One of the biggest musicals in history is going from center stage at theaters to being transformed into a controversial CGI adaptation on the big screen, and right before Christmas. After the star-studded trailer and a featurette on the film dropped in the middle of July this year, Twitter had…
Monday, November 18 The Funky Knuckles If The Funky Knuckles aren’t a part of your weekly jazz intake, they should be. The Funky Knuckles have been together for nearly seven years. The fusion jazz band released an album called Meta-Musica in 2014 that climbed to No. 1 on iTunes’ jazz…
Being in a conference dedicated to the belief that the Earth is flat is surreal enough. Then one of late-night TV’s most notorious trolls enters to stir up trouble for the sake of comedy, and it somehow feels more surreal but a hell of a lot funnier. Jake Byrd, the chipper,…
The latest tour for Joel Hodgson’s movie-mocking TV creation Mystery Science Theater 3000 is special for many reasons. The Cheesy Movie Circus Tour features new gadgets and effects for Hodgson and his robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. The two movies that will face Hodgson’s firing squad include…
The Dark Hour Haunted House sets a very high bar for its very frightening attractions. The costumes are intricately designed. The rooms and sets look like something built by a movie studio with a high-priced budget. The makeup designs are seamless, striking and supremely scary. The makeup team — which…
Halloween is coming up and you probably want to celebrate this joyous season of candy and death, while the last thing you want to do is throw on a furry outfit and traverse outdoors in this wet weather. (It would not only be cold and uncomfortable, but everyone would wonder…
Dallas-based Sock Puppet Parody creates parody videos of pop, punk and metal hit songs.
It’s no surprise that Parker Vandergriff dreams big and isn’t afraid to take a long shot. Standing before a beer-guzzling crowd at Legal Draft brewery, former Star-Telegram publisher O.K. Carter describes Vandergriff as a major talent in production. As a creative producer with The Richards Group overseeing video, digital and…
CW33 is finding its stride one year after layoffs cut the TV station’s entire news department. With their merger with 97.9 — creating The Beat on 33 earlier this year— and after being acquired by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains a strong community focus. When the idea of Breakfast…
A man in an olive green spacesuit pauses mid-stride half way down a red sand dune. Leg cocked to the side, he looks off into the distance. Bright pinpricks of stars dot the sky above him and a smudge of orange-tinged cloud rises up from the horizon. It could…
This past September, the Dallas-based film studio The Contested Edge won an award for Best LGBTQ+ Short at Los Angeles’ Indie Short Fest. Led by director Brock Cravy, The Contested Edge produced Innocent Boy, a short film depicting the opiate crisis in Texas. With a predominately LGBTQ+ cast and crew,…
For many of us, October means that it’s haunted house season. For unemployed actors, it’s Christmas-is-nearly-upon-us season. With so many different haunted houses to choose from, it’s hard to decide where to spend your hard earned money. After all, what each person seeks from their haunted house experience can differ…
The creator of the Horror Museum and Chocolate Bar promised a whole heap of horrific fun for Dallas’ horror fans. Founder Ali Sheikh said back in August that his Deep Ellum attraction on Main Street would feature unique horror exhibits like a collection of artifacts that carried macabre and sordid historical…
When you walk into the room, their eyes bore into the very core of your soul. The sight of a glass of water dripping with condensation as it sits on the tabletop makes your throat run dry. Sweat beads dance down your forehead, and as you try to think, relax…
Todd Phillips’ new Joker movie has been generating buzz in the weeks leading up to its Oct. 4 release. But now the U.S. Army is warning that they have “discovered disturbing and very specific chatter (about a potential mass shooting) on the dark web regarding the targeting of an unknown…
After seasons of talking about poop and who was the true star of the series, The Real Housewives of Dallas finally have something serious to talk about. On the last two episodes, Stephanie Hollman and LeeAnne Locken have expressed their struggles with depression and suicide. When fellow housewife Kary Brittingham…
Plenty of budding actors would kill for a Best Feature win to put on their IMDb page, but as actors Hilly Holsonback and Hannah Weir watch accolades stream in for their eccentric, no-budget film A Ship of Human Skin, they hardly know what to make of it. “It’s kind of…
July 22, 2016, is a date that will live in infamy for pop culture geeks, film fans and tapeheads. It’s the day that could be the first step of the long, slow death of the videotape. This was the day Japan’s Funai Electric manufactured the world’s last new video cassette…
On Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Capt. Beverley Bass was flying a routine trip from Paris to Dallas. As she was flying over the middle of the north Atlantic, she got word that one of the Twin Towers was hit. Then 20 minutes later, the other was hit. “In the…
First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress appeared on Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight a week ago to confirm what we have known all along: He will always be there to shill for Donald Trump. In discussing the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ ban…
When nostalgically pondering Peter Pan, we suppose that we know what Neverland is. It’s the place you go to forsake growing up for having adventures with pirates and mermaids. Navigating to Neverland is even more instinctual to us than getting pretty much anywhere in Dallas — “second star to the right…
If you’re like us, you savor and dread the advent of another Halloween season. Halloween traditions like dressing up in macabre attire, finding excuses to watch Evil Dead II on VHS and eating mountains of candy are great, but the ones that involve running down a darkened corridor from a…
