Whether you’ve been movie hopping for a week or plan to catch your first eyeful of DIFF this weekend, you’ll get a fresh crop of films filling the screens plus a chance for a few encores. Voting is currently underway for all of this year’s plucky competition categories, and the…
For the last 10 years, Kevin Moriarty has been the resident chemist in the Arts District, where his latest concoction is an outdoor production of the Greek tragedy Electra. As the Dallas Theater Center’s artistic director, manipulating text and space are his bread and butter. Moriarty comes by his curiosity honestly. At…
Catch up on prior seasons of Vanderpump Rules on Hulu. Part one of the season five reunion airs Monday, April 3 on Bravo. Detractors of reality TV pooh-pooh the genre as a vacuous cesspool that celebrates crass idiocy and normalizes bad behavior that leads to societal horrors like our current…
If civilization were to end tomorrow — and who the hell knows, it just might — we could learn a lot about building the next one from the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda. Back in 1998, the Japanese director had his U.S. breakthrough with the wildly acclaimed After Life. Since then,…
Most sunglasses companies are not inspired by 1700s Renaissance writers, but new online shop Volterre is. Sarah Dauterman was exiting Paris’ Voltaire metro stop, on a journey to replace her favorite pair of vintage sunglasses, and got to thinking about its namesake’s idea that while Paris was beautiful, it lacked proper…
Dallas Art Fair Fashion Industry Gallery 1807 Ross Ave. Through Sunday This weekend is your yearly chance to check out the Dallas Art Fair, which features collections from namedrop-worthy national and international galleries and art dealers. Modern and contemporary works across a wide range of subjects and media are showcased…
Texas Frightmare Weekend continues to do a wonderful thing for fans of horror who live in Texas, and even in the broader South. Whether you’re a hardcore fan of horror-themed movies and TV shows, or just a casual one, this is a cannot-miss experience during the first weekend of May…
Life is in the details, and the remarkable yet frustrating eight-part miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan is at its best when it captures the quiet textures of a given day: Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon), waking up at 5 a.m. on the first day of shooting for the horror film What Ever…
David Atkinson is medical director of day treatment services at Children’s Health, but he has another passion: Prizzi, Italy. Atkinson, who is fluent in Italian, first visited the Sicilian town of 5,700 in 2015. Now he’s going back and bringing three Dallas artists with him to help spur civic pride…
The Fort Worth Opera is set to open their 2017 season with a daring lineup that includes the regional premiere of a bizarre courtroom drama and a straight-from-the-headlines mariachi opera about the effects of immigration on families. It seems to be business as usual even though just two months ago…
Flooding in the Texas springtime is not unusual. But the Dallas Theater Center is suffering flood damage for reasons completely unrelated to weather. Last week, during a routine test of the fire system, an outside vendor triggered the release of the fire suppression pipe, or “deluge curtain,” which dumped water…
Tue 4/4 Enigmatic Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni is known for redefining the concept of narrative moviemaking. The director, editor, screenwriter and short story writer made quite a cinematic splash during the 1960s with films such as L’Avventura, La Notte and L’Eclisse. But it was his first English-speaking film, Blow Up,…
Steve Martin and Martin Short will perform at Verizon Theatre on April 8 When you’re talking to Steve Martin and Martin Short, everything is a setup to a joke. Even a joke. “I’m originally from Waco,” Martin says when we ask him a question about his hometown. “I moved away…
Although baseball season is long, it always seems like the offseason is even longer. The late baseball great Rogers Hornsby once said, “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” That’s…
This April, let us celebrate the glory of the flowers blossoming in vaginal fashion by only highlighting shows created by women. The list will be shorter than usual because Hollywood hates women, and we aren’t allowed to create magical stuff, and the world is worse off because of it. Anyways,…
The premise for Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery is so simple and poetic that it’s hard to believe it hasn’t been done before: A scientist discovers definitive proof of an afterlife, and the world responds with mass suicides. McDowell, who scored a sleeper hit with The One I Love — which…
Ghost in the Shell looks great, sounds great and has a gaping hole at its center — where its emotional core should be. This big-budget adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime classic (Masamune Shirow’s comic premiered in the late 1980s, Mamoru Oshii’s highly influential first film version in 1995)…
Unpromisingly, Five Came Back, a series that surveys the military service of Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler — who cut off their Hollywood careers to serve in the Second World War and were thereafter irrevocably changed both in profession and in life — opens…
Witherspoon is a marvel, hilarious and exasperating.
Actor Khary Payton has come a long way from his days as a theater student performing Shakespeare at Southern Methodist University. He’s still playing majestic kings, only these days he’s doing it on The Walking Dead, where his role is King Ezekiel, a benevolent ruler who keeps a tiger as…
Almost one year ago, Prism Co. created what founders Katy Tye and Jeff Colangelo consider to be the company’s most successful work. That piece pitted a real Mixed Martial Arts fighter against a Dallas actress in an immersive, staged, competitive MMA fight. As with all Prism works, Animal vs Machine…
Nasher Prize Dialogues Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts 2501 Flora St. 2 p.m. Friday Free In September, Pierre Huyghe was announced as the second recipient of the $100,000 Nasher Prize. If in the last few months you still haven’t had the chance to acquaint…
