In parts one and two of our fall fashion series, we covered this fall’s looks and necessities for the closet. What’s the point of spending all your cash on a new wardrobe, however, if it’s paired with dull, patchy skin and press-on nails from the ’80s? To help complete your…
By now, a good number of you regular theater goers probably checked out Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, which sped into theaters last weekend. One of the elements of the film that cannot be ignored is Ryan Gosling’s white quilted sateen racing jacket, emblazoned with a giant scorpion patch on the…
If the world does end soon, we can leave as happy campers. We came, saw and conquered. Well, we conquered Dallas at least, and we have the proof that we’ve experienced the best this city has to offer in our Best of Dallas 2011 issue, which hit newsstands today and…
Labor Day might mark the unofficial start of fall, but fall really begins this Friday. We’ve suffered through record-breaking heat and, maybe worse, Pete Delkus’ tweets about it, for months, but now with football season in full swing and the State Fair just around the corner we can officially get…
At the time of this writing, the Oakland Athletics sit at a distant third in the American League West, 18 games behind the Texas Rangers managed by Ron Washington, once the first-base coach under A’s wonderboy Billy Beane. The A’s have not had a winning season since making the playoffs…
In Brighton Rock, Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel, Sam Riley plays Pinkie, a baby-faced junior thug who takes advantage of his mentor’s murder to catapult himself to the top of their two-bit gang. An obstacle to his criminal dominance is Rose (Andrea Riseborough), a teenage waitress who…
Adapted from Muriel Barbery’s international best-seller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Mona Achache’s first film, The Hedgehog, follows two parallel storylines: one featuring a thoroughly insufferable little girl, the other a pleasingly grumpy middle-aged widow. Scrawny, bespectacled, precocious 11-year-old Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic), disgusted by the futility of her bourgeois…
Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging, testicle-punching brawl, and one whoppingly indifferent screenplay. After a collateral-damage close call awakens his conscience — the first of many perfunctorily recycled bits to come — hitman Danny Bryce (Jason…
Once upon a time, Peter Gatien ruled clubland in New York. With spots such as Limelight and Tunnel, the impresario who wore an eye patch figured out all the post-Studio 54 strategies for getting people to queue up in order to empty their pockets. Chances are you know this already,…
Starting the fall theater season seeing Shakespeare is like being served a big dose of cod liver oil as an aperitif. The stuff is hard to swallow, but you know it’s supposed to be good for you. You just hope that what comes after is more enjoyable. Dallas Theater Center,…
The Dallas Stars saddle up for the new season with hopes of ending their three-year absence from the playoffs. Dallas hosts the Colorado Avalanche for their second match-up of the pre-season. General Manager Joe Nieuwendyk looks to reboot his team, which, in recent seasons, has established potential, but has been…
In our younger years, we were more impressed by the songs and costumes than the choreography in the Broadway version of The Lion King, but now we have a whole new appreciation for the art of modern dance. The man behind the moves in that award-winning musical is Garth Fagan,…
Unless you’re standing at the helm of a spaceship right now, you already know the life of James T. Kirk is far from normal, but it gives us warm fuzzies to know that he’s got problems just like us. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Admiral Kirk, is…
Trees aren’t just good for climbing and providing oxygen anymore. The good folks at Earth Rhythms, North Texas’ lovable human-spirit celebrating (and Birkenstock-wearing) community, are meeting at the Bath House Cultural Center (521 East Lawther) for CommuniTREE, an epic four-hour celebration of all things tree. Amidst the shade-bearing live oaks…
If you’ve ever spent time in a city where the arts scene is really geographically concentrated, you can’t help but be a little jealous. It’s exhilarating to lose an entire day shuffling between giant public museums and tiny, edgy galleries, taking in everything from Renaissance-era paintings to Cubist sculpture to…
The modern definition of “keeping up with the Joneses” is competing with the neighbors to be the most environmentally friendly. Vegetable garden? Check. Compost pile? Yep. Solar panels on the roof? Double check. The City of Dallas is touting green living to the fair crowd at the Texas Discovery Gardens…
The idea that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is especially true at yard sales. But if anyone has the eye to discern gems from junk, it’s an artist. So the Gems & Junk sale 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (3120 McKinney Ave.) should…
We’re doing well if we don’t take our breakfast straight from the bottle. Coffee and a banana is as good as it gets most hectic mornings, and when we have time for more, we’re mostly limited to scrambled eggs and Bisquick pancakes. If you’re like us, you could use some…
Perhaps our love of a good know-it-all comes from P.G. Wodehouse’s most beloved character, Reginald Jeeves. The quintessential gentleman’s gentleman, the poor man had to put up with uber-daft rich boy Bertie Wooster for almost 60 years, and he did so with a smile – and his sharp wit. Bringing…
The nation’s oldest and largest video festival, VideoFest, is here. The following four days will showcase films from notable directors, such as Spike Jonez and the founders of the Webby Awards. The Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln., will serve as headquarters for the event, with…
Just how watered-down is the Cowboys-Redskins rivalry these days? It certainly doesn’t help that Washington has posted a winning record just twice in the last 11 seasons, with a whopping seven different head coaches roaming the sidelines during that span. And Dallas has dominated the match-up recently, winning four of…
With apologies to Joyce Kilmer: I think that I shall never bow/To writing a poem about a cow. While the world collapses in on itself due to the impossible existence of the previous sentence, we’ll take these last few moments to opine on poetic bovine. In the tradition of art…
