The dishy media blitz for the new, fourth season of Arrested Development has begun, kicking off with Bateman’s recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel. He said the pacing will be unconventional, playing out in divided unison. Each episode will follow a different character through the same segment of time, but if…
Positively, by Alan Rath “Did you let that art downstairs hug and tickle you?” is a thing I just asked another human. I wasn’t expecting to say those words at today’s Art Fair preview. After all, we’re standing in the shadow of Very Serious Work. And yet, that is exactly…
Remember, in the world of indie films, this trailer about breast cancer is considered highly uplifting. Next week we’ll return to our regularly scheduled fart jokes. DIFF continues through this weekend. So if you haven’t seen your movies, it’s time to see your movies. Now is also the time to…
At City Performance Hall last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings led a panel discussion about the future of the arts in Dallas, part of his #DallasArtsWeek initiative. All the panelists – Dallas Museum of Art director Maxwell L. Anderson, Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty, filmmaker and Oak Cliff Film…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. We found this guy strolling around Lower Greenville after a Game Of Thrones watching party and asked…
A likable hagiography as nuanced as a plaque at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Brian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson bio 42 finds a politic solution to the challenge Quentin Tarantino faced last year with Django Unchained: how to craft a crowd-pleasing multiplex period piece whose villain is, essentially, White People. Helgeland…
Here are the kind of theories that the five interviewees in Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 have come up with about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining: One believes that it’s an allegory about the genocide of Native Americans. Another that it’s instead about the Holocaust. Or that it’s Kubrick’s coded confession that…
A common sentiment recurs through the abundance of eulogies and obituaries penned by film critics in the wake of his death late last week: Roger Ebert was an inspiration. It’s easy enough to be encouraged by another’s success — to regard an esteemed elder colleague with a combination of admiration…
The Ochre House (825 Exposition Ave.) is coming off a banner 2012, with productions of Party Mouth and Old attracting sell-out audiences and much critical frothing. Ochre House’s papa bear, Matthew Posey, also took time out of his busy schedule to make an appearance on Dallas recently. The theater’s spring…
Design District gastropub The Meddlesome Moth (1621 Oak Lawn Ave.) is kicking off spring in an indulgent fashion with Art, Small Bites & Brews: A Night of Pairings. Beer is the star of the night, and brew nerds should be especially happy to know Deschutes Brewery will have some of…
Last week we welcomed National Geographic Explorer’s Boyd Matson to the Dallas Arboretum. This week, the Nat Geo hits keep on coming at the AT&T Performing Arts Center (2403 Flora St.) with Tim Laman and Ed Scholes. Laman, a wildlife photographer, and Scholes, an ornithologist at Cornell University, will tell…
Converting a descriptively punctuated work of Henry James into an opera isn’t an easy task. But the Dallas Opera likes a challenge, and so it commissioned Dominick Argento’s Aspern Papers and presented them at the Fair Park Music Hall back in 1988. The overall reaction was: Great opera, so long…
Were Penn & Teller the original Mythbusters? They were often touted as magicians, and their act did include more traditional illusion and sleight of hand, but there was always something a bit subversive about them. Their long-running Showtime series, Bullshit!, worked to debunk political, paranormal and religious beliefs. More recently,…
When it debuted a hundred years ago, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring caused a riot. It’s one of the most intriguingly bizarre stories in the history of classical music, one dissected on an episode of Radio Lab a few years back. Its assessment was that the public wasn’t ready for it,…
Taking further the argument against creation’s flipped ignition switch is the Saturday night show at Oliver Francis Gallery (209 S. Peak St.), TINAY/IDNCTBH (SRTAMHMWF), or THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU/I DID NOT CHOOSE TO BE HERE (Schopenhauer recalls the abrupt moment his mother was fertilized). The gallery has culled submissions…
In retaliation to, or complement of — depending on your view — the Dallas Art Fair, we get a few offshoot events that are decidedly Ours. The Fallas Dart Air 2013 Low and Slow is that kind of affair. Pawing haphazardly at the conventional niceness of the Champagne-soaked shopping bender…
Somewhere along the line, opera got a bad rap. Modern masses quickly bolt at the sight of a fat lady singing, and few people still know what it’s like to spend a night at the opera. Perhaps that’s why the Dallas Opera has joined forces with the Dallas Foundation in…
Forget celebrities and the paparazzi who stalk them. Elizabethan royals and their subjects mastered the art of sex, lies and mysteries long ago, and historians have been trying to make sense of it for centuries. Take, for example, the subjects of Shakespeare’s sonnets. People have tried to uncover the identities…
It seems a bit antithetical to include a film screening as part of The Big Read (the National Endowment for the Arts program to promote the dying practice of reading for enjoyment), but really, it’s pretty brilliant. Teaming up with the NEA and D Magazine, the Texas Theatre presents a…
Little woo, little hoo, it’s Opening Weekend at Lone Star Park. You know what that means: time to throw a floppy hat on your tiniest jockeys (children, not underwear) and head out to the track for Sunday’s Family Fun Day. If you’re not big on children placing bets, no sweat,…
In Dallas, beauty is revered. We sculpt our homes, yards and bodies to aesthetic perfection and for one weekend each year, we turn that obsession toward art in an extreme way. Yes, the Dallas Art Fair is back, showing off the fanciest, most sought-after, traditionally pretty works from the world’s…
Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser aren’t just any old cellists. For one thing, they’re hot as F-word and for another they play songs you’ve heard of. Like, outside of music history class. They perform under the name 2Cellos and will likely obliterate your mind with their renditions of Michael Jackson,…
