Does anyone else notice how much modern horror movies suck? Sure there’s an occasional creative hit like the first Paranormal Activity or The Cabin in the Woods, but the second a horror movie shows a modicum of popularity, Hollywood runs into the dirt with an endless series of pointless sequels…
Video by Frank Benlin. Since last year’s Expanded Cinema project, where local artists took control of the OMNI Hotel’s complex and baffling LED-wrapped exterior, we’ve craved another hit. On Friday night, we’ll get it. The 2012 offering was so bold that it left us humbled. It was executed by a…
Demigods and politicians have often used games like the Grand Theft Auto titles as surefire signs of the nation’s moral decay and scapegoats for much bigger problems that require actual work on their part, a theory that’s proving more true today as certain members of the U.S. House and Senate…
GravityOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek both praise Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock), saying the director exhibits a “lovely human touch” with film, which is set in space, and that it’s “so different than anything else he’s…
(Video by Frank Benlin) It’s back. This Friday local video artists take control of the OMNI’s programming for an evening of public art. You’ll want to stake out a great spot early for this 8 p.m. show and make sure you have a radio synched up with KXT’s live musical…
This weekend Klyde Warren Park will be a great place to revel in the North Texas cultural scene. Museums and theater groups will descend on the park for Fall for the Arts, a day long event of music and performances. To make it a full on arts bonanza, Fall for…
What a shitty place to die. Whatever your feelings about Dallas, that’s a pretty harsh assessment. Then again, the character in Peter Landesman’s well-intentioned but unfulfilling Parkland who says it, an aide to fallen President John F. Kennedy, can probably be forgiven for his snotty Yankee attitude. Next month marks…
Some movies are so tense and deeply affecting that they shave years off your life as you’re watching, only to give back that lost time, and more, at the end. Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is one of those movies. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts — one a medical engineer,…
There’s hardly anything more enjoyable in live theater in this town than watching Kitchen Dog’s leading lady Tina Parker perform an onstage emotional meltdown. In her latest role, co-starring in Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy Detroit, Parker is in maximum meltdown mode playing Mary, a nervous paralegal married to gangly laid-off…
Two things could happen for Jeff Swearingen at his low-budget Fun House Theatre in Plano. He’ll either get one of those MacArthur “genius grants” for his innovative and boldly un-P.C. approach to children’s theater or the parents of Plano will form an angry mob wielding torches and pitchforks and run…
Three-time WWE champion, two-time New York Times No. 1 best-selling author and guest on 30 Rock, Mick “The Hardcore Legend” Foley lives up to his name. Whether he’s on the receiving end of a chokeslam through a 16-foot metal cage or behind a podium speaking to the students of the…
The benefits of immersing yourself in the arts are clear: It stimulates the imagination, bolsters critical thinking skills and has positive effects on mood and behavior. But how do you reap the advantages of art if you have a disability that affects the way you see or perceive it? That…
During last year’s Expanded Cinema project, which put local video art onto the OMNI’s giant canvas, cars sat abandoned, piled up along the road like the vehicular aftermath of an apocalypse. Fields filled with viewers like some out-of-season Fourth of July. And art did what we knew it could: pulled…
Friday is Social Science night, the event that recently won the Dallas Observer’s Best Night at the Museum award, and it’s sold out. Now, we aren’t telling you this news to ruin your day. We’re telling you so that you can A) get excited if you bought a ticket early,…
FenCon is not a pedestrian science fiction and fantasy convention. FenCon is a bastion for fans of literary science fiction, with a heavy emphasis on science, literature and music, and this weekend is its 10th iteration, at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 14315 Midway Road in Addison. Since it’s a member of…
Watch the three shorts playing Saturday during a silent movie marathon at the Garland’s Plaza Theatre, and you’ll understand why we still revere Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy. There won’t be any CG or loud explosions, just four masters of physical, expressive comedy doing their business to…
As the weather seems to be turning less and less hostile (all those joggers we sacrificed over the summer are finally paying off), the urge to actually leave the house is stronger than it’s been in months. That’s just in time for Fall for the Arts, in Klyde Warren Park…
Dane Cook is coming to town, and I know what you’re thinking: “Ew, sick.” “That hack?” “He’s a fart bag.” First of all, we’re kind of all fart bags, aren’t we? And secondly, in order to truly loathe something you should at least be familiar with that thing, right? So…
PhotoVelo is a super rad bicycle scavenger hunt in which the list is the opposite of lame. They’re not looking for a gnawed pencil or a used Kabbalah string. They’re looking for amazing things like a team member dressed in a quinceañera gown … for serious. (Also, that was a…
Life is stress. Either you learn to manage it or it manifests into an intestinal gremlin hellbent on exacting revenge. Or at least that’s the kicker plotpoint of Bad Milo!, a dark comedy starring Ken Marino (Party Down, The State, Wet Hot American Summer) that screens at the Texas Theatre…
You screamed with the Green Ranger when he shouted “Dragonzoid!” You laughed when Napoleon danced to Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat” at the class president election. You fell in love with Batman when you first saw Neal Adams’ design. This weekend, beginning at 2 p.m. Friday, you will have the chance to…
Dallas Pride may be over, but that’s no reason to let the pride stop. Dallas Southern Pride, the city’s biggest black gay pride event, is this weekend, and the theme is “Candy Land: Where Everything is Sweeter and Sexier.” Organizers are expecting 10,000 people to show, and the perfect way…
