A comedy, and also a tragedy, of remarriage — without couples counseling or divorce — writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ The Lovers revitalizes its genre with a piquant premise: What happens when long-wedded spouses, each with a romantic partner outside their dormant dyad, find the spark reignited — a combustion that results...
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Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a film worthy of release still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the folks who tell stories through cinema tend to come from backgrounds of privilege. That breeds movies aimed at middle- to...
Dallas resident Penny Howard thought she would have longer with her 5-year-old daughter, Harper. Harper was born in April 2010 with a rare, life-threatening disorder called CDKL5 epilepsy. The girl died in January 2016, but her life and death are making an impact in the world of orphan diseases, the term for...
For the people behind Greenville Avenue Pizza Co., their newest location is a homecoming. The intersection of Peavy and Garland roads is an increasingly popular food destination with the likes of Goodfriend Beer Garden & Burger House and Cultivar Coffee Bar & Roaster, but it’s also where Molly and Sammy...
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) premieres on Netflix Oct. 13 Adam Sandler’s core as a performer has always been his self-loathing. In his best comedies, he weaponizes it with humiliating ruthlessness. (In his worst ones, it wafts pathetically off him like the day-after stink of a drunkard.) Now, he’s...
It is perhaps the world's largest understatement that 2017 was a year filled with news — earth-shaking, head-scratching, social consciousness-raising news. The Dallas dining scene was not immune to such moments. This list, arguably, does not contain the city's "biggest" dining news of the year, but rather the news that...
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Dallas City Council member Jennifer Gates has a great idea. Really. She’s right. The city should strongly consider pulling its elections out from under the aegis of the county elections department and run them itself. The county elections department as constituted was born in sin. Its structure is the result...
Halloween is everywhere. Advertisements for haunted houses are all over our Facebook feeds, pumpkin spiced foods are stacked high in grocery stores and movie theater marquees bear the names of classic scary movies. This year, celebration of the holiday can even be incorporated into your skin regimen. I’ve been hearing...
The yarn-dressed trees dotting the Arts District are proof that Kevin Moriarty is serious about providing a "fully immersive" experience with his newest musical production. Hair opens this week at the Wyly, and if you think the trees outside are over-the-top, just wait until you see the inside of the theater...
Beer festivals, like this weekend's Dallas Observer Brewfest in Dallas, create a dilemma for devoted drinkers. There are only so many glasses you're going to fill and so many lines you'll wait in. For those of us there to catch a buzz ... oh, right, beer is supposed to be...
As temperatures begin to drop in Dallas, it’s perfect weather for sitting outside on a nice lawn with a bottle of wine while watching a stage fill up with blood. For the first time in its 46-year history, Shakespeare Dallas will present one of Shakespeare’s most violent plays, Titus Andronicus...
Dallas has no other restaurant quite like Too Thai Street Eats. Although we have more than a few good Thai restaurants, none of them shares much in common with Too Thai, a new Carrollton establishment that focuses on the foods of Bangkok’s street vendors, night markets and hawker stalls. Like...
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After three years of construction, a new 17-block entertainment district in Las Colinas finally has an opening date. The centerpiece, simply called the Pavilion, will be one of the largest and most high-tech venues in Dallas-Fort Worth when it opens Sept. 1. Local bookers and musicians say it could result in...
Dallas and brunch are the types of friends born not out of interest or affection, but out of convenience. Every weekend, tables are filled, Benedicts are eaten and salt-rimmed tumblers are dredged to their bottoms. It's not a bad relationship, really. But did you ever think that maybe if brunch...
In adapting for the screen the long, hard story of Colin Warner — a Trinidadian native who, as a Brooklyn teenager in 1980, was wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to prison for more than 20 years — Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights moves along in a counterproductive hurry. Scenes rich...
This list, arranged in no particular order, is limited to books that were published in 2017 and written by authors who live in Dallas-Fort Worth. The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson This dystopian thriller, published in June, focuses on a formerly privileged girl named Eden who escapes a labor camp...
KISS Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Three years ago, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons declared that rock was dead. “The death of rock was not a natural death,” Simmons told Esquire magazine in a 2014 interview. “Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.”...
You have to take the good with the bad. Getting the ratios right is the tricky part. How did Dallas' cultural scene fare in 2017? Hey, we just report. You decide. Institutions that received fantastic news early this year, like the Dallas Theater Center (which won a Tony award) and...
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Here are some facts you need to know. Carrollton has a Korean dive bar called Ddong Ggo, in the same shopping center as H Mart. Ddong Ggo is Korean for “butthole.” In the restaurant's case, this refers to a chicken's, which is why its logo is an angry chicken with...
MakeShift PhotoRama – Significance ImposedKettle Art 2650 Main St. Opening reception 7-10 p.m. Thursday Twelve Dallas photographers paired up with 12 Dallas writers and took a Texas-soaked road trip. Significance Imposed is the collection of photos, landscapes, characters and words that resulted from the statewide jaunt. Prediction: There will be...
Denton ISD removed Eric Hauser — the Rodriguez Middle School assistant principal who courted controversy last week after the release of his self-published children's book, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede — from his post Monday afternoon. Hauser is being reassigned to an unannounced role with the district because of the...
Ten years ago, voters in Irving agreed to finance a 16-acre, mixed-use entertainment complex off State Highway 114. It would have more than two dozen restaurants, an Alamo Drafthouse, and indoor and outdoor concert venues, along with retail and office space. That complex, originally called the Irving Music Factory, was...