The great thing about comedy writers is … they’re really good at writing comedy. B.J. Novak is one of the dudes. You know him from The Office, but he is oh so much more. His latest project is a book of short stories called One More Thing: Stories and Other…
Monty Python and the Holy Grail has to be one of the most quotable movies ever made. There are some scenes where it’s impossible not to quote along. For me, it’s the sea of insults thrown upon the Knights by the French guards. After I saw it for the first…
Caucasians have gotten off easy when it comes to racial epithets. At worst the light-skinned demographic might get called “cracker,” and anyone who’s said “honky” in the last 30 years has come off sounding more like George Jefferson than H. Rap Brown. Playwright Greg Kalleres has posited that the only…
Admit it: When all manner of Law & Order stops airing at 3 a.m., you turn to an even older standby. One with red hair you can see through black and white, and a whine that might make you dial down the volume. We all love Lucy, don’t we? Well,…
In the climax of WWII, a politicized teenager on the verge of socialism returns to London, only to find his widowed mother mistress to a man he equates with the enemy. The affair with the boy’s mother distracts a senior minister from the storming of Normandy. Fresh from Canada where…
No question, Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty is obsessed with flying. Superhero style. Like faster than a speeding bullet all the way to Neverland. Since he’s already done musicals about Superman and Peter Pan, he’s looking for fresh material. So he’s put wings on The Fortress of Solitude,…
If you go to a classical concert in Dallas this month expecting to see 50 shades of gray hair in the audience and/or onstage, you’ll likely be surprised. Several local organizations are gearing their programming towards younger crowds this March, wooing the under-40 set with more relaxed concerts in alternative…
It’s official, AMC announced the premiere date for its new series Halt and Catch Fire,the drama set during the PC boom in Dallas. The show will debut Sunday, June 1 at 9 p.m. CST. The show takes place in the early 1980’s and tells the story of the race to…
Handsome king seeks beautiful young lass for lifetime of revelry as King and Queen of Scarborough Renaissance Festival. Ladies, don your finest wig, tighten your corset and wiggle into silk knickers. The medieval revelry returns to the sweeping plains of Waxahachie April 5, and this time the monarch is available…
Sarah Jessica Parker will be in Dallas on March 9 to promote her shoe line and probably make Nordstrom’s in NorthPark a giant nightmare of starstruck women of all ages. The department store won’t be safe to go near for an entire afternoon. SJP is best known as her New…
Alien ass-kicker and record-breaking misogynist Duke Nukem has gotten into a lot of scrapes over the years, whether it was preventing a race of aliens from using their spawn to take over the planet or getting back at them for daring to take the Earth’s babe resources. He’s been relatively…
The Mavs championship mural in Deep Ellum, dog portraits in the Bark Park, the mammoth geisha in Chino Chinatown, the patio wall at Bryan Street Tavern: His work surrounds you and you might not even notice. Jerod DTOX Davies is one of three brothers whose artistic endeavors are visible on…
Stand-up and improvisational comedians seem like they should be mortal enemies — two opposing camps with incompatible views on how to make audiences laugh. They’re the Hatfields and McCoys of funny, with punch-line flingers on one side and scene-building tacticians on the other battling for your admiration and attention, both…
Dallas International Film Festival released the first 10 films of its lineup on Monday and we’re liking the way it looks so far. Among the films announced is a flick produced by local Lascaux films called Words and Pictures , the world premiere of a movie starring Nick Offerman, and…
Nobody likes dance shows. It’s an arts statistic we don’t like to talk about. People will wander through free museum exhibits; they’ll show up with their bottles of wine for Shakespeare in Park; they’ll even sell out operas like Carmen and Turandot. But nobody sits through dance anymore, except reluctant…
Last night, the Oscars happened. The set had tons of Oscars condoms blown up like balloons in the background. Epic. And lots of people watched as Oscars were given to the movies that were the most Oscar-y for being super Oscar-y. But more important: WOMEN IN DRESSES. There were boobie…
Sunday may have been a bust, with all that terrifying thunder sleet and what not. But the Mardi Gras parties on Friday and Saturday went off without a hitch, thanks to the stunning springtime weather. In Denton on Friday, Walnut Street was filled with revelers wearing masks, covered in body…
It took them a little bit longer than originally predicted, but over the weekend The Wild Detectives, Oak Cliff’s new bookstore and cafe, opened on 8th Street. It is easy to miss the small sign that distinguishes the orange bungalow from the others, but it’s worth the hunt. Inside, a…
“Last summer I was on a dig in Germany and I discovered artifacts that point toward the existence of an ancient Texas civilization,” artist Joshua Goode says. “It was pretty amazing to find the remains of a Unicorn T-Rex that I determined by the saddle was domesticated and ridden.” We’re…
Have you ever heard Ravel’s “Boléro” performed live? If your answer is no, then you need to go to the Dallas Symphony this weekend. Splurge on good seats. It’ll be worth it. “Boléro” begins with a whisper of a snare motif (dum, da-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum, dum, dum). As the snare raps…
Several weeks back I listened to two long, in-depth interviews with the actor and comedian Will Forte, one with Chris Hardwick and one with Marc Maron. Forte was charming and silly and is apparently unlucky in love, a family man worried he’ll never have a family, and he’s profoundly weird…
WES from Alejandro Prullansky on Vimeo. If you’re into movies with smart characters who secretly feel shunned by society and scenes with supremely low frame rates, you’re in luck. The Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson is having a mini-film fest of director Wes Anderson’s films all next week. The Drafthouse’s “Week…
