“Trollin #halloween”There’s always something going on in Dallas, so we thought it’d be fun to live vicariously through your adventures. Each week look for our #Dallas Instagram recap of people, places, events, food, and more. This recent #Dallas photoroll turned up some bizzare photos, including a creepy cake, a handful…
French mezzo Clémentine Margaine bolted on stage at the Winspear opera house this weekend and stole the audience’s attention with effortless sensuality and a strong, smooth voice. Making her American debut in The Dallas Opera’s season-opening production of Bizet’s Carmen, Margaine also brought depth and complexity to the classic title…
The state of Missouri is No. 1 in crystal meth lab accidents. According to comedian and Missouri native Kathleen Madigan (who dares you to Google the stat), it’s basically an affront to the Missouri school system. They just can’t teach science. Rednecks plus chemistry equals a disaster. She would give…
On Saturday the people of Denton took to Downtown’s streets for the annual Day of the Dead Festival. The family friendly event includes a stage for local musicians, a salsa cook off, screenings from the 48 Hours of Hell short film contest, multiple performances of the Cirque Du Horror show…
Before the sky cracked open and flooded the streets, Saturday’s block party was in full Halloween tilt. We sent Ed Steele to capture the night’s best in photos. Not only did he get there before the storm, he brought back a whole slideshow’s worth of inventive, elaborate and flat-out ridiculous…
Last night two of our number saw the frankly magnificent Dylan Moran swoop through Dallas. A lot of his set is a stream of consciousness, and so being in Texas, he had some typically European thoughts, served with a dash of surrealism, about our state that we thought were worth…
Master Pancake is an Austin staple, run by former Jeopardy champion, host of KO-OP radio’s Elk Mating Ritual and all-around Chill Dude John Erler. He and his revolving clutch of film mockers occupy the Alamo Drafthouse’s front row to riff on popular movies. They even break the things apart, halting…
Last April Price is Right Live! announced the game show would visit the Majestic. We called in sick to our jobs, using the time to intensively study price points of common consumer goods — blenders, dreaded dinette sets, sexytime hot tubs and jet skis — so that victory would be…
Comedian Dylan Moran is a freewheeling delight to behold in person. A veteran of the comic circuit (as he admits, as part of a fantasy sequence, he’d really like to have a job, he’s just never had a real one), he doesn’t seem to have a plan as such. Sure,…
Dealing with the end of a great TV show is similar to dealing with a painful breakup, and we know you’re breaking sad. But it’s something we all have to come to grips with. Recently, we helped you out twofold by distracting you with another titillating show, The Walking Dead,…
Had I known that “cat writer” was a legit title I wouldn’t be here, chained to this newsroom desk. I’d be out in the wild grabbing life by the scruff. Chasing my dreams like they were goddamn laser pens on curtains. I’d bask in Internet sunbeams and let that money…
As the British guy on staff, it falls to me to tell you the Dr. Who-ge (geddit?)* news involving our very own Dallas. The new Dr. Who “cinematic event” (the press release I have is extremely grand), entitled Dr. Who: The Day of the Doctor, is to be the subject…
“Birth of the Living Dead” Trailer from Rob Kuhns on Vimeo. Texas Theatre pries Night of the Living Dead’s coffin lid open with Birth of the Living Dead, a perfectly unexpected documentary. Catch it all weekend long. The Symphony’s giving an all-Hitchcock show and Philip Freakin’ Glass channels Bela Lugosi…
This Friday Whitney Cummings takes the stage at House of Blues on her first tour since launching two sitcoms back in 2011. Though the eponymous Whitney has been cancelled, 2 Broke Girls is still trucking, and Cummings talked to us about being back on the road and the inexplicable flak…
Dylan Moran, the star of the British sitcom Black Books and actor in movies such as Shaun of the Dead, Notting Hill and Run, Fatboy, Run — and who is now writing a pilot for ABC — spoke to Mixmaster about what topics he plans to tackle when he takes…
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is the movie for people who think they’re too smart for The Butler. The story it tells, a true one, is horrifying: In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free, educated black man from Saratoga, New York, was kidnapped, sold into slavery and transported to Louisiana…
Plasmatically speaking, let’s give the new musical Fire and Blood, making its debut at Richland College, a B-negative. It’s a big, ambitious mess of a show, with book and lyrics by Richland drama prof Andy Long (who also directed) and music by Dallas composer and musical director Adam C. Wright…
The material has promise, but the production of TeCo Theatrical’s latest at the Bishop Arts Theatre, Black at the Assassination, doesn’t do it any justice. And justice is what this new play by Dallas writers Kyadal Robertson and Camika Spencer is all about. Connected by one event, the assassination of…
Think Little Miss Sunshine could have used an elastic penis? Behold: Bad Grandpa, in which a widower and an eight-year-old drive across the country hitting on chicks, farting in diners, and getting granddad’s manhood stuck in a vending machine before sending the boy out in drag to perform a striptease…
Although first viewings of most films should be experienced with as little prior knowledge as possible, few benefit as much from walking in cold as The Wicker Man. Newly restored in a “final cut” that’s apparently what the filmmaker originally put together before the distributor trimmed it down for double…
If you don’t already know DadBoner, here’s the breakdown. @DadBoner is the Twitter handle of a guy named Karl Welzein, who tweets pop culture commentary (“In the end, the Breaking Brad guy shoulda got erotic with a few babes, piled high with all the toppings. Close out the show with…
The Irish are a multi-talented people, churning out figures from Kenneth Branagh to Oscar Wilde to Bono. Ireland has produced great writers like W.B. Yeats and mediocre ones like Frank McCourt. And musical juggernauts like Enya and Sinead O’Connor. But all that historic oppression and drinking doesn’t just contribute to…
