You may only have to work four days this week, but don’t shortchange yourself. There are five full nights ahead, ready to fill with summer diversions of all kinds. Make the most of them with a variety of outdoor celebrations and indoor amusements, including plays, fireworks and festivals. You’ll find…
On both an emotional and narrative level, a Hirokazu Kore-eda film pulls you in slowly, almost unexpectedly. The acclaimed Japanese director, whose works include After Life (1998), Still Walking (2008) and Like Father, Like Son (2013), makes movies about things like loss, abandonment and death, but his distinct touch —…
Concealed Fauna at The Public Trust 2271 Monitor St. Through July 30 Do not miss this unique show with works priced to sell at The Public Trust. Daria Lapto is a sculptor based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. Her figurative sculptures are both sweet and feral in nature, often combining childlike human characteristics…
Do This! Saturday the Crow Collection of Asian Art (2010 Flora St.) celebrates Maritime Day, a Japanese national holiday honoring the sea, with free sea-inspired activities for kids and parents. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., you can make salt-water watercolors, koi fish kites and gyotaku fish rubbings. More info at crowcollection.org. Have…
Lauren Belmore is a local poet and noise musician who identifies as non-binary. They studied playwriting at the University of North Texas and now live and work in Dallas. (They pronouns are used when referring to non binary-identifying persons.) Here, they write about coming out and the non-binary artist community…
AMC’s Preacher is a surprisingly sedate creation. It moves at such a glacial pace that you have to wonder if the brain trust behind this adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s gonzo ‘90s Vertigo comic — Seth Rogen, Sam Catlin and Evan Goldberg — forgot it only has 10…
Don’t let the publicity photos of the ensemble cast clad in ’70s-era tuxes and flower-child dresses, or even the cloying Mumford-mimicking soundtrack on the trailer, fool you: Captain Fantastic ain’t some twee, cutesy Wes Anderson romp or a Little Miss Sunshine knockoff. This dramedy marking the feature debut of longtime…
There are certain rituals that happen when you stay home from work or school when you’re sick. You’ll eat Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, you’ll text your co-workers or peers and taunt them, and you’ll watch The Price is Right until you puke. Susanne Clift, a corporate recruiter living in Uptown,…
It’s hard to escape the sound of fireworks on the Fourth of July. Even if you’re not attending a fireworks show or lighting the fuse of a black powder-packed explosive in your backyard on July 4, you’ll still spot the unmistakable burst of light or hear the occasional cacophony of…
The Fourth of July is more than just a day off from work. It’s a day when we Americans celebrate our independence from Britain in 1776 and all of the hard-fought battles that got us to that point. Our country is currently divided over very important and difficult issues, but…
An unlikely buddy comedy-drama about the friendship between a suicidal castaway played by Paul Dano and a flatulent corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe, Swiss Army Man doesn’t seem like the kind of movie you’d watch with your mother. So what was it like to be the mothers of the film’s…
Stanley Kubrick once sent his friend John le Carré a letter about why he couldn’t adapt one of the author’s books. “Essentially,” he wrote, “how do you tell a story it took the author 165,000 (my guess) good and necessary words to tell, with 12,000 words (about the number of…
Can Steven Spielberg do comedy? That seems like a dumb question, since nobody has done more to bring wit to the modern blockbuster; Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jaws boast as many laugh-out-loud moments as they do thrills. But those gags are often incidental, of the tension-breaking kind. When…
Very few advance screenings preceded Independence Day: Resurgence’s arrival in theaters on the evening of June 23. That’s eight days ahead of the July 4th weekend that in simpler times — like 1996, when Independence Day was the year’s biggest hit — was traditionally reserved for the biggest, ka-blammiest movie of the…
Eighteen years in, the Festival of Independent Theatres, FIT for short, is still going strong. In a decade in which city support for the arts has been continuously shrinking (with no sign of change), the city’s 18-year history of support for FIT (also with no sign of change) is refreshing…
The gap in knowledge between parents and their children may have never been trickier to navigate than it is today. While it’s now widely accepted that one’s gender is not necessarily determined by one’s sex, we’re still right smack dab in the middle of figuring out how this affects various…
In 2013, Sergio Garcia was curating a group show of photorealistic paintings at Kirk Hopper Fine Art when he was inspired to create something totally outside of his typical media of painting and street art: a series of little red tricycles sculpted into impractical shapes. By the time of the…
Dr. Susan Harper isn’t the first woman to be called a “feminist witch.” She’s just one of the few who don’t mind. Why should she? She has traveled far, spiritually and geographically, to earn the title. Professionally, Harper is the graduate reader at Texas Woman’s University, editing and offering guidance…
If you’re feeling anxious and you’re in the vicinity of Preston Center, you could take a place in line for Carlo’s Bakery and shove down the existential dread with Italian pastries, or you could spare your arteries and try the business next door. There, Adrift Float Spa sells hour-long sensory…
Jenny Block is a Dallas-based author of three books about sex. She released her latest, The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex, this year. Evaluating the state of sex in the city of Dallas is a tough job. Last summer the city became synonymous with “sexually repressed” when the mayor and…
You’re gonna want to coast through this week as quickly as possible. Pack your nights with fun diversions and interesting conversations so that the days go by fast and that three-day weekend gets here before you know it. Dallas has plenty of spark and sizzle in the nights leading up…
Since 1989, TVs across the world have been illuminated with the yellow-skinned Springfieldians and cutting satire of The Simpsons. Series creator Matt Groening can’t even recall off the top of his head how many episodes have aired. “It’s all a blur,” Groening says. “[Recently] we had our table read for…
