Have you ever wanted more from your visit to a gallery? A show that will make you feel invigorated or well rested? If you’re able to sleep intimately with strangers on the questionably clean floor of a gallery space, you’ll want to clear your schedule Friday night and head to…
This Saturday you’ll see green everywhere: in your pint of warm beer, on your bar tab, being flung from parade floats in the form of plastic beads, and on the faces of sorority girls who’ve been drinking since 8 a.m. It’s once again time for the Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade…
There are two kinds of humanist movie. One kind shows human beings struggling against the most unspeakable horrors, sorrows or injustices and still, somehow, emerging with their essential goodness intact. The second, thornier type gives us people doing terrible things to one another — screaming, cheating, and generally making life…
It’s an ironic truth that directors fascinated by robots tend to make inhuman movies. From Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner to last year’s Transcendence, these stories that ponder the gap between man and machine often reveal filmmakers unsure of where they fit in — they get so involved in the question…
Start at the feet and pan up Adam Sandler: the sneakers, the pants that never quite fit, the sloped shoulders, the furrowed brow and world-weary sulk. He’s a cartoon man drawn the same in every movie, whether he’s in a lonely walk-up or a McMansion crammed with kids. Sandler plays…
There’s no empowerment message embedded in Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, no “Girls can do anything!” cheerleader vibe. That’s why it’s wonderful. This is a straight, no-chaser fairy story, a picture to be downed with pleasure. It worries little about sending the wrong message and instead trusts us to decode its politics,…
“Mark Twain said boxing is the only sport where a slave, if he’s successful, can rub shoulders with royalty,” says former heavyweight Mike Tyson, who once knocked out 19 opponents in a row. “Can you imagine that? Just by fighting another human being, he can meet a king, a prince,…
Jaume Collet-Serra’s Run All Night, a shoot-’em-up about an out-to-pasture hit man desperate to keep his boss and best friend from whacking his son, is humid with testosterone. It’s the sort of film where a woman accidentally caught by the camera practically apologizes and scurries away from the lens. When…
Thank you, Alamo Drafthouse (501 W. Belt Line Road, Richardson), for giving the Rocky Horror treatment to movies we loved as kids. This time, it’s the delightful ditzy-girl comedy Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. The Girlie Night Quote-Along comes complete with props (gummy bears and Post-its), and you’re encouraged…
Do you remember lock-ins? Those relics of childhood, where you’d fluff up your sleeping bag next to your fellow hormone-riddled middle schoolers and stay overnight in the school gymnasium or church youth building? Well, Expanded Sleep is like that, but for adults and with an artistic soundtrack. This “Performance for…
He may be known as “that guy” on the NBC sitcom “Newsradio,” the leather-jacket-wearing host of the long-running reality show “Fear Factor” and one half of the color commentary team for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. However, comedian Joe Rogan is more than a guy who makes a living encouraging people…
This Saturday you’ll see green everywhere: in your pint of warm beer, on your bar tab, being flung from parade floats in the form of plastic beads, and on the faces of sorority girls who’ve been drinking since 8 a.m. It’s once again time for the Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade…
For the past few months, artists Josh Reames and Amber Renaye have been using Oliver Francis Gallery as a studio space, and they’ve created a body of work that is sure to earn them attention. The pair are plannign to split the rest of the year between the east and…
There’s an ugly myth permeating the comedy sphere that you have to be a young man or a young woman to even make it to the starting line of the race. That’s just not true. Some of our most revered humorists and comedians like Larry David, Phyllis Diller, David Sedaris…
The last time the British imported a satirical examination of the workplace, we were all smitten by Pam and Jim and the clueless Michael Scott. Bull, despite also being a British import that strips away the layers of corporate culture, will not impart any such warm and fuzzies. It’s cold,…
Those who’ve been waiting for an Alamo Drafthouse location to open up in the comfy Dallas-proper confines south of 635, out of fear of the northern ‘burbs and their wood-paneled minivans, have missed out on quality film-geek entertainment. This weekend is a great opportunity to face your fears and have…
18-year-old composer prodigy and current Southern Methodist University freshman, Chase Dobson, sees his Piano Concerto No.1 receive its professional orchestral debut in an event full of debuts. Performed by the daring, well-traveled pianist Lucille Chung –– an SMU lecturer who was something of a prodigy herself –– Dobson’s piano concerto…
It’s springtime in Dallas, a time of year heralded by the omnipresent specter of Pete Delkus, a rash of patio brunching, and the annual Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at WaterTower Theatre. Out of the Loop always kicks off the seasonal theater season with a bang, featuring a juried…
Mining 1960s television for camp is in no way a difficult task. Think of the possibilities: a drag version of Bewitched, with the most splendid version of Endora ever; a Green Acres reboot where you take a fashionable, urban gay couple and move ’em out to the sticks; a Brady…
There are two types of people: those who can use public restrooms by themselves just fine, and those who bring a marker with them. Sometimes that stall graffiti can provide a deep insight into life, other times it’s just playfully profane. Monday night, local spoken-word sensation Oral Fixation will be…
Just off Ross Avenue, there’s a charming South American restaurant called Joyce & Gigi’s. The food is delicious, the cocktails are flowing, and they’ve recently introduced an occasional beer dinner. The first in the series takes place at 6:30 p.m. Monday and it will be a five-course meal paired with…
It’s the time of year when we curl up under a blanket, get out our flashlights, and tell terrifying tales of drunken revelers puking on our front lawns and of grown women squatting to urinate in a Chipotle parking lot. That’s right — the annual frightfest known as St. Patrick’s…
