Ben Fountain wrote a novel. Here, you digest that for a moment. That Ben Fountain. O. Henry Award-winning, dual Pushcart Prize-snatching, Texas Institute of Letters award-swiping, McGinnis Richie Prize-fighting, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-conquering, Whiting Writers Award-seizing Ben Fountain. And, he’s reading from his yet-unreleased novel on Thursday night in Lakewood. “But,…
This Thursday through Saturday (April 5-7), the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform Max Steiner’s original orchestral score for Casablanca alongside the movie, as it plays with dialogue on the big screen. Richard Kaufman, DSO Pops Conductor Laureate and long-time principal pops conductor of Orange County’s Pacific Symphony, will conduct. Kaufman,…
Dick Butkus has played with the Chicago Bears; been in movies like Any Given Sunday and Necessary Roughness – he was even on an episode of Murder, She Wrote, but it wasn’t always a brauts and champagne lifestyle for Butkus, in 1986 he hit a professional rough patch that could…
Staff Meeting picks up where Pinkberry left off, with rabid exec Miles Fisher demanding results from his creative staff. This time, they’ll need something truly cutting-edge. How about transitioning into staff meeting videos? What’s that sound? Oh, right — somebody’s crushing it. Follow the Mixmaster on Twitter and Facebook…
With only one presentation of Nick Cave’s soundsuits scheduled in Dallas, Sunday’s performance in front of the Nasher Sculpture Center attracted families by the hundreds. People scampered up poles and balanced precariously on top of trash cans and in an effort to watch the procession and subsequent dance performance. Just…
The ladies around the tables in actress Lulu Ward’s converted garage in Garland were talking serious politics as they pieced together pretty scraps of fabric Sunday afternoon. Shiny bits of pink satin, bright fuchsia felt and black and white zebra print were being sewn into puffy three-dimensional shapes that look…
Saturday night’s Dragon Street openings were loaded deep with fresh talent both from artists and new-arrival galleries such as Red Arrow, which specializes in work by street artists Banksy and Futura and Los Angeles master printer Richard Duardo, among others. Circuit 12 Contemporary (which will be screening this season’s Art…
Andy said, “Don’t pay attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches.” If the same can be said for “eager discussion,” Blayre Stiller can measure hers for blocks. Admiration for Stiller’s charcoal on paper drawings at Cohn Drennan gushed ceaselessly on Saturday night, as gallery patrons…
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Eat a hefty early dinner before you hit up Saturday night’s Dragon Street art openings, because a whole mess of galleries want to ply you full of wine and point you towards their latest installments of glorious eye candy. Here’s a helpful guide — think CliffsNotes for booze and art…
On Monday night, April 2, WaterTower Theatre opens the first local production of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer- and Tony-winning masterpiece, August: Osage County. The sprawling drama has been compared with O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. Imagine O’Neill’s troubled Tyrone family turned into the wacked-out Westons of Oklahoma. The WaterTower show,…
Don’t worry — he doesn’t need all your energy, just wants to borrow a little on Saturday night. Miller is gearing up for another live painting performance, and as an adherent of the Reflectionist School, he relies on painting in-the-moment, interacting with an audience and amping up from the excitement…
It was just a little 18-gauge needle, but when you have steel butting coolly against your cheek and forehead, clear across the bridge of your nose and millimeters from the crook of your eye, it tends to evoke a moment of clarity. I was sitting on a studio chair with…
They’ll make you wear a nametag at Bryant Hall, set up like a hotel conference room for Second Thought Theatre’s mixed-media production of Dallas playwright Eric Steele’s The Midwest Trilogy. There’s free coffee in Styrofoam cups and cheap cookies, fuel for an 80-minute production that includes two short films and…
GCB An unexpected uptick in the ratings couldn’t have come at a better time — Sunday’s new episode was GCB’s sharpest and most enjoyable yet. I even remember some of the characters’ names! Not that I’m going to repeat any of them to you here, because that would make matters…
Grab your pigs’ hearts and go off your meds, because Real World’s casting department is coming to find local talent for Season 28. The round-up happens April 7, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Red Rock Bar and Grill (18110 Midway Road, #208, Dallas). They’re looking for specific traits…
Take a sit, dear — you work too hard, and I worry. Wouldn’t you feel more relaxed if you met a sexy Italian on a Vespa, went to a comedy festival or got inappropriately sloshed on complimentary wine during this weekend’s gallery openings? Of course you would. (*Pats hand*) You’re…
Dallas Theater Center and the Lexus Broadway Series at the Winspear have announced their 2012-’13 seasons. Big doin’s at two big venues for plays and musicals. Get ready for new takes on Peter Pan and Dracula, a puppet horse, some wrasslin’ and dancin’ and singin’. And Shakespeare. Always Shakespeare. DTC’s…
Lean, fast-moving and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans’ Indonesian martial arts film The Raid: Redemption lives up to its viral hype and the buzz it generated at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Rama (Iko Uwais) is a rookie…
In the first scene of Israel’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a fortysomething Talmudic scholar whose research has earned adulation while his sixtysomething father’s has mostly been ignored — accepts an honor with an obliviously glib speech built around a childhood anecdote about his…
All rise for Superior Donuts. Tracy Letts’ funny little play about lonely people has brought light and laughter (and the scent of coffee and tasty pastries) to Theatre Too, the 80-seat space below Theatre Three. They’ve created a fully functioning South Side Chicago doughnut shop down there, run by a…
Pop culture has a way of overdoing it when it comes to ridiculing various temporary touchstones that helped define a certain point in time (where’s your Girbaud jeans these days?). Even more to the point, comedians often fall prey to this gantlet of hipster-ness. For a while, they are laughed…
