OK, nerds, it’s February and those money-hungry card and candy companies are at it again, reminding you that just having a profile on OKCupid isn’t the same as actually going out with your crush IRL. So stop obsessively checking that special someone’s online profile and impress them with tickets to…
Comedy Central’s newest sitcom Broad City is only two episodes into the current season, but it has already gained an impressive audience, heaps of critical praise and some wel-deserved buzz. The network is so impressed with the show’s opening that its stars Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson are getting their…
In January, SXSW announced that supernova heartthrob/astrophysicist/author/educator Neil deGrasse Tyson is a confirmed keynote interview for this year’s Interactive. Well Dallas, if you didn’t buy a laminate, get excited. The AT&T Center has announced that Tyson will speak at the Winspear in May. He’s the author of 10 — count…
Quentin Tarantino named Big, Bad Wolves his favorite movie of the year. Certainly this film’s quiet, playful treatment of torture and its excessively bloody denouement is in the Tarantino vein. But Wolves derives its rampant ick factor from darker, less self-aware sensibilities than Tarantino. After debuting on the festival circuit…
A solo performance by renowned American pianist André Watts planned for this Friday night has been rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 2. Watts originally was intended to open the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s new Winspear Opera House Recital Series but had to cancel because of illness, the center announced…
FOREVER Trailer from Jason Reimer on Vimeo. Xchange, Nasher’s citywide public art initiative, wraps on February 16, and they’ve saved a little something special for the end. Or rather, dual-time zone art collective Good/Bad has. The group has constructed a short film designed to sell an existential secret, redeemable on…
Early this month, we learned that Guy Fieri was casting for the second season of his new TV show, and we realized we forgot something: Guy has a new TV show! Guy has a new TV show much of the time, but it’s not like us to simply ignore a…
Films, like most epic art projects, can get intense. For local movie writer and director Joe Scott, his latest project, Serendipity Moon, is no exception. From the Indiegogo page Scott launched to help fund the flick, to reaching out to his friends at Dallas Comedy House to take starring roles,…
Riding a luge or a bobsled must be exhilarating if you could somehow control your natural reaction to scream and lose control of your basic bodily functions. A new Winter Olympic experience tour will let you do just that, and you won’t need to pack an extra pair of underpants…
If the future of theater, in Dallas or anywhere else, has more shows coming up with the thrilling ideas, energy, talent and art of On the Eve, then we have a lot to look forward to. This time-hopping rock musical (with Irish step-dancing! puppet sheep! giant disco ball!) was born…
Though Jason Reitman’s name is on the poster, it’s impossible to believe that the sardonic boy wonder of Juno, Thank You for Smoking and Young Adult would direct this stilted romance between a divorcée and a dreamboat escaped convict. Labor Day is so self-conscious and phony, it must be the…
Who says award-season winners have to be epic? If you’re looking for an alternative to the lengthy features vying for recognition and box-office glory, ShortsHD and Magnolia Pictures have on offer the full slate of 2014 Oscar-nominated short films. Divided into three categories (documentary, animation, live action), each featuring five…
While our ingenues scurry toward teen best sellers and David O. Russell flicks, here’s the next generation of talented leading men swaggering into a dude-bro Sex and the City. At night, best friends played by Zac Efron, Miles Teller, and Michael B. Jordan — aka the player, the goof, and…
A favorite pastime of critics and serious filmgoers, perhaps the most idiotic and fruitless one, is to complain about how bad the movies have gotten. The complaint is meaningless, because no matter how “bad” the movies get, there are always actors. There’s no such thing as a golden age of…
An entire evening of free pickup adult kickball games? Yes. It’s the WAKA League’s doing: They’re throwing Thursday’s free-for-all to recruit the shit out of you. Guess what else? We’re gonna lead off with a ball joke, so if you have a set, head out to Tietze Park (2700 Skillman…
There’s a tenderness to Yen Tan’s 2013 feature Pit Stop that rarely surfaces in contemporary film. At its most basic, Pit Stop is a look at two gay men in dusty, small-town Texas — where serious Southerners live lonely lives and hold their secrets close. When you feel the film’s…
John Lithgow is one of America’s most celebrated actors. He’s got a shelf full of Tonys, an Emmy for a dark guest appearance on Dexter and he’s even put out some charming kids’ albums. But if you’re a child of the ’80s, you remember him for one role: the high-strung,…
If you’ve never seen an installment of Naked Girls Reading, you might have some preconceptions about what exactly is involved. You’d be right on a couple of them: One, there ARE naked girls. Two, they ARE reading. (You’re batting 1.000 so far.) But here’s where things might diverge from what…
During the halcyon days of post-apocalyptic cinema, John Carpenter’s Escape From New York (1981), as well as the dozens of rip-offs it inspired, helped convince a generation of impressionable filmgoers that the 1990s were doomed. Totalitarian rule would reign and cities would be overrun by armies of savage criminals in…
The AT&T Performing Arts Center (2403 Flora St.) is upping Dallas’ classical music game with a brand-new recital series featuring big-name soloists. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, American piano superstar André Watts will take the stage for the series-opening concert in a solo recital featuring the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin…
Fashion & Flea isn’t a stuffy, boring, snoozefest-y event. It’s a spirited treasure hunt where you’ll find “vintage, antique, locally produced or handcrafted items.” It has everything from furniture and décor to clothing, jewelry, toys, games, crowd-pleasing ephemera and more. At the Fashion & Flea you’ll also find Danielle Colby…
Saturday is a great day to visit the Arts District. Whether you go alone, with friends or bring along your familial gaggle, you get free admission at two different museums and grab a complimentary cultural festival at a third. The DMA is always free, so pop in and see what’s…
