You a big fan of the cinematic sweet spot that existed between 1985 and 1995? Like, say, B-grade, man-in-fishmonster-suit horror? How ’bout tiny buzz-saw robot slashers? Pesticide-tripping exterminators uncovering secret insect intrigue? Yeah? Well, your Jesus was at Texas Theatre Saturday — looking rangy and awesome, wearing smoky, round, actor-emeritus…
With its second festival of new plays starting Thursday, Nouveau 47 can now call it an “annual” event. The theater company in Margo Jones’ old space at the Magnolia Lounge, Fair Park, regards their outfit as a “gym for playwrights,” with special focus on developing and polishing scripts for production…
Our pet profiles series celebrates those supportive (and adorable) friends who round out the homes of notable members of the Dallas community. Names: Nine (he’s the ninth family pet) is a two-(and a half)-year-old male Bullmastiff and Punch is a five-year-old male Chiweenie. Nine came from a farm and Punch…
Name: Alexana Segura Location: Mockingbird Station Style influences: Japanese culture and pastel goths. Style breakdown: “Leggings from Yesstyle.com, Urban Outfitters sandals and bra, Forever 21 tank top, the necklace was a gift and I’m wearing my boyfriend’s beanie.”…
GCB The latest episode ends with Kristin Chenoweth strung up and flying around a sanctuary in an angel costume. Not that the show needs a reason for such ridiculousness — its believability factor was happily thrown out the window before the pilot even aired. But having most of the latest…
It’s adrenaline at first. And then the serotonin.The feeling of flight and shallow breath. Dry throat, spinning room. It’s frantic, it’s chemicals. Then the euphoria, ohgod the euphoria. The snap-solid moment when everything stops and all that exists is you. A Shakespearean staple, la petite mort is the Renaissance concept…
The trifecta of female role models just came through Dallas and Fort Worth, so we drew straws, traded the straws, traded them a few more times, wished we had time machines, and then set out in separate directions to spend the evening with some highly influential women. Here’s what happened…
ATTPAC is packing the spring and summer show skedge with enormo productions and gigundo names. Love the guys on Modern Family? Got ’em. Craving some Gipsy Kings? Coming. Jersey Boys? Oh, baby (in four-part harmony). Broadway tours, pop and jazz concerts and a bunch of TV stars talking and singing…
If you’re still hanging on to that DIFF laminate after a week of intensive film screenings, we are so proud of you. Also, maybe take a shower and call a family member, because you probably smell like buttery popcorn substitute and those closest to you are concerned about your absence…
Earlier this week I said Brooklyn Castle was probably the best film of the festival — well, I may have to amend that statement. While still topping the documentary charts, another horse has pulled ahead in the over-all category: the Korean blockbuster My Way. Selected as one of the festival’s…
The incident at the heart of the fact-based Erik Ehn play Diamond Dick: The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 is as trivial as, say, a teenager walking home from a corner store with some Skittles in his hand. The Project X production of this skillfully staged one-act continues through this…
Watch Trailer: Season 6, Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. See more from ART:21.Get excited, nerds! Two local galleries are showing this season’s selections from the Peabody award-winning series ART: 21, and they’re doing them in group settings. The popular PBS program picks three to four artists or collectives…
Hoodie? Check. Popcorn? Check. Complete list of films to see today at DIFF, seasoned with links to background information and brief descriptions of content? Double check! We’ve got our DIFF picks for Thursday, so prepare your cinematic socks to be rocked…
Y-chromosomes, y’all better duck and cover! Tonight’s estrogen wave crashes into D/FW as Carol Burnett, Amy Sedaris and Judy Blume post up around town. (Froyo stands across the metroplex will be abandoned.) And that’s only the beginning! This weekend is jammed up with fun: There’s an Evil Dead, The Musical…
Sitcoms and dramas often draw from the odd-couple cliché. Whether its the standard slob and neat-freak paring or the oversexed moron and the undersexed joker, the varieties are as endless as they are stale. But Geoffrey Nauffts’ play Next Fall takes this device and amps it up, making for a…
The titular instrument in The Magic Flute has the ability to change men’s hearts. If I had that thing I’d be chilling on a bonbon throne, snacking my way through a Die Hard marathon while dudes paid my bills and Swiffered my floors. The characters in Mozart’s classic opera are…
The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from the visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no way reassures that love conquers all. Plumbing disquieting depth, Deep Blue Sea investigates the insoluble dilemma of romantic love: the expectation, contrary to…
Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It’s true both in respect to the singularity of his deadpan dialogic style, as well as to his hermetic milieu. With Damsels in Distress, Stillman’s follow-up to 1998’s The Last Days of…
I spotted a bottle of something called Marley’s Mellow Mood, “a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages,” in my neighborhood deli just a few hours after seeing Kevin Macdonald’s documentary on the reggae and Rasta emissary — a reminder of just how crassly the Jamaican star, who died…
There’s only one mystery in Theatre Three’s latest, The Art of Murder, and that is how it ever made it onto a professional stage. Sans suspense but with beaucoup bits of flat, witless writing, the two-act play is the work of Joe DiPietro, perpetrator of the dreckola musical I Love…
It was in that transition to chapter books that we first discovered her: Judy Blume had all the answers. Getting picked on at school? Pick up Blubber. Feeling exceptionally overshadowed by your sibling and uprooted by your parent’s shift in careers? Snag Superfudge. And yeah. That other thing that started…
As Jerri Blank, the facially contorted “boozer, user, and loser” from Strangers With Candy, Amy Sedaris taught us about many important things. Turtles shouldn’t eat “hot fruit” for one, and that if left untreated long enough, STDs can live in sedimentary layers and wreak havoc on your popular boyfriend. Luckily…
