Do This!Literary nonprofit Wordspace kicks of its new season at The Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) Friday with a party and screening of ’67 film Valley of the Dolls, about rising starlets and their relationship to barbiturates. The party begins at 7 p.m. with themed cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and giveaways. The…
With very little money, William Kaufman was able to convincingly turn Dallas into a city devastated by a plague, where citizens must fend of zombie-like vampires to survive. The filmmaker lives in Los Angeles these days but says Dallas will always be home, and he thought it was the perfect…
Jenny Block is the writer of the Observer’s sex column, Pillow Talk. She has published three books on the topic, The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex, O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm and Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage. This July was Lillith Grey’s 10th anniversary of teasing…
In April, we were all chugging beers like Stone Cold Steve Austin at Wrestlemania 32. The event set an all-time attendance record for WWE and CEO Vince McMahon’s crew of jacked-up grapplers, with 101,763 fans showing up for a weekend of bodyslams and steel cage dives. On Tuesday, WWE returns…
Late in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, his unsurprisingly wry, quizzical documentary survey on life inside and beside the virtual world, Werner Herzog stumps two brain researchers with a lyrical question in that instantly recognizable (and often parodied) German accent: “Does the internet dream of itself?” An ever-adventurous…
Just like there’s a bizarro internet where Donald Trump is celebrated as a warm, loving, generous, successful businessman who really wants to earn a Purple Heart, I wonder if there’s also a bizarro, ravenous audience awaiting a feature-film reenactment of Donald and Melania’s epic first date. (He literally tricked his…
Think about someone who scares you. Imagine their face, the way they walk and the sounds they make to announce their presence while hiding around corners or in pitch black darkness. Robert Keith, the director of Six Flags Over Texas’ annual Fright Fest celebration, knows exactly what you’re imagining and…
Constellations at first appears to be a complex, cerebral drama. British playwright Nick Payne’s two-hander about a theoretical physicist and a beekeeper in love doesn’t immediately scream “must-see,” but there’s something about this play that’s almost magical. It first appeared on Broadway in early 2015, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth…
On August 16, Gabriel Dawe became the fourth living Texas artist to install work in the atrium of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. Plexus No. 34, commissioned by the museum, is a reflection of the artist’s continued obsession with discovering the artistic limits of thread…
Cities, like young people, are forever becoming something new. The latest tender charmer from Ira Sachs chronicles the growing pains of teens and Brooklyn with the wry sensitivity and eye for economic reality that distinguished Sachs’ Love Is Strange (2014) and Keep the Lights On (2012), which began a sort…
Critics often dismiss blockbuster entertainments with the vague, half-assed complaint that they resemble “video games.” Movies like Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe reveal games’ actual influence — for the better. The breakthrough with studio horror films in recent years, since the found-footage boom, is a welcome environmental immersiveness. It’s a testament…
Robert De Niro — the Raging Bull himself, now aged from boxer to trainer — is introduced in Hands of Stone bathed in Madison Square Garden’s overhead spotlights, more the image of a reigning champ than the promising fighter whose American debut his character Ray Arcel has come to see…
It’s hard out there for a TV comedy fan. That’s the case for network television, at least. Before All in the Family altered the TV comedy landscape, most sitcoms hewed closely to the formula of solving minor annoyances in 22 minutes (with the occasional “OMG Vincent Price in Hawaii” curveball)…
A thick layer of vapor settles over the main hall of Dallas Market Center as consumers and vendors take their seats Aug. 19 for the advocacy program at the 2016 Vape Showcase. The panel includes representatives from consumer and trade vape advocacy groups as well as longtime anti-smoking crusader and…
Dear Stoner: I hate dry pot. My roommate says he puts his on the bathroom counter, turns the shower on hot and lets the steam bring it back to life. Thoughts? Monte Dear Monte: Few things are worse than pinching a bud and seeing it crumble to dust — as…
A few weeks ago, JoJo Fletcher chose Aaron Rodgers’ baby brother Jordan as the love of her life on everyone’s favorite shitshow, The Bachelorette. The Dallas native then told host Chris Harrison and America that she and her fiancé would move here. Dallas residents everywhere rejoiced, and we sought out…
In 2007, Carolyn Sortor was rehearsing a few lines from Macbeth for an amateur Shakespeare party when an idea struck her. “I knew there’s some juicy dialogue with Macbeth, in which they talk about whether he’s a man or a beast, and at one point Lady Macbeth compares him to…
The Real Housewives of Dallas star LeeAnne Locken is really, really mad at me. And not because I made fun of her blush, like most other people on Twitter do. And not because I made a jab at the fact she is a Real Housewife and not even technically married…
“I feel like I might throw up,” says Stacey Verbeek, standing pale-faced in the busy locker room of Oakland, California’s Oracle Arena, a camera slung over her shoulder. She’s about to watch the young man who has spent Christmas with her family for the last few years, Maurice Hooker, enter…
In a city where cultural capital lies somewhere between dive bars and ball stadiums, a loose-knit band of about 30 artists, some of them sucking in longnecks, gathered last week at the Arlington Museum of Art determined to craft their own fate. Long after the lights had gone out on…
It’s OK if you’re having competitive sports withdrawal. We’ll ease you away from those five rings with these five things, starting with some local sporting and ending with drama far removed from any athletes’ village. In between there’s celebration for baked goods, good souls and feel-good felines. Let’s see which one wins…
Micsmith Ras lugs a cooler full of tattoo gear and a deck of playing cards, with his phone number written on each card, as he make house calls for his body art business. He has the look of an artist who has been working for a long time – he…
