This Saturday there will be a bathtub in the middle of a downtown lawn. And what’s more, it will move at speeds of 60 mph. Texas Motor Speedway is bringing a bathtub car, along with two of their other “no limits wild asphalt circus” cars, to the free Reunion Lawn…
The Gainesville State Tornadoes didn’t exactly have a winning season last year (0-10), but they are the favorite team for ex-cons around the nation who are donating thousands of dollars for the team. Gainesville State School is a juvenile detention facility with 270 teenage felons. It’s one of six facilities run…
Dear Stoner: How long have people been getting high off of marijuana? Sean in Lakewood Dear Sean: Recorded cultivation of cannabis for fiber goes back as far as 7,000 years in some parts of the world — that much we know. As for how long humans have been getting stoned,…
With unflagging honesty and compassion, Clay Tweel’s documentary Gleason charts the journey of former New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason as he copes with the ruinous nerve disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. That description, however, can’t quite do justice to Tweel’s film, which is partly built around video journals…
A more appropriate title for Jason Bourne might be Walking: The Motion Picture. This fifth entry in the franchise loosely (very loosely) based on Robert Ludlum’s best-selling novels brings back director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon to continue the tale of the good soldier-turned-amnesiac-assassin-turned-rogue agent doing battle against his…
The ludicrous but amusing teen social-media thriller Nerve is committed to pinning its characters into a world we understand as ours. It opens with Skype, Spotify, Gmail and Chrome, all on the MacBook screen of a mousily beautiful teen, Vee (Emma Roberts), who you just know is one horrific adventure…
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s The Seventh Fire opens on dark, grainy footage of a highway at dusk before cutting to an overhead shot of a long stretch of forest, and then to two Native American men in a canoe, harvesting worms from a quiet lake. They take the worms home, where…
Long-time Oak Cliff resident Carlos de la Fuente spun paper mache and crepe paper into gold when he made his first Donald Trump piñata. Last June, when media outlets and political commenters were scoffing at Donald Trump’s attempt on the presidency, Fuente saw something different: a chance to capitalize on…
Putting together a comedy festival requires time, dedication and patience. Or if you’re comedian Dan Danzy, all you have to do is joke with one of your fans to make it happen, and watch them take it seriously. Danzy was performing at Andy’s Basement Bar and Grill on Denton’s North Locust…
Durational art like film forces its creators to imagine how viewers will perceive it. How long do you have to communicate your message before something else calls their attention and they walk away? It’s a problem inherent to all contemporary art, but one to which film is especially susceptible. Lip service…
Alec Baldwin is no Steve Harvey. Unlike Harvey, Baldwin seems diminished on the set of a retro ’70s game show dedicated to getting contestants to say gently dirty nonsense. On ABC’s baggy, boozy Match Game, Baldwin crabs into a skinny last-century microphone about how everything’s stupid: his celebrity panelists, the…
Everyone has a great idea that’s going to make them rich. But more times than not, they wake up the next day, sober, and don’t follow through with it. But what happens when you do? What happens when you take that in-the-moment, genius idea you and your friends schemed up…
There’s a shop full of motorcycles in various states of disassembly at the intersection of Highways 183 and 35E. The inside looks like a motorcycle graveyard but it’s really a place for resurrection, where bikes are taken apart, repaired, painted and put together under a completely new skin. Two guys…
Last week when Live Nation and Funny or Die announced the lineup for Oddball’s fourth tour, it was a disappointment to say the least. The next tour will kick off at the end of August and return to Dallas’ Gexa Energy Pavilion on Friday, September 23, with Dane Cook and…
Last week, the Texas preliminary to America’s most prestigious drag pageant, Miss Gay America, took place at the Rose Room inside Cedar Springs nightclub S4. After two preliminary nights and a review show, where 30 contestants were judged across five categories, on Friday Sofia Anderson was crowned Miss Gay Texas…
In the past century, theater practitioners have engaged in a campaign to retranslate the Bard’s work from a traditional Elizabethan context into increasingly innovative settings: the Wild West, the Roaring Twenties, post nuclear holocaust, even the moon. This week, the high school artists in Junior Players’ The Taming of the Shrew…
Indoor activities are where it’s at right now, and thankfully Dallas is blessed with a variety of them. From TV geek-fun to stand-up comedy mayhem, there’s something for everyone this week. Our plans for you are as follows: Game of Thrones Trivia Night9 p.m. Monday, July 25 Vickery Park 2810…
Do This! Think vending machines are just for Peanut M&Ms and hot fries? Think again. Deep Vellum Books (3000 St.) is throwing a party from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday to celebrate their new White Rock Zine Machine, which doles out zines by local poets and artists in exchange for…
Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…
It’s a few hours before dawn, and there’s a mysterious, low rumble emanating from behind the hangars at Addison Airport. It’s explained in a scene straight out of The Fast and the Furious, when a troop of Lamborghinis emerges, one by one. The cars have been assembled at the airport…
Anna Gunn actually gets to do things in Meera Menon’s expansive high-finance drama Equity, which is almost reason enough to recommend it right there. The Breaking Bad co-star tears into the role of a rainmaking banker taking a Silicon Valley company public. For once it’s Gunn whose character gets to…
Local teenage chess prodigies Jeffery Xiong and Ruifeng Li straightened their pieces and set their minds to the task of winning during the opening round of the U.S. Junior Closed Chess Championship, which concluded in St. Louis on Monday. By the end of the 10-day tournament, hosted by the Chess…
