FridayThose toys that once occupied every square inch of your childhood bedroom weren’t just mindless playthings designed to keep you occupied. They were brilliant works of art. Don’t kick yourself that you gave away an art gallery to Goodwill when you moved out of the house. There is still a…
Last month, when a fire consumed the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, it meant more than the closure of a beloved dance hotspot. It also marked the final chapter in a story that rocked the city’s LGBT community and catalyzed change within the Fort Worth Police Department. “It was the…
July Exhibit at South Side on LamarJanette Kennedy Gallery 1409 S. Lamar St. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Thursday Janette Kennedy Gallery, the creative space that’s free to its artists, kicks off its July exhibit featuring the works of three local photographers. Jessica Bell’s theme is “Modern Day Prostitution,” a series…
In its 18-year history, Amphibian Stage Productions in Fort Worth has developed a reputation for championing new plays and playwrights that are fun and quirky. One play was such a crowd pleaser during its first run that Amphibian has received letters asking for it to be revived. Its subject matter…
The documentary Elián posits the story of 5-year-old Elián González, who was rescued off the coast of Florida in 1999 after attempting to leave Cuba with his mother (who drowned) — a long with its aftermath — as the birth of the 24-hour news cycle. More striking here, though, is…
The WWE returns to Dallas this Sunday night for their inaugural “Great Ball of Fire” wrestling extravaganza. Yes, it’s really called that. We talked with the event’s general manager, Kurt Angle — himself an Olympic gold medalist, WWE champion and Hall-of-Famer — about how wrestling has evolved over the past…
Paul Riddell bought his first Venus flytrap as a kid in Chicago. He kept his first carnivorous plant alive and healthy for years during the plant’s characteristic cycle of bloom and dormancy. But then he moved to Flower Mound. Within an hour of watering his Venus flytrap in his new…
Twenty-one things to do in Dallas from Thursday, July 6, through Wednesday, July 12: ThursdayThe Dallas Museum of Art’s Mexico: 1900-1950 has brought masses of Frida Kahlo fans to the museum, many of whom have spent at least a few minutes awestruck in front of the mesmerizing “The Two Fridas”…
Maudie is hit-or-miss, but you’ll probably bawl anyway. Its creators have elected to dramatize nothing but the things that traditional narrative features usually botch. The film, directed by Aisling Walsh, surveys the life of a beloved artist, Nova Scotia’s self-taught folk painter Maud Lewis, who produced scores of cheerily primitive…
Snowfall airs Wednesdays on FX Days before the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me premiered, the news hit that John Singleton’s original script for the project opened the rapper’s story with Tupac being raped in prison. Singleton had left the ill-fated film twice before Benny Boom stepped in to…
Who knew Cate Blanchett wanted to be Tracey Ullman? That’s probably not the reaction director Julian Rosefeldt hopes will be stirred by this rigorous series of monologues, stitched together from more than 50 artistic and political manifestos and performed by Blanchett as 13 characters. But, like Ullman, Blanchett takes the…
Just like life, summer may feel long at times, but it actually goes by quite fast. Don’t wake up in January with regrets about the outdoor yoga classes untaken, the popsicles uneaten and the patios un-sat on. Instead, scratch off all the items on our Dallas summer bucket list and…
On June 8, filmmaker Alex Kurtzman set the entertainment world ablaze when he told Business Insider that movie “critics and audiences don’t always sing the same song.” Despite grossing more than twice its $125 million budget, The Mummy, directed by Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise, was universally panned by film…
On the Air The Nines 2911 Main St. 7 p.m. Monday Free Do you want your MTV but kind of hate the direction it’s gone in the past decade or so? In its salad days, MTV really was music television with hours of music videos and music news any time…
Most hero stories dating back to Achilles are fantasies of power, of the world made right through violence. What sets Spider-Man apart, outside his joyous bouncing through New York City, is that his stories are also fantasies of responsibility. Rather than just kick bad-guy ass, Spider-Man must forever fight to…
In early June, Shakespeare Dallas began receiving death threats from passionate supporters of President Donald Trump. These callers confused the Dallas company with New York’s Public Theater, which was producing Julius Caesar with a title character who closely resembled the president. But Shakespeare Dallas wasn’t parodying Trump in its summer Shakespeare…
When Kevin Lewis was a kid, he had a deep love for Universal’s classic movie monsters like Frankenstein, the Mummy and Dracula. So, naturally, at Halloween, he wanted to dress up as one of them. None of the store-bought costumes would do, so he picked Lon Chaney Jr.’s Wolf Man and…
Friday Dutch DJ legend Tiesto will be appearing in Dallas on Friday night, fresh off a crowd-pleasing set at last week’s Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. For more than 25 years, he’s been at the forefront of progressive house and trance music, constantly coming up with new, eclectic grooves…
In cities like Dallas, it seems there’s a CVS pharmacy on every corner. So it’s hard to fathom a medical desert where access to doctors and pharmacies is limited and getting birth control can be an ordeal. Yet that’s what millions of women in Texas face every year, especially in…
Twenty-one things to do in Dallas from Thursday, June 29, through Wednesday, July 5: Thursday Before Woodstock, there was the Monterey Pop Festival, which brought onstage some of the most iconic musicians in modern history, such as Janis Joplin, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Otis Redding. The California-based festival kicked…
The House on Coco Road premieres on Netflix on June 30 Quick, tell me everything you know about Grenada. If you’re over the age of 35, you can probably remember Ronald Reagan’s thin lips pronouncing the country’s name with a dangerous emphasis on the first two syllables, essentially weaponizing the…
There’s still a lot to love about being an American. Our government has its misgivings, but at least we still know how to stop and smell the grill. The Fourth of July is upon us, and now more than ever, it’s important to celebrate what made America great in the…
