Academy award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon staked a claim on Dallas last week when she opened the second location of her luxury fashion and lifestyle brand, Draper James, in Highland Park Village. The store is all about celebrating Southern living: The word “ya’ll” appears on numerous articles of clothing and accessories,…
While you’re contemplating your next circuit through the State Fair of Texas, you might find yourself wanting to shy away from fine fried concessions and steer toward evenings of fine arts. If so, we’ve got a week of no-fails for you. Sarah Hepola presents Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank…
Do This! The world’s first convention devoted to instant film photography gets going this weekend, and what’s more, it’s free and in Denton. Polacon runs Friday through Sunday, with workshops along the Denton Square, a photo-based scavenger hunt at the State Fair of Texas on Friday evening and more. To…
It takes all of two minutes of listening to Emily Blunt’s voiceover in The Girl on the Train before you have to wonder whether this narrator might be unreliable. As her Rachel rides Metro-North in and out of Manhattan, detailing her growing obsession with the ostensibly perfect couple she steals…
When the Texas State Fair is preparing to open its gates to the public, it always seems nothing is being talked about but the food. We get it. Fletcher’s Corny Dogs are amazing. It’s a rare opportunity to stuff yourself with funnel cake. And who doesn’t love daring their friends…
Artist Thoele Sarradet is a creator of characters, and it all started with Bugs Bunny. “Bugs wasn’t someone who I perceived had a gender,” she says. “They were so relatable. They weren’t this strong, all powerful creature. They were just clever and liked to drive their enemies insane.” Anyone meeting…
Michael Nesmith and I are chatting on the phone, and I’m being greedy with his time. But what you realize when reviewing the former Dallasite’s career is how influential his efforts have been to the oozy creative goop of subculture. From those hook-heavy Monkees tunes, to his work in music…
It felt like we had entered a new era of technology when Dallas first got Pay-By-Phone, a mobile app that lets drivers use their phones to pay for parking meters instead of whatever change happens to be bouncing around in their pockets or hiding next to stale french fries under…
Last week, we released our 2016 Best Of issue, naming all of the best places to shop, play, eat, drink, relax and more. That means plenty more date ideas for all you romantic hopefuls clueless as to what to do in between conversations about how many siblings you do or don’t…
Like much contemporary art, the work of Lucie Stahl grows more fascinating the longer you spend with it. On first encounter, Stahl’s work doesn’t resemble the kind of art one expects to find in a serious museum like the Dallas Museum of Art, where it is on view through March…
Judy Davis doesn’t like the expression “scene-stealing,” even though it precisely describes her performance in The Dressmaker. “I always sort of cringe when I hear that,” she says, “because what it implies is that’s what the actor is after.” So let’s just put it this way: As Kate Winslet’s acerbic,…
A woman wears sunglasses, a tight red dress, matching long gloves and red lipstick. She stands and smokes a cigarette, ostensibly watching a rugby game, but really the players are watching her, fumbling their footwork, and it’s exactly the effect she desires. This early scene, with its shifting gazes and…
The first moments of Luke Cage offer much that the previous 38 or so hours of Marvel superhero Netflix drama haven’t: laughter. Warmth. A sense that the New York City that Daredevil and Jessica Jones mope and brawl through might be more than just a place to save — it…
The conventional wisdom about early-career Tim Burton is that he was an imaginative visual stylist but not a great storyteller. That sounds smart, right? It’s still something that a certain kind of ratty-beard-stroking film critic keeps tucked in his sweater vest in case he needs to say something that sounds…
Deepwater Horizon is the most entertaining Hollywood disaster movie in years. I’m sorry — is that a terrible thing to say? Peter Berg’s film is based on the true story of the BP-leased, Transocean-owned deepwater drilling rig that in 2010 exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 souls and…
José Parlá: INSTINCTS6:30 p.m. Thursday Goss-Michael Foundation 1305 Wycliff Ave., Suite 120 Free Opening this week at the Goss-Michael Foundation on Wycliff Avenue is INSTINCTS, an inaugural solo exhibition featuring works by the critically lauded artist José Parlá. Parlá, a Brooklyn-based artist whose talents include painting, sculpting, architecture and photography, created…
DFW locals Billy Hudson and Jay Hunter were in the middle of an episode of American Pickers when their lives changed forever. “During the commercial break [Billy] said, ‘Hey, let’s do this with video games,’” says Hunter, who goes by the name Shady Jay on the duo’s YouTube show, The Game…
Down the cobblestone streets of Hell’s Half Acre in Fort Worth’s Stockyards and up a flight of stairs on Exchange Avenue sits a historic hotel known as Miss Molly’s, which some say is haunted. The former bordello is a hot spot for paranormal investigators because of unexplained encounters, and was…
We’re a very angry species. We post long diatribes on Facebook; we scream at our TVs; we make Donald Trump a viable candidate for president. Thankfully, The Anger Room is expanding to provide more Dallasites with the ultimate outlet for stress: beating on objects with blunt instruments in office, home…
Attention, men of the Dallas area: If you are 30 to 50 years old and into women who are 10 years older than you, man, are you in luck. Dallas just happens to rank seventh in “cougar” activity in America. According to the online dating site PlentyOfFish, a cougar is a…
Lately the fire marshal seems to have eased up a bit on arts spaces. The disbanding of art events this summer began with Dean Terry’s art-music-performance event Acoustic Nerves in May, which was shut down even though the event was funded with city money. It touched off a wave of crackdowns citywide…
While scouting a location for a runway show, fashion designer Charles Smith II paid a visit to his alma mater, Lincoln High School in South Dallas. After talking to the staff, it became clear to him that the problems he encountered during his time there — such as “14-year-olds paying bills” and…
