On South Locust Street in Denton, between the Davis Purity Bakery and El Guapo’s, sits a small brick building. Inside, children’s stuffed animals, kitchen tea towels, handbags and a menagerie of other items are lined along the walls and arranged on tabletops, in baskets and even on an old stove…
Let’s start with the ending: the closing credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been done by one of the eight…
STAG! Comedy, our favorite Austin sketch troupe, slays punchlines like malnourished dinosaurs. (See Saturday.) Break out the paper cocktail umbrellas, Dallas. Do it. I’ll wait. [Whistles. Stares vacantly out window.] Got ’em? Good. Stick one in your coffee, ‘cuz this weekend is loaded up with life’s best stuff. Free pie?…
It’s 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning and Dr. Charissa Terranova is regretting last night’s purchase of the iPhone 5. “I’m really not happy with Apple as a company right now,” she explains. “I may take it back and get the new Samsung.” This week she may be deliberating on her…
The Sundance InstituteEvery Sundance there’s a crowd-pleaser, and most years it’s got one degree of separation from the Little Miss Sunshine crew. But the most delightful flick of the 2014 fest is an unconventional documentary with no plot, no dialogue, and nothing but party. Living Stars, a fleet 63-minute film…
For years, one of the hallmarks of The Musers — the morning drive show on KTCK-AM 1310 The Ticket — is the parade of characters Gordon Keith rolls out on a daily basis. P1s have collectively cracked up at Fake Jerry Jones’ incoherent ramblings, Fake Nolan Ryan’s fixation on snow…
It’s been a good year for Kennedy Waterman. She earned a DFW Theater Critics Forum Award for her performance in a re-imagining of Glengarry Glen Ross, she’s premiering her first solo performance piece this week and she’s about halfway through seventh grade. Her short play Allergic Me, directed by Dallas…
Make no mistake, there’s a big Boo Boo in this year’s Broadway Our Way, the upbeat annual musical comedy fundraiser put on by Uptown Players at Kalita Humphreys Theater. You’ll recognize Honey Boo Boo, the reality TV starlet, played for Uptown by the drag-mazing comic actor B.J. Cleveland. Out (s)he…
Here’s something that ought to happen more often between theaters on opposite sides of the Trinity: Fort Worth’s Stage West has imported the entire cast, and their puppet alter egos, of Theatre Too’s hit production of the musical Avenue Q. Back onstage again with their arms up the backsides of…
Vanessa Hudgens was 17 when High School Musical made her famous, the tail end of a generation of Mouseketeers that included her contemporaries Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, and her elders Justin Timberlake, Hilary Duff, Britney Spears, Keri Russell, Christina Aguilera, Shia LaBeouf and Ryan Gosling. If you’re…
There are four good things we can say about I, Frankenstein, another muscles-and-rubble comic book adaptation just un-terrible enough not to alienate its core audience, yet never consistently grand or surprising enough to win over anyone else. First, Aaron Eckhart brings it, scowling like a champ beneath his jigsawed scar…
This Thursday is why you grew up, because this Thursday is Free Pie Day. Uh-huh. Had 10-year-old you known such a thing existed, she would have stolen the keys, sat on several phone books and peeled out to the nearest diner. Grown-up you doesn’t need to ask permission or hassle…
Thanks to a charmed roll of the 20-sided die, Dallas conjured up a one-night-only screening of Knights of Badassdom, a cinematic LARPing tale. The story is a touching one and the soundtrack is metal enough to inspire you to knock over a pinball arcade, buy a novelty sword or ask…
What you’re about to read is going to make you say “Who?” and “whaaa?” and then make a Tim the Toolman Taylor grunt. It’s a lot of names, but muddle through, it’s worth it. MatrimonEy Clothing teamed up with graphic artist Blakely Dadson to release two All That Glitters T-shirts…
If you know nothing else about Tyler Perry, you should know about his ability to prodigiously produce material and you should be in awe of it. He writes and directs his own stuff for theater and movies, and even stars in other people’s work, like the action movie Alex Cross…
We’re at that dead part of the season where it’s not consistently sweater weather, but we can’t quite get away with spring stuff — despite what The Gap would have you believe. But in this late-winter sartorial purgatory, there is so much hope for the coming season: the promise that…
Successful philanthropies have managed to understand a key fact that drives human behavior: We are always looking for an excuse to drink. We like it even more when the reason for our drinking allows us to drink without feeling any guilt, because hangovers suck already and no one needs to…
If intercepted web chatter is any indication, the only thing necessary to say is that Parker Posey will read you a story in the DMA’s Horchow Auditorium (1717 N. Harwood St.) as part of beloved NPR literary series Selected Shorts. The evening’s theme is Danger and Desire: Tales of Hopper’s…
Austin is experiencing an identity shift. It’s still a music hub — you can’t shop for used tires without encountering an in-store Americana showcase — but the bigger story is what’s happening in the city’s comedy scene. Sketch troupes, improv street gangs and renegade stand-up acts are taking over, making…
In February, The Dallas Opera is producing Death and the Powers, a modern, tech-savvy opera by composer/MIT professor Tod Machover. The details of what goes on behind the scenes of any opera are fascinating, but production design takes on a whole new dimension when an opera involves robots. At 3…
Every true fan has some grand adventure cooked up in their heads. A way to honor the thing they love most. Only a few dare to actually put that to paper and share it with the world. If your passions involve stories of fire-and-ice-breathing dragons, aliens who travel to Earth…
It’s been eight years since the Dance Theatre of Harlem went on hiatus, and now that the vacation is over, it’s back to work and back to Fort Worth. Because everyone has to come back to reality sometime. At 7 p.m. the Dance Theatre of Harlem will take the stage…
