We’re almost a month out from the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, but if you’re still thinking about Britney Spears’ shadowy performance of her new song “Make Me,” a collaboration with Connecticut-based dance company Pilobolus, you’ll have an opportunity to see parts of it again at the Dallas City Performance…
Canelo Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KO) defeated British boxer Liam Smith (23-1-1) for the WBO Junior Middleweight Championship belt on Saturday. Over 51,000 fans witnessed the victory at AT&T Stadium, home of the Cowboys, beating the venue’s previous boxing record of 50,944 for Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey in 2010. “Canelo…
Dear Stoner: I just heard about Foria, some marijuana oil claiming to enhance a female’s sex life. Is it basically female Viagra that also gets me high down there? Brittany Dear Brittany: I’m still looking for a girlfriend who will help me with hands-on research, but reviews of Foria describe…
Those looking to have their pants scared off this Halloween won’t have far to look since a medley of murder houses, witch covens and zombie lairs are set to open across the metroplex. Writing about them all would fill the pages of an entire spellbook so we have spotlighted five…
It doesn’t get better than a great book, except maybe discussing it with the author. There’s also great comedy on TV, but oh, seeing it live just amps it up. There are great art shows, but there’s something about being there the night they open. Oh, and Halloween came early…
Do This!For PARK(ing) Day and Night, metered spaces along Main Street between Field and Harwood streets will be transformed into small park “installations” for use by the public beginning at 11 a.m., when they’d normally be housing cars. More than 35 participants are slated for this year’s event. It’s free to attend,…
Your Facebook feed is filled with acrimonious claims about the election. Even as we speak, your friends are sharing bite-sized videos and strongly worded stories with click-bait headlines from NowThis and RedState to your wall. They contain tons of unchecked assertions and opinions disguised as facts about how one of the…
Over 300 people packed into a room at the Gaylord Texan Hotel to see 26-year-old Canelo Alvarez, from Guadalajara, Mexico, grace the ring on Tuesday. Canelo’s fight against WBO Junior Middleweight champion Liam Smith of the U.K. on Saturday is anticipated by boxing fans worldwide. Dallas boxing enthusiasts are clearly…
Dallas’ theater landscape is becoming increasingly dominated by young companies. Post-grad artists are making a mark with original works and innovative performance pieces that often fuse dance, movement and clowning into the storytelling. Prism Co. is one such group. Founded by SMU theater graduates Katy Tye and Jeffrey Colangelo, Prism…
Bridget Jones mines the riches of embarrassment. Her gaffes, blunders, stumbles and pratfalls provide the laughs in the atypical romcoms built around her, films that rely heavily on the comedy of idiosyncrasy. Bridget is no outsider: She’s a straight, white, middle class, university-educated woman with a London apartment, a media…
Attention single people everywhere: There’s another dating app on the scene. This one was given the thumbs up by SMU students, so there’s a lot of no doubt it’s great. Keevee was conceived by Dallas-based Eve Mobile, and it’s different from Tinder or Bumble or Match.com in that you start with the…
The already congested streets of Deep Ellum are littered with masonry materials and construction vehicles as the neighborhood makes way for new high rises and redeveloped retail outlets, and amidst all this chaos the Deep Ellum Foundation is hoping to carve out a space for all to use. Reimagine Crowdus…
Matt Johnson’s prankish Operation Avalanche boasts a strong half hour of footage that’s fully engaged with this question: Could a couple of bright, Kubrick-obsessed A.V. geeks have faked the moon landing in 1969? Like the best speculative fiction, these scenes concern the practicalities. We see the gang’s hidden-camera peek at…
Lily Rabe’s discomfiting performance anchors the fascinatingly uneasy comedy-drama Miss Stevens. Julia Hart’s film — about a young, slightly hapless English teacher who must chaperone three students to a state drama competition — has a premise that could easily invite cliché. You half expect it to become either an inspirational…
According to Forbes, Fan Bingbing made $17 million last year — more than any actress on the planet not named Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa McCarthy, Scarlett Johansson or Jennifer Aniston. The Chinese megastar is likely most familiar to American audiences for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but…
What’s constant in Katherine Dieckmann’s films – Motherhood (2009), Diggers (2006) and A Good Baby (2000) – is an attention to characters and place. Many of us in the world of film reside in the big coastal cities, but a good number come from somewhere else, smaller towns with subtle…
Our critic April Wolfe is filing updates all week from the Toronto International Film Festival. When a quiet film is set outside of the big cities — New York, L.A., Chicago — it’s often called a “slice of life.” But that’s ultimately a condescending designation; to the millions of people…
Our critic April Wolfe is filing updates all week from the Toronto International Film Festival. Writer/director Ivan I. Tverdovsky may be a twentysomething male, but in his sophomore feature, he exhibits a direct pipeline into the psyche of a lonely, middle-aged woman. In Zoology, a lowly zoo worker suddenly sprouts…
“They should have sent a poet,” says Jodie Foster’s teary-eyed astronaut as she gazes upon the glory of space in Contact. It took nearly 20 years, but Terrence Malick has taken it upon himself to answer that call with Voyage of Time. Not every line rhymes, and some privilege sound…
Set aside your visions of histrionic, paranoid fireworks. Oliver Stone’s whistleblower biopic Snowden finds the director in an unusually somber and controlled mood, perhaps because of the introverted, awkward nature of Edward Snowden himself. The former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor, who in 2013 exposed the U.S. government’s…
Dear Stoner: Why does smoking weed make you hungry? Like, does science know why? Stewie Dear Stewie: The munchies are real, man. Although no one could definitively point to a brain reaction and say “There it is” for a long time, by 2015 marijuana’s ability to increase appetite was already…
Alyssa Edwards is idolized by people around the world. She is stunning and fierce and funny, and she’s Mesquite’s own Justin Johnson. When Johnson isn’t his drag queen persona, Edwards, he’s a dance studio owner whose desire to be the best and teach the best translates to his young dancers. He…
