that showed at the Salon des Refusés? Those were the pieces that changed history. And what about that gallery at 500 Exposition Ave. in Dallas? A member-run…
