Before Marfa, Texas became famous as a mecca for modern art buffs and high-desert hipsters, it was best known as the location for the shoot of the classic ’56 film Giant, starring Rock Hudson, James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor. Strangely, despite the fact that we’ve been to Marfa–and even stayed…
Midnight this Friday (or Saturday) see Israel Luna’s Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives at the Inwood Theatre, 5458 West Lovers Lane. Shot in Dallas, the “transploitation” film is about a group of transgender entertainers who are brutally attacked and decide to get revenge. It’s Kill Bill with bigger tits and better…
Need a cure for claustrophobia? Spend 93 minutes trapped inside a tank with four soldiers during the First Lebanon War. Now, imagine spending 30 days trapped inside that same tank and your only glimpse of the outside world is through the crosshairs of a gun. Samuel Maoz’s film (and winner…
An orphan for all practical purposes, 12-year-old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has been left to sprout like a weed. At home, he gets sparse recognition from his divorcée mother; at school, he absorbs castrating taunts from a pack of bullies who’ve gleaned “eternal victim” from his spacey stare. Owen fills the…
Comedian Adam Carolla is known for many things, mostly for Loveline, Crank Yankers, The Man Show and his current podcast, The Adam Carolla Show. He is a loudmouth and kind of a pig, and a lot of his humor appeals to teenagers and mental midgets, but one very important detail…
Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the fairest musical character of all? Doc, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy and Bashful still agree: Snow White is indeed the fairest one of all. Join her in Casa Manana’s musical production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as she embarks on…
Fans of Stephen Lapthisophon shouldn’t expect a sculptural installation from the winner of 2008’s Wynn Newhouse Award for artists with disabilities at his Gallery 219 exhibition, Specificity. What they can expect, however, is one fully cohesive exhibition and more incorporation of food into his exhibited photographs, as the show description…
Unlike those of the little pigs and three bears, the story of the The Little Foxes is deceptively titled. Or is it? These little foxes aren’t actual foxes at all, but they are cunning. They’re brothers and sisters, husbands and wives caught up in a twisty thriller even more sinister…
Dia de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead) may sound dreary, but it’s actually a celebration. The Mexican holiday inspires festive remembrance of the dead by way of folk art, food and storytelling. The Modern Shop at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is getting into the spirit,…
If you, like many die-hard musical fans in the area, walked around singing “All that Jazz,” for days after Chicago came through town–you’re in luck. From the creators of Chicago and Cabaret comes Curtains, a Tony Award-winning musical sure to inspire you to buy the soundtrack. (Much to the chagrin…
Moises Kaufman, who wrote The Laramie Project, is the author of this drama (a vehicle earlier this year for Jane Fonda on Broadway) about a 60-ish musicologist (Sharon Garrison) obsessed with finding reasons for Beethoven’s years-long work on 33 short variations of a simple waltz. She has a reason to…
If you Google image search the name “George W. Bush,” most of the results are either photos of Bush standing in front of an American flag, looking patriotic, or shots of him making those goofy faces he was always making back when he was President of this fair nation. But,…
A cowgirl is more than a woman who ropes and rides and dons a ten gallon hat. Cowgirl poetess Helen Odom had a thing or two to say about these headstrong “Texas Wimmen:” “Thay allus does ac-com-plish/Whatever thay tries ter do. Ain’t nuthin’ never hard.” Shaky grammar aside, old Helen…
Saturday brings the opening of the Amon Carter Museum’s new exhibition, American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, a display of photographs by–who else?–photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White. Presented as case studies of documentary photography during the Great Depression, their photographs spur discussion of three important factors of the…
I had to Google the words “Brad Pitt” and “Tibet” recently because my husband swore that Mr. Pitt was in a movie about the Dalai Lama and I asserted that he probably meant that Keanu Reeves was in a movie about Buddha. Turns out that–unfortunately for filmgoers everywhere–we were both…
Calling all math nerds, mathletes, or geogeeks! Or whatever you folks preferred to be called. Now that you officially miss spinning upside down on flashy carnival rides and chowing the fried goodness at Fair Park, you should travel up to Sci-Tech Discovery Center, 8004 N. Dallas Parkway in Frisco, and…
Typically, we’ll hear about a woman on an inner voyage to discover her identity in a new land and file it somewhere on the scale between tired feminism and an indulgent cliche. But the Valley House Gallery insists that it’s art–and inspiring, opportunistic art at that. Israeli-born artist Hadar Sobol’s…
Suburbia used to be an integral part of the great American dream. Is it still? Urban sprawl and other challenges often mean that the suburbs aren’t the picket fence utopias that their reputations once suggested. Disquiet: Unsettled Suburbia explores the reality of modern suburbia through photographs of suburban, middle class…
Perhaps the perception is different in person, but Pard Morrison’s work brings to mind a spin on the old “My kid could make that” criticism of modern art. In fact, his work looks remarkably similar to larger versions of things most people have made as kids–accidentally–with unsolved Rubik’s Cubes and…
Let’s forget for a moment about the potentially awful offensive line this season, the missed opportunities throughout the past few years, and the entire latter half of the 1990s. The Dallas Cowboys may not be the best team in the country, but to NFL fans everywhere, they’re the football paradigm;…
Lots of people believe that art is all about interpretation. For instance, a sculpture you think is stunning may look like an ugly hunk of clay to the next guy. But what happens when artists base their work on interpretation itself? That’s exactly the theme of Sustenance, an art exhibition…
In DFW, nothing says Fall quite like temperatures below 90 degrees, Cowboys football, and the great State Fair of Texas. I’d be willing to bet (basically for no other reason than state pride and instinct) that no other city or state’s attempt at a fair of any sort can even…
