Cracking into the arts and culture calendar this week feels a little like busting into a piñata: There’s a ton of stuff crammed in there, and enough variety to appeal to every kind of person. You don’t even have to fight over the good stuff. There’s more than enough to…
It’s 10 a.m. on a weekday and Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are cuddling kittens on the stage of a fancy strip club off Northwest Highway. The small felines have been brought to The Lodge by no-kill shelter Operation Kindness as a surprise for the comedians, who are in Dallas…
Friday, for the first time ever, Dallas Opera produced a Broadway musical. Kern and Hammerstein’s Show Boat made Broadway history with its innovations and the quality of its score, setting the standard for the American musical for decades after its run of 527 performances in New York in 1927-’29. Ninety…
Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t…
Debora Hunter is standing in front of the windows of Neiman Marcus peering in. It’s an overcast Wednesday morning just days before the Dallas Art Fair where Hunter, a longtime Dallas-based photographer, is the 2016 honoree. With that title comes an opportunity to give a talk at a pre-party for…
Do This! There is so much art to see in Dallas this weekend, it’s hella exciting for the artistically inclined. One can’t-miss exhibition is Paolo Pivi’s Ma’am. The Milanese artist works with friendly, fluorescent polar bears and fanciful multimedia installations. We’ve been promised canvases of pearls, the bears and a number…
Here’s a question faced by the creators of almost every superhero adaptation: How do do you pull this off without copying Frank Miller’s Batman? Too many modern superhero dramas — including the Dark Knight films, Arrow, Daredevil and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — either ape the dour realism…
Irving Penn achieved great artistic and commercial success and became one of the most iconic photographers of the 20th century. A touring exhibit organized by the Smithsonian and presented by The Dallas Museum of Art, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is the first retrospective of his 70-year career in nearly two…
Here’s about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book reinvigorates an oft-told tale with star power, technology and calculated charm. It’s been billed as a live-action remake (it’s too good to be called a…
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get…
The effortless charisma of Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, the headliners of the first two Barbershop movies (released in 2002 and 2004), helped keep those over-plotted comedies buoyant. Cube and Cedric are back as Calvin and Eddie in Barbershop: The Next Cut, but even their enormous appeal can’t rescue…
Hey Sunshine at Liliana Bloch Gallery From Providence, Rhode Island, Lynne Harlow’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally for 15 years. In her latest show, she continues a reductive exploration of light, color and material, placing added emphasis on the behavior of light in relation to color and space…
A week removed from the onslaught of mayhem brought into North Texas by Vince McMahon, Stone Cold, Roman Reigns and the World Wrestling Entertainment’s Wrestlemania, it’s easy to forget that for some people, stage-dives, body slams and crowd-taunting turnbuckle gestures are a year-round life. While a hundred thousand fans gathered…
The well-heeled crowd at Winspear Opera House this Friday is going to get the chance to be offended by Dallas Opera’s production of Show Boat. The first-ever opening night audience on Broadway 90 years ago may have had a little jolt at seeing an all-black chorus, including women, onstage as…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 1 Recap “Everything’s Bigger in Dallas” Inside Marie Reyes’ home, friends and guests drink wine and champagne. Reyes runs around, turning on all the TVs in the home, while her husband, Angel, mingles with guests. “I just saw a preview for the show,” one…
Randi Silverman didn’t know if her son Tim would make it to adulthood. At just 9 years old, he was so anxious that he said he didn’t want to live and resisted leaving their house in Westchester, New York. Without any known trauma to explain his behavior, Silverman turned to…
Narrowing down your cultural calendar this week is going to be a little daunting. To say that there’s a lot going on is something of an understatement: Spring always brings with it an embarrassment of artistic riches in these parts, thanks to tolerable weather and savvy planning. Theater directors, festival…
Dallas cinephiles, we have a problem. Sort of. For the first time in history, two of Dallas’ biggest film festivals are happening at the exact same time. It’s the clash of the celluloid titans. It could be disastrous, but lucky for you, you have us and we know which films…
Fighter and the Kid is a popular podcast with a rabid fan base. The fighter is Brendan Schaub, a mixed martial artist who fought several times as a heavyweight in the UFC. The kid is longtime comedian and actor Bryan Callen. Unedited and uncensored, the two friends riff on fighting…
Video games are more a part of our daily lives than ever. Those cranky parents who complained about their child’s sedentary gaming habits never saw this coming. We can not only frag strangers from the comfort of our couches through an Xbox One or PlayStation 4, we can also kill…
The Real Housewives of Dallas are as ready as they will ever be. They walked the red carpet Tuesday night at The Chandelier Room in the Design District while the media fawned. The show officially premieres April 11, but before you watch these ladies on the small screen, wouldn’t it interest you to…
Entering through the mouth after being sprayed with mouthwash, a 15” sword goes down into a stomach. More precisely, it goes all the way down the esophagus past the voice box, entering the chest in between the lungs. It even nudges the heart on the way down. Further down, it…
