Video games have become such a huge entertainment force to be reckoned with that almost every aspect of their development can be classified as its own art form.
If you don’t know about Cards Against Humanity or even what it is and why it’s still the top selling toy and game on Amazon.com, I weep for you.
This weekend conductor Tito Muñoz joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for its second ReMix concert. The orchestra’s new series touts a “faster-paced” experience, which is basically symphony marketing code for “we want young people to buy tickets to this concert” and “you can bring your drinks into the hall.” This…
For the past five years, Dallas Theater Center has commissioned or collaborated on quite a few new musicals. Perhaps the most exciting commission yet opens this weekend. Based on Jonathan Lethem’s stunning novel, The Fortress of Solitude is a musical journey through 1970s Brooklyn, as two friends, obsessed with superheroes,…
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights gets pulled out of the nightstand drawer this weekend as Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) gives it a 35-mm big-screen run this Friday through Sunday. Several of the film’s funniest moments involve drug-addled cocksman Dirk Diggler’s attempts to record “You Got The Touch” and…
Cross the forlorn siblings in Chekhov’s Three Sisters with the squabbling kin in Arrested Development and you get a good idea what the family is like in Christopher Durang’s Tony-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. It’s a brilliant, funny play getting a brilliant production at Uptown Players,…
Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There’s something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and…
“I’ve got a certain amount of fame, I’ve got money — I wish I could fuckin’ drive,” 86-year-old Elaine Stritch carps just a breath into Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a gift of a documentary celebrating its subject’s brittle brilliance, still-here indomitability, brash comic truth-telling and principled refusal to wear anything…
Alain Resnais’ last completed film, Life of Riley (2014), presents a group of aging friends who plan, hope, wish, dream and scheme after they learn that one of their own is dying. The doomed man, George Riley, never shown onscreen, is enlisted to join an amateur theater production in the…
(Spoiler alert: The following piece discusses up to the February 16 episode of Looking.)HBO’s Looking has had a tough time winning over its intended fans. Upon its premiere, Gawker’s Rich Juzwiak yawningly summed up the political achievement of creator Michael Lannan’s wonderful half-hour dramedy about three homosexual men in San…
First, the pleasant surprises. In puffing up the slight, absurd Mr. Peabody and Sherman shorts from Jay Ward’s The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show into an 82-minute 3D save-the-timestream child-distractor, director Rob Minkoff and his many writers have preserved a few of the hallmarks distinguishing the Dada, deadpan, almost primitive original,…
If you were to survey people who pay attention to movies — to go door-to-door with a clipboard, a sharpened No. 2 pencil and a sheaf of forms with the word SURVEY printed in clean block letters across the top, later to be tabulated on a vintage Underwood adding machine…
Ray Charles sang about ’em, which led Kanye West to rap about ’em. Gold diggers plague our society, but it’s like my grandmother always says, “It’s just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man.” In her new exhibition at Caldwell Arte Exposicion, local…
It’s a childhood fantasy come true: attractive women acting out your bedtime stories in their skivvies. The annual Bedtime Stories show from Viva Dallas Burlesque, one of the best troupes in town, brings fairy tales and nursery rhymes to life. Violet O’Hara emcees this event, while some of the city’s…
ArthouseFW, a year of carefully curated films, presented by the Lone Star Film Society, the Modern Art Museum and Kimbell Art museum of Fort Worth, shows Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 masterpiece Harakiri as part of the Samurai Series presented in conjunction with the museum’s Samurai exhibition. The film, which won the…
Comedians like Jim Jefferies always seem to be living a life that’s slowly spiraling toward some dark abyss, much like how he recently described the cast of characters on his FXX show Legit. And yet, they have fame, fortune and a massive audience that hang on their every dark, brooding…
Want to have a few drinks and yell out random words to some strangers on a stage? Want to do it without a police escort to the lockup? Then Dallas Comedy House is the place for you. This Saturday, check out Age Appropriate, a two-person improv show that manages to…
Most things in life are better with an infusion of Tex-Mex — including (and especially) alcoholic beverages and avocados — so it stands to reason that a 140-year-old opera might benefit from the spice and vitality that this blend of cultures lends to just about everything it touches. George Bizet’s…
What it means to be truly alive is a fundamental question of art. After all, when we stand in front of a painting it is an acknowledgment that we are present. We are alive. This affirmation of life is the crux of the newest exhibition at W.A.A.S. Gallery, an acronym…
Tito Muñoz is a hot young conductor from New York who is known for his work with Ensemble LPR, a group that takes classical music out of the concert hall and into the club. On Friday, Muñoz will join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as guest conductor for ReMix, the symphony’s…
No, this isn’t the Kate Chopin novel you struggled through in high school English. The Awakening at The Majestic Theatre is a story of feminism and overcoming pretense. A theatrical experience from The Fashion Opera, this story of legendary diva Vanity Black follows her as she reconciles the ideals of…
Shakespeare starts getting pounded into your head somewhere early in your high school experience, so much so that you begin to take it for granted. Sure, there’s that initial thrill when you read Romeo and Juliet for the very first time — seeing the lyrical twists and turns that inspired…
