A whole lot of “yeehaw!” and yodeling goes on in The Kountry Girls, a new musical that just debuted at Theatre Three. That’s right, “Kountry” with a K. Because misspelled words are the hallmarks of great komedy. The “girls,” Dee Dee (Alexis Nabors) and May (Kelly Silverthorn), sling hash in their…
The first time I watched Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone, I lasted 13 minutes and 32 seconds. I know this because I made sure to jot it down when I turned it off. The movie isn’t horrible by any means — in fact, it’s a rarity of cinema worth your time…
Time is an illusion, said Albert Einstein. No past, no future. Just existence in the dimension we perceive as the present. The theory of relativity might explain why Shakespeare Dallas director Raphael Parry has taken a 90-minute comedy, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), and stretched it out to…
Last month, Dallas-based author Sarah Hepola released her first book, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. The memoir focuses on Hepola’s alcoholism and ultimate recovery, written with a focus on her frequent blackouts. In a tone that’s funny, intimate and often heart-wrenchingly sincere, Hepola shares the early childhood…
After the long weekend, it’s likely that the thought of spending one solitary second outside in this rotisserie oven that we call a city makes you want to puke. The heat is no joke, and we haven’t even reached the hottest point of the year yet. As such, free air…
Everyone is a little bit curious about what exactly happens in the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend Holly Madison published a tell-all book, Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, about her time living in the Playboy Mansion while dating the world’s most…
For more than 30 seasons combined, men and women seeking mates — or seeking something, anyway — have competed for love on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. You can count on one hand how many relationships spawned on the shows have worked out, but long odds didn’t keep about 200…
It’s hot. All you want is a pool to swim in. You need to work on your cannonball, or your suntan. And you want options. Well, we’ve got five for you. And a warning of where you’ll get pool-blocked. Now, get wet. Dallas Fraternal Order of Eagles 3108 (Or, The…
Thursday, July 2 Comedy Crawl Every year we round up you cool cats for a comedy crawl through Deep Ellum. We stop at three bars: Three Links, Twilite, DADA; we listen to three comics: Paul Varghese, Aaron Aryanpur, and Dave Little. The laughs are free and the drinks are cheap. Joe…
The upcoming Amy Winehouse documentary Amy is one of the best music docs Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek has ever seen, and she explains why to Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson this week. Also this week: The confusing (yet really, really enjoyable)…
After 12 years on the air, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart became required viewing during the Dubya years, when much of the nation was desperate to look to almost anyone else for political leadership. The Comedy Central series offered nightly catharsis in five- or eight-minute bursts, voicing the anger and…
If you want to start a hullabaloo in the Dallas arts, tell a theater festival it might be time for a curtain call. That’s what our theater critic Elaine Liner wrote last year about the Festival of Independent Theatres, the annual event at the Bath House Cultural Center meant to…
There are few sounds in life more pleasing than the crackle of the night sky on the fourth of July. Apparently this tradition dates back to the very first Independence Day, which was celebrated with fireworks at the request of John Adams (read more in Slate’s History of Fireworks). This…
Five films into the franchise, Terminator: Genisys feels like a VHS cassette that’s been rewound and recorded over for 21 years. Director Alan Taylor (of the unmemorable Thor: The Dark World) gives us images — a thumbs-up, an abandoned factory, a liquid-metal cop smashing through the windshield of a car…
Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 Magic Mike was a cocktease. The ads tempted audiences with sweaty chests and thrusting crotches, but after Soderbergh lured us into his all-male strip club, he turned on the lights to show us the squalor. His hunks were drugged and morally decayed. The women — the sober…
Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack is a Manhattan fable about fear. Two decades ago, a Hare Krishna, conspiracy theorist and self-described god named Oscar Angulo moved from Peru to a public housing tenement on the Lower East Side with his American bride, Susanne, whom he’d met and wooed on the…
If you go to a comedy club with the intention of getting drunk or even just enjoying a stiff drink, you have poor priorities in life. Going to a comedy club for drinks is like buying an airline ticket to score some peanuts. Any lightly seasoned alcoholic will tell you that…
In a world inundated by images, ideas, and mindless chatter, it seems we’re increasingly drawn to post-apocalyptic, science fiction narratives. At least, that’s the case for Dallas-based artist Dwayne Carter. He says there’s something alluring in the simplicity of a man, a dog and his gun. “We create a leader,…
Director Kevin Smith has added a second Dallas show to Texas Theatre this fall and now Jason Mewes will be along for the ride. After selling out a spoken word performance that will no doubt involve a long Q&A session, Smith has added a podcast recording of “Jay & Silent…
For a guy who murders two men and drives a 13-year-old girl to suicide, Romeo sure gets good PR spin in history. Thanks to William Shakespeare and centuries of skewed interpretation, “Romeo” is now synonymous with “great lover.” But considering what the boy gets up to in Romeo & Juliet,…
Alan and Michael Fleming have spent their whole lives together. These Brooklyn-based twin artists didn’t just grow up mirror reflections of one another, they decided to turn it into an artistic practice. Their latest body of work, Gemini, is currently on display at Cydonia Gallery, in which they use a…
Last Friday started out on a quiet and unassuming note for Kenneth Denson and Gabriel Mendez, the owners of Oak Cliff’s Red Pegasus Games and Comics. The night before, Denson composed the following note, placed it on the front door of the store and posted a picture of it on…
