There’s still a lot to love about being an American. Our government has its misgivings, but at least we still know how to stop and smell the grill. The Fourth of July is upon us, and now more than ever, it’s important to celebrate what made America great in the…
Jay Wilkinson — Everyone PoopsFort Works Art 2100 Montgomery St., Fort Worth 6-8 p.m. Friday Jay Wilkinson was dyslexic as a kid, so his mom gave him comic books. It’s a good thing she did because that’s how he started drawing. Everyone Poops explores the human condition and the qualities everyone…
In the run-up to this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Then, after people had seen it, Okja turned out to be … one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Now that it’s…
Ever since her feature debut, The Virgin Suicides (1999), a dreamy, diaphanous tale about the mysteries of girlhood, Sofia Coppola has ranked among the finest distillers of mood (especially languor) and milieu. Those qualities abound in The Beguiled, her sixth film, an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s Civil War–set novel of…
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is a remorselessly entertaining, impeccably assembled action-musical in which cars and people defy the laws of physics and common sense. They leap into gunfire and hop over hoods and careen down streets in perfect time to the beats of an unimpeachably cool soundtrack. It’s all absurd,…
Hollywood has many more outstanding actors than it does outstanding scripts. That’s the only way to explain Naomi Watts’ career, which launched stateside with a masterful twin performance in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Even with a pair of Oscar nominations, though, the actress has spent years languishing in Nondescript Mom…
Since 2012, Dallas’ Ochre House Theater has collaborated with the Dallas Flamenco Festival ever year on a new, original production. Ochre House has resurrected many because of their popularity and acclaim. Their 2012 Perro y Sangre got a revamp in New York’s Teatro Latea, while 2015’s Buñuel Descending played to…
I hate July. It’s hot and there’s less TV. Nevertheless, she sweated through her bra and wrote this guide to what’s worth watching. Snowfall (FX), July 5. Justified’s Dave Andron teams up with director John Singleton for a drama about the start of the crack-cocaine epidemic in LA. Andron describes…
The pitch for The Big Sick might sound like a tacky weepie you’d have been afraid to watch on TV in the 1990s. But it’s hard to do justice to the balancing act that the creators of this singular comedy have achieved. Based on events in the life of star…
While some cyclists enjoy the challenge of steep slopes and rough and rocky terrain, others prefer a much smoother ride. This list of 10 local bike trails includes an assortment of paved and off-road trails to supply both spheres. Rick Johnson, assistant manager at Bicycles Inc., which has stores in…
Hundreds of rain soaked bargain hunters filed into AT&T Stadium early Saturday morning for Dallas Cowboys’ First and Goal Charity Garage Sale. “Players and coaches collect stuff just like average folks do,” Whitney Faulkner, spokesperson for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club, said. The event gives fans a chance to take…
Fort Worth police Officer Damon Cole spends a lot of his time in uniforms. When he’s not patrolling neighborhoods in the city’s south division, he’s crisscrossing the country wearing superhero outfits. He doesn’t have superpowers like flight or super speed — although they would make both of his jobs much…
Hip-Hop Book Club Josey Records 2821 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, Farmers Branch 7 p.m. Monday Free Hip-hop has made leaps and bounds since The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” hit the airwaves in 1979. Outside of the music, hip-hop now influences pop culture through fashion, film and entrepreneurship, and it lends…
Some Dallasites may be surprised to find that there is a sculpture garden and art gallery north of LBJ Freeway that has been presenting the work of contemporary artists to a faithful following for more than 60 years. In 1953, Donald and Peggy Vogel bought a creekside, wooded lot in…
During the mid-1960s, films about beach parties were all the rage. If you’re of a certain generation, or you have an affinity for classic movies, you may have grown up watching these niche films, escaping with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon to the simple joy of partying like hell in…
Nothing can feel as unproductive and costly as going out drinking. So why not work in a competitive match of trivia? Bring the right team to one of these trivia events in DFW, and you can turn imbibing into an educational and perhaps even free activity. These 10 trivia nights…
By the time Austin native Amanda Bradford was in her last semester of graduate school at Stanford, she had already secured $2 million in funding to create a dating app unlike any other. “The League is a platform for power couples that promotes relationship equality, where the users are looking…
Friday Iron Maiden has not visited North Texas for several years, but the wait is always worth it. And you can expect more new material than last time — when the British six-piece played nothing beyond its output up to ’92 — since it’s touring off of its new album,…
Today in Things That Will Blow Your Mind And Then Make You Want To Move To Mars: a one-bedroom, one-bathroom home in Waco is selling for nearly $1 million — $950,000, to be exact. Yes, that Waco. The reason Ebby Halliday thinks it can get away with tricking people into believing…
When Shakespeare is trending, it’s usually for historical reasons. Perhaps the burial site of Richard III has been discovered, or there’s renewed conjecture over whether the Bard wrote all of his plays himself. What you don’t see are many debates over content. In 400 years, we’ve worked that out —…
The season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race airs Friday on VH1 The world might feel like a schizophrenic hellscape where everyday you find yourself asking “Is this real life?” At least there is some comfort in knowing we still have RuPaul’s Drag Race. The Emmy award-winning drag queen reality competition…
Amber Crimmings — Bound Matriarchs Mighty Fine Arts 409A N. Tyler St. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Saturday Printmaking goddess Amber Crimmings sees something incongruous about the way fairy-tale literature both needs and adores women while also viewing them contemptuously. She’s channeled her feelings toward these conflicting realities into her new…
