It’s OK if you’re having competitive sports withdrawal. We’ll ease you away from those five rings with these five things, starting with some local sporting and ending with drama far removed from any athletes’ village. In between there’s celebration for baked goods, good souls and feel-good felines. Let’s see which one wins…
Micsmith Ras lugs a cooler full of tattoo gear and a deck of playing cards, with his phone number written on each card, as he make house calls for his body art business. He has the look of an artist who has been working for a long time – he…
Dear Stoner: I just got some pot brownies, and I’m not planning to ingest them for two weeks. Do you think the potency will still be the same, and if they’ll be okay to eat? Can I heat them up if they go hard?Tasnim Dear Tasnim: We’ve talked to multiple…
The sarcastic wag who first drawled the phrase “as exciting as watching grass grow” never intended it as a compliment. But have you ever actually watched grass grow? I mean, I haven’t either, but there must be a pretty cool hidden world of fresh-smelling earth and tickly dew and bugs…
Do This! Men and women are graduating from film school at equal rates but women account for only 9 percent of film directors. The new Women Texas Film Festival is hoping to address this disparity in opportunities given by shining a light on the remarkable achievements of women in film…
“I’ve never considered myself the ‘Woman of the Year’ type,” said director Rachel Talalay into the microphone as she accepted her award from Women in Television and Film Vancouver in June. “I’m more the ‘Tank-Girl, post-punk feminist warrior.’” For those who never saw Tank Girl or were too young to remember…
The champion of Dallas theater festivals is at it again. Bishop Arts Theatre Center will present its third annual PlayPride LGBTQ Festival with a twist: six playwrights competing for cash prizes, American Idol-style. Winners are determined by audience vote. First prize receives $500, second is $250, with each place going home with…
Ira Sachs has become one of our great American filmmakers. His newest, Little Men, about two teenage boys (Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri) who become best friends even as their parents face off over the fate of a small dress shop in the ground floor of a Brooklyn home, is…
Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known as Steve-O, knows a lot about pain. The comic stuntman, who found fame on MTV’s slapstick sideshow Jackass , says it’s hard for him to rank the most dangerous or painful stunts he’s done for the show, his DVDs and his YouTube channel because there are so…
I awoke to the fluting of Texas songbirds and the morning sun on my legs. The wind blew lightly through the canopy net enclosing the bed. Moments after I removed my lavender-scented eye mask, I realized I was not dreaming. I was lying in the master suite of a treehouse bed…
Many kids today probably don’t know this, but street art didn’t receive mainstream acceptance until Banksy became a household name in the mid-2000s. Before then, graffiti was widely seen as an eyesore created by an unsavory population. Countless tags were covered and movies like Demolition Man envisioned a squeaky clean…
Once, American comedies concerned underdog heroes who challenged the status quo and seized the territory of the upper-class characters who thought they were in control. Slobs vs. snobs. During the wartime administration of the lesser President Bush, the wealthy thoroughly dominated the culture, occupying America the way the army patrolled…
From its opening image — of a distraught woman battling massive ocean waves on a moonlit night — to its surprisingly ambiguous final shot — of what, I won’t say — Kubo and the Two Strings sears itself into your brain. The stop-motion animation studio Laika has perfected, over the…
If you’ve ever braved the trek out to Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage Productions, you know the drive is worth it. A sleek, modern lobby with tallboys peppered throughout set the tone as you enter the space. Signature drinks, like The South Main Mule, local craft beer (buy a Martin House…
The Dallas Art Fair has established itself as a world-renowned and respected fair, exhibiting galleries and artists of international repute. Starting in 2017, the fair will evolve and expand under new leadership. Kelly Cornell, who began working at Dallas Art Fair as an SMU student intern in 2011, was just…
In a summer of disappointing reboots, underperforming sequels and rejected franchise bait, Ben-Hur is something rare: a remake no one asked for but weary moviegoers might accept as a small gift for lack of any better option. Timur Bekmambetov’s reimagining of William Wyler’s 1959 epic, itself preceded by two silent…
It’s been months since The Real Housewives of Dallas finished its inaugural season and we — as in the loyal fans, the people who lose sleep over this — don’t know yet if there is a second season. But while the first season’s cast awaits that news, they are trying…
Not long ago, catching a glimpse of a bald eagle riding the wind in North Texas would have been about as rare as sighting a Sasquatch along the North Dallas Tollway. But today, if someone claims to have ogled one of the majestic creatures gliding past with a snake dangling…
Toys are a $20 billion industry in the U.S., and not just because kids love them. Adults are as much of a target market as the kids who fall within the age range listed on a toy’s packaging. Take a look at the highly coveted Star Wars merchandise. According to…
Justina Walford is the founder director of the Women Texas Film Festival (WTxFF), the first event in the state to exclusively showcase cinematic work created by women in high-profile positions. But perhaps more important, Walford was just slipped a coupon for a free coffee, an unexpected perk of being on…
Dallas has some delicious cultural activities in store for us this week. Try a San Franciscan mystery dinner, Latina art and a festival of film made by women, with Elvis over enchiladas in between. Chill out with these recommendations: FT33’s Guest Chef Dinner Series: Tom McNaughton7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15…
Michael German went undercover with white supremacists for a year and with right-wing militants for another eight months and now he wants to set some things straight. “One of the things I learned working undercover is that the studies that the FBI or even academia had on these groups were…
