Do This! The legendary Harlem Globetrotters dribble into town this weekend, with mind-blowing athletics. Their historic combination of sports and theater will wow crowds at the American Airlines Center (2500 Victory Ave.) at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets start at $28. More info at AmericanAirlinesCenter.com. One of the goals…
This week The Procedure, a short film made with Dallas talent, won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. A man is abducted and forced to endure a strange experiment. Any other details about the plot would spoil it. The…
There’s something special about Ochre House Theater, the small experimental company in Expo Park. Helmed by Matthew Posey, a longtime actor/writer/director, it’s one of the few spaces in the city consistently creating original work. This weekend, the company unveils its newest show, Brothers’ Harvest, a musical about a small town…
Already one of the conducting world’s biggest hoarders of frequent flier miles, van Zweden will be New York’s Music Director Designate during the 2016-17 season, assuming the full duties of his role in fall 2017. His first full-time year in New York will also be his last full-time year in…
Oil & Gas Show Inspiration comes in any number of places. It seems a handful of artists have found inspiration from the oil and gas industry, exploring the political, financial and cultural implications of the industry. This weekend, Level Gallery (2722 Logan St.) — formerly WAAS — brings together the work…
There are worse ways for a television star to transition into film than a horror movie. There are also better movies to do it in than The Boy. Still, Lauren Cohan of The Walking Dead shines bright in William Brent Bell’s dim genre exercise, a vital presence opposite a lifeless…
Here’s an odd thing to say of a lavishly expensive 3D IMAX maritime disaster flick that hits theaters just a month after the last one: They don’t make them like this anymore. There’s a reason for that, of course — the parents and grandparents who like ’em stolid and corny…
It’s hard to watch a group of teenaged boys screaming about who gets to lead a society and not think about the Republican presidential candidate debates. In America, it seems William Golding’s dark bildungsroman, Lord of the Flies, stays forever relevant with its portrayal of power attainment and the violent…
Andrew Bayer is a real sassy bitch. Well, in fairness, he’s a lot of things. He’s a fashion stylist, a seamstress, a re-worker of vintage things, an entrepreneur times two or three, an aspiring photographer, a professional pose striker and basically one of the most interesting people to spend an…
“Every film is a documentary of its actors,” Jean-Luc Godard once said. Starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Haigh’s shattering marital drama 45 Years expands that maxim: As we gaze at and listen to these performers, whose characters reflect on nearly a half-century together — almost as long as…
There’s essentially one joke in the Kung-Fu Panda movies. A ridiculous, adorable creature executes some extravagant action-flick flourish — vaulting over roofs, dropping a bad guy, striking a poster-perfect superhero pose. Then the battle music fades and that adorable creature breaks badass character to remind us it’s totally relatable, even…
It must be true what they say about all good things. On January 31, Zhulong Gallery, one of the city’s most forward-thinking galleries will close for good. An email from the gallery’s PR company says the gallery, which was scheduled to open an exhibition of Stockholm-based artist Johanna Billing’s photographic…
WWE Executive Vice President Triple H made a surprise return to the Royal Rumble last night, winning the match and the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Triple H last eliminated both defending champion Roman Reigns followed by Dean Ambrose to claim his 14th World Championship (2 behind Ric Flair’s record 16)…
Bill Herbert was sweating bullets in his cowboy hat, his face bright red. The 2015 Cowboy’s Professional Rodeo Association saddle bronce champion was moments away from saddling up in front of a sold-out crowd at Cowtown Coliseum Saturday night in the heart of the Fort Worth Stockyards. He was waiting…
January wraps up with a calendar-tipping bang this week—a quick glimpse at the goings-on in Dallas gives a full range of options for gallery shows, performing arts, and other cultural nuggets. But this round-up of events pretty well encapsulates what made this past month so culturally significant for Big D:…
“Who can give me the derivative of X?” a high-school teacher asks early in the YA-apocalypse mashup The 5th Wave. As soon as she asks that, the lights blink off, everybody’s cellphones die and jets tumble from the sky. We never hear a student respond, but here’s my Official Fan…
Call it a dissenting opinion if you must, but Dirty Grandpa has sporadic moments of hilarity: the spontaneous “USA! USA!” chant that erupts after an out-of-his-mind Zac Efron announces to spring breakers that he’s just unknowingly smoked crack, or Aubrey Plaza commanding as foreplay that Robert De Niro, as the…
When Kathleen Madigan strolls out on a stage, she’s not playing a character, sticking to a certain kind of comedy or even enhancing her personality to make an audience laugh. She’s an anomaly in comedy. She’s (gasp) genuine. She portrays herself honestly in her material. She can do topical humor,…
Beyond the reaches of the art world, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer is a familiar name. The book about his painting,The Girl with a Pearl Earring, was later made into a movie with Scar-Jo. There was also a documentary called Tim’s Vermeer where a guy tries to figure out how…
In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously left the White House with a warning to the American public about the rise of the military-industrial complex. When Barack Obama exits the Oval Office next year, he wouldn’t be remiss in cautioning the nation about the conspiracy-industrial complex, which has dug its tentacles into…
Remember when Thin Line was just a film festival? Well, the minds behind the festival stylishly exploded like the comet in Michael Bay’s Armageddon, adding bands galore, groovy art exhibits, panels, and other creative events. Last year our erstwhile staffer Daniel Rodrigue taught a free crash course photography lecture. If…
Do This! BodyTraffic brings its energetic choreography from Los Angeles to the Winspear Opera House for a one-night only performance this weekend. At 8 p.m. Friday, the troupe promises to electrify the stage with movement both precise and wild. Tickets start at $12. If you’re looking for a few laughs…
