Does it matter that Freddy Krueger was a pedophilic middle-school janitor who died in a blazing fire when parents sought revenge? No. And unless you’re a horror-film obsessive, you probably don’t even know how he morphed into a pizza-faced Where’s Waldo with knife fingers — what matters is he lives…
If you live in the Lake Highlands area and are tired of having to call an Uber or hitchhike just to see a movie at the closest Alamo Drafthouse, you’re in luck. The movie theater chain that currently has two locations — in Richardson and downtown Dallas, with a third…
Remember camp? I do. I remember calling my parents from a pay phone to pick me up because it was hot and the food tasted bad. Stewart Wedge probably didn’t go to band camp in 1995, though. He obviously has different ideas about camp. The 32-year-old San Antonio native did…
Dallas still has a ways to go to be considered bike-friendly. But while it’s no New York, Chicago or Portland, there are definitely signs that the bike culture here is growing, and especially in Deep Ellum. Since the neighborhood connects downtown and the White Rock Lake area, plenty of bikers…
Everyone from Dallas City Council members to the mayor have gushed over Dallas’ arts community in recent years. It has seen a lot of growth, with the establishment of the Nasher Prize for sculpture, micro-grants being offered to up-and-coming artists by the Office of Cultural Affairs and the opening of…
Downtown Dallas was the site of a horrific shooting this month, but that hasn’t stopped people from readily flocking to the area for entertainment. The free, augmented reality app Pokemon Go allows users to catch animated monsters in their real environments. It has been as frequent a subject of conversation…
It was the mugshot seen ’round the world. A picture of a University of North Texas mug was trending on Facebook last week thanks to its awkward handle, shaped like a “C” and positioned to the left of the letters “UNT.” See you next Tuesday. Oh, did you think we…
Twenty-five years ago, Annie Leibovitz stunned America with her infamous portrait of Demi Moore — nude, bronzed, seven months pregnant — on the cover of Vanity Fair. The image of Moore’s proud, bare body, heavy with child and unmistakably erotic, meant that in some states the magazine had to be…
Angry online movie critics achieved a new level of mouth-frothing fervor over director Paul Feig’s all-female reboot of the classic 1984 horror comedy Ghostbusters that can only be matched by a riot at a British soccer stadium or a Donald Trump primary rally. Users of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit doomed…
Antwan Lee is low maintenance. In the morning he throws on jeans, a T-shirt and a baseball cap and walks out the door to his costuming business in the Design District, where he designs for color guard teams and ice skaters, with little more than a quick glance in the…
This week, we’ve stacked your weekly schedule with entertaining animals of all varieties: Theatrical beasts, literary lions, a Baby Cobra, and maybe some real, feathered friends. Check out the menagerie in our suggestions for your next five days: Shakespeare in the Bar presents Romeo and Juliet8 p.m. Monday, July 18…
Reciprocated Salvage at CentralTrak800 Exposition Ave. 12 p.m. Saturday This show is all about emotional expression. Melanie Bonajo’s work. is influenced by programming algorithms, mathematical formulas and physics. Emotional outbursts are salvaged from interfaces such as iPhone photostream and reciprocated in compilation. Vivian Fu examines how self-portraiture has moved from…
People in Dallas still recovering from a terror attack watch as a man places French flags into the frame of a water fountain resembling the Eiffel Tower. Many of the people congregating in the Bishop Arts District for the Bastille celebration in Oak Cliff seem to be unaware of the…
Do This! Experience a haunted house where you’re encouraged to fight back this Friday and Saturday when Zombie Apoc Army takes over Fort Worth’s Cutting Edge Haunted House (1701 E. Lancaster Ave.) For $39.99 you can use toy guns to defeat an army of the undead. Reserve tickets online at…
Ten months ago, the Dallas Museum of Art lost its director of four years when Maxwell L. Anderson resigned in order to accept a job as director of grant programs at New Cities Foundation in his hometown of New York City. In Anderson’s absence, president of the board Walter Elcock served as…
What does it take to be a dynamic fashion stylist at the age of 22? Obviously, a killer sense of style, knowledge of the top designers, and a knack for spotting trends. K.J. Moody, a fashion stylist for Wallflower Management and editor of Austere Magazine, got started in the business…
A while back I cracked a dumb joke about all our presidential candidates being corrupt. My wife hit back with this: “You’re a JibJab!” She referred, of course, to the animated viral sensations of America circa 2005 or 2008, the once wildly popular political-parody videos that, in the interest of…
In the world of Difficult People, the cutting comedy returning this week to Hulu, the game is rigged against Julie (Julie Klausner) and Billy (Billy Eichner), but perhaps only because they rigged it against themselves. As their friends find success, the two struggling comedians feign interest in jobs that pay…
There are 151 unique Pokemon in Pokemon Go, the app that has people in Dallas bumping heads and begging restaurants to let them inside just to catch a Pikachu that’s hiding on their patio. In order to “catch ’em all,” you have to visit different environments, since certain Pokemon live…
Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and…
Bob Mazur, in his bestselling memoir, sounds like any of us when we shift careers, writing that he wanted something that “kept my interest, that didn’t box me into the same boring routine.” The only difference is that Mazur didn’t break the box quitting an ad job to launch a…
Kindly allow this lengthy aside and conspiracy theorizing: I can’t start my review of Paul Feig’s redo of Ghostbusters without first mentioning the stupefying chaos that attended last Thursday evening’s press screening, the only one of two scheduled a half-hour apart in New York before the movie’s opening. This unprecedented…
