History is built on stories. Often, it’s the stories of politicians who impact the world or scientists who impact daily life, but our personal histories are built around our own stories -the ones you tell your friends and family. Those are the kind that StoryCorps is traveling across country to…
Another weekend has arrived without jamming a newly sharpened pencil into your coworker’s eye, so you deserve to celebrate your self-control. There are parties, movie screenings, dance shows, art shows, plays and operas. Get to it!…
At this year’s Whitney Biennial, the museum invited three curators from outside of the museum to work on the acclaimed exhibition. The goal of the biennial is to present the work of contemporary emerging American artists. And in 2014, only one curator was from New York; the other two brought…
Among its many attributes, Justin Simien’s exuberant debut feature, Dear White People, proves that we’re not yet living in a “post-racial America.” Forget for a moment that there are so many vexing problems entwining race, class and economics that we haven’t been able to put a Band-Aid on, let alone…
Before there was a Birdman, there was a Batman — several, in fact, though the best was played by Michael Keaton in the two Tim Burton films in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Since then, Christian Bale’s somber strutting and muttering, as seen in Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, has…
Mathieu Amalric’s brisk, agreeably nasty thriller The Blue Room turns on a couple murders — or does it? — but rather than corpses, it’s time and space and human connection that get most memorably diced. Working from Georges Simenon’s ’64 novel of a wrong man accused — or is he…
Jazz isn’t dead. Miraculously, there’s always a small but steady stream of young people who continue to fall in love with this most dazzling and elusive American genre, spending hours, days and months running ribbons of scales and memorizing Charlie Parker solos in the hopes that some of the alto…
When a play and the performances in it are as stirring as Jubilee Theatre’s The Brothers Size, it’s hard to find the right descriptives to do it justice. “Compelling” is too overused by critics. “Awesome,” too trite. Just know that the words of playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney and the work…
Hardly matters anymore if a musical is a hit or a flop on Broadway. Big regional companies like Addison’s WaterTower Theatre are so starved for new shows they’ll grab rights to anything that played a week or two in New York, as long as there are roles for hot young…
Theater companies and arts critics around Dallas have declared recent SMU drama grad Jeffrey Colangelo a budding genius as a playwright, director and fight choreographer. He’s certainly a genius at one thing: convincing people he’s brilliant with shows that are both boring and baffling in their lack of originality. His…
You can’t live in New York for more than 10 days without meeting some truly dreadful people: couples who fret about having to choose between buying a summer home and having a second child, even as you’re struggling to pay your monthly rent; large groups of people getting together for…
Jake Gyllenhaal is used to exhaustion. During his research for the LAPD dramaEnd of Watch, he spent five months patrolling the streets with real-life police officers until 7 a.m. It was good preparation for his new movie Nightcrawler, a blistering portrait of a morally corrupt crime-scene videographer who works the…
Open Classical DFW’s Halloween special returns to haunt Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy) this week. Stop by the park for a spooky night with Decomposing Beethoven (Open Classical Director Mark Landson) who hosts the show with Decomposing Brahms (Thiago Nascimento) at the piano. Highlights: Schubert’s Death and the…
If you know the name, Laurie Anderson, but don’t fancy yourself an post modernist art music aficianado, it’s probably because of her breakout hit in the 1980’s “O Superman” – a pulsating synth piece that sounds like an amalgam of Phillip Glass and Imogen Heap. If you haven’t heard of…
Fire and ice and sugar and spice, and all those other things that are so very nice, will be on display Thursday, October 23 at the Latino Cultural Center during Contemporary Ballet Dallas’ season opener, Fire & Ice. Director Valerie Tabor, who was one of our 100 Creatives, will premiere…
In association with Klyde Warren Park’s second anniversary celebration, the Dallas Opera is presenting their second annual Opening Night Simulcast in the Park. This year’s offering is Mozart’s comedic masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro. The Dallas Opera’s performance (live from The Winspear Opera House) will be projected onto two large,…
Everybody has that friend who self published their novel and is begging you to stop by the Amazon page and give it a sparkling review. The idea of self publishing can earn sneers from the people who believe in the value of the backing of a publishing house. But to…
There’s got to be something so sweet about coming home after you hit the big time—and not in a “nyah nyah”, rub-it-in-their-face kinda way. Rather, there’s probably some special feels a person gets after seeing the places where they built themselves up and put in so much of the hard…
If you don’t have kids or live on a block where the neighborhood kids don’t throw eggs at the houses that don’t give out candy on Halloween, then the best way to enjoy Halloween is by going to a theater for a good, old fashioned horror movie. The Alamo Drafthouse…
When you think of video games, you probably think of overweight guys sitting in their basement den as they spray blood across their TV screen. You probably think of massive guns that not even a body builder could carry and aim with effectively at the same time. The indie game…
There’s nothing too scary at the annual Boo at the Zoo at the Forth Worth Zoo (1989 Colonial Pkwy. Fort Worth.There will be a live animal stage show at the Outdoor Learning Theater, a pumpkin patch, a Tot Spot, crafts and treat stations. Plus, there will be special programming at…
Sunday, October 26th at 8:30pm, the AT&T Performing Arts Center will screen the classic Stephen King thriller “The Shining”, starring Jack Nicholson, as part of their Sunset Screenings series. Admission to the screening is free but RSVPs are encouraged. There are 200 first come, first serve seats on the front…
