Julie Delpy Brings the Paris Gang Stateside for 2 Days in New York
Calling back many of the same characters and more than a few of the same jokes, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy’s fourth film as writer-director, is a sequel to her 2007 2 Days in Paris. A spin-off of sorts itself, Paris piggybacked on the popularity of 2004’s justly…
Icy and barren, Alps Is Above All Human
In a gymnasium, a clandestine four-person group meets to discuss its name. One member suggests “Alps,” explaining: “The mountains of the Alps cannot be replaced by any other mountain. Anything else would be smaller, less imposing, thus, a poor substitute. While the mountains of the Alps cannot be replaced, they…
Marjane Satrapi: There Is No ‘Clash of Cultures’
“I have always been against this idea of the ‘clash of cultures,'” Marjane Satrapi says. “It’s the biggest piece of bullshit I’ve ever heard.” That’s apparent from her films and graphic novels, which bridge worlds. Born in Iran, Satrapi emigrated to Europe with her family when she was a teenager…
In life, few things change faster than fashion. Like, we’re back to jellies now? With ankle socks? And bike shorts? Apparently baffled is the look of the season. But not necessarily the look of the fall. To find out what is, head to Intermix on Thursday to be one of…
If you were stranded on a desert island, which artworks would you take with you? Easy. Tracy Emin’s My Bed (for sleep and/or bedsheet ropes), Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (doubles as a wagon to carry coconuts) and Man Ray’s Gift (to fight off dingos and shit). Too literal? Artists Michael Corris…
Round about the time that you thought lava lamps and Bob Marley posters were, like, the apex of interior design, somebody told you that if you watched The Wizard of Oz but turned down the volume and used Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack, some crazy…
The visual assault of a flyer for Pro Wrestling Onslaught’s second DFW Wine Mixer symbolizes perfectly: a jarring combination of unreadable fonts, inexplicable blue outlining around the wrestlers, and what looks like a default Mac screensaver as the background. It’s awesome, and the event — inspired in part by the…
If you’ve never been to the Underworld Art Gallery, you just take Woodall Rodgers to the River Styx … wait, not that “underworld.” This Dallas gallery is located at 115 S. Beckley Ave., but it is hotter than Hades. On Saturday, Artist DIY — that’s Daniel Isaiah Yanez — presents…
We like our women just a little on the smash-y side, and the Assassination City derby girls know just how to crash, bash and dash their ways into our hearts. If you like your ladies on wheels, ACRD brings you a “throwback event of epic proportions” with Choose Your Weapon…
Muscle shirts and denim jackets. Clogs and Catholic-school girl miniskirts. So many hats. The mid-’90s were an especially divisive time in fashion, and still everything paired well with a blazer or a wine cooler. Time loop back to that era of Clueless, Saved by the Bell and other guilty-pleasure adolescent…
Observational comedy is the bread and butter of modern stand-up. The first generation American family is also a familiar gimmick these days, so it isn’t surprising that Sebastian Maniscalco takes on both of these things. However, his routine gives them a fresh coat of paint. He finds the humor that…
The Minnesota Twins have been making a lot of fans happy recently. Sadly for the Twins, however, their own fans aren’t the recipients of all that joy. They assisted in ending the Cleveland Indians’ 11-game losing streak earlier this month. Later, at their home stadium, visiting Detroit Tigers pitcher Max…
There’s an artistic embarrassment of riches in the Dallas area — a huge helping of art galleries and collectives that make up the fabric of our art scene. On any given weekend, there’s a heaping handful of openings or receptions to hit up, featuring everything from photography to landscapes to…
It’s the biggest, baddest showcase of its kind here in the Southwest, and this year’s Dallas Black Film Festival gets an extra dose of fame this time around with a certain guest speaker, Professor Griff. Known to many as an early member of Public Enemy and to others as a…
Aside from the promise of complimentary snacks, there is no better reason to unite than literature. And this weekend, South Dallas has what you need. Now in its 10th year, the Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair and Arts Festival has grown into a full-force, three-day gathering of popular authors, workshops,…
Lovers of foreign films fight an uphill battle in Dallas. Aside from a few trusty theaters that cater to our cravings, most screens are reserved for Hollywood blockbusters. On Monday, you’ll want to scoot to Oak Cliff to satisfy your urge because The Texas Theatre is the only spot showing…
The movie of choice this week for people who hold the beliefs that A) America is the strongest, best-est country that God ever virgin-birthed and B) that that nation somehow just isn’t strong enough to survive eight years of centrist Democratic leadership, Dinesh D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America actually does not…
The most shocking thing about Fifty Shades of Grey is that so many people have read the entire thing. Lacking any literary meat, the book has been dubbed “mommy porn,” and its popularity speaks more to our desire to understand relationships that are different than our own than its credibility…
Dallas is about to get served up, Chicago style! Members of the famous Chicago-based improv comedy troupe, The Second City, will be collaborating with members of the local Brierley Resident Acting Company to put on Second City Does Dallas at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. So what does the Windy…
The Producers is the Oprah’s Favorite Things of theater. You can’t help but sing-shout when you talk about it. And starting Friday, The Uptown Players will give you a reason to sing-shout all the damn time. They’ll perform The Producers and it’ll have everything you’re looking for: riotous comedy, oversized…
Trapped within a prepackaged cubical at an anonymous office, Irving artist Richard Ross felt his fingers type the beginning of a sentence, the beginning of something: The road to the store. He didn’t know why his fingers chose that path across the keyboard, as though they’d deciphered an ancient dance…
Holy fucking shit, Dallas! We sure do say fuck a shitting lot. How the hell do we know that? A Ukrainian-based web development firm, known as Vertaline, finally fucking developed a heatmap that scans tweets for fucks given. The map, which they’ve smartly named The Fuck you Twitter Heatmap, displays…
