This week marks the arrival of legit summer, with the longest day of the entire year upon us today. And if pagan rituals aren’t your bag, then maybe carpe some diem and load up your calendar with some extra arts and culture events instead? You’ll find plenty of options below…
The most surprising thing about the new buddy action-comedy Central Intelligence is the sight of Kevin Hart playing straight man to another actor’s antics. In previous comedies, Hart has been the pint-sized, fast-talking dynamo at the center of the action. Even in movies where he’s the guy in over his…
If you end up following a group called Sex Lab Inc. from the Texas Theatre this weekend, they will stop you and ask you to sign a liability waiver. Then, when they’ve shuttled you to an undisclosed second location, you might witness something unsavory. The name “Sex Lab Inc.” belongs…
Do This! For a free and fun Friday night, hit up the Dallas Arts District’s Summer Block Party, which will close off Pearl and Flora streets from 6 p.m. to midnight. The Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Klyde Warren Park and Crow Collection of Asian Art will all open their…
In the summer of 2012, the internet went out of its collective mind over a new game that became the undisputed sleeper hit of the E3 video game convention in Los Angeles. Game publisher Ubisoft released a trailer for Watch Dogs that easily overshadowed any other blood soaked, trigger-happy game…
Kettle Art is a clubhouse for artists, and artists really need a clubhouse, especially in moments of self-doubt. Artist and Kettle Art owner Frank Campagna has provided that nurturing space in Deep Ellum, and now the dozens of artists he has given a platform to since the gallery opened in…
Sunlight shines through stained glass windows as a diverse group of artists trickles into the dusty sanctuary of the former Winnetka Congregational Church building on a Saturday morning. Teaching artist and actress Anastasia Munoz greets each person as he or she arrives. “I’m so delighted you’re in my home today!” she says, shortly…
Gomela/To Return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue at South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave. 7 p.m. Friday Gomela/To Return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue is a multi-disciplinary performance piece featuring award-winning poet Sunni Patterson. Vibrant and percussive movements and stories breathe life into African dance and drumming, as well…
Some people may think Dallas’ only contribution to the film industry is the Zapruder film, but they would be wrong. A surprisingly large number of movies have been filmed in the Dallas area over the years; we’ve put together a list of our favorites, some of which you may know…
In September 2014, acting troupe Shakespeare in the Bar got its start in Dallas on the back patio of The Wild Detectives bookstore in Oak Cliff. The actors’ shared mission? To make Shakespeare fun again, as it was intended to be, by drinking as they give barely rehearsed performances of…
A new experimental musical playing in Exposition Park this month takes its name from a hidden track on Nirvana’s Nevermind album. Arthur Peña, known for his work as a painter and as curator of the roving venue Vice Palace, wrote Endless/Nameless as an exploration of two types of death, the death of…
Cedar Hill Roller Rink sits in a rundown tin building, hidden on a quiet corner just north of the city’s small down town. The parking lot is mostly grass, but it’s packed tonight, and full of trucks that have driven over curbs and parked between the old oaks. A line…
The Oak Cliff Film Fest returns this week to share its treasures across Dallas’ favorite spaces. And while previous iterations have celebrated cinematic pioneers, obsessive documentarians and subversively innovative collaborators, this year’s inspiration is drawn from the New American era of 1970s filmmaking, a time when directors wrested creative control…
In his tight, trim, health insurance thriller A Monster With a Thousand Heads, Mexican-Uruguayan director Rodrigo Plá achieves a visual style that is ice cold but also deeply human — a clever way to depict an all-powerful system that feeds on our lives and thrives on our fallibility. Plá opens…
In cinema, all things move towards acceptance. In time, debates about filmmakers usually settle in favor of the filmmaker — not because detractors change their minds, but because the urgency of the conflict wanes, and stalemates go to the fans. It’s hard to believe that battle lines were once drawn…
In Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, emotion becomes motion and psychology becomes space. It’s a coming-of-age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them. The Fits follows Toni (Royalty Hightower), an 11-year-old tomboy…
Director Jake Paltrow (Young Ones, The Good Night) met Brian De Palma at a party. He’d had a few drinks and worked up the courage to talk to the legendary filmmaker, who turned out to be surprisingly open and kind. The next day, Paltrow got an email from the friend…
Finding Nemo may have been a cartoon about a clownfish traveling across the ocean looking for his son, but it was also one of Pixar’s first overt forays into the workings of the human mind. The film, from 2003, was haunted by loss: The protagonist, Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks),…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 10, Season Finale Recap “The Full Nelson” It’s been a journey. A journey of ups and downs and a whole lotta poop. Do-do. Shit. Let’s reminisce, shall we? We watched episode 1 with a friend to the Housewives. The women lost their shit during episode 2…
In the fourth grade I voted for George H.W. Bush in a mock election because I had a huge crush on the boy playing him. I didn’t watch the candidates on TV, read the paper or listen to talk radio. Like most kids, the extent of my relationship to politics…
Oh, Dallas. We know you. Now that the temperatures are finally inching toward summer, you’re planning your escape out of town. But not so fast … there are still plenty of air-conditioned getaways at your disposal, firmly within the city limits. Conserve those vacation days for late July when the…
Jane Lynch: You know her from Glee, Annie on Broadway and as the host of that game show featuring celebrities. But what about a cabaret show? Yes! Add that to the list of things Lynch does. And soon it will be your turn to see Jane sing in See Jane Sing,…
