Green Book Marks the Unwelcome Return of the Cute Racism Movie
The film is based on a true story, and its title comes from the guidebook Lip carries, which lists the hotels and motels where black people were welcome back then
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10 Things To Do in Dallas Alone
Being alone doesn’t have to mean being bored. In fact, some of the best things you can do happen completely by yourself (don’t smirk). Having alone time gives you the freedom to relax, take your time and not be rushed by anyone else while you do your favorite activity (we…
Woman Behind the Beto Sex Tweet Explains it Wasn’t About Sex
When Leah McElrath tweeted about her calves in relation to Beto O’Rourke’s love-making, it wasn’t about sex. “The idea behind it was an analogy about different candidates’ philosophies about what was necessary in a candidate and a campaign,” McElrath, a freelance writer and activist, tells us over the phone. “I…
Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend
Friday Winter in Paris is not the Gallic paradise we typically visit in our Francophile daydreams. It’s a little too soggy, gray and frigid for patio drinking sessions and Instagram-worthy twirls in front of the Eiffel Tower. Oh, we wouldn’t turn down the ticket if it landed in our lap,…
Amy Schumer Postpones Dallas Show Because of Severe Morning Sickness
On an Instagram post Thursday afternoon, comedian Amy Schumer told her followers and fans that she must postpone her Texas shows. In the photo she posted alongside the note, Schumer, who was supposed to perform at Winspear Opera House on Thursday night, is in a hospital bed. In the post…
Peter Bogdanovich’s The Great Buster Sits Back and Gapes at a Legend
… The Great Buster at heart is an opportunity to hang with Bogdanovich as he screens favorite sequences from ol’ stone face’s 1920s two- and five-reel masterpieces
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Explosive Widows Dares to Be So Much More Than a Heist Flick
This thoughtful, textured story — though brutal at times — stands as one of the clearest depictions of turmoil, racism and nepotism in local politics that’s ever been drawn onscreen
Our 12-Year-Old Correspondent Interviewed America’s Got Talent Winner, Darci Lynne
Last year, 12-year-old ventriloquist Darci Lynne won a million dollars, and even more hearts, (even the notoriously heartless Simon Cowell’s) on season 12 of America’s Got Talent. The prodigy, who’d only been practicing ventriloquism for two years at the time of her audition, proved that she would out-sing anyone in…
After Power House of Dance Closes Its Doors, Dance Director Tricia Wood Moves On
Tricia Wood prefers to move forward in life and not look back. Even though Power House of Dance, the studio she taught at for 17 years, unexpectedly closed recently, she doesn’t spend a lot of time discussing her thoughts and feelings about its closure. That’s not making light of the…
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21 Things to Do in Dallas
Wednesday Attention people who think a fun Saturday night includes playing Battleship: BGG.CON, the five-day convention for all board game enthusiasts is here. Finally, it’s your chance to see and try out all the new board games this world has to offer. Special guests, who are celebrities in the board…
India Has a Sex Trafficking Problem, and One Dallas Woman Is Trying to Change It
Bollywood returned to Dallas last week as Spice in the City hosted Ark of the Rainbow’s biggest annual fundraiser. The event, which drew a full house, attracted supporters in Indian-themed attire hoping to alleviate poverty and human trafficking overseas through education. Dallas resident Christine Allen says she experienced life in…
In 1969, Stan Lee Told Angry Readers That Comics Must Stand Up for Civil Rights
From Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and John Romita and many more came the great flowering of ‘60s superheroes, the ones who seemed like human beings in ways that Superman or Batman didn’t
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An Interview With the Late, Great Stan Lee
Stan Lee, for better or worse the most recognizable face in the history of the comic book, insists he has no love for rehashing his past. He claims to take no great joy from talking about long-ago yesterdays spent in smoky rooms co-creating the likes of the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man,…
Alejandra Camargo Escaped Venezuela and Is Now a Thriving Artist in Dallas
After almost being kidnapped in Venezuela nearly four years ago, Alejandra Camargo and her husband moved to Dallas to escape a social and economic crisis. “It happened in 2009,” she says. “I was with my best friend, these guys block our car, and this guy with a black mask was…
Lee Chang-dong’s Burning Torches Sex, Obsession and Class
Lee Chang-dong’s dexterity with the telling minutiae of human interactions ensures that Burning makes for an emotionally gripping film
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Netflix’s Outlaw King Is Just Beardo vs. Beardo in Scotland’s Mud Pits
One lord scowls with even more surliness than the rest: Chris Pine is Robert the Bruce, a Scot who will, eventually, declare himself king of his country and wage guerrilla war against Edward
Amy Sedaris Will Receive the Dallas VideoFest’s Next Ernie Kovacs Award
She’s been a boozer, a user and a loser, an anthropomorphic Persian cat and TV’s most beloved homemaker. And now she’s an Ernie Kovacs Award winner. Actress, writer and comedian Amy Sedaris will be the next recipient of the Ernie Kovacs Award at the Dallas VideoFest 31 and the first…
Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend
Friday It’s time to compost your pumpkins and start setting out those Christmas decorations, y’all: the holidays are coming, and along with them, the annual barrage of parties, shopping and traffic. Before things get too stressful, take some time to ease yourself into the holiday spirit at the Dallas Arboretum,…
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Attention, Singles: Republican Men Might Not Pick Up That First Date Check
Whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat or Wiccan, there is one thing that unites everyone: sex. Everyone wants it, but one particular group is a little less willing to spread their wallets to make it happen. A new survey of more than 400 Dallas residents showed that Republican men are…
The Girl in the Spider’s Web Reduces Its Heroine to a Meh James Bond
By and large, this latest entry in Lisbeth’s adventures … offers a drab genre piece that’s more like an attempt to establish a James Bond-like franchise for Lisbeth than a compelling exploration of the character
When Do You Pull a Pete Davidson and Not Joke About a Relationship? Dallas Comics Weigh In
This might come as shocking news, but singer Ariana Grande and comedian Pete Davidson broke up. You probably haven’t heard anything about it and might need a moment to process your disbelief. When entertainers are involved in a breakup, it’s typical to see them work through the sadness by expressing…
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Melissa McCarthy’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? Lets Fascinating Forger Off the Hook
The more prickly and belligerent Israel becomes — and McCarthy never burdens her with likability — the more Holofcener and Whitty soften her choices with extenuating circumstances, imbuing their subject with a zeal for artistic purity at odds with her actions