This Sunday, the blue-ice alchemy and suspenseful plots of Breaking Bad will come to an end. For five years, fans have watched Walter White metamorphose from a dying high school chemistry teacher to murderous dying chemist who cooks up the purest meth in the Southwest and Czech Republic. We saw…
It’s been 12 years since a fire took the home of North Texas professional wrestling, the famed Dallas Sportatorium, thus extinguishing the notion of North Texas as a hotbed for dudes in underwear fake-punching each other. Before Sportatorium’s demise, professional wrestling was already limping along, thanks to the Dallas-based World…
Art’s usefulness is a funny conversation, and one that will be had tomorrow night at Texas Theatre. We think of “art for art’s sake” and the nobilities surrounding that — those lofty Platonic ideals deemed somehow so pure, so intangible that they exist in a mysterious, non-utilitarian fume. But that’s…
Garrison Keillor’s longevity is an interesting play. Broadcasting live from St. Paul for nearly 40 years, his throwback production honors that relatable, wholesome, oh-so-NPR Middle-Americana. But what’s kept him fascinating is the peculiar subversive undercurrent seeping up between the Powdermilk Biscuit commercials. Keillor isn’t as spit-shined as the Lake Wobegon…
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was the go-to screening for teachers during union strikes, rainy recesses or just to grab a smoke break to prevent them from tranforming into the headmaster from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” Even though it is not totally faithful to Roald Dahl’s famous children’s book,…
Patrick, the Dallas Zoo’s star gorilla, has become something of a celeb among the primates in the same way that Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson found notoriety — by acting like a massive tool. Patrick hasn’t been very friendly with other gorillas, especially females, thanks to an uncaring mother who…
Last night, through a haze of Sunday night drinks and with the guide of show host and local comedy favorite Paul Varghese, 10 comedians took the stage at the Addison Improv with the hopes of winning the first round in the Comedy Central Up Next Talent Search. They were each…
Earlier this morning we looked at Saturday’s greatest Flugtag crashes, and boy were they glorious. But there were also those moments prior to gravity’s embrace. Design, manpower and lots of that trigonometry we never thought we’d use merged, creating prolonged moments of flight. The photos of those quick victories, captured…
Gravity is a funny thing. Despite months of planning and trial runs, each of those dedicated Flugtag experimenters inevitably faced The Big Fall. Sometimes it happened right off the ramp. Others were given a few brief moments of flight before it all came crashing down. Either way, we caught these…
Teen Wolf – watch more funny videos From concept to execution, Teen Wolf is a positively perfect ’80s film that makes absolutely no sense. Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) has lived in the same town his entire life. When his adolescent hormones shift, he realizes that he’s a werewolf. This…
Comedy Central is always on the lookout for the next big comedy star, and to speed up their search, they’re hosting a nationwide talent contest this fall. The Comedy Central Up Next Talent Search kicks off with the preliminary rounds, hosted by 26 participating certified clubs. One of those clubs…
Yesterday was North Texas Giving Day, where donations made to local non-profits were amplified through a shared funding pool. Students at Booker T. Washington got in the mix at the Downtown DART station with an early morning flash mob, of sorts. Photography intern Zara Walsh was there and caught a…
Recycling is a big theme with Peter and the Starcatcher, the Tony-winning play onstage at the Winspear Opera House through September 29. This “prequel” recycles the story of Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys and Captain Hook – yeah, we’re a little tired of that crowd, too. But it puts…
“This is going to be wild,” the man seated next to me warned as I settled into my seat after intermission at last night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert. It was an accurate prediction. The DSO and Maestro Jaap van Zweden opened their 2013/2014 season Thursday with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s…
Continuing their quest to squeeze every single cent from parents nationwide, Disney has decided to re-release The Little Mermaid in select theaters under the billing “Second Screen Live.” What the hell is second screen live? Glad you asked! Second Screen is Disney’s iPad app that invites film watchers to “interact”…
On Saturday we celebrate mankind’s most spectacular failures of flight at Red Bull Flugtag. If Lake Carolyn feels too far, stick yourself in Dallas proper for BurgerFest; join an art walk and bike swarm; or pop up to Addison for Oktoberfest. There’s more, a lot more. So eat a dinner,…
Over the summer, Dallas Symphony Orchestra Maestro Jaap van Zweden spent some time with a camera crew talking through one of the pieces from each of the concerts he’ll conduct this year with the symphony. “The Maestro’s Choice” videos are well-produced and informative clips that provide audiences with Van Zweden’s…
Lizzy Caplan as Virginia Johnson and Michael Sheen as William MastersIn 1957, the same year that The Ed Sullivan Show refused to shoot Elvis below the waist, a gynecologist and a former nightclub singer began hooking strangers up to electrodes and asking them to fuck in the name of science…
Curling may seem like a strange way for a human beings to spend their spare time — like cataloging 19th century poisons or collecting Barbie dolls if you’re not age 12 and a girl — but there’s nothing any football worshiping Texan can say that will faze a member of…
Silly and surreal, Matt & Ben says out loud what some have long suspected: that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had help writing Good Will Hunting, the script that earned them Oscars and launched them into Hollywood superstardom. How’d that screenplay fall into the laps of the barely known young…
Prolific Dallas playwright Jonathon Norton has a new one called Homeschooled, directed by Regina Washington at African American Repertory Theatre in DeSoto. At 85 minutes, it’s the right length for the play’s extended bouts of angst among three women at odds over how to teach the most violent episodes in…
Undermain Theatre is presenting the world premiere of East Coast playwright Sylvan Oswald’s Profanity, directed by Katherine Owens. The title could serve as a warning, for you will curse Undermain for choosing to produce this unremarkable drama and curse yourself if you’ve already bought tickets to it. It’s a damn…
