Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a small film burdened with the epic, thanks to both its subject and its setting. Based on Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, it depicts a day in the life of a young soldier (Joe Alwyn) briefly returning from Iraq to be honored with his squad...
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Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and...
Nao the robot is a little over a month old but can already recite poetry as if it feels passion. It speaks with a soft high-pitched voice while it moves with elegant precision. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate,” it says...
Tue 1/3If getting lost in at least one good book is a resolution of yours this new year, it may be easier surrounded by some like-minded individuals in a cozy cafe. The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's book club is hosting a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3,...
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Alejandro Escovedo is Mr. Austin. He may have been born in San Antonio, but after living in Austin since the early 1980s, Escovedo comes second only to Willie Nelson in being the favored son of the Live Music Capitol of the World. But that all changed last year when he...
Richard Haskins may be the most loved and most hated musician in Denton. Now, his life-as-performance-art lifestyle may result in prison time.
As the Cowboys marched through the first half of their schedule to the tune of 7-1, they've been shrouded by a couple of black clouds. One, what to do with budding rookie star quarterback Dak Prescott when Tony Romo is ready to play following his preseason back injury, is competition...
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Nick Valensi hadn't planned to start another band. As the guitarist for the Strokes, who could blame him? But as band members Julian Casablancas and Albert Hammond Jr. began to invest more time in their solo careers, Valensi found himself with more free time than he liked. “A couple years...
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Tue 11/8 What’s the proper theme for an election-night party this time around? “Free at last, free at last?” How about “Sing, fat lady! For the love of God, sing!” Central Track, a local culture and news website, is hosting its first election night party where party goers can watch...
The plan seemed simple enough: open up a couple of shell companies to funnel millions in bribe and kickback payments in exchange for patient referrals. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Texas claims Forest Park Medical Center paid approximately $40 million in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for...
Some Louis C.K. fans may have been dissuaded from buying tickets to his back-to-back shows at Music Hall at Fair Park this week by the $50-per-head price tag and the fact that the shows are on weeknights. But one factor made the shows worth the sacrifice: The first of the...
It’s impossible not to think of the T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park while watching Bryan Bertino’s chilling and succinctly titled The Monster. You remember: It’s dark, and the rains have started. The Jeeps have stalled en route to their destination. The kids are in one car, adults in the other,...
Dallas police reported two shootings by officers in the past five days, both of them working plainclothes investigations. Yesterday at about 9:40 a.m., a plainclothes cop working the 3500 block of Virginia Boulevard spotted what he was looking for — a vehicle that he believed has been carjacked the night...
In the pantheon of American First Ladies, Jacqueline Kennedy was no Eleanor Roosevelt. She didn’t push for policy, didn’t relinquish her pillbox hat to walk among the needy, didn’t travel to foreign countries as an ambassador and certainly didn’t advise her husband on matters of war. Jackie Kennedy’s role was...
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We often say this, but this time we really mean it: This week has a little something for everyone in the way of concerts. If it's light-hearted shimmy-shaking you're after, indie-pop group STRFKR will provide just the right atmosphere on Monday. If you're the nostalgic type, old-school arena acts Sting,...
The dam called “trouble” has been repaired. Well, almost repaired. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer announced Tuesday that the 160-foot surface slide affecting the Lewisville Lake Dam since spring 2015 has been finally repaired after rainstorm delays and funding issues. The final price tag is somewhere in the neighborhood...
If you haven’t been able to get out to see some good shows the past few months, you’re in for a treat this week as Dallas is seeing a few familiar faces. Former Dentonites Riverboat Gamblers have created a side project along with a member of Rise Against called the...
It didn’t take a Super Bowl commercial to turn pumpkin beer into the drinking public’s punching bag. Even before Anheuser-Busch InBev took its million-dollar dump on craft brewers with its peach pumpkin ale diss, gourd-infused brews earned more haters with each passing autumn, falling victim to evolving tastes and seasonal...