“There is an intimacy to just hearing someone’s voice,” Glass said while the entire stage was dark. No one could see him, but the iPad screen bouncing around the stage indicated that he was pacing. “I tried to convince the Winspear to let me do the whole show like this,”…
Los Angeles artist Andre Perkowski is a cinematic meddler. He rifles through public domain film footage picking out the bits he likes, then he weaves them together into montages and full-length works. One of the most interestingly Frankensteined of them all arrives in Dallas Saturday night for the Oak Cliff…
This past weekend, tens of thousands of anime fans from across the country assembled at the Hilton Anantole for the 24th A-Kon convention. Here are a few of our favorite shots from the event. Make sure to check out the full slideshow here. See also: Red Bull Flugtag is Coming…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the movie theater that brings together that rare and wonderful combination of good beer and good movies, has finally announced an opening date for their Dallas-Fort Worth theater. Alamo Drafthouse Richardson will open Friday, August 16, at 100 S. Central Expressway in the Richardson Heights Shopping Center…
If you’ve always wanted to dress up in weird clothes and fly into Lake Carolyn in Las Colinas, this is your year. Red Bull Flugtag — this is the flying one, not the crashing-into-shit one — is coming to DFW on September 21, and is still looking for teams to…
In hindsight, I suppose I understand why Tracy Morgan would be pissed off by a question about audiences and bloggers complaining that his recent set is too raunchy. An entire set being characterized by one segment — even if it is the opening bit — would grate on anyone who…
You know him. You love him. You wanna get stoned and eat popcorn with him. Comedian Doug Benson is on tour, and he’s recording an episode of his podcast Doug Loves Movies at Hyena’s during a special 4:20 p.m. show on Saturday, June 15. Benson believes in comedic collaboration, so…
Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We can’t give up. It’s … THE WEEKEND. Texas Theatre screens Animal House on Friday night, followed by a toga party. Anthony Jeselnik brings his gelled hair and poisoned tongue to the House of Blues on Thursday. And if you’re still hurting for action,…
This Saturday, Ira Glass, host of the radio show This American Life and creator of the “Ira Glass Abs Workout,” will present Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Glass started doing shows like this back in 1996, when This American Life went national…
I’m not surprised to learn Anthony Jeselnik is a fan of Bret Easton Ellis, that he was drawn to the tone of American Psycho as well as the fact that the book was banned. The comedian has cultivated an arrogant dick persona, which helps his steely delivery of one-liners about…
Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Aziz Ansari at the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie Aziz Ansari is taking his Buried Alive! tour across America, targeting any cities he had to skip last time. Loved for his role as…
May Now You See Me, 5/31: Action filmmaker Louis Leterrier’s output is all over the map, from the fitfully delightful Transporter 2 to that irredeemable Clash of the Titans remake. His latest sounds pretty dopey — the FBI tries to stop a group of bank-robbing magicians — but Leterrier, the…
After completing five months of principal photography on The Avengers, Joss Whedon flew back to Los Angeles and threw himself a welcome-home party. As the guests circled his pool, he asked friends like Firefly’s Nathan Fillion, Angel’s Amy Acker, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Alexis Denisof if they were busy…
There’s a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning and, sometimes, miracle-working before a story goes to print: An editor higher on the food chain will receive a disheveled manuscript from a writer, make a few halfhearted tweaks and pass…
Dull jobs in dreary surroundings have inspired many a wonderful play: David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, set in a rundown sales office; Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan’s Mister Roberts, about bored sailors on a WWII supply ship; Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, the granddaddy of all dramas about soul-sucking…
If you’re a fan of Glengarry Glen Ross and you missed the fantastically funny Daffodil Girls at Plano’s Fun House Theatre and Film last month, it’s back for a weekend reprise, June 5 through 8 in the Plano Children’s Theatre space. Written and directed by Fun House founder and kiddie…
Kitchen Dog Theater opens its 15th annual New Works Festival with Octavio Solis’ absurd one-act Se Llama Cristina. It begins as a fuzzy encounter between a couple, played by Dallas stage newcomers Vanessa DeSilvio and Israel Lopez, wacked out on heroin and waking up a little hazy about who they…
The surprise twist in the new M. Night Shyamalan film is that the film is directed by M. Night Shyamalan, a fact that the movie — like the posters and commercials — won’t admit until after you’ve already sat through it. While at heart a Pinkett-Smith family bonding project, the…
You thought of Cesar Millan last week when you found your couch chewed open and gutted, like a tauntaun on Hoth. You thought of him the other day when your pup slipped his collar and ran directly into oncoming traffic, causing a comical chain-reaction of swerves and spin-outs. You thought…
That Mortal Coil: Rebuking the Ideal in Contemporary Figurative Art, is the latest group exhibition at CentralTrak (800 Exposition Ave.). It explores less traditional, more radical ideas about the human body, beauty and sexuality, via pieces from Denise Prince (who had her art psychoanalyzed live a couple weeks ago), Seth…
After comedian Anthony Jeselnik informed Donald Trump that nobody would mourn him if he got cancer, and after he created a sketch called “9-11 Babies” that involves dressing infants up like the Twin Towers, spoon feeding them and making their faces explode, he crawled into the uncomfortably small bed where…
In the modern world, if it’s not photographed, filmed or Facebooked, it barely exists. But in ancient times, important histories were passed along only in the form of oration. That’s quite a feat when you remember that two such tales — Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey — were transmitted…
