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…
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…
From his backyard studio, Oak Cliff artist Chris Bingham has detailed the face of a survivor. “Abdur” was granted asylum from his home country, Afghanistan, where he was accused of being a spy for the United States. In a mostly dark painting, a colorful bandana represents his loss of identity…
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…
You’re about to read the story of how a pen and a potato bought one guy a house. Plano native Alex Craig started Potato Parcel, a business founded on the idea that people would want to send potatoes with messages scrawled on them. Six months after he founded it, he…
Brothers are naturally competitive. Comics and brothers Jon and Michael McBrine seem to defy the natural competitive nature that defines so many sibling relationships. They’ve both been selected as solo acts to compete in this year’s Funniest Comic in Texas competition and neither of them care about which one wins or…
At the age of 13, Hailee Steinfeld got the opportunity that she and 15,000 other girls across the country crossed their fingers for. She was reading for the role of Mattie Ross in an upcoming movie called True Grit, a remake of the original 1968 book by Charles Portis. “Going…
“Are we really in our generation going to allow the biggest mammal on earth to disappear?” asks a conservationist late in Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson’s propulsive ivory-trade doc. That simple question cuts to the heart in ways that much of this showy, desperately dramatic pseudo-thriller doesn’t. The title is…
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…
Games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, both of which were born in Dallas-Fort Worth’s growing game studio community, may have birthed the first-person shooter genre but Duke Nukem 3D gave it character. The game first released on PCs in 1996 from the Garland-based game studio 3D Realms had infinite playability…
Musa Ngqungwana basks in the warm embrace of Dallas’ southern hospitality and 80-degree fall days. He is visiting from the East Coast, Philadelphia and New York, where the days are already getting cool, and here he can wear his shorts and golf shirts in October. He says he is enjoying…
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,…
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…
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…
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is a film at war with itself. Which makes perfect sense, because it’s about a man at war with himself, and I’m pretty sure it was also made by a man at war with himself. The true-life story of Desmond Doss — a Seventh Day Adventist…
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…
The wooden troll figures that Thomas Dam began carving and selling in the ‘50s had a great deal of folklore behind them but no cast of fixed characters. Though the Trolls have since been in TV specials, video games and a short-lived series, none of those have established what we…
The Elbow Room, a low-key, 1930s building that houses a restaurant and bar in the Baylor district, has run out of elbow room. The historic 1,824-square-foot brick structure on Gaston Avenue could soon face the wrecking ball and has landed on Preservation Dallas’ 2016 Most Endangered Historic Places list along…
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…
Richard Rawlings, owner of the Gas Monkey Garage and bar and grill that’s become one of Dallas’ most popular live music venues, doesn’t like hearing the term “reality show” when it’s directed at his Discovery Channel show Fast ‘N Loud. Even though cameras are filming his business and his staff…
Dear Stoner: Some people say vaporizers will make your weed last longer, but others swear that the old “one-hitter” or “dugout” is the best way to stretch your stash. What are your thoughts on this? Eric Dear Eric: Size, quality and temperature are the most important variables for vaporizers. I…
It’s too much to ask that a studio money-maker/sequel-generator like Doctor Strange actually be strange, much less flaunt doctoral levels of weirdness. Instead, it’s Strange 101 in super HD, its lavish pop-art psychedelia in service of 1963 comic-book story beats. The attractions this time are Benedict Cumberbatch, haughtily Randian as…
