Wednesday Docs, shots and songs — Thin Line Fest has them all Wednesday through Sunday at a variety of locations in Denton. The festival offers free general admission for a host of events, including a documentary film fest, a series of live music and a photography exhibition. Films (primarily shown…
Alan Avila, better known as “AlanAvi,” went from kicking a soccer ball with his soccer cleats, to virtually moving a soccer player with a video game remote. FC Dallas, a Major League Soccer Club, signed Avila as its first eMLS professional player and finished fourth in the first eMLS Cup…
Bread is an entertaining and gripping play about the secrets family members keep from one another. It explores the differing perspectives held by people who share much in common. And, it serves as a historical document recounting the heritage of a city. The world premiere of Bread, a politically charged play…
Comedian Maria Bamford may be brilliant at playing with comedic concepts and characters and finding new ways to elevate her art, but she says she doesn’t have goals beyond doing comedy. “The goal is to just keep doing it,” she says. “I don’t have any higher aspirations except to make…
“This is a David Lowery production,” says a 7-year-old Lowery at the end of Poltergeist, his short film shot with a home camera. It starred his little brother in a sheet and showed promise even then. Now 38, Lowery is still proud of that first cinematic attempt and posted it…
Parading unicorns and bubble-blowing fairies are scattered among the family entertainment at Scarborough Renaissance Festival, but if you look along the fringes, you’ll discover a few saucier acts for mature audiences. We went through the Museum of Mythical Monsters, which houses replicas of things like shapeshifters and flesh-eating death worms…
Displayed on the walls of Kettle Art Gallery were snapshots and video footage from the 25 years of Dallas band Old 97’s. Jason Janik, a local photographer, curated Friday’s show filled with concert photography and Old 97’s fan art. It coincided with the group’s annual Country Fair. People began to…
For the last nine years, Dallas Comedy House has provided Deep Ellum with its only entertainment venue dedicated solely to comedy, but the planning for a 10-year anniversary party might be cut short. The new landlord, Black Market Investments LLC, notified its tenant it needs to vacant the property by…
Most seasons on Ru Paul’s Drag Race, some queens on the show are looking to be seen and gain a bigger audience by being contestants. Dallas native Asia O’Hara says her reason for being on Drag Race has more heart and meaning behind it. O’Hara began her drag career at…
The Trials of Sam Houston, by playwright Aaron Loeb, centers on the 1832 trial of Sam Houston after Houston attacked a congressman on the streets of Washington, D.C., with a cane. The two-act play will premiere Friday at the Dallas Theater Center. The theater commissioned the play, directed by Kevin Moriarty,…
In the Dallas Opera’s production of Don Giovanni, there are moments when the women appear flattered by Giovanni’s compliments and advances. After all, Giovanni is a rich, powerful man; the lyrics of one aria ask “How can a nobleman be guilty of such a crime?” But every sexual encounter devolves…
When you watch the Trailer Park Boys live, you’re not always sure if you’re in reality. The cult comedy creations of Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, who have run on Canadian TV and Netflix for 12 seasons, are always in character, even in press interviews. This is the third time we’ve…
A collective of five artists called Art Beef opened the white-walled gallery and performance space Beefhaus in 2012. But as the Exposition Park gallery rounded the corner on six years, the collective decided to pull the plug. “It lived out its natural life cycle,” says Luke Harnden, one of the…
Raising children can feel like the world’s most thankless and demanding job, especially if you’re new at it. You cater to the whims of a demanding human being who can’t take care of his or her basic needs and is immune to reason, logic and the construct of a speakable…
The film opens with a dreary series of fake-outs and fantasies, culminating in a gunfight and car chase that suggest Broken Lizard would rather be making a different kind of movie
… What makes O.G. so fresh and appealing is how, while it’s a laugh riot, the characters are both written and portrayed as grounded, fully realized folk
Lost in Space is nearly Steven Spielberg airy, telling the story of a super-smart family selected to populate a Utopian space colony but who get lost somewhere along the way
It’s a fairly simple concept. On Friday night, five women will strip down, get onstage and crack open some books. It’s a game plan that Naked Girls Reading has played out across since its first event in 2010. It’s not an act of tantalization, at least not in the way…
Fresh ideas are rare in the horror game, so it’s not surprising that Truth or Dare quickly devolves into a riff on the Final Destination films, which had Death wittily and methodically hunting those it failed to nab in plane crashes and other disasters
… You Were Never Really Here follows the disjointed, tormented inner journey of Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), a former soldier and law enforcement official who now works as a kind of hammer-wielding vigilante-for-hire, finding missing people (usually, it seems, kids)
Comedian Margaret Cho has never been afraid to tackle tough subjects. So naturally, her new Fresh Off the Bloat tour covers subjects like the #MeToo movement, the rise of Trumpism and Asian-American representation in entertainment, including her controversial ABC sitcom All-American Girl. The challenge has changed, though. Thanks to social…
The Oxford English Dictionary, a favorite read among stoners, added a section just below the term 420 last year, officially acknowledging its place in marijuana culture. Whether taken as a date or time, or simply screamed from a high school graduation stage, those in the know have responded to the…
