Continuing their quest to squeeze every single cent from parents nationwide, Disney has decided to re-release The Little Mermaid in select theaters under the billing “Second Screen Live.” What the hell is second screen live? Glad you asked! Second Screen is Disney’s iPad app that invites film watchers to “interact”…
On Saturday we celebrate mankind’s most spectacular failures of flight at Red Bull Flugtag. If Lake Carolyn feels too far, stick yourself in Dallas proper for BurgerFest; join an art walk and bike swarm; or pop up to Addison for Oktoberfest. There’s more, a lot more. So eat a dinner,…
Over the summer, Dallas Symphony Orchestra Maestro Jaap van Zweden spent some time with a camera crew talking through one of the pieces from each of the concerts he’ll conduct this year with the symphony. “The Maestro’s Choice” videos are well-produced and informative clips that provide audiences with Van Zweden’s…
Lizzy Caplan as Virginia Johnson and Michael Sheen as William MastersIn 1957, the same year that The Ed Sullivan Show refused to shoot Elvis below the waist, a gynecologist and a former nightclub singer began hooking strangers up to electrodes and asking them to fuck in the name of science…
Curling may seem like a strange way for a human beings to spend their spare time — like cataloging 19th century poisons or collecting Barbie dolls if you’re not age 12 and a girl — but there’s nothing any football worshiping Texan can say that will faze a member of…
Silly and surreal, Matt & Ben says out loud what some have long suspected: that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had help writing Good Will Hunting, the script that earned them Oscars and launched them into Hollywood superstardom. How’d that screenplay fall into the laps of the barely known young…
Prolific Dallas playwright Jonathon Norton has a new one called Homeschooled, directed by Regina Washington at African American Repertory Theatre in DeSoto. At 85 minutes, it’s the right length for the play’s extended bouts of angst among three women at odds over how to teach the most violent episodes in…
Undermain Theatre is presenting the world premiere of East Coast playwright Sylvan Oswald’s Profanity, directed by Katherine Owens. The title could serve as a warning, for you will curse Undermain for choosing to produce this unremarkable drama and curse yourself if you’ve already bought tickets to it. It’s a damn…
If five Oscar nominees lose two young girls in the woods, will their wailing make a sound? That’s the key question of Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve’s prestigious puffery about a father (Hugh Jackman) and a cop (Jake Gyllenhaal) trying to catch a kidnapper. Prisoners is a dog-whistle for Academy voters keyed…
Forbidden fruit has never seemed so poisonous than in Thanks for Sharing, a remarkably sensitive and surprisingly romantic ensemble drama about sex addiction. A winsome mix of funny, harrowing and smart, it’s most commendable for making characters who are addicted to bad behavior — and who refuse to blame themselves…
Written, produced, directed, and edited by Rena Riffel, who also reprises her role as Penny from the original Showgirls, Showgirls 2: Penny’s From Heaven has been available on VOD for at least a year, but is now being released on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing, thus conferring onto it the…
The sheer newness of last year’s Expanded Cinema project, the public art offering organized by the Dallas Video Fest, caused thousands to pull over and watch awestruck as locally designed video pieces reprogrammed the Omni’s massive LED canvas. Well, guess what? This year, they’ll do it again. A few artists…
When beloved and locally operated gallery Kettle Art was forced to close its doors last May, the loss resonated far beyond Deep Ellum’s periphery. Fortunately for all parties, Deep Ellum 42 — the Dallas property management company known for reaching out to and working with local artists — stepped in…
The circus has always been a place of mixed emotions. Of course you’re relieved when the tightrope walker makes it across safely, but deep down you’re wondering what it would be like if he fell. You’re impressed that the lion tamer has so much control over her animals and at…
Ever been parking? You know, in public, just for the thrill of it? Well, this time you can do it with people in more than 35 countries across the world, and you don’t have to risk breaking curfew or pissing off your mom. In fact, she’ll probably be pretty proud…
At the behest of Mayor Mike Rawlings, county commissioner Elba Garcia and council member Dwaine Caraway, the City of Dallas will host four panel discussions about race. The first of these discussions kicks off Saturday at the Dallas City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St, at 10 a.m. While later panels…
There’s almost too much happening during Saturday’s Fall Gallery Walk and Bike Swarm to allow for easy navigation, so here’s what you need to know: Just block the whole damn day out. Seriously. Thirty-five of Dallas Arts Dealers Association’s galleries and spaces are participating with extended hours and a relaxed…
For the first time in Red Bull Flugtag history, five cities will be pitted against each other. Only one will claim victory. (Someone cue the theme to Highlander.) Saturday at Lake Carolyn in Las Colinas, Dallas will compete against four far less capable cities — Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Long Beach,…
To be kind, let’s just say that your Olympic opportunity never quite arrived. Your dog-paddle wasn’t the stuff of body-waxed giants. Your ice skating experience is limited to slapstick laps at the Galleria. Let’s not discuss the gymnast phase. Still, you’d like to think that even at your age and…
Way back in 1888, Composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky referred to his Fifth Symphony as a failure that would never please the public. Clearly, history has viewed the work quite differently. Now you can judge which side was right at the Meyerson Symphony Center (2301 Flora St.) when the piece kicks…
It’s not often you get the feeling of being lighter than air, particularly when your feet are planted firmly on the ground. Often, we’re so weighted down that the gift of flight requires an expensive round-trip ticket and a struggle with an overhead compartment. But sometimes on the happiest of…
The smart ones know that, rather than spreading yourself thin across this vampire show and that fairy tale adventure series, you can get all of your paranormal needs met from just one program: Supernatural. For Supernatural enthusiasts who can’t wait for next month’s ninth season premiere, an early fix is…
