Fri 1/12If you enjoyed Denton Rock Lottery, you’ll love Damn Fine Music Fest. It’s similar, but with a theme: legendary ’90s crime drama Twin Peaks. More specifically, the five main characters. Five bands randomly composed of 23 of the best musicians throughout North Texas will put on a show of…
Actor Paul Taylor said his opportunity to take on the role of horror movie icon Pinhead in the 10th Hellraiser movie was “the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life.” Now he’s passed a milestone that probably tops it: seeing himself as Pinhead on screen for the…
There is a long history of symphony orchestras taking their music outside in the summers, performing in surprising places during a season in which we all seem to seek events that are more approachable and less formal than a night at the symphony. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, too, has a…
Dallas-Fort Worth is fertile ground for celebrity tattoo artists. Rudy Hertzer, owner of Dallas Tattoo & Art Co., is a former cast member of Oxygen Network’s Best Ink; Oliver Peck, owner of Elm St. Tattoo, is still a host on Ink Master; and the late Clint Cummings, who owned Sparrows, was…
Like many a Collet-Serra protagonist, Michael endures much punishment throughout The Commuter — some of it, as with one close-quarters battle involving a guitar, presented in spectacular extended-take fashion
The inspiration for a new children’s book geared toward Dallasites, Goodnight Lakewood, arrived at bedtime. “One night, we were reading books before bedtime with our older son, Mack, who was 3 at the time,” author and Lakewood resident Jaclyn Amend says. “One of his favorite books was a ‘goodnight’ book…
Dallas sneakerheads and hypebeasts all go to one place to cop the latest releases and classic sneakers: Oak Cliff’s Trap Boutique. During Christmas, the store sold 25 to 50 pair of shoes a day. One day, around 300 people stood in line outside the store for two days for a chance…
Thu 1/11 Rachmaninoff’s most enduring composition, Piano Concerto No. 2, almost never was. After the severely negative reception of his First Symphony, the composer slipped into a three-year bout of depression. He did not compose a single piece during this time. After a successful series of treatments by a recommended…
Phantom Thread unfolds so quietly that the questions it’s asking about the nature of desire and attraction, and its delicately confrontational back and forth between Alma and Reynolds, may not register immediately
Two-and-a-half percent of American men ages 15-44 who identify as straight have had same-sex relations. That’s according to a December study published in the journal Sociological Perspectives by Tony Silva and Rachel Bridges Whaley, which examined “the relationship between straight identification and nonsexual social factors among men who are attracted to…
Just across the highway from the University of North Texas’ Apogee Stadium, where UNT’s Mean Green do battle during the college football season, lies another battlefield where weekend warriors battle each other for supremacy and glory. The Battlefield in Denton on Interstate 35 West holds Nerf wars every Friday through Sunday in…
Back in December, the Rev. Donald Parish of True Lee Baptist Church of Dallas needed dads to serve as mentors for kids during a “Breakfast with Dads” event at Billy Earle Dade Middle School. He says before the event, he was worried they might not have enough dads for all…
Please, for the love of all things holy, reconsider any and all future gifts, because shoutouts from C- and D-list celebrities exist. Cameo, a website that is solely for buying videos of celebrities giving personalized shoutouts, offers a variety of talent. You can buy one from several social media stars:…
TuesdayYou can go skating at Panther Island in Fort Worth, spend a few seconds with that pumpkin/mirror sculpture at the Dallas Museum of Art or visit the fake dinosaurs at the Heard Natural Science Museum up in McKinney. To be perfectly honest, there’s just not that much happening on a…
Formerly neglected neighborhoods like Lower Greenville and Oak Cliff have undergone or are undergoing massive facelifts, but gentrification means affordable housing options are narrowing daily and many people are being price out of neighborhoods they’ve lived in for a long time. Dallas-based artist Giovanni Valderas is doing something about it…
In Paddington 2, the emigre bear (again voiced by Ben Whishaw) appears to be the glue holding the Browns’ diverse, colorful neighborhood together
If you were to write your own history of “everything,” what would you include? That’s the premise of A History of Everything, the new, original play from Cry Havoc Theater Company. Cry Havoc is an all-youth troupe. It made a splash last year with Shots Fired, a documentary-style play compiled…
Dallas gave birth to Joe Bob Briggs and his legendary drive-in movie column, but it also killed him. John Bloom, the real-life writer behind the movie critic persona, is going to overlook that small detail, however, and make an appearance in Dallas as Briggs later this month. It will be…
Fri 1/5The glitz and glamour of New Year’s might be over, but that doesn’t mean that you have to stop being fabulous. Society Fashion Week lands in Dallas just in time to extend your sartorial celebrations into 2018. This touring fashion extravaganza launches its DFW edition at 5 p.m. Friday…
For some people, art is just another way of making money. But for many others, it’s a passion, and that’s what a new group coming to Dallas this fall is hoping to celebrate. If all goes according to plan, New York-based nonprofit group Figment will host its first event in…
This surge of internal agony seems intended to pulse throughout the movie’s gruesome state-crossing trek, but Bale, in the part, is much less caricature-adjacent in the lighter beats …
Bradlee and Graham learn over the course of The Post to abandon the clubby congeniality that allowed politicians to lie to the press for so long without ever getting called on it
