Sugarland native Allison Tolman didn’t plan on turning Dallas into her first professional home as an actress. “It kind of became the plan,” Tolman says with a laugh. The 2004 Baylor University graduate had just gone on a national tour with a children’s theater company as her first job out…
The former mayor of Colleyville is now a sexpert. Well, kind of. In 2007, after several years of marriage, Donna Arp Weitzman and her husband divorced. No longer the mayor of Colleyville and looking to start over, Weitzman moved to a high-rise in Dallas and began dating. She was 55…
It’s April 1992, and ABC commentator Judith Miller’s voice has an exasperated tinge as she reports to her audience that not one of the officers who beat Rodney King on that infamous videotape has been found guilty of any charges. Soon, riots break out in Los Angeles. Thousands of stores…
“How much do you know?” the teacher asks. We’ve arrived five minutes late to a Thursday evening meeting of people who think they’re psychic. It’s held biweekly in a nondescript building in East Dallas. “How much have you studied?” the teacher asks. Mark Twain said, “When in doubt, tell the…
Steve Borden doesn’t fit the mold of the typical Waxachie resident. Unless when you think of Waxahachie, you think of a pro-wrestler who frequently travels to Dubai and Qatar for appearances. Borden, better known by the name of his wrestling alter ego, “Sting,” was the face of World Championship Wrestling…
Cinco de Mayo ’17 Taqueria La Ventana 1611 McKinney Ave. 2-11 p.m. Friday Free Every Tom, Dick and Enrique seems to have a Cinco de Mayo special, but only Taqueria la Ventana is holding cocktail tastings by el Jimador Tequila & Chambord, cerveza tastings by Corona and Modelo, and Mexican…
Steve Coogan is at a fancy dinner, but he’s not doing any Michael Caine impressions. Instead, he’s brooding with resentment of his workaholic congressman brother, Stan (Richard Gere), and grappling with the realization that his son might be a psychopath. It’s all supposed to be harrowing, and the British comedian…
Dear White People streams on Netflix For the past half-century, college campuses have served as a primary theater of the culture wars. So it’s fitting that one of the year’s most provocative, timely, searching, intellectually prickly, and ultimately satisfying series takes place at a university. Netflix’s Dear White People, which…
The internet doesn’t just love failure. It craves it. It needs it. Failure is the internet’s opioid. Melinda and Larry Gardner found themselves pinned to the internet’s dartboard following their recent appearance on the long-running, wheel-spinning, phrase-guessing game show Wheel of Fortune. Overall, the couple’s game show performance was good,…
The celebrity appearance roster for this year’s Texas Frightmare Weekend reads like a list of patron saints for the Church of Horror Fan Worship. However, three notable names have excommunicated themselves from the list. Three of the child actors from Netflix’s runaway horror series hit Stranger Things, including Gaten Matarazzo,…
Arts Mission Oak Cliff, a new multi-use arts venue built inside of the old Winnetka Heights Church, has opened its first production. Cara Mia Theatre Co.’s De Troya is a world premiere by Obie Award winning playwright Caridad Svich. It is the story of Mara, who rescues a mysteriously wounded…
Allison Proulx – Choosing Heroes Ro2 at the Magnolia Theater 1501 S. Ervay St. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday Staten Island native Allison Proulx’s works feel like hazy dreams within dreams, or scenes from Lost in Translation. Her background working as a Disney animator shines through in each of her…
After The Fate of the Furious premiered, talk of that franchise’s ever slicker, more over-the-top future turned to the promise (and hope) of F&F jumping the shark right into space. But what if … it was already there? And it was named, instead, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? In…
“Big Red” is a 6-foot-7 Irishman wearing a floppy hat and a spaghetti-strap dress. “Lewie” is a Texas-born DISD school teacher with a mullet. He’s sporting his wife’s striped maternity dress. Also in attendance: a one-armed fitness guru called “Teapot”; a correctional officer at a local jail; a former naval…
It’s May, and we’re all still standing! Thank you, television! I was gonna add that May is looking up, but then I noticed there’s a three-hour long Carpool Karaoke special, so instead I’ll just say that May has some growing up to do, and leave it at that. Let us…
When Macklemore and Ryan Lewis put out “Thrift Shop” in 2013, it was hard not to laugh at how over the top it was. But they were on the money. Getting the look you want can easily cost under 20 bucks at a thrift store, and Dallas has some of…
This May 4th, known affectionately to Star Wars fans as May the Fourth Be With You, may be a conflicting one for sci-fi aficionados. On that day, a new Guardians of the Galaxy film will be released to theaters. But people in Dallas-Fort Worth haven’t forgotten about the sci-fi franchise…
Tue 5/2 Limber up your fingers and get ready to smash some stuff because Braindead Brewing (2625 Main St.) hosts its first Filthy Casual Smash Bros. Tournament at 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 2. The idea for the tournament comes after the brewery’s usual Tuesday video-game fight nights, with such classics…
Not long before the surprisingly violent finale of Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986), Melanie Griffith’s wild girl-turned-good-girl-turned-complicated-girl Audrey asks Charlie (Jeff Daniels), a straight-arrow-Wall-Streeter-turned-desperate-romantic-turned-man-of-action, “What are you gonna do now that you know how the other half lives?” “The other half?” he asks, confused. “The other half of you.” The…
Nancy Cartwright will speak Friday, April 28, at the USA Film Festival Actress and writer Nancy Cartwright may have one of the most lucrative voice-acting careers in the history of entertainment, but that doesn’t mean her wandering days are over. The Ohio native turned Californian, best known as the voice…
Tony Conrad – Completely in the PresentTexas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 7:30 p.m. Thursday One of several ways to be completely present is to be naked, which is exactly what artist Tony Conrad is on the poster for Tyler Hubby’s documentary Completely in the Present. It chronicles the life…
We’re Gonna Die is a cabaret-style musical about something we all have in common – certain death. This is not, as director and producer Jack Nice points out, the story of star-crossed lovers who “come together, sing about their love for each other, then turn to the audience and do a…
