ThursdayIf you happen to love It Happened One Night, the Frank Capra classic starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, you’ve probably learned to ignore all the patriarchal annoyances (father’s ownership of daughter, weird Stockholm syndrome overtones) and love it for its endearingly screwball plot lines and trope-setting scenes. It wasn’t...
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Chasing Coral premieres on Netflix on Friday, July 14. Jeff Orlowski grew up wanting to be a nature photographer. But like so many in that field, his work now focuses less on capturing Earth’s natural wonders than it does on cataloguing their steady demise. “This is an entire field of...
Daniel Rush Folmer has been all over the country, but somehow continues to find himself in Denton, Texas. In his latest record as Danny Diamonds — Fruitvale Fire, released March 2 on I Love Math Records — Folmer scrutinizes his accumulated experiences from years of touring. “I don’t write about...
On Tuesday afternoon Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings filed a notice of non-suit in his lawsuit against the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund. That means that the mayor, who'd sued the fund as a private citizen in order to stop to fund from making payments he believes could bankrupt the...
The ongoing efforts of Encore Park to preserve the historic Warner Brothers building are starting to show promise following a $2.1 million grant from the Moody Foundation, which was announced Wednesday. The Moody Foundation has been benefactor to a number of other high profile developments in the city of Dallas,...
Thursday Dallas Contemporary invites you on a journey — several journeys, in fact — into an alternative past, to Asia’s invisible cities and along a woman’s life path. Before you go, though, you have have to buy a ticket by becoming a member of the gallery. Prices range from $35...
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R&R Boxing Club offers none of the respite its initials suggest. On a smoldering Tuesday afternoon, a dozen journalists are melting into their clothes, mouths agape at the sight of former Olympian Errol Spence (21-0, 18 KOs) on an assault. The 27-year-old DeSoto boxer pummels through the mitt work of his...
On the surface, Pearl Earl and Siamese, two of North Texas’ most innovative rock bands, appear to sail different musical waters. The women of Pearl Earl traffic in psych-rock with heavy grooves and charging guitars that at times hearken back to late ’60s San Francisco. Siamese make noisey rock, too, but...
There was a mutiny of sorts at Tuesday night's DART board meeting. Five Dallas-appointed members voted against the expressed will of the Dallas City Council, despite being appointed by the council members. As a result, DART will attempt to build the D2 subway line through downtown Dallas and the suburb-connecting...
It’s noon on a Sunday, and the strip mall feels abandoned. Hidden away in a leafy residential corner of Plano, Prairie Creek Village is an unusual collection of businesses. There’s a closed, unfriendly looking office for the ride-hailing company Uber, an indoor bouncy castle venue and a series of closed...
Frida Kahlo PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., Suite 154 Ongoing through April 15 Paintings by the iconic Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo are on display at PDNB Gallery in an exhibition highlighting the playful and candid portraits of the artist taken by her close companion, Lucienne Bloch. Bloch and Kahlo...
Women don’t have to be gracious. They can be monsters. Mothers. And mothers of monsters. XX, the new collection of spooky shorts by four female filmmakers, drills down to the meat of these ideas. Fresh off of Sundance, it’s getting a local screening — charmingly — on Wednesday, March 8,...
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Detroit Swindle play It'll Do 10 p.m. Saturday, May 20 Since their formation as Detroit Swindle in 2011, Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets have had a meteoric rise in the world of house music. The Amsterdam-based duo have put out a steady stream of albums, and the entire history of...
Three things to say about the death of the Trinity toll road project, authorized by city voters in 1998, killed by the Dallas City Council three weeks ago — Thing 1, Thing 2 and the Big Thing. The first thing, you will find obvious, the second less so. The Big...
This week of testimony, the sixth in the United States' corruption trial of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant Dapheny Fain, was not a good one for federal prosecutors. As the government neared the end of its case, prosecutors provoked U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn by...
Allison Jardine’s father and grandfather were coal miners in northern England, and as a child she developed a special bond with the substance, which she admired for its roughness. Now she’s an artist working in Dallas, where she uses vine charcoal to create drawings inspired by the relationship between nature...
Hector Rodriguez says he finally heard his calling to become a superhero comic artist and publish a superhero story that he created in college when a student came to him in tears. His father, the student said, had been deported. "He’s crying and that kind of hit me,” Rodriguez says. “What...
Late last year, when chef Ross Demers left the relatively young Deep Ellum brasserie On the Lamb, the restaurant closed rather than bring in a new chef, and owners say they’re working on another concept for that location. In the meantime, Demers has found an interesting new project: Nikkei, an...
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Maren Morris With Devin Dawson House of Blues, Dallas Thursday, March 23, 2017 Gruene Hall, New Braunfels Saturday, March 25, 2017 Maren Morris had a pretty good homecoming last week in Texas. The Arlington-born singer, who won her first Grammy last month, made a brief run through the Lone Star...
Serial Mom is available in a new Blu-ray edition from Shout Factory. John Waters’ response to boxes — the kind in which we tend to place others and ourselves — is to vomit on them. And then sell them, his pencil-thin mustache twisting in a good-humored smirk. Throughout his career...
My fellow East Dallas superannuated hippies, progressives, bleeding hearts, people who really care, liberals, hair shirts, morally superior persons, bloody saints, whatever we call ourselves: Please listen up. We are being taken for a ride and played for fools in this June 10 District 2 Dallas school board election. All...
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