Few networks are as willing to bet on new voices as Comedy Central. The network’s hustling approach to original programming has yielded such breakout hits as Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, and Key & Peele — some of the freshest and most distinctive shows of the last few years. Just three…
If summer is giving you a case of Holly Golightly’s mean reds, join the club. You can’t have the blues in Dallas summers because you can’t gaze out your window longingly at the rain, because the water is drying up in the soul-sucking summer sun. Instead, the dash from one…
For all the constant prattle about whether or not Dallas is a world-class city, there is at least one respect in which Dallas has most other major cities beat: shopping. We may not have 5th Avenue or Rodeo Drive, but there is just as much fashion in this city as…
Now in his thirties, Arturo Donjuan recently ran into someone at a grocery store he hadn’t seen since he was a teen. The obvious mutual question was, What are you doing these days? His old friend is now working as a manager. But Donjuan is still doing what he was…
Thursday, July 16 Othello They say love is a powerful thing. But I think fear is even more powerful. While love does have the ability to ruin lives, fear, jealousy and hatred can ruin love and life. It’s always been this way. We’d rather watch the dramatic fight than the…
If you’ve never seen a baby penguin waddle up to the water and then splash around, you’ll want to suffer the heat in the next few weeks to see little Marina as she learns how to swim. She’s one of four baby animals stealing the hearts of visitors to the…
The largest event of its kind, Kixpo is an enormous expo full of vendors showcasing sneakers and streetwear both regional and national. The event was first held in a Deep Ellum warehouse back in 2007, drawing a crowd of 800. Attendance has grown so much each year that Kixpo actually…
Inside D1 Sports Training, 30 women perform a newly learned dance routine on a small basketball gym floor. One woman, in the back, stops mid-performance to fix her top after realizing it had come undone. None of the other women notice because they are solely focused on their performance. It’s…
Long gone are the days when depictions of reporters in movies were reduced to a fedora with a white “Press” card tucked into the bow. We have Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All The President’s Men and Peter Finch’s epic cry of “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take…
The problem with clamoring for more woman-led comedies is that actual comedy may be the thing that ends up being left by the wayside. Tina Fey, among others, has railed against the boneheaded dictum that women can’t be funny. But in the current climate of watchfulness — one in which…
We may not need another hero, but true believers don’t need to shrink-ray their expectations. Ant-Man is the first Marvel film — and the first of this summer’s pixels-go-kablooey time-wasters — to get better as it goes. The filmmakers save their biggest, wiggiest ideas for the climaxes, where they wittily…
Above all else, a movie built around a star promises presence, and in Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes that promise is dual: Here’s 100 or so minutes with the great Ian McKellen, for once not casting spells, controlling magnetism or classing up script pages of expositional gobbledygook. It’s not his job,…
Dallas: listen up. Another film festival is coming at ya. Thursday, the 14th Asian Film Festival of Dallas kicks off for for eight days of some of the best Asian cinema you will not see at a theater near you. This is one of those festivals where you get to…
Nature in Our Backyard & Vida Cubana Currently on display at Sun to Moon Gallery (1515 Levee St.) is a photographic exploration of the Trinity River and the Great Trinity Forest called Nature in our Backyard. One of the only galleries in Dallas to specialize in photography, specifically that of…
Circuit 12 Contemporary keeps it fresh. That could be their motto. Since opening the doors in 2012, owners Gina and Dustin Orlando have experimented with the standard gallery motto, challenging tastes, adding fashion elements, and throwing bombass parties. This weekend, the gallery moves off Dragon Street onto Levee St., adding…
While Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer’s new movie Trainwreck is “occasionally very funny, it also feels carefully constructed to make its points, chief among them that men can get away with all kinds of bad or crazy behavior that women can’t,” writes Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek in her…
For most Americans, Bastille Day is just July 14. Few of us take any time to celebrate the French Revolution, largely because we just don’t think that it has really anything to do with us. But for Francophiles, Bastille Day is a time where you can safely indulge in all…
So many elements are sublime in the world premiere production of Brenda Withers’ The Quixotic Days and Errant Nights of the Knight Errant Don Quixote at Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage. Director Matthew Earnest has put together a superb ensemble of local actors: Kitchen Dog star Jeremy Schwartz as Don Quixote,…
There are no prizes given to the best shows in the Festival of Independent Theatres, now in its 17th year at the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake. But there clearly were winners and losers among the first four of the eight productions that compose this year’s fest…
For Internet junkies, it’s been difficult to avoid Google’s “Deep Dream” software, for which the company recently released its open source code. From everything we know, basically what it does is send an picture or a video through a microcosm of the Internet, allowing it to gather new data along…
These days, going on a date is expensive. Even if you’re doing something boring like having dinner and going to a movie, you’re looking at well over $100 if you’re going to have even a remotely good time. Even if you’re just getting your relationship going, in this economy, no…
In 2005, a political party called the “Rent Is Too Damn HIgh” took off in New York, and last year it expanded, endorsing candidates in D.C. Maybe it’s time for us Dallasites to stand on our tippy-toes and wave really big toward the northeast. Rising rents and home prices in…
