Poet Laureate Billy Collins Is Coming to Dallas. Here Are Five Reasons You Should Care.
The Thursday night Friends of the Dallas Public Library event is sold out, but we’ve compiled a list of a few reasons you should care about his visit to Dallas.
Arts & Culture
Showing 9769 - 9790 of 28347Your Garden Gnome Sucks — The Yard Art of Little Forest Hills
“Keep Little Forest Hills Funky” is more than just a stoner’s chant. It’s actually an underground battlecry. It’s the Little Forest Hills residents way of saying, “Keep your barfbag McMasions off our property.” They mean it too. The neighborhood east of White Rock Lake is a quirky hodgepodge. Some streets…
Best #Dallas Instagrams from the Weekend — These Dogs Are Embarrassed Now
There’s always something going on in Dallas, so we thought it’d be fun to live vicariously through your adventures. Each week look for our #Dallas Instagram recap of people, places, events, food, and more. This recent #Dallas photoroll turned up some furry Dallas Cowboys fans, a beautiful White Rock Lake…
For 2014, Dallas Comic-Con Moves to Downtown Dallas
H/T Frontburner Get excited nerds of planet Earth. Or Endor, Hoth the Twelve Colonies — wherever your allegiances align. Dallas Comic-Con has announced that for its May, 2014 edition, the convention will move closer, setting up camp at the Dallas Convention Center. That means you’ll no longer have to pack…
Acceleration at Dallas Contemporary’s Alive for 35 Spans Generations
Life is relatively spacious out west of downtown these days, since the Dallas Contemporary moved to what is in gallery terms a gargantuan exhibition space from its cozier (though still not bad) location in East Dallas. The exhibition Acceleration was part of the Contemporary’s 35th anniversary celebration. Taking a cue…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fought Crime, Ate Pizza in Deep Ellum Last Night (Photos)
Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shuffled awkwardly through Deep Ellum last night. They posed for photos in front of the neighborhood’s iconic murals, searched out crime along its back alleys and pulled out their signature fighting moves inside Serious Pizza. Everywhere they ventured, pedestrians cheered. The turtle suits were all…
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10 Films to See This Weekend at the Lone Star Film Festival
We’ve reached cinematic saturation. With the digital universe prepped for instant download, you can see anything you like, anytime you want. Anyone who’s ever grocery shopped while hungry knows where that gets you. The problem with unlimited access isn’t the gluttony spurred, it’s the inevitable complacency. When faced with too…
Matthew McConaughey’s Five Best Texas Roles (Besides Dallas Buyers Club, Of Course)
Longview’s most famous leading man may have made a name for himself as Southern gentleman eye candy for the chick flick crowd, but he’s not just a piece of meat, damn it. Thanks to a Texas drawl that’s so thick that you could pour it on a stack of flapjacks,…
16 Awesome Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend, November 7 to 10
Texas Theatre drops the needle on Muscle Shoals, beginning Friday. In Fort Worth the Lone Star Film Festival curates a strong collection, blending new and old cinema into a four-day experience. Tonight in Dallas, the USA Film Festival brings a special screening of Bottle Rocket — both the original short…
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Larry Fessenden on Birth of the Living Dead: Zombie Movie as History Lesson
Birth of the Living Dead.The zombification of America got its start in 1968, when George A. Romero and a bunch of his friends and colleagues released Night of the Living Dead, the scrappy little horror movie that could not only serve as patient zero in the ongoing pop-cultural zombie apocalypse,…
A Few Questions for Dennis Richard about Oswald: The Actual Interrogation
Playwright Dennis Richard leaves it up to the audience to argue conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination. His play, Oswald: The Actual Interrogation, onstage in its regional premiere at Casa Manana Fort Worth November 9-17, just sticks to the facts. Or as many as Richard could find about the hours…
Overnight at the DMA, I Chill with Tlaloc the Rain God, Who Kindly Doesn’t Eat Me
On the first Saturday after Halloween, I woke up next to a case of bear masks and made sure nothing looked like it had moved while I slept. I survived a night at the Dallas Museum of Art. Last Friday the DMA hosted Overnight at the DMA, the newest addition…
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At Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage, Death Tax Makes Dark Comedy of Dying Alone
Maxine is a well-to-do old widow living out her last days in a nice nursing home. Or is she dying a little sooner than she should be? She thinks so. Maxine believes her demise is being hastened by her inheritance-hungry daughter, who’s in cahoots with the Haitian nurse, Tina. Deadline…
Thor Returns, Diminished
Among the Avengers, Thor should reign supreme. Sure, Captain America is the de facto leader, but even he — like the others — is just a jacked-up human. Thor is a god. Or if not quite a god, as he demurs, he’s the next best thing: a flying Titan with…
About Time Dishes the (Same Old) Lessons of the Ages
Richard Curtis has so much to tell us about life. Seize the day! Show people you love them before it’s too late! Don’t let the right one get away! His movies — those he writes, directs or both — are so packed with info-feeling that they become restless jumbles of…
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Another Fine Great
Besides its cast, a parade of Brit aces the likes of which we haven’t seen since the last episode of Wizard Boy Has a Sad, the quality that most distinguishes Mike Newell’s adaptation of the best-titled of all English novels is its healthy fullness. In the decades since David Lean’s…
Yukking in the 70s: Dean Martin Roasted Celebrities as He Got Fried
While guest-hosting a TV variety show in 1964, Dean Martin ridiculed a hot new rock ’n’ roll act with his trademark blend of cocksure innuendo, aw-shucks buffoonery, and inebriated syntax: “Now, something for the youngsters — five singing boys from England. . . . They’re called the Rollin’ Stones. I…
The Initial Spark, Rekindled
Before Wes Anderson became a dollhousehold name, wallpapering his films with signature diorama decor, he sparked his directorial career with the short film-turned-feature, Bottle Rocket. It was created here, drafted over many Cosmic Cup meetings, a favorite collaboration spot for Anderson and the Wilson brothers. Cosmic was owned by Kumar…
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Is Nut Country Like Bat Country?
You may not have heard by now, but we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. “Celebration” may not be the right word, but with all the archive newspaper reprints and the tasteless sexy JFK corpse Halloween costumes, there are a lot of mixed-messages about how America and Dallas…
Tiny Shrines To Big Teamwork
There have been a lot of great pairings in history. Batman and Robin were rad. Kirk and Spock kept each other balanced. It seems fitting that local designer/artist Sleepy Dan and vinyl toy team Monster Bot would finally mind-meld, as they do tonight at ATAMA (5307 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite…
ThirtySomething
Dallas Contemporary is turning 35 and to celebrate, they’re hosting Alive for 35, a two-day nonstop event that crams approximately 35 million things into less than 48 hours (1 p.m. Friday to midnight Saturday). Go ahead and block that calendar, girrrl. Then chug a sixer of Red Bull because it’s…
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Fort Worth On Ice
“I saw David Sedaris and it was just OK” is a thing you will never hear about one of the most popular comedic authors in America. You can see just why at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce St. in Fort Worth. Sedaris’ writing has taken a…