It was a mystery that reporter Gary Webb would have jumped on: a man who’d made powerful enemies allegedly committing suicide with two gunshots to the head. The tragedy is that Webb was the deceased. Michael Cuesta’s earnest, ire-inducing Kill the Messenger is a David-and-Goliath story where truth is the…
Like many Broadway musicals these days, Hands on a Hardbody was adapted from a movie. But unlike others, it came not from a splashy animated feature but from an obscure 1997 documentary by S.R. Bindler about an endurance contest at a Longview truck dealership that awarded a lipstick-red Nissan to…
It says something about current global affairs that a movie set during the U.K. miners’ strike of the mid-1980s — an event that tore lives to shreds, representing a dismal and damaging period in late-20th-century British history — is likely to make you feel better rather than worse about the…
One of the more popular Dallas Black Dance Theatre shows, Black on Black, returns for the company’s 38th season. It’s an intimate evening of dance that culminates in a lively cocktail party. They give the floor to some of the company’s fresh, young choreographers who choreograph works for the dynamic…
Hopefully I don’t have to explain this one to you. This portmanteau (a fancy word that means words smushed together) is clearly combining “Beer,” “Feast” and “Festival” to tell you, the potential attendee, exactly what to expect. If you didn’t attend enough Oktoberfest events in September (where were you?!), then…
Every concert should be like a fiesta. Lively music, drinks at the bar, and if you’re lucky, the vocal stylings of a Mexican mezzo-soprano like Elda Peralta. For its Dia de la Raza concert, the Orchestra of New Spain brings in Perata to perform alongside the orchestra in a baroque…
America doesn’t take kindly to foreigners these days. We’ve got civilians constantly monitoring our borders with guns and political figureheads calling for non-figurative walls to be built because they need votes and didn’t pay attention in their high school world history class. Occasionally, one of these non-Americans seeps through the…
Have you ever wondered about the history of Texas art? When artists started painting in this great state of ours, did they paint tumbleweeds, catci, and oil rigs? What exactly is Texas regionalism or modernism and why does it matter? These are the movements that Dr. Katie Robinson Edwards documents…
Rodgers & Hammerstein From classics like “Shall we Dance?” from the King & I to stunning ballads like “Bali Hai” from South Pacific, the music writing duo Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein gave American theater some of its great songs. This weekend, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to the…
Marvin Hamlisch is one of the most decorated musical figures in history. Winner of three Oscars, three Golden Globes, four Emmy’s, four Grammy’s, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize, the late conductor/composer wrote over forty film scores alongside his considerable stage work (including Broadway favorite A Chorus Line). And for…
What’s a book club without wine? Next week, Lisa M. Mattson will be in town to discuss her new book, The Exes in my iPod, at Veritas Wine Room (2323 N. Henderson Ave.) – where else? Sit back, sip your wine, and listen to a reading from Mattson. Get your…
The NBC reality show “Last Comic Standing” may have been credited with bringing stand-up comedy back to mainstream television but it’s goal isn’t just to showcase underground talent or give them a shot at the spotlight. It’s also to create the kind of tension and unnecessary squabbles over meaningless things…
It’s safe to say that the Oral Fixation storytelling series has become something of a Dallas phenomenon, as it continues to grow larger audiences and an expansive storytelling base. This month’s theme is “Go With the Flow” and has the series first “headliner” (at least that we’re aware of) in…
After scoring a massive electronic-pop crossover hit in “I Love It” with Icona Pop, British-born Charli XCX has ridden a rising tide of indie buzz straight to the top of the pop charts, both as a solo artist and with acts like Iggy Azalea. The lead single from Charli XCX’s…
After kicking off with Expanded Cinema Sunday night, Dallas VideoFest 27enters full swing this week with screenings taking over Alamo Drafthouse through October 19. Thursday’s films include 7 p.m. screenings of An Honest Liar – a documentary about world famous magician James “The Amazing” Randi – and Regarding Susan Sontag,…
Ever get something stuck in your head—something you want to create or write or build? And while you know you have the basic idea there, it just takes forever to come together? It happens to all of us at some time or another, causing us writer’s block or gumming up…
Spoiler alert, y’all: Bonnie and Clyde do not ride off into the sunset, despite the fact that this is a musical. Nothing changes in the general plot: the outlaws still get gunned down in the end after they do a number of really bad things. The difference here is that…
A reflection on city life and our childhood past, photographer Mike Osborne’s exhibition Monopoly, seeks to reconcile the realistic Atlantic City with our memories of coffee table game nights. His interpretations of light and dark, color and void both mesmerize and sadden us. The dreams we had of money and…
The Dallas VideoFest falls just before Halloween. A spooky season worth tapping into, at least for one of the fest’s signature events. “We thought maybe we should go in a Halloween direction,” says Brian Satterwhite, a composer and film aficionado who served as a consultant for this year’s live silent…
Ilana and Abbi, America’s favorite young bitches who’ve puff-puff-passed slacker comedy to females, announced today on the Broad City Facebook page that they’re bringing their jokes to Dallas next month…
The historic Texas Theatre prides itself on being one of the few movie houses in town that can still screen films in their original 35mm and even 16mm formats, but even this historic theater has to change with the times and that means making the jump to digital distribution. Such…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, open this week’s podcast with a brief discussion of Twin Peaks, which comes back to TV via a series on Showtime in 2016, and move onto The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall,…
