You’ve bravely battled hot seat belts and steering wheels. Dutifully punched that time clock. Now it’s time to break away from the man and get a little satisfaction. You’re in luck! Hit up the pop-up happy hour after work on Thursday, then roll over to the F.O.E. for a killer…
Bronze Star Medal recipient and esteemed comparative literature scholar Guy Stern will speak at the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center on Thursday, part of the museum’s summer exhibition “The Ritchie Boys.” Stern, 90, was born in Germany in 1922 before emigrating to America just before the onset of World War II…
While promoting their new film The Campaign, funny men Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis stopped by Ft. Worth’s Naval Air Station to salute the troops, participate in an old fashioned tug-o-war, and answer my questions about who historically has the sexiest presidential mustache. Oh, and in true political fashion, kiss…
“There’s something awfully sad about happiness, isn’t there?” says the leading man in Noel Coward’s bubbly 1939 comedy Present Laughter. Oh, truer words, dahling, truer words. Happy to report then that it’s all smiles in Theatre Three’s smartly acted dollop of Coward froth. There are things that will make you…
The Bourne films have more than just overstayed their welcome and outlasted the Ludlum books — they’ve been Van Halenized, with an abrupt change of frontman and a resulting dip in personality. The only big-ass popcorn franchise of the past decade to have not been spawned on computers, the series…
The Campaign begins with an on-screen quote attributed to Ross Perot: “War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no rules.” The Texas billionaire/private-campaign-financing pioneer dropped this truism not during his historic third-party run for the presidency in 1992, but in the midst of his far less successful 1996 campaign…
“I don’t want to give you lessons in self-denial and social responsibility,” an art dealer tells her billionaire boy client in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, by way of refusing to entertain his demand to buy the Rothko Chapel. “Because I don’t believe for a second you’re as crude as you sound.”…
Exploitation Film
Like antidepressants, artificial sugars, Botox, and other miracle inventions of the past century, corporate culture became an omnipresent fact of life before anyone could know how it would affect the human body and brain on an extended timeline. One way to look at writer/director Craig Zobel’s second feature, Compliance—a pot-stirrer…
We think we have Christmas and Thanksgiving and Hanukkah totally down, after centuries of tradition and decades of power shopping. But truthfully, our holidays are relatively tame. Depending on the subject of the celebration, we worship (or tune into the appropriate parade), we eat and we pass out on the…
Flying in the face of the constant noise and debate over the Separation of Church and State, UNT printmaking graduate student Adam Rowlett has found a way to forge beauty from the chaotic warring between religion and science. Partnered with the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Mercantile Coffee House presents the…
If you’ve held out this long to visit the F.O.E., tonight is when you break your streak. The oasis of Jell-O shots and water canons will be hijacked by local photographers, painters and sketch artists. Oh, and there’s a shit-ton of booze. It’s a fundraiser for girlShow, Dallas’ biggest one-night…
Just because it made loads of money, stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, and features a three-titted mutant doesn’t mean Total Recall isn’t ruggedly individualistic art. Just look at its outsider pedigree: Total Recall was loosely based on a 1966 short story from the flushed mind of Philip K. Dick, produced by the…
Julie Delpy Rocks New York
“My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It’s not contagious—I mean, it’s contagious, but don’t worry: Grown-ups don’t catch it. It’s called mouth-foot-and-butt disease or something.” Julie Delpy materializes on the patio of Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont on a wave of nervous energy. Hair pinned up away from her…
While it might be hard to top Ed Helms’ farcical rendition of “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” on The Office, we’re stoked to see a local theater “get away with murder” by pulling off the Broadway smash in a big way. As part of its Main Stage Series, Level Ground…
Part-time Texan Quentin Tarantino has an eye for the impossibly hip. He also tends to tell his stories in strings of punchy musical vignettes, so you wind up with vivid isolated memories of lap dances in Austin dive bars (Death Proof), Mr. Blonde cool jiving with a gas tank (Reservoir…
You love the combination of skateboarding, art and rock and roll. Of course you do: You’re a reasonable, thinking human. But it’s rare to find those particular elements choreographed perfectly together. That changes 6:30 p.m. Friday as Overground Project hosts the third ever Culture Y’all, a party just oozing with…
Work on your whoops and perfect your “hollas” because Passion 4 Fashion is about to fashion all over your face. Wait, what? Join the cyclists of Lone Star Ride Fighting AIDS for an evening of fashion that not only benefits their cause, but yours as well. (It’s a night of…
Burlesque is a unique entertainment genre in that it’s typically performed by scantily clad women and women are also some of its strongest audience supporters. Sure, guys enjoy the show, but it’s the empowerment sparked by the art form that causes ladies to applaud with such gusto, and often even…
In an interview with the Chicago exhibition space LVL3, artist Rachel de Joode was asked what she hoped people would take with them as they leave her work. She replied, “I want them to think about how strange it actually is to be alive and to be human.” While reviewing…
Comedian and actor Bill Bellamy works the stage with his own brand of all-inclusive black comedy. Sure, the rich kids in Saturday’s Arlington audience might be baffled by some of the “momma” jokes, but Bellamy’s delivery and ability to transcend racial barriers will save the day. Bellamy has been all…
Mama always said that nothing good happens after dark, but she became a mama somehow, so we’re assuming that was just a line she dropped to keep us out of the Pocket Sandwich Theatre’s “R-Rated” Late Night Shows. These are of course the bawdy melodramas and comedies that give the…
The Texas Theatre continues its summer series of movies in the park Sunday with a showing of the kid-friendly film The Lorax. What better place for this Seussian parable about maintaining the environment than at an outdoor screening? Kids will learn the value of protecting our trees and parents can…
