The fair is old. About 131 years old. My grandmother is almost as old. She turned 100-and-a-half last month. The fair is also steeped with tradition. Every year, people pile in and trade their hard-earned money for fair coupons, then trade in the fair coupons for fried food that makes…
Friday Reckon with Dallas’ spooky past this Halloween season during Dallas Trolley Tours’ Haunted History Tour, which rolls through some of Big D’s most dreaded, despairing sites beginning at 7 p.m. Fridays from through Oct. 27. Trolleys have plenty of tricks and treats up their sleeves as they wind their…
HBO’s Game of Thrones has one of the biggest fan followings in modern television. Almost every frame of every episode has been scrutinized and investigated by fans who have developed more wild theories about political motives and deadly plots than Alex Jones’ radio audience. But while Game of Thrones has…
Halloween time is the perfect time for scary movies, but what about scary plays? Horror film fanatics should not discount the immediate experience of seeing a live performance when they’re in the mood to jump in their seats. House Party Theatre is attempting to make you do just that with…
Writer/director Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is achingly normal, in a good way. Robinson has proven herself capable of melding her sincere and often endearingly campy sensibilities to any cinematic style — spy spoofs (D.E.B.S.), Disney family flicks (Herbie: Fully Loaded), comic-dramas (The L Word), sexy vampire…
Literary nonprofit WordSpace is set to open its 24th season this fall with poet, rapper, screenwriter and actor Saul Williams. He will headline the Dallas Poetry Slam at the Kessler Theater on Oct. 19. “It’s going to be a major event,” board president Charles Dee Mitchell says. “One thing we’re…
America may be crumbling, but here’s at least one truth that might be cheering: They’ve finally figured out biopics. Ever since Walk Hard kicked its ass, that hokiest, flabbiest, most hilariously reductive of movie genres has become, like horror, the rare one where the studios allow filmmakers to take risks,…
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) premieres on Netflix Oct. 13 Adam Sandler’s core as a performer has always been his self-loathing. In his best comedies, he weaponizes it with humiliating ruthlessness. (In his worst ones, it wafts pathetically off him like the day-after stink of a drunkard.) Now, he’s…
Thursday In relationships, each party changes its shape and its role with regard to the other as time progresses. Texas artist Greg Piazza addresses this adaptation in Subjective Juncture, which opens with a reception from 5:30-9 p.m. Thursday and runs through Dec. 31 at Gallery 7NINE, 830 Exposition Ave. The…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings declared yesterday Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Day during a groundbreaking ceremony for the rebirth of the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education and Tolerance. The new museum, scheduled to open in the summer of 2019, will be renamed the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum…
A Light in the City Museum of Biblical Art 7500 Park Lane 6-10 p.m. Thursday $49-$75 Art House Dallas has spent seven years connecting artists to faith, creativity and each other. The organization headed by Cary Pierce (of Jack-O-Pierce fame) emphasizes community networks that cultivate connections and imagination among musicians,…
To become a good comedian, you have to learn more than how to tell a good joke. You also have to learn how to take one. Forty-five-year-old comedian Ralphie May, who died of cardiac arrest Friday at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, probably heard every fat joke in the…
Let me set the record straight: Dolores Huerta created the rally cry “Si se puede,” otherwise known as “Yes we can.” If you’ve only ever seen the 2014 film Cesar Chavez — about the legendary farmworkers union president — or watched a Barack Obama campaign speech, you may have thought…
Last week, a giraffe was sent home from the petting zoo at the State Fair of Texas after several visitors documented its poor condition on Facebook. One woman, Stephanie Coon, posted a video Sunday, Oct. 1, showing the giraffe — which came from Hedrick’s Exotic Animal Farm in Nickerson, Kansas…
Jeanine Amapola is sitting in her Dallas bedroom putting on makeup and talking to the camera about her life — including dating, how she doesn’t feel good enough and her faith. That video will eventually garner more than 48,000 views and pay her bills. A lot of the videos on…
Booktoberfest — Beers for Books Legal Draft Beer Co. 500 E. Division St., Arlington 6-9 p.m. Thursday Free Literacy and alcohol have enjoyed a longstanding fellowship. Just ask Hunter Thompson or O. Henry or pretty much any writer, ever. The tradition continues with Legal Draft Brewery and nonprofit reading advocacy…
Our annual Best of Dallas issue is basically Spark Notes. We try out all the places in Dallas to eat, play, drink and shop, so you don’t have to, and can simply walk into your next date ready to impress. Now you really have no excuse for bombing. If the…
Spielberg premieres Oct. 7 on HBO. While the studios accuse critics and Rotten Tomatoes of killing the movie business, Steven Spielberg is happy to look right into the camera and say that Pauline Kael had his number. “She was right,” says the world’s most profitable director deep into Spielberg, Susan…
Some of the best films I saw at Fantastic Fest were nearly unclassifiable, ranging from allegorical religious retellings in the streets of Budapest to paeans of pride for a profession that possibly should have gone by the wayside. What they all have in common is a sympathy for the outsider…
Start with ABBA and throw in some Prince and the Muppets’ Swedish Chef, and you’ve got the recipe for the Drama Club’s new musical, Parables (for sleeping in daylight or dark). Its writers, Ian Ferguson and Michael Federico, are no strangers to musical theater. Ferguson, a musician, is a member…
FridayCharles “Baba Chuck” Davis, known for traveling and studying across Africa in order to bring traditional dance to America, was the founder of DanceAfrica at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Davis died earlier this year at the age of 80. In its 40th year, the BAM program honors the life…
In the season two premiere of The Real Housewives of Dallas, housewife Cary Deuber described new housewife Kameron Westcott as a “real-life Elle Woods.” And nothing in this world has been more accurate. If Reese Witherspoon’s character from Legally Blonde was among us in Dallas, she would be Westcott. I…
