There’s been a lot of speculation and serious concern about the direction of the next movie in the Star Wars saga and rightfully so. Remember all the giddy anticipation that bubbled out of our collective consciousness in the days leading up to the release of the first Star Wars prequel…
A transvestite, an Oscar nominee, a football team, a mother who kills her kids and some Jane Austen. Dallas Theater Center’s 2014-’15 season has all of those, plus Scrooge and a play about a book club called, what else, The Book Club Play. No big family-oriented show, however, unless that’s…
Dallas Theater Center is just hours away from releasing its official announcement of its 2014-’15 season, but we already know this: No Dracula, no Shakespeare…
Uptown welcomed trendy and affordable women’s boutique, Rio Ritz, this past weekend. The shop, which is located at 2722 Routh, was created by retail and fashion enthusiast, Thais Moses…
In 2010, Jordan Roth and his mother Susan Roth Romans set up an exhibition on the second floor of the Fairmont Hotel during the Dallas Art Fair. A veteran in the art world, Romans knew this would attract attention from the collectors visiting the fair or staying at the hotel…
It’s difficult to discuss President George W. Bush’s art show without first talking about the work’s context. To look at his portrait of Tony Blair and not consider the relationship between the two world leaders would be impossible. Just a few years after his presidency, Bush persists as a part…
“When I look at my schedule for the weekend, I get exhausted before I even start doing anything. If you really wanted to do everything art related in Dallas, you couldn’t.” That’s gallerist Cris Worley on her experience of a normal weekend in this city. Spend a few minutes on…
The week of Conan’s Dallas reign has come to end. I’m so fucking sick of his creepy face. Yeah, I said it. Don’t get me wrong, Conan’s great. But he’s taken over my life. I have people in my Facebook feed posting selfies with him or live Tweeting the whole…
So. Many. Operas. And good ones, too! With The Dallas Opera wrapping up its season and the Fort Worth Opera kicking off its acclaimed annual festival, there’s loads of opera to be heard on area stages this month. There is also plenty of chamber music available in April, with concerts…
Everyone’s favorite ultra-budget dragon tease mega-series returns for its fourth season on Sunday night. We’ve constructed a drinking game in its honor. I would opt for a light mead. Not wildfire. Will Daenerys actually make it across the sea? WILL JOFFREY EVER DIE? How amazing is Brienne of Tarth? Will…
Tonight marks the opening of the Dallas International Film Festival. In its eighth year, it is physically impossible to see all of the films at this year’s fest, which boasts more than 170 films over the course of 11 days all over the city. However unlikely their success, there will…
When Chris Dowling began writing his film Produce, he didn’t know he was writing a film about down syndrome. “I wanted to write a story about faith,” he says. “And then as I was working on the film’s narrative, I realized there had to be a character with this childlike…
In the last year, the shopping options for stylish Dallas dudes grew exponentially. If you want to drink while you shop, West Village’s Rye 51 liquors up its customers while they browse. If you want someone to help you choose your clothes, the business model of Henderson Ave.’s Trunk Club…
Before we continue, I should give you a few reasons to hate me: The only time I’ve been called into jury duty, it was iced out. I still have my tonsils. Oh, and this week my job includes writing about Conan O’Brien’s stop in Dallas. I’ve always been a Jimmy…
By Mark Walters Earlier this year, the Texas Film Awards honored Richardson native David Gordon Green for his achievements as a director. The 38-year-old writer and director launched his film career with the indie flick George Washington in 2000 and followed that with more independent work, as well as mainstream…
For my money, Miss Great Plains was robbed. At each performance of Pageant: The Musical, on now at Uptown Players at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the same six contestants vie to be named Miss Glamouresse. The winner is picked by a panel of judges selected from the audience. Opening night…
Tucked into a pocket of his workout sweats, Steve Rogers — aka Captain America, the serum-enhanced Yankee Doodle Dynamo who’s spent the last six decades in deep freeze — keeps a notebook of cultural beats he’s missed: Star Wars, Marvin Gaye, Thai food. If only he’d added ’70s conspiracy thrillers…
As its subtitle suggests, one reason Errol Morris’ 2003 documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara proved so resonant is that its subject was partly a proxy for his most notorious professional successor, the decidedly less available Donald Rumsfeld. “I don’t do quagmires,”…
Let’s start with the ending, the closing credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars von Trier’s two-part erotic epic Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been the duty of…
Why can’t women stay friends? That’s a trick question, of course, but also one that British actresses Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells lifelong pals in real life attempt to answer earnestly and honestly in their new HBO cringe comedy Doll & Em. In the sixepisode series, Mortimer and…
“I’ve interviewed a lot of nasty characters over the years,” says a cheerful Errol Morris over lunch on a bright Los Angeles day. “I’m a connoisseur of bullshit.” He’s sampled some of the finest: Holocaust deniers, murderers swearingtheir innocence, a beauty queen who claims she only kidnapped and raped that…
Even if you’re not a regular listener of classical symphony music, chances are you’ve heard the name Yo-Yo Ma whether it’s because he’s a world class cellist with a renowned talent or it’s the name that Kramer randomly shouts after he gets kicked in the head on that episode of…
