10 Things to Do in Dallas for $10 or Less, November 4-6

Eduardo Rabasa from Sexto Piso The Wild Detectives 314 W. 8th St. 7:30 p.m. Friday Free Eduardo Rabasa is the founder and director of Mexico City-based publishing house Sexto Piso, and he’s recently released his own first novel, A Zero Sum Game, which has been translated and published in English…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, November 4-6

Synecdoche: Midge LynnHaley-Henman Gallery 422 Singleton Blvd. 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday Dallas-based Midge Lynn chose the title Synecdoche to describe her process of capturing a particular moment in the life of the model. Lynn is a conceptual artist who plays with the world of everyday objects and people, the…

Uneasy Lies the Head of Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s Epic The Crown

Netflix’s The Crown, a drama series about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, is the kind of sumptuous but tasteful British royals porn you’d expect from Ye Olde Masterpiece Theatre, not from the streaming giant that gave us BoJack Horseman and Stranger Things. A $130 million joint American/British…

21 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week

Tue 11/1 Unelectable You is billed as “a traveling, election-themed live political comedy show.” Yeah, we know. We don’t even need to say it. We just pity the poor comedians who have to create a parody of this election cycle, but if anyone can pull it off, it’s the funny…

The Real Housewives of Dallas Has Been Renewed for a Second Season

It was the renewal heard ’round the world. ‘Round Dallas. OK, shit, who knows. You’re probably really upset about it, but there are a few select women who really don’t care how you feel because their fame and fortune are extending. Yes, that’s right. We’ll never know how it happened,…

Westworld and the Gamification of Who Gets to Be Human

A wall of white and black hats. Terrifying darkness. A woman staggering through a medical facility with her guts ripped open. And always, in the background: the player piano ticking along according to its programming, playing modern-day ballads to the denizens of a future world. Welcome to Westworld, a slick…

Seriously, Dan Brown Deserves Better Than Inferno

I’m not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers. Yes, they’re indifferently plotted and predictably written. But I’m a sucker for ludicrous, centuries-spanning conspiracies and indulgent faux-gnosticism. The books serve, if nothing else, as gripping tours through art-world apocrypha, and Brown’s know-it-all…

Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog Never Transcends Pulp Nihilism

Edward Bunker’s novel Dog Eat Dog (1996) kicks off with a disgusting sequence in which a two-bit criminal named Gerald “Mad Dog” McCain — caught up in a cocaine binge that Bunker describes in beat-by-beat detail across several pages — stabs his girlfriend and her daughter to death in a…

10 Things to Do in Dallas for $10 or Less, October 28-30

13th Annual Ghost Tales Bath House Cultural Center 521 E. Lawther Drive 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday $10 The Dallas Storytelling Guild will regale listeners with the most bone-chilling stories they know, and if you have a better memory than us, you’re invited to jump in and share yours too…