Outside of Mick Jagger’s cooing in “Sympathy for the Devil,” there is very little work out there that gives the dark lord the credit he truly deserves. Taken from the perspective of a demon, the stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters will give audiences a new understanding of…
On one side of an empty street the motorbikes of the unshaven, leather-jacketed Rockers grumble. They stare across at their rivals, the Mods, a mob of riled youngsters on whining Italian scooters who wear suits and listen to pop music. In this rivalry, indignant youth clashes with old wisdom. This…
When Dazed and Confused–Richard Linklater’s neo-classic film about the last day of school in small-town Texas in 1976–came out in 1993, I was in college in Tucson, Arizona, which was one of the test cities for the movie. There were at least three “sneak preview” showings in town, and I…
Burlesque is the flaming phoenix of American theater traditions; the alcoholic-fueled free-for-all was effectively extinguished by Prohibition (damn those teetotalers and their fake middle class morality). But burlesque rose from the ashes with help from garter-strapped performers like Dita von Teese (Marilyn Manson’s ex-wife), who sexily sashays the fine line…
When VHS was abandoned in favor of DVDs, home videos and second rate tapes were digitized, sold off or thrown away altogether. But these relics didn’t just disappear. Part VHS nostalgia, part pop culture horror, the Found Footage Festival features a collection of these YouTube rejects of yesteryear, scrabbled together…
When it comes down to it, people are always about the moolah (AKA the green, the monies and the Benjamins), and sometimes the family that might pray together doesn’t necessarily stay together because of it. In Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate, all hell breaks loose when Stella’s three children–Mary Jo,…
At this time last year, Rangers’ fans were gearing up for the season with the hopes that it might be the year the Rangers finally broke through. And indeed, last season brought an American League Championship home to Arlington, and the team put up a spirited but ill-fated fight in…
Your Dallas Stars currently sit at number nine in the Western Conference standings, just behind a tightly grouped pack of playoff contenders including Anaheim, Nashville, Los Angeles and Chicago. This Tuesday they’ll fight for their playoff lives against the Columbus Blue Jackets, a team that currently sits out of playoff…
If you’ve got a hankerin’ for one of the best Russian operas around–or the chance to swill vodka and indulge in all of those Boris jokes you’ve been saving up–go check out Boris Godunov, Modest Mussorgsky’s work about the famed 16th century Russian tsar. Godunov would have been counted one…
It’s too late for us, but hopefully our cautionary tale can save another drinker from the perils of craft beer. We once were happy with anything fizzy and alcoholic. But now, after sipping brews ranging from the vanilla-gloved hop punch of Oaked Arrogant Bastard to the spicy caramel mix of…
A lot of wonderful ideas for Broadway shows are probably born at parties thrown by Elton John, but the one that came out of his 50th birthday bash has been arguably the most successful. Burn the Floor, a dancing, singing spectacular that opened in 1999, is coming to Dallas on…
For most of us, there’s a spool of old sewing thread gathering dust in the back of a drawer full of other unused junk. Plus, when a button finally does snap off, unless it’s your favorite shirt or blouse, you toss it out–never mind the thread. Artist Gabriel Dawes works…
Spring has sprung, y’all, and that means that the flowers are blooming, the men of Uptown have liberated their man-sandals from the closet, and that bunny rabbits–somehow a symbol of rebirth and renewal despite the fact that they routinely eat their young–are everywhere. These cute and fuzzy little lagomorphs are…
Though he’s been painting for longer than your average chillwave artist has been alive, David Row’s art looks like it belongs on the cover of a synth-pop album. Precise lines and swooping curves in rich, contrasting colors expand beyond the edges of the canvas. Look for yourself and see if…
The Magnolia Gallery (located inside the West Village’s Magnolia Theatre) has shown work by some of the Dallas area’s best local artists, and the current exhibition is a prime example of the talent this city has to offer . Artist Cabe Booth has been an vital part of the Dallas…
With post-GoodFellas crime-movie tropes dyed for St. Patrick’s Day, this Ballad of Danny Greene attempts to enshrine the Irish-American strongman, a real-life folk hero among mob-lore nerds and Cleveland Teamsters for his Rasputin-like resilience through multiple assassination attempts. Kill the Irishman aims to come out bumping chests in upstart insouciance,…
The tale of a disoriented cannibal family trying to survive in the lower depths of Mexico City, Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are is a darkly comic social allegory as well as an atmospheric little genre flick. This promising first feature is nearly as apt to use the…
Paul Giamatti continues contemporary cinema’s longest pre-midlife crisis in Win Win as Mike, yet another schlubby fortysomething flummoxed by mundane personal problems. Mike is the coach of the county’s worst high school wrestling team, and his failing small-town law practice has accrued a mountain of debt, which he’s too chicken-shit…
Where there’s a will, there’s a way for greedy family members to fight about who gets what and how much. In Horton Foote’s internecine 1989 comedy Dividing the Estate, members of the Gordon family also want to know how soon they’ll get their mitts on their mama’s money. The sooner…
Before there was American Idol and similar audition shows, there was Broadway. And, getting there had absolutely nothing to do with people voting from their couch via text message. But the process was harrowing, all the same. The classic musical A Chorus Line gives audiences a glimpse of the happiness,…
Now that you have seen the movies, come experience the adventures of Buzz, Woody, Jesse and the rest of the Toy Story gang as they go to infinity and beyond on a pair of ice-skates! Disney on Ice is coming to the American Airlines Center (2500 Victory Ave.) and the…
Whether through dancing and singing or with passionate and forbidden love affairs, cinema–in this case, the genres of film musical and romantic drama–has been entertaining audiences for decades. Films make you laugh and they make you cry. They make you want to dance, break into song and fall in love…
