It’s a night for alter egos. Even the venue, tucked a few steps away from the main streets of Deep Ellum, is using its second name. Tonight the Lizard Lounge is called The Church, and here the acolytes of the father of suspension have gathered. Inside, the Freaks and Fetish party…
The spring arts and culture lineup in Dallas is hitting it out of the park, and there’s no sign that things will let up anytime soon. This week in particular bats a thousand, with a roster that includes hard-hitting political discussions, Broadway-themed grand slams, and an arts discussion that touches…
For all but the most dedicated kids, playing it safe on Mother’s Day is generally the way to go. Even if you have the best mom on the planet – so great that you’ll be telling everyone on Facebook about her – you’re probably not going to go too far…
Is it too much to ask that all these holiday-themed rom-coms — Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve and now Mother’s Day — one day merge with the Halloween movies? Michael Myers might be the only one in either franchise with a truly cutting response to all the rhetorical musings about relationships romantic,…
It’s easy to think, based on the marketing, that the first feature film from acclaimed comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will be a hundred minutes of an adorable kitten dressed in a do-rag and gold chain for easy laughs, but Keanu is so so much more than that…
Do This! Join 200,000 other people from all over Texas at the 36th Denton Arts & Jazz Festival this weekend, where seven stages of music from acts such as UNT One O’Clock Lab Band, the Flatlanders and Brave Combo, tons of local art exhibits and a juried art show are just the beginning of…
Another Texas Frightmare Weekend is upon him, but founder Loyd Cryer is calm and collected. This year is the convention’s 11th installment, and per usual the multi-day event will take place at the Hyatt Regency near DFW Airport. Not only is it the sole horror-themed convention in Texas, it’s considered…
Bubble and Rooftop Gardens at PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., No. 104 Stuart Allen’s explorations of light and color continue with photographs of bubbles. These amorphic shapes against the sky reveal colors we cannot see with the naked eye. Bubble opens with an artist’s reception Saturday from 5-8 p.m. PDNB’s other…
If you’re not watching The Real Housewives of Dallas, then you might not be the only one. Ratings for the Dallas-based show have decreased each week since its premiere. According to TV By The Numbers, a TV ratings site, about 1 million people tuned in to the premiere episode, then…
Trailer Park Boys, Canada’s classic television comedy series, has been running for 10 seasons and counting. Actor John Dunsworth brilliantly plays the Boys’ drunken nemesis, Jim Lahey. Along with his shirtless sidekick and on-and-off lover, Randy, Lahey has sent the Boys to jail several times. A former police officer and…
If you thought the billionaire played by Steve Carell in Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher was eerie, please allow me to introduce you to the real John du Pont. A dangerous concoction of lonely and paranoid, du Pont was blessed with money and mobility and cursed with the kind of childhood that…
Jonathan Pine, the hero of The Night Manager, might have a syrupy voice and skin tanned to a glowing bronze, but in other respects he’s a classic John le Carré creation. Pine (Tom Hiddleston) makes his living unshowily and in the dark, at a swank hotel, juggling front-desk phone calls,…
A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story…
Fairy tales were meant to be oral stories. Translating the tangents of old women in far-flung villages (whose chips on their shoulders about, say, their brother’s failed shipping business might inspire long asides about the shipping industry) into written texts doesn’t always make for the most linear, easy read. In…
Fair Park once again opened its gates for Earth Day Texas. One of the biggest attractions this year was the neighborhood of tiny houses nestled in front of the Hall of State. Thousands lined up to tour the tiny homes, hosted by their normal-sized inhabitants. B.A. Norrgard, who has organized…
In 2009, when Jeff Baker retired from a 35-year career as a commercial photographer in New York City, he moved back to his hometown, Dallas, and began to feel directionless. He also began to feel portents of death in the form of three serious diseases: atrial fibrillation, macular degeneration in…
For some people, creative writing is a luxury, Andrea Amosson says, but for her it was always a need. The Chilean-born journalist and author had few resources available to help her develop her writing when she was growing up, so now she’s made it her mission to provide those resources…
Back in 2009, just as the Dallas Theater Center was moving into its brand new home in the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Wyly Theatre, DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty sat in the audience for a performance of Cara Mia Theatre Co.’s original production of Crystal City 1969. Although it was his…
Fifty-two years ago this July, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was walking home in New York City when she was brutally murdered. Hauntingly, it took two separate stabbings to kill her: After the first attack she ran screaming through the streets for help, but no one came to her aid. Conspiracies surrounding…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 3 Recap “Making Frenemies” Finally, the real action starts. Women get mad at one another. Shit hits the fan because LeeAnne Locken finally can’t take it anymore. This is the episode where enemy lines are drawn and it’s time you pick a side. Are…
Anyone alive in November 23, 1963, remembers the nightmarish quality of that day—and the international stigma it attached to Dallas and to the whole state of Texas. Saturday night at Bass Performance Hall, with the premiere of David T. Little’s opera JFK, Fort Worth came face to face with its…
April showers bring, well, arts festivals, meet-ups and new theatrical productions. And last week’s heavy downpours have left an arts-heavy week in their wake, finishing out the month with a full slate of cultural offerings that range from feel-good baseball flicks to musicals about the mid-century Memphis music scene. Find…
