One of the small and big screens’ biggest performers will be at the Alamo Drafthouse tonight to watch one of his most famous performances. Actor Richard Kiel, the 7-foot-2 actor who played the towering Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, will be live and in person at the…
The two-time Tony-winning musical that’s kept Broadway rooms booked since its 2012 release is coming to Dallas. It was just announced that Newsies will have a two-week special engagement run at the Winspear Opera House, anchoring the 2014-2015 Lexus Broadway Series. Details on tickets and dates haven’t yet been announced…
So, what happens when the SMU Meadows School of the Arts and the SMU Cox School of Business get together? No, it’s not a Dharma and Greg re-hash romcom — although that would be delightful. It’s NCAR, the National Center for Arts Research, the non-profit arts community’s new best friend…
According to the Jenga-like stack of publicity materials covering my desk, Kennedy season has peaked. Plays. Readings. Art shows. Lectures. Films. Acrobats. Clown cars. Kitten parades. Cooking demos — who the hell knows? It’s getting JFKrazy out there. When chaos smothers meaning, we look to the arts for answers. From…
I fell in love with Tammi True during this year’s Dallas Videofest. The subject of True Tales, a locally made documentary, True is simply charming. The film takes her back to the late ’50s and early ’60s, when she booted her deadbeat hubby out the door and raised those kids…
The Thursday night Friends of the Dallas Public Library event is sold out, but we’ve compiled a list of a few reasons you should care about his visit to Dallas.
“Keep Little Forest Hills Funky” is more than just a stoner’s chant. It’s actually an underground battlecry. It’s the Little Forest Hills residents way of saying, “Keep your barfbag McMasions off our property.” They mean it too. The neighborhood east of White Rock Lake is a quirky hodgepodge. Some streets…
There’s always something going on in Dallas, so we thought it’d be fun to live vicariously through your adventures. Each week look for our #Dallas Instagram recap of people, places, events, food, and more. This recent #Dallas photoroll turned up some furry Dallas Cowboys fans, a beautiful White Rock Lake…
H/T Frontburner Get excited nerds of planet Earth. Or Endor, Hoth the Twelve Colonies — wherever your allegiances align. Dallas Comic-Con has announced that for its May, 2014 edition, the convention will move closer, setting up camp at the Dallas Convention Center. That means you’ll no longer have to pack…
Life is relatively spacious out west of downtown these days, since the Dallas Contemporary moved to what is in gallery terms a gargantuan exhibition space from its cozier (though still not bad) location in East Dallas. The exhibition Acceleration was part of the Contemporary’s 35th anniversary celebration. Taking a cue…
Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shuffled awkwardly through Deep Ellum last night. They posed for photos in front of the neighborhood’s iconic murals, searched out crime along its back alleys and pulled out their signature fighting moves inside Serious Pizza. Everywhere they ventured, pedestrians cheered. The turtle suits were all…
We’ve reached cinematic saturation. With the digital universe prepped for instant download, you can see anything you like, anytime you want. Anyone who’s ever grocery shopped while hungry knows where that gets you. The problem with unlimited access isn’t the gluttony spurred, it’s the inevitable complacency. When faced with too…
Longview’s most famous leading man may have made a name for himself as Southern gentleman eye candy for the chick flick crowd, but he’s not just a piece of meat, damn it. Thanks to a Texas drawl that’s so thick that you could pour it on a stack of flapjacks,…
Texas Theatre drops the needle on Muscle Shoals, beginning Friday. In Fort Worth the Lone Star Film Festival curates a strong collection, blending new and old cinema into a four-day experience. Tonight in Dallas, the USA Film Festival brings a special screening of Bottle Rocket — both the original short…
Birth of the Living Dead.The zombification of America got its start in 1968, when George A. Romero and a bunch of his friends and colleagues released Night of the Living Dead, the scrappy little horror movie that could not only serve as patient zero in the ongoing pop-cultural zombie apocalypse,…
Playwright Dennis Richard leaves it up to the audience to argue conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination. His play, Oswald: The Actual Interrogation, onstage in its regional premiere at Casa Manana Fort Worth November 9-17, just sticks to the facts. Or as many as Richard could find about the hours…
On the first Saturday after Halloween, I woke up next to a case of bear masks and made sure nothing looked like it had moved while I slept. I survived a night at the Dallas Museum of Art. Last Friday the DMA hosted Overnight at the DMA, the newest addition…
Maxine is a well-to-do old widow living out her last days in a nice nursing home. Or is she dying a little sooner than she should be? She thinks so. Maxine believes her demise is being hastened by her inheritance-hungry daughter, who’s in cahoots with the Haitian nurse, Tina. Deadline…
Among the Avengers, Thor should reign supreme. Sure, Captain America is the de facto leader, but even he — like the others — is just a jacked-up human. Thor is a god. Or if not quite a god, as he demurs, he’s the next best thing: a flying Titan with…
Richard Curtis has so much to tell us about life. Seize the day! Show people you love them before it’s too late! Don’t let the right one get away! His movies — those he writes, directs or both — are so packed with info-feeling that they become restless jumbles of…
Besides its cast, a parade of Brit aces the likes of which we haven’t seen since the last episode of Wizard Boy Has a Sad, the quality that most distinguishes Mike Newell’s adaptation of the best-titled of all English novels is its healthy fullness. In the decades since David Lean’s…
While guest-hosting a TV variety show in 1964, Dean Martin ridiculed a hot new rock ’n’ roll act with his trademark blend of cocksure innuendo, aw-shucks buffoonery, and inebriated syntax: “Now, something for the youngsters — five singing boys from England. . . . They’re called the Rollin’ Stones. I…
