Last month Dallas experienced the reality television equivalent of a pregnancy scare: Reality Tea leaked that we’d be getting our own bouffanted edition of the popular Bravo “Housewives” series. A Wiki page was summoned, a Facebook page emerged and we collectively clutched our pearls, waiting to hear if Troy Aikman’s…
If you haven’t made it over to the Winspear to see “La traviata,” your thrifty ways are about to pay off. Hear Greek soprano Myrtò Papatanasiu sing herself to death beautifully in the role Violetta this Friday night, and your date’s ticket will be half-price. Just enter the promo code:…
The devil must have been really busy in the early ’90s; there were a lot of trends and careers who’s successes could only be attributed to fiery soul relinquishment. Angel Martin in Shock ‘Em Dead, tonight’s Tuesday Night Trash movie at Texas Theatre, is no exception. Played by Stephen Quadros…
If you’re still hanging on to that DIFF laminate after a week of intensive film screenings, we are so proud of you. Also, maybe take a shower and call a family member, because you probably smell like buttery popcorn substitute and those closest to you are concerned about your absence…
Watch Trailer: Season 6, Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. See more from ART:21.Get excited, nerds! Two local galleries are showing this season’s selections from the Peabody award-winning series ART: 21, and they’re doing them in group settings. The popular PBS program picks three to four artists or collectives…
Hoodie? Check. Popcorn? Check. Complete list of films to see today at DIFF, seasoned with links to background information and brief descriptions of content? Double check! We’ve got our DIFF picks for Thursday, so prepare your cinematic socks to be rocked…
Y-chromosomes, y’all better duck and cover! Tonight’s estrogen wave crashes into D/FW as Carol Burnett, Amy Sedaris and Judy Blume post up around town. (Froyo stands across the metroplex will be abandoned.) And that’s only the beginning! This weekend is jammed up with fun: There’s an Evil Dead, The Musical…
The titular instrument in The Magic Flute has the ability to change men’s hearts. If I had that thing I’d be chilling on a bonbon throne, snacking my way through a Die Hard marathon while dudes paid my bills and Swiffered my floors. The characters in Mozart’s classic opera are…
I’m not sure if it was Annie or the Carol Burnett Show that first alerted me to Her existence, but soon a snowball effect occurred. I dressed as “Carol” on Halloween, tried sketch comedy in the first grade talent show (fart jokes: works every time.) and tugged my earlobe at…
As Jerri Blank, the facially contorted “boozer, user, and loser” from Strangers With Candy, Amy Sedaris taught us about many important things. Turtles shouldn’t eat “hot fruit” for one, and that if left untreated long enough, STDs can live in sedimentary layers and wreak havoc on your popular boyfriend. Luckily…
It was in that transition to chapter books that we first discovered her: Judy Blume had all the answers. Getting picked on at school? Pick up Blubber. Feeling exceptionally overshadowed by your sibling and uprooted by your parent’s shift in careers? Snag Superfudge. And yeah. That other thing that started…
Let the rest of the world bitch about Hump Day, you’re taking a bit of You Time and cozying up with the best independent cinema this side of the Mason/Dixon. Whether you’ve joined the Occupy DIFF movement or just plan to grab a casual post-work seat, we think you’ll like…
With so many television series being filmed in Dallas, we’ve become accustomed to BRT, A-List even those rah rah Making The Team gals dipping their pedicured toes in the nightlife pool. But what we forget is that all productions need to be produced, and those folks producing them either live…
If you’ve been camping out in theaters for the last five days with your G Chat set to “unavailable”, we salute you. Living la vida DIFF isn’t for the faint of heart, or stomach for that matter. I’m curious: what’s the largetst thing you’ve smuggled into a theater by now?…
Dallas just played host to a tremendous weekend of art. From the flooding of international and local galleries at F.I.G. to the pop-up Salon des fefuses-inspired offerings at the Shamrock Hotel, art-lovers worked overtime to absorb it all. One of the more interesting events of the weekend was the high-concept…
Are you a die-hard, complete immersion festie? Did you take the week off of work so that you’d be able to see all of these great movies? We salute you. Whether you’re planted in those seats from beginning to end, or just catching what you can this evening, we’ve got…
It’s the perfect day to hunker down at DIFF, so our staff crunched the schedule and created a game plan. Here’s your guide to today’s indies, docs and features. Click the film titles for background information…
Don’t you dare spend tomorrow rearranging your hair scarf collection; it’s sad and you’re better than that. Instead get excited about this weekend’s art parties. Most happen on Saturday, so poke around the Dallas Art Fair that morning, then support your local galleries (by consuming their bevies) all evening long…
You got a DIFF badge, that’s awesome! You’re about to have so much fun. Now the hard part: With five theaters screening simultaneously, you need spreadsheets to organize your daily plan. Guess what? We made spreadsheets! You can chill out and eat a taco. You’re welcome. Here’s our picks for…
Last night’s Dallas Art Fair gala had a Champagne sponsor, so I was there. As was every Dallasite with a Bentley. Even the cocktails were wearing Chanel. I went into the scene with one goal: photobomb and later befriend Maxwell Anderson’s sassy fun wife, Jacqueline. (Oh, the brunches we would…
Y’all got that beer-can helmet polished up yet? What are you waiting for? You’re going to need your hands free if you want to place opening weekend bets at the track, dig in the popcorn over at the film festival and stroke your imaginary beard while staring pensively at canvases…
When “R. Mutt” famously submitted that inverted porcelain urinal to the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, it sparked a pissing war. “Could this object be perceived as art?” “Does it matter whether or not the artist made or purchased it?” But mostly I think the judges were concerned…
