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The Best Things To Do in Dallas, Aug. 2–8

By Danny Gallagher
Aug 2, 2023

This week's best things to do include a Queen tribute at the Winspear, the Texas Latino Comic Con and an anime classic at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
The Best Things To Do in Dallas August 11-17

By Diamond Rodrigue
Aug 11, 2021

It’s got to be hard being the sibling of a famous comedian while trying to earn comedic credibility of your own. But that’s what Tony Rock, younger brother of Chris Rock, has done with his career.
Film Series in Fort Worth Spotlights the Cinematic Career of Larry McMurtry

By Liam Gaughan
Aug 6, 2021

In theaters this past weekend was the biographical tear-jerker Joe Bell, which tells the true story of a heartbroken father who walked across the nation to raise awareness about bullying and discrimination following the tragic death of his teenage son.
The Best Things To Do in Dallas Aug. 4-10

By Diamond Rodrigue
Aug 4, 2021

Mimicking the great live radio plays of the 1930s and ’40s, Pegasus Theatre (521 E. Lawther Drive) uses their own RadioVizion technique of storytelling with era-appropriate microphones and costumes and a foley artist creating live sound effects throughout.
It’s Also Hard to Make Money Spinning Plates

By Luke Darby
Dec 26, 2013

If you’ve worked in a restaurant before, you know the crazy mechanics that go down in the kitchen that keep the whole place running. It’s an apparatus hidden from the customers (even chefs in an open kitchen try not to let the crowd see them sweat), but even fewer people...
Forever Modern

By Jennifer Medina
Feb 28, 2013

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is so much more than just a beautiful example of architecture filled with a well-rounded collection. It’s a place for conversation and public engagement. In many ways, it’s alive. One of the most exciting programs offered in this land of contemporary masterpieces is...
What About Skinny Skiing?

By Brentney Hamilton
Sep 13, 2012

Grab your cognitive crampons and intellectual wingsuit because film festivals just got extreme. Each year, the juried Banff Mountain Film Festival takes place in November, and its winners — roughly 25 of more than 300 films submitted — hit the road on a fearless world tour, crash-landing in 400 communities...
Lucien Freud's Portraits are Skilled, Smart and Sad, and He Probably Had Sex with Them

By Betsy Lewis
Aug 29, 2012

See also: *Richard Doherty's Photos at Mighty Fine Arts Will Remind You of Our Beautiful Detritus *At Oliver Francis, Rachel De Joode's "Real Things" Work, Until She Describes Them The Modern's Lucien Freud Portraits showcases 90 works that span the artist's adult lifetime. Standing in the middle of any group...
Divorce Your Id, See Freud's Art

By Jamie Laughlin
Jun 28, 2012

Lucian Freud is the grandson of Sigmund "the couch whisperer" Freud, but through art he found an identity that was perfectly his own. Known for his cool-toned, realism-based portraits, Lucian developed and defined his style well before passing away in 2011 at the age of 88. Earlier in his career,...
Leading Lady Takes on the Boys of Broadway

By Katie Womack
Apr 12, 2012

Tony Award-winner and native Texan Betty Buckley has dazzled audiences for years in some of the most famous female roles on Broadway. On April 18, 19 and 21 she will trade in her familiar repertoire to sing Broadway songs originally composed for men in her show Ah, Men! The Boys...
Tony Winner Turns Teacher

By Jayme Rutledge
Jan 5, 2012

Since the music industry became flooded with auto-tune mixes (lookin’ at you, T.I.) and “entertainers” (ahem, Britney), we’ve wondered: Does anyone, you know, sing anymore? There’s a place where the singing never stopped, where the neon lights are bright — sing it with us — on Broadway! For proof, look...
Maid In Fantasyland

By Merritt Martin
Dec 22, 2011

If we don’t look too closely, The Women on the 6th Floor appears to be a lighthearted French- and Spanish-language romp, set in the early 1960s and centered on a bored, bourgie French businessman rekindling his life-spark in the flat of some Spanish maids. Look deeper, and it’s possibly another...
Doom of a Doomsayer

By Alex Copeland
Nov 10, 2011

In ancient times people turned to oracles and soothsayers for guidance, but today we treat prophecy with a bit more skepticism, if not disdain. In the movie Take Shelter, Michael Shannon plays the role of Curtis LaForche, a blue-collar family man whose life seems content and stable until LaForche begins...
Life, Re-Remembered

By Jennifer Medina
Aug 18, 2011

We're an easily jaded culture. Things that were once heartbreaking and awful become overexposed and passé, and sadly we find ourselves caring less and less about the important stuff, tossing them out like yesterday's news. That's why Life, Above All, based on the award-winning young adult novel Chanda's Secrets by...
Another Shot To See It

By Daniel Rodrigue
Jun 9, 2011

The New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has haunted the streets of New York City for decades, snapping shots of the best dressed of the rich and famous and down and out in The Big Apple. In his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours," Cunningham chronicled fashion trends for...
Reading the Art

By Daniel Rodrigue
May 26, 2011

While Chinese-born, U.S.-based contemporary artist Xiaoze Xie's works possess clearly political undertones, the figures and depictions in most of his works are reduced to abstract forms highlighting the transitory nature of time and its effects on memory and history—collective and individual. He's known for photo-realistic paintings of stacked newspapers and...
Four Area Shows Tonight That Will Help You Get Your Early Weekend Started Off Right

By Darryl Smyers
May 12, 2011

Not a bad early start to the weekend tonight, as both local and national talent serve up some tasty music this evening...
The Real Deal...Or Is It?

By Jesse Sidlauskas
Apr 21, 2011

You may think that plot twists, themes of forgery and a storyline that confounds the ideas of time and reality are the makings of an action film akin to Inception, but you would be wrong. Films that keep you guessing are often action-packed, but this is the description of a...
Salute Your Shorts

By Lindsey Coyne
Feb 24, 2011

The Academy Awards are the number one awards show you really don't have to sit through start to finish, unless you're generally interested in the politically correct quips of whatever A-list host they have as the emcee of the evening. All of the awards in the middle of the broadcast...
Run to Slant

By Jennifer Davis-Lamm
Feb 3, 2011

Along with all of the excesses of the Super Bowl--including but not limited to: parties with P.Diddy; sightings of Fergie, high-end liquor sponsorships and party passes that cost more than a month's groceries but don't guarantee an actual view of any football action--it's nice to know that there are some...
High-Octane Road Ruscha

By Jennifer Medina
Jan 20, 2011

I'm a card carrying member of the Ed Ruscha fan club for a reason. Like several of his more popular pop art brethren, Ruscha can be all about the bright colors and recognizable icons (see: the well known Standard Stations paintings), but he's much more than that. Historically his work...
Girls on Top

By N. Holland Pearce
Jan 13, 2011

It's hard to imagine being a woman in the workforce a few decades ago, when we were seen as sexual objects and not as intellectual equals. Sure, we could keep a home spotless and cook a mean meatloaf, but when it came to complex things like problem solving and conflict...