There’s an unrivaled decadence that accompanies film-festival immersion. Closed off from the world, cell phones shut down, we sit in meditative, dark calm for days at a time, allowed to exist in a tiny pocket of protected, curated experiences. For the next four days you’ll exchange your daily static for…
When musician Twin Shadow announced that his upcoming tour, which includes a Dallas Granada stop, would be centered around storytelling, we got to thinking: “Hey, we like storytelling. And rooftop bars. So do our friends at the Granada and those yarn spinners over at Oral Fixation.” Which leads us to…
The plight of the office drone is the subject of Good Nuts, the latest play at Ochre House (825 Exposition Ave.). But, this being Ochre House, it’s not that black and white. Indeed, there is much color to Kevin Grammer’s script, which follows Ochre House faves Carla Parker, Trent Stephenson,…
Oh, allegory is the most useful of linguistic tools, keeping us from living in a world of painfully concrete Brady Bunch-esque revelations that beat us over the head with the lesson of the day. It’s so much more entertaining to unwrap life lessons one metaphor at a time, and playwright…
Montreal group 7 Fingers wants to make the circus relatable. If you’ve ever seen the psychosexual alien invasion that is a Cirque du Soleil production, the scale and structure is dizzying; it’s about spectacle and endurance. With Traces, 7 Fingers is attempting to draw something a bit more personal out…
“Don’t touch” will be a hard request to honor at Surface and Mark, the latest group show at El Centro College’s H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery (801 Main St.). Two-dimensional art from Justin Hunter Allen, C.J. Davis, Timothy Harding, Nicholas Mathis, Jeff Parrott, Arthur Peña, Ben Terry and Michael…
Fort Worth artist Helen Altman returns to Talley Dunn Gallery (5020 Tracy St.) for the opening reception of her latest exhibit, Clear View. Altman’s work has always had a naturalistic shade, and Clear View expresses that through intricate bird sculptures and tree paintings. Also on Saturday night is a group…
Austin director Andrew Bujalski’s latest film, Computer Chess, is a radical departure from his previous works, Mutual Appreciation, Funny Ha Ha and Beeswax. It centers around a computer chess tournament at a hotel in 1980, and was filmed on black and white Sony AVC-3260 video cameras from 1968, giving it…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. The threat of (and eventual) rain showers didn’t stop the crowd from looking good and having fun…
I’m not quite finished with Philipp Meyer’s just-released Texas epic The Son, but unless the ending is a complete disaster I think it’s safe to say it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, and certainly one of my favorite books about and set in the Lone Star State…
Fans of punk, DIY, transgressive and avant-garde cinema, brace yourself: Tonight, ancient seals will be blown open as the millimeter offerings of Texas Theatre drop from a trustworthy 35 to 16 and even — wait for it… Super 8. A gambling pool has started regarding what, exactly, will happen when…
Trying to do warrior pose sandwiched between a stranger and a very old, expensive piece of art is nerve-racking. “Yoga is for everybody,” says Susan, who’s ushering our group through a series of ancient postures at Crow Collection’s Yoga in the Galleries. “Not every pose is for everybody.” The 63-year-old…
The first time I visited Kettle Art, someone handed me a beer before I got inside. The party had flowed into the street. Musicians and a puppeteer were set up, busking for change. A keg was floated. Several artists boasted proudly, claiming the moment as their first time they’d publicly…
The Texas Theatre has become a cultural anchor amid the shifting tides of Oak Cliff, and the Oak Cliff Film Festival is fast becoming an important part of the beer-pouring, 35MM-spooling theater’s diverse arsenal. This year’s sophomore version, which opens Thursday, will only further secure that anchor. Dallas’ small film…
“There is an intimacy to just hearing someone’s voice,” Glass said while the entire stage was dark. No one could see him, but the iPad screen bouncing around the stage indicated that he was pacing. “I tried to convince the Winspear to let me do the whole show like this,”…
Los Angeles artist Andre Perkowski is a cinematic meddler. He rifles through public domain film footage picking out the bits he likes, then he weaves them together into montages and full-length works. One of the most interestingly Frankensteined of them all arrives in Dallas Saturday night for the Oak Cliff…
This past weekend, tens of thousands of anime fans from across the country assembled at the Hilton Anantole for the 24th A-Kon convention. Here are a few of our favorite shots from the event. Make sure to check out the full slideshow here. See also: Red Bull Flugtag is Coming…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the movie theater that brings together that rare and wonderful combination of good beer and good movies, has finally announced an opening date for their Dallas-Fort Worth theater. Alamo Drafthouse Richardson will open Friday, August 16, at 100 S. Central Expressway in the Richardson Heights Shopping Center…
If you’ve always wanted to dress up in weird clothes and fly into Lake Carolyn in Las Colinas, this is your year. Red Bull Flugtag — this is the flying one, not the crashing-into-shit one — is coming to DFW on September 21, and is still looking for teams to…
In hindsight, I suppose I understand why Tracy Morgan would be pissed off by a question about audiences and bloggers complaining that his recent set is too raunchy. An entire set being characterized by one segment — even if it is the opening bit — would grate on anyone who…
You know him. You love him. You wanna get stoned and eat popcorn with him. Comedian Doug Benson is on tour, and he’s recording an episode of his podcast Doug Loves Movies at Hyena’s during a special 4:20 p.m. show on Saturday, June 15. Benson believes in comedic collaboration, so…
Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We can’t give up. It’s … THE WEEKEND. Texas Theatre screens Animal House on Friday night, followed by a toga party. Anthony Jeselnik brings his gelled hair and poisoned tongue to the House of Blues on Thursday. And if you’re still hurting for action,…
