You hear a lot of things about Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, namely that it’s the city’s all-around-best music event, and that it’s a different and specifically less corporate type of festival. We can agree with the former — its 10th anniversary this past weekend functioned remarkably well despite rain…
Love it or hate it, makeup is a fact of life for most women. Call it a cruel reality of the patriarchy or a fun way to improve your appearance, most of us have to at least apply a little foundation and eyeliner to be taken seriously as grown-ass, adult…
Wanna look cool? Wanna impress your Internet friends? Wanna be social media famous? These are all silly, rhetorical questions because we know the answer: You do. Instagram is important. We know that because we will do anything to make sure we have the perfect shot. Climb on top of a…
How do you dramatize the unthinkable? On August 5, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were trapped when the 100-year-old gold and copper mine in which they were working collapsed around them. For weeks, no one knew if they were alive or dead. But 69 days later, after a team of international…
It’s clear why Angelina Jolie Pitt became a star. She was a sexpot with talent, and, just as crucially, her feline beauty was a sexpot breed we’d never seen. Past glamazons like Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner and Jayne Mansfield trailed a whiff of insecurity. We could sense that they were…
Newspapers are dead, except in the hearts of anyone who has ever loved them — which means there are still narrow slivers of hope. One of them now comes to us in the form of a movie: Tom McCarthy’s bold, shirtsleeve-sturdy newsroom drama Spotlight, which shows how a team of…
Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. Erin Stanley is adorable and so is everything about her – her house, her…
Winning a Pulitzer Prize for drama doesn’t mean a play deserves to become a classic. Horton Foote’s The Young Man from Atlanta (Pulitzer 1995) and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (1998) dated themselves quickly and were weak choices to start with. In this decade, Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park…
We have a precious few weeks before the craziness of the holiday season really kicks into full gear, which means that you’re going to need to get in as much culture as you can before you’re inundated with reindeer and mediocre holiday music. Now that Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast-approaching,…
Once again, bodyslams and suplexes were put alongside comedy, music and tacos at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. Local wrestling promotions Inspire Pro & Anarchy Championship Wrestling set up their ring in between the blue & black stage and were each allocated one hour of wrestling per…
In its very first scene, Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix series, Master of None, presents something never before seen on TV: an Asian-American male romantic lead at the center of his own series. Granted, that scene is hardly sexy: A broken condom puts the brakes on a bar hook-up between Dev…
Monet, Degas, Cezanne, and Renoir are all familiar names to even the casual art lover. Impressionism remains extremely popular and no other museum in the area has given viewers more opportunities to see some of the masterpieces of the movement than the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth. And they’ve done…
It was a big slobberknocker last night at AT&T Stadium as Stone Cold Steve Austin and the WWE kicked off their “Road to WrestleMania” the only way they know how, with a great big wrestling party. On hand for the rumble were retired wrestlers Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mark Henry,…
Arthur Muhammad got to make a movie about what happened to him in high school. Carter High is now playing in Texas theaters and will expand to screens in other cities over the next two weekends. The film tells the emotionally charged story of one of the greatest—and most infamous—high…
Thursday, Nov. 5 The Instigators The Kettle Art gallery is not pretentious. There is no veneer. The difference between a “snobby” art gallery and Kettle Art is like the difference between going to an expensive department store where you can’t afford anything and shopping at Dolly Python. The setting is…
Calling everyone who has ever won a chili cook-off and made a joke while doing it! The Food Network is casting for season 12 of Food Network Star, a reality show that searches for a cook or chef or someone with even just a small pinch of personality, and then…
Blink, a sour-then-sweet new play-with-music written and directed by Ochre House regular Kevin Grammer, echoes the theme of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in its lesson about not wasting life fiddling with material possessions. “Shit happens in a blink of an eye,” sings Marti Etheridge in the first of the folky…
Lorem Ipsum When an art director or graphic designer wants to see what text will look like on the page or in an online post, they will often use the Latin words Lorem Ipsum as placeholder text. Sometimes the text is used because a writer has blown a deadline for…
November is National Novel Writing Month, when writing geeks and repressed English majors everywhere (such as this author) shut themselves in their houses and attempt to write an entire completed novel in 30 days. Don’t tell us we’re crazy. We know who we are. But fellow novelists know eventually the comforts of…
Yes, it’s 3-D computer animation, and yes, it shows us more of the face of Charlie Brown’s Little Red-Haired Girl than you ever thought you would see. But the news, for the most part, is good: The Peanuts Movie is much closer in spirit to Charles Schulz’s half-century comic-strip masterpiece…
First things first: Yes, Gaspar Noé’s arthouse sexbomb quite literally goes off in your face, with an ejaculation close-up 90 minutes in that might have you wiping off your 3-D glasses. You might think that’s an impressive provocation, until you recall that every twelve-year-old boy in America sees that same…
Frank Campagna gives a quick description of Deep Ellum ten years ago: “Dead.” This is when he opened Kettle Art Gallery in Deep Ellum, which celebrates its double digits birthday Thursday. But he’s been involved with the neighborhood since 1981 and knew that it falls and rises. He opened…
