Dallas teen Sam Horowitz had his professionally choreographed Bar Mitzvah last summer, but this amazing video footage was just picked up by a Jewish website, which brought it to our attention. Now it’s spreading, and it is, unarguably, the craziest entrance to a religious celebration and ceremony we’ve ever seen…
Hello! We’d like to share the most amazing story with you! The national touring production of Book of Mormon will not hide its light under a well-financed bushel, instead they’ve announced a limited number of tickets will be released for $25 a seat before each performance. That’s great news for…
What started as an experiment, a refined water cabaret for high-end parties and marketing affairs, has become a phenomenon. Synchronized swimming troupe The Aqualillies are now engrained in pop culture thanks to Glee cameos, performances in Justin Bieber videos and roles as hired glam for major brand celebrations across the…
It’s well into August and you haven’t made a dent in that super-ambitious summer reading list you made for yourself back in May, have you? Whether you aimed to catch up on the classics or relax with the latest beach-reads, time is just not on your side. Poolside boozing and…
You don’t need this writer to tell you that the most hotly anticipated televisual extravaganza of the year is upon us this weekend, as all-time great TV series Breaking Bad returns for the start of its final eight-episode hurrah. It’s been a show based entirely around one question — What…
NOTE: To any PR or media relations people out there: all future press events should include bottomless Champagne. Thank you. Alamo Drafthouse’s new Richardson location had its official ribbon-cutting/giant robot-unveiling last night. Founder Tim League and Chief Operating Officer Bill DiGaetano were joined by various local figures including Richardson Mayor…
Fox’s gut-wrenching cancellation of the cult series Firefly didn’t stop Joss Whedon and the Serenity from giving it’s characters the closure they deserved through the film of the same name. A decade after the show’s cancellation, fans across the world continue to prove year after year that you Can’t Stop…
MTV is launching a new “reality docu-series” called Big Tips Texas. It’s not a porn-based reality series about Texan penis sizes, FYI. We asked. Turns out, it’s about “an eclectic group of women” who work at a bar. In Texas. Allegedly, “Whether they’re partying on Lake Lewisville, planning their futures,…
Thursday 8.8 Performance art Double-up at the DMA — It’s a great night to immerse yourself in performance art when two events happen simultaneously at the DMA. In one wing, PerformanceSW and Apophenia Underground bring a panel/performance combo. In another, local body mover/shaker Danielle Georgiou rips through I hate it…
The Guardian called Post Tenebras Lux “an opaque, unforthcoming, exasperating work.” Salon author Andrew O’Hehir countered, saying Carlos Reygadas’ newest is “a mesmerizing combination of opaque art-house cinema, personal reflection and class-based rural thriller.” (He then went on to slam Terrence Malick.) These reviews are indicative of the erotic, heady…
Endearing is a weird word to use for horror movies, but it’s an accurate one for independent and low budget horror movies that aren’t lazy creature features or slasher flicks. Enter Jug Face, which opens at Magnolia Theater this Friday. Ada lives in a backwoods community in an unnamed part…
Movie stars shouldn’t be subject to the rules of gravity, as we mere mortals are. One of the great pleasures of watching actors is to see them move, and when yesterday’s youngsters start creaking, we feel it in our joints. That’s not to say actors can’t age gracefully, or that…
If there’s one nuance mainstream comedies have yet to learn, it’s that “empathetic” need not mean “likable” — audiences can feel for characters they don’t necessarily want to be. The hit black comedy Horrible Bosses, which had three angry underlings plotting murderous vengeance against their you-know-whats, should have been a…
It’s the Monday after closing night, and the director is cleaning up the last set pieces from his performance space. There are video-game consoles stacked in the bathroom, disconnected security cameras hanging from the ceiling, and a pair of blank-loaded pistols that, thankfully, he just a moment earlier removed from…
When David Gordon Green introduced Paul Rudd to Emile Hirsch, the two actors didn’t click. It was an awkward seafood dinner. “Emile just started talking about something — girls, maybe — and I was doing a piss-poor job of trying to follow along,” recalls Rudd. “And when Emile got up…
For anyone who’s been going to the movies at all regularly over the past 45 years, Woody Allen is practically family. His movies may draw fewer passionate responses than they did in the ’70s and ’80s, but we still feel compelled to reckon with him. Whenever Allen comes out with…
In David Lowery’s sublime new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck), who’s serving 25 to life for armed robbery and wounding a cop during a shootout, frequently puts pencil to parchment paper and writes love letters to his girlfriend, Ruth (Rooney Mara). Bob’s aching, lovelorn voice can…
It’s an exciting time for emerging arts across Dallas and Fort Worth, a point that’s proven well at DallasSites: Available Space, the let’s-do-this collaborative show currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art’s main gallery. An interesting element of the all-local exhibition is the amount of room being given…
The best part of Kathy Griffin is that she’ll call out all the dickholes in Hollywood and when you see her live, it’s like she’s calling them out just to you. Like you’re a couple of gal pals getting some dippity ’dos at the local salon even if you’re no…
It’s summer time and the livin’ is sleazy. Embracing the smut is the best way to escape the heat, and there’s no better way to celebrate smuttiness than with pornography, foot-fetishism and the one and only Divine. At 9:30 p.m. Friday, Texas Theatre (213 W. Jefferson Blvd.) is screening John…
When you’ve finished swimming in the Dumpster pool over at the Dallas Contemporary, wring yourself out, then drip over to the Design District and Oak Cliff for Saturday night’s art opening events. You’ll start off on Dragon Street, where the summer’s heat has cleared the way for experimentation. At Photographs…
We officially have less than half a year until Christmas, but the holidays still feel far away. Add on the August heat and we’re all in need of the next best thing to a winter wonderland: the Summer Santa Rampage. Starting at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Mockingbird DART station,…
