While we’re still giggling from The Book of Mormon, Theatre Arlington (305 W. Main St., Arlington) will kick off its 41st season at 8 p.m. Friday with Altar Boyz, one of the 10 longest-running off-Broadway shows ever. The Boyz are a Christian boy band: Matthew, Mark, Luke and Juan (get…
We’re standing in an Oklahoma City Museum of Art gallery, caught in the crossfire of three wrong-eyed critters. These puppets are big enough to make us feel miniature. Tugging on their connected gym ropes activates their pulleys, causing the beasts to shuffle and dance. Cobbled out of cardboard, bicycle parts,…
Shelby Miller and Cody Phillips’ Vinyl Thoughts Art Show, a celebration of custom-carved collectable toys, returns to the Quixotic World this Thursday. It’s their fourth show in two years, and for this installment expect twisted participation by more than 40 local, national and foreign artists. Much of what will be…
Tattooing the number 13 on Friday 13th has been a tradition among tattoo addicts long before Jason Voorhees climbed out of Crystal Lake and donned a hockey mask to silence a few horny campers by using every-day garden tools like a hatchet, a shovel and a machete. It’s a day…
Summer 2013 was a strong season for that oft-maligned genre, the romantic comedy. Excellent films like The Spectacular Now and Drinking Buddies for the most part avoided rom-com cliches, and reinventions like Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing made timeless story lines seem fresh. Still other on-screen romances were held…
We are officially in Dallas Pride mode now, and there’s a lot to celebrate after this past year: the Supreme Court rulings in favor of marriage equality (and Edith Windsor being adorable), the Boy Scouts of America’s (admittedly half-assed) step toward inclusivity, George Takei being pretty much everywhere. We want…
Romeo Espana is many things — father, makerspace member and drone builder extraordinaire. He co-founded the NTDUG (North Texas Drone Users Group) and has led several how-to workshops on drones. I recently sat down with him to make sure he wasn’t spying on the city or secretly carrying our personal…
Twelve-year-old actress Kennedy Waterman, the late Jerry Russell and lots and lots of Shakespeare are on this year’s list of honorees chosen by the 12 members of the DFW Theater Critics Forum. The annual luncheon and voting session was held Saturday, September 7. Maybe it was the heat, maybe we’ve…
Inspiration materialized as the Naturally Isis Hair Parade on Saturday, a celebration of beauty through empowerment. Musicians, artists, dancers and a shoulder-lifted Erykah Badu filled out the procession to pay homage to a cultural movement and the local icon responsible for nurturing it forward, Isis Brantley. Brantley battled for, and…
The coin world princesses of Viva Dallas Burlesque! stripped down to their eight bits last weekend at a gaming themed spectacular. All the babes were there: Mortal Kombat, Duckhunt (with more estrogen, natch), Dr. Mario, Skyrim, Princess Peach, Ms. Pac Man and others fought for the crowd’s affections. Since the…
We’ve been following the progress on Instagram, watching the stair and ramp construction for Overground’s new street course. And yeah, we got nostalgic. We looked at our skate shoes that are never, ever used for skating and wondered if some secret talent would be unlocked if we threw a deck…
Oh girl, I got class. Well, I had class. It’s gone now, but it was glorious while it lasted. The class I had was 45 minutes of nonstop Gourmet Easy-Bake Oven instruction where I learned tips that even applied to non-Easy-Baking. And now for the question of the century (not…
Inside a nondescript, hard-to-find office in Richardson, a man named Jordan Williams takes many forms. There’s a full-color, miniature bust of him on the edge of a desk. On the wall a few feet from the front door hangs a hi-res picture of Williams holding said bust. And last but…
Jerry Russell, founder of Fort Worth’s Stage West theater and father of state Senator Wendy Davis, has died. The sad news came from Davis, who released this statement Thursday morning: “I am heartbroken to report that my father, Jerry Russell, passed away peacefully in the early hours of this morning…
Biology dictates that small children, particularly those ages 2 to 4, are just not good people. They can be sweet, sure, but they deploy that only strategically and in private. In public, there are fits and lapsed “inside voices” and the total inability to just sit in a chair and…
Catch Jimmy Cliff as antihero reggae god in The Harder They Come, which just got a 40th anniversary reissue. Puff, puff, pass your way to Texas Theatre tonight to see it, then stick around for a dub/reggae afterparty in the lobby. But wait, there’s more. Kick it off tonight with…
There are very few things in life that may help ease the pain of realizing you’re more than halfway through your life expectancy: some kind of trophy spouse or companion, plastic surgery, some kind of gypsy or voodoo potion that can reverse the aging process. Of course, those treatments come…
Go local. We hear it, we do it (sometimes) and we chastise others when they don’t. Local food. Local beer. Local music. Well, now’s your chance to check out D-FW’s local film talent. On Thursday, the USA Film Festival once again partners with the Texas Association of Film and Tape…
The movie that made college look like it was worth racking up a mountain of debt that even a Republican fundraiser couldn’t pay off is getting the special screening it deserves tonight … again. (More on that in a bit.) The Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson will screen National Lampoon’s Animal…
Richard B. Riddick — Dick to his friends, if he had any — is an intergalactic meathead who has glowered through three movies, two video games and a cartoon. He’s both the luckiest and unluckiest man alive: lucky because he’s impossible to kill, unlucky because everyone keeps trying. In the…
Short Term 12 is the kind of film that sounds agonizingly depressing on paper but mesmerizes onscreen. It’s a delicate yet passionate creation, modest in scope but almost overwhelming in its emotional intricacy, ambition and resonance. Easily one of the best films so far this year, it’s a nearly perfect…
Whether you realize it or not, your existing knowledge about that little Caribbean nation known as Jamaica is a result of one iconic movie — and no, we’re not talking about Cool Runnings. Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come, the groundbreaking crime film set in Kingston, starred none other than…
