The big news out of the Berlin Film Festival earlier today was that Shia LaBeouf, here to promote Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume 1, behaved like an ass on the red carpet at the movie’s premiere last night. He showed up in a proper tuxedo, but also with a paper…
For Xchange, the Nasher’s citywide public art project, only two locals were selected to create work. One was solo artist, activist and Observer Mastermind winner Vicki Meek. The other was Good/Bad Art Collective, a group of wonderfully peculiar souls. Their work/play attitude and hyperactive creativity led to some of Denton’s…
One of the primary advantages animation has always had over live action film is its ability to depict anything imaginable without concern for budget, temperamental actors or the audience’s capacity to suspend disbelief. Anyone with rudimentary equipment and the patience to sit alone in the dark for weeks on end…
The silly time of year when love goes to our heads is upon us. We exit football season, wipe the wing sauce off our mouths and then ante up for all things romance as that most corporate of holidays bears down upon us, drowning us in artificially preserved candy hearts…
We all have stories about ourselves that we don’t want anyone else to know, for fear of dying of embarrassment. Those are exactly the kind of stories Kevin Allison and company like to tell on the Maximum Fun podcast RISK!: True Tales, Boldly Told. The founding member of the sketch…
Named after a slice of meat found on a cow’s hindquarters, The Tenderloins thrive on self-deprecating punch lines. With sketches like “The Comedy Roast of Jesus Christ” and “The Slutty Mermaid,” this comedy troupe earned viral appeal on Internet sites like YouTube and Myspace. What started as four best friends…
Talking in a movie theater should be a capital crime. We’re so sick of the practice that we still say this knowing full well that we live in a state that uses the death penalty as if we all get a free set of steak knives when we hit the…
Keeping a gallery space alive and vibrant for a decade isn’t a small feat. Doing that as an artist-operated space is nearly unheard of. Kettle Art Gallery (2650-B Main St.) has been an integral piece of the city’s art scene since it was built by hand 10 years ago, operating…
She has won Tony and Grammy awards (plural) and dazzled on both stage and screen for decades. Thursday through Saturday at the Meyerson Symphony Center, you can hear Bernadette Peters’ silky, perfect voice live and watch her iconic red curls bounce as she performs some of Broadway’s biggest hits, all…
It’s a little known fact that before cellphones, vampire slayers relied on pagers. When the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer faced Lothos, she couldn’t text anyone “Help!” with an emoji of a demon. She fought solo. This female independence earned her a huge fan base. What eventually became the quirky…
The Webb Gallery’s latest show is called Big Hair & Sparkly Pants, a survey of what we think about Texas. The show includes intricately carved guns from Campbell Bosworth, retro embroidered pearl snaps from Fort Lonesome, mixed-media prints “rooted in West Texas landscape” from Jeff Wheeler, hand-lettered and -pressed prints…
You’ve spent months knitting the perfect Dr. Who scarf, and this weekend you’ll finally flex your cosplay prowess at Comic Con Sci-fi Expo. Running Saturday and Sunday, the fest returns to the Irving Convention Center (500 W. Las Colinas Blvd.) with a star-studded lineup, headlined by a Saturday visit from…
Chippendales is coming to the House of Blues (2200 N. Lamar St.), and it’s not the Rescue Rangers version. It’s the male-strip-down-to-a-banana-hammock version. So if your great aunt is in town — or any sheltered housewife with an alcohol tolerance of a single Cape Cod — you officially have plans…
James Franco’s hourlong sort-of documentary Interior. Leather Bar. hit 2013’s festival circuit around the same time Oz The Great and Powerful released worldwide. Stew on that for a minute. Franco and co-collaborator Travis Mathews bill the lower-budget project as an examination/recreation of the 40 minutes of gay S&M footage the…
It’s true: There are so, so many fish in the sea. But you’ve managed to get one on the line — a real keeper, it seems — and now it’s time to celebrate your good fortune with the holy trinity of (printable) Valentine’s activities: chocolates, restaurant reservations and a little…
Composer Tod Machover is a musical mad scientist. The MIT professor and technology whiz has wowed audiences in Europe, Boston and Chicago with his futuristic opera Death and the Powers. Now it’s our turn. On Wednesday, The Dallas Opera will open its production of Machover’s sci-fi tale inside the Winspear…
Milton Glaser, designer of the most frequently imitated logo design in human history, is finally coming to Dallas. The legend behind the I ♥ NY logo is also famous for his poster of Bob Dylan with psychedelic hair and Brooklyn Brewery’s branding and packaging. His Dallas show is part of…
The creepy town where dogs and people aren’t allowed in the dog park because of mysterious hooded figures and the sun seems to have trouble setting on time is coming to our neck of the woods. Commonplace Books is doing a live recording tour of their popular radio-style podcast Welcome…
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Valentine’s Day is stupid. And you jerks keep making it stupider by being so horrible at valentines-ing. I will now attempt to save you from your horrible selves. Here are some don’ts for this Valentine’s Day. Cheers to not being the worst at this fake holiday from now on. Don’t…
We’ve been closely tracking the trajectory of Halt and Catch Fire, a forthcoming AMC drama set during the 1980s PC boom in Dallas. It was co-created by a Plano native, Chris Cantwell, and is being produced by some of the folks behind Breaking Bad. Hopes, ours and critics’, are high…
The world hasn’t been the same since the video game arcade started to die a slow death. The rise and power of the home console almost made coin-ops obsolete. Now, you can play whatever game you want without having to wait for some joystick jockey to get off the damn…
