The internet is populated with videos of all kinds of cute animals, but it’s no secret that the cat is king. The very first cat video, of a cat playing with a piece of a rope, was posted by one of YouTube’s founders to the site in 2005, and cat…
Most comedians were inspired to pursue comedy as a career because they enjoyed the feeling of being the funny person in their family or friend group. Comedian Shawn Wayans didn’t have that luxury; he grew up in one of the biggest comedy families in American comedy history. “It’s actually easy…
Café Society is surprisingly ambitious by the standards of late-period Woody Allen — a veritable epic taking in a broad swath of a young man’s life and charting his progress from wide-eyed innocent to cold, confident operator. But that’s also why the film, in some senses, could only have been…
Like the real 1980s, Stranger Things gets more unsettling as it goes. The opening episode of the Netflix show, created by the Duffer Brothers, gives us swear-y, scruffy kids playing D&D and then, beneath a lavish suburban starscape, encountering the unknown — which one of the boys promptly hides in…
Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams-ified Trek era. That is to say, it’s the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do. That’s not…
To understand what Absolutely Fabulous (first a TV show and now a movie) means to Brits, you’d have to go back to the TV premiere in 1992. Margaret Thatcher had their economy in a stranglehold until her departure as Prime Minister two years earlier, and when every sensible citizen was…
Does it matter that Freddy Krueger was a pedophilic middle-school janitor who died in a blazing fire when parents sought revenge? No. And unless you’re a horror-film obsessive, you probably don’t even know how he morphed into a pizza-faced Where’s Waldo with knife fingers — what matters is he lives…
If you live in the Lake Highlands area and are tired of having to call an Uber or hitchhike just to see a movie at the closest Alamo Drafthouse, you’re in luck. The movie theater chain that currently has two locations — in Richardson and downtown Dallas, with a third…
Remember camp? I do. I remember calling my parents from a pay phone to pick me up because it was hot and the food tasted bad. Stewart Wedge probably didn’t go to band camp in 1995, though. He obviously has different ideas about camp. The 32-year-old San Antonio native did…
Dallas still has a ways to go to be considered bike-friendly. But while it’s no New York, Chicago or Portland, there are definitely signs that the bike culture here is growing, and especially in Deep Ellum. Since the neighborhood connects downtown and the White Rock Lake area, plenty of bikers…
Everyone from Dallas City Council members to the mayor have gushed over Dallas’ arts community in recent years. It has seen a lot of growth, with the establishment of the Nasher Prize for sculpture, micro-grants being offered to up-and-coming artists by the Office of Cultural Affairs and the opening of…
Downtown Dallas was the site of a horrific shooting this month, but that hasn’t stopped people from readily flocking to the area for entertainment. The free, augmented reality app Pokemon Go allows users to catch animated monsters in their real environments. It has been as frequent a subject of conversation…
It was the mugshot seen ’round the world. A picture of a University of North Texas mug was trending on Facebook last week thanks to its awkward handle, shaped like a “C” and positioned to the left of the letters “UNT.” See you next Tuesday. Oh, did you think we…
Twenty-five years ago, Annie Leibovitz stunned America with her infamous portrait of Demi Moore — nude, bronzed, seven months pregnant — on the cover of Vanity Fair. The image of Moore’s proud, bare body, heavy with child and unmistakably erotic, meant that in some states the magazine had to be…
Angry online movie critics achieved a new level of mouth-frothing fervor over director Paul Feig’s all-female reboot of the classic 1984 horror comedy Ghostbusters that can only be matched by a riot at a British soccer stadium or a Donald Trump primary rally. Users of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit doomed…
Antwan Lee is low maintenance. In the morning he throws on jeans, a T-shirt and a baseball cap and walks out the door to his costuming business in the Design District, where he designs for color guard teams and ice skaters, with little more than a quick glance in the…
This week, we’ve stacked your weekly schedule with entertaining animals of all varieties: Theatrical beasts, literary lions, a Baby Cobra, and maybe some real, feathered friends. Check out the menagerie in our suggestions for your next five days: Shakespeare in the Bar presents Romeo and Juliet8 p.m. Monday, July 18…
Reciprocated Salvage at CentralTrak800 Exposition Ave. 12 p.m. Saturday This show is all about emotional expression. Melanie Bonajo’s work. is influenced by programming algorithms, mathematical formulas and physics. Emotional outbursts are salvaged from interfaces such as iPhone photostream and reciprocated in compilation. Vivian Fu examines how self-portraiture has moved from…
People in Dallas still recovering from a terror attack watch as a man places French flags into the frame of a water fountain resembling the Eiffel Tower. Many of the people congregating in the Bishop Arts District for the Bastille celebration in Oak Cliff seem to be unaware of the…
Do This! Experience a haunted house where you’re encouraged to fight back this Friday and Saturday when Zombie Apoc Army takes over Fort Worth’s Cutting Edge Haunted House (1701 E. Lancaster Ave.) For $39.99 you can use toy guns to defeat an army of the undead. Reserve tickets online at…
Ten months ago, the Dallas Museum of Art lost its director of four years when Maxwell L. Anderson resigned in order to accept a job as director of grant programs at New Cities Foundation in his hometown of New York City. In Anderson’s absence, president of the board Walter Elcock served as…
What does it take to be a dynamic fashion stylist at the age of 22? Obviously, a killer sense of style, knowledge of the top designers, and a knack for spotting trends. K.J. Moody, a fashion stylist for Wallflower Management and editor of Austere Magazine, got started in the business…
