Johnny Depp — yes, the Johnny Depp — was in Austin over the weekend for the Austin Film Festival, where the actor was honored with the first-ever “Extraordinary Contribution To Film — Acting Award.” Depp’s latest film, The Rum Diary — a screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s long lost…
“I’m inspired by the 90s. I often [revert] back to my ’90s, pre-teen self.” Name: Blakely Soileau, 28 Occupation: Hair stylist Location: Reno’s Chop Shop Style breakdown: “Vintage purse from Value World, necklace from my dad, thrift store skirt and top, boots from The Salvation Army and a Timex watch…
Two good Dallas actresses are getting their due in a pair of shows obsessed with courtship, marriage and the whole damn thing called love. One play will make you feel good about all that. The other won’t, but it does afford its star, Sally Soldo, the sweetest role she’s had…
The Rum Diary Needs More Punch
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal project for its disconcertingly unengaged star Johnny Depp. The movie adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s and published, under…
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the glover’s son-turned-actor from Stratford-upon-Avon — who, due to the troublesome existence of evidence, remains the general favorite. De Vere is the protagonist of Anonymous, a work of…
Fans of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons will be thrilled to know that The Midtown Men are coming to town. Reuniting four stars from the original cast of Broadway’s Jersey Boys, which celebrated Valli’s life and work, Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and former Texan J. Robert Spencer…
Everyone’s telling you that you need to lighten up a little. If you need some help getting on the enlightened roadway, we have just the thing for you. Together with the Dallas Arts District, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Yoga Center, the Crow Collection of Asian Art is…
Last year, inspired by the all-night Nuit Blanche celebrations of art in Paris, Santa Monica and other cities around the world, artist Shane Pennington and partner Joshua King decided Dallas deserved its own version, so they created Aurora and set it in Dallas Heritage Village. Installations projected colorful lights and…
For every lucky designer who gets a break on Project Runway, countless others sketch, sew and struggle to make names for themselves in the fashion industry. After his parents abandoned him as a child, Nary Manivong discovered a copy of Vogue while living on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, with…
Kind of like a big lunch and carnival rides, something about mixing booze and acrobatics seems odd. Leave it to the performance genius of Cirque Mechanics — with performers from the Moscow Circus and Cirque du Soleil — to make it work. The troupe presents Boom Town, a reinterpretation of…
The season of spooks is the time to challenge the conventions of caution and emotional comfort, to investigate abandoned mansions, take strolls through foggy woods or ride a rickety passenger train through an eerie ghost town. The latter will probably be the easiest to find around Dallas on Saturday when…
Have you heard about this, folks? Have you seen this? Apparently, Jay Leno is performing at the 10th Annual A Night to Remember, a benefit show for CitySquare. If you are feeling pangs of guilt for your collection of hundreds of automobiles and want to give something back, now is…
Celebrate Latin heritage this fall with two Día de los Muertos events celebrating life, renewal and the memory of loved ones: The Bishop Arts Foundation hosts its first Día de los Muertos celebration 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday outside the North Oak Cliff library at 302 West 10th St. with…
It’s time for a preemptive sugar rush, no? That is to say, before you stuff your pumpkin full of delicious fun-size treats, what say you run down the ol’ calorie count via the Watters Creek Second Annual Trek or Treat 5K at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Oh, and there’s a fun…
Greenville Avenue is one of Dallas’ tastiest streets. From Barley House and Blue Fish to Rohst and Woodfire by Kirby’s, it’s as diverse as it is delicious. For the third year, we can taste our favorites and try new flavors at the Taste of Greenville Avenue (TOGA), which features small…
As the story goes, a band of peripatetic, out-of-work carnies ended up squatting in the old Market Center Building at 603 Munger Ave. during the Great Depression. They took up residence in the structure’s lower, subterranean recesses. And if that wasn’t creepy enough, cadavers were stored down there in the…
Here’s the thing about kids: You can scar them. So this year take off the gory mask, put down the R.L. Stine novel and head to the Dallas Zoo (650 S. R.L. Thornton Freeway) for Halloween Nights. Each night is filled with animal attractions, trick-or-treating and a backward ride on…
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and sometimes you must pick a pocket or two. Learn the rugged ways of survival from the best of the best with Oliver! the musical version of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist. Join the little orphan who could when he escapes from the…
Why zombies? Why are the undead shuffling atop a wave of popularity, as opposed to those angst-ridden, broody vampires whose moment in the sun — or moon — has been eclipsed by sartorially challenged zombie folk? Is that some sort of commentary on where America’s head is at in these…
Dear Michael Myers: Your bleached William Shatner mask will be of no use this Halloween. We have Pumpkinhead. Also, we have Lance Henriksen. In the genre of horror films based on creepy, supernatural old women in the Appalachian mountains, Pumpkinhead is one of the best. It’s also directed by Stan…
Tap dance isn’t really all about 12 pre-tweens with rouged cheeks attempting to ball-change in time with one another, no matter what you may have heard from friends with children. Tap is incredibly athletic, fun even at its moodiest and pretty much universally jaw-dropping. Savion Glover’s brand of tap, that…
It’s every designer’s dream to create a garment that becomes a classic, but few fashion trends ever make it to that status. Coco Chanel did it with the black dress. Burberry did it with the trench coat. Then there’s Diane von Furstenberg. In 1974, von Furstenberg created the wrap dress…
