WaterTower Theatre is in the midst of a season of change. This is its first season with artistic director Joanie Schultz at the wheel, and now the theater has added a new managing director, longtime Dallas attorney Nick Even. “When a theater moves beyond the vision of its founders into…
Wednesday was wet, rainy and bitterly cold. Could there be a better setting for a primordial scream on the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s election? A small but loud crowd of five protesters and one surprise counterprotester showed up at the Continental Avenue pedestrian bridge Wednesday night as part…
When Puerto Rican artist Mariola Rosario shot scenic photos of the forest at Reserva Natural de Humacao on the island this summer, it was lush and green and filled her with awe. She didn’t know that would be the last time she would see it that way. Years before, the…
FridayAlthough they live on opposite sides of the globe, Kurt Vile, a lanky, mumbling Philadelphian, and Courtney Barnett, a reserved Australian rocker, make a perfect musical match. On their debut collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, their jangly guitar chords intertwine and their call-and-response vocals effortlessly weave together. It’s one of…
Set in present-day New York, the film has a classic Hollywood texture and a classic Hollywood conceit: a brilliant old man paired with a beautiful young ingenue
A web series with more than 200 million viewers has turned its attention to Denton. Buzzfeed Unsolved explores true crime and supernatural stories, and the most recent episode of the show centers on the Old Alton Bridge, better known to locals as “The Goatman’s Bridge.” The Old Alton Bridge made our 2015…
The latest project of Kavita Khandekar, the deputy director of the nonprofit Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, began as a fever dream. She and her coworkers at the small agency wanted to host a large-scale fundraiser, but they didn’t want to do a big gala or luncheon like other…
Despite the bright cinematography, there’s something quaint and comforting about this film and its brand of old-fashioned storytelling …
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, BPM (Beats Per Minute), French director Robin Campillo’s stylized, moving drama of AIDS activism and love, sometimes feels like several films at once. It follows the activities of ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s, and for much…
Despite the many troubling trends in our media culture, the movies’ response to the Iraq War has been (gasp) surprisingly admirable. Since the mid-2000s, a steady stream of films have artfully addressed war’s aftermath and the homefront — from Stop-Loss and In the Valley of Elah, to Grace is Gone…
Ruben Ostlund’s The Square, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this past May, probably says more about the times we’re living in than any other film you’re likely to see this year. And yet the beauty of the movie is that everybody will have their own ideas about what,…
One year, back in the early 1990s, an uncle of mine didn’t show up to our family Christmas. I was only 10 and didn’t understand his sudden departure and why nobody would speak of it. A year later, I was at his funeral. He was a playwright and actor in…
On Monday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, the show’s producer, Andy Cohen, questioned Housewife LeeAnne Locken about her violent past and an alleged police record. The episode was part one of the second season’s reunion. Highlights from the season were re-aired, including scenes in which Locken is in…
ThursdayComedians must hear this all the time: “I’ll bet you’re really glad Donald Trump is president right now. The jokes must write themselves!” Comedian Chris Rock knows enough about telling the truth as he sees it and making people laugh that he could mine material from the world even if…
This is not a drill. Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Hearth and Hand with Magnolia line has officially arrived at Target. The Waco couple’s line of home and kitchen decor, with a few random journals thrown in, is kind of hard for us to wrap our minds around. But we are…
When the final touches were placed on the city-owned Omni Dallas Hotel in 2011, a new vision of Downtown Dallas began to take shape. But while the Omni flashed its LED-lit greeting to Dallas, less than a mile away, another iconic building downtown remained shrouded in darkness. “We always saw…
Over six episodes crafted with the rich complexity of the novel, “celebrated murderess” Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), tells her own story, Scheherazade-style, to a doctor (Edward Holcroft) with the power to arrange for her pardon
Authors Live!: Scott Kelly Highland Park United Methodist Church 3300 Mockingbird Lane 7 p.m. Monday Free Nobody on Earth has spent more accumulative time outside of its gravity than Scott Kelly, former military fighter pilot and test pilot, engineer, retired astronaut, retired U.S. Navy captain and, now, author. He wants…
Prism Movement Theater has brought some of the most evocative theater to Dallas in recent years, all without uttering a word. Its latest creation is a wordless adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most complicated plays, King Lear. Prism’s iteration is simply called Lear. Audiences might wonder how theater so rooted…
Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of the Dana Carvey Show streams on Hulu Toward the end of the excellent new documentary, Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of the Dana Carvey Show, Dana Carvey describes the final installment of a bit that ran throughout his…
Why is Mel Gibson in the holiday family comedy Daddy’s Home 2? When Gibson’s relentlessly bloody, morally incoherent 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge inexplicably became a critical darling, I watched in horror at the love and attention lavished on the director. In what world were we living where, when Gibson’s name…
A Texas artist will have the opportunity to show his paintings in Miami during Art Basel, an international art fair, after discovering that a Miami gallery was promoting copies of his work. Jeff “Skele” Sheely first learned that someone was copying his paintings on Instagram. F.A.M.E. Gallery & Concept Store, based…
