The Oak Cliff Film Festival crew is sitting in the back of Wild Detectives, bantering over the recent uptick in interest for slow-core Soviet cinema. They just showed Tarkovsky’s Stalker, a challenging piece of stitched-up long shots, and each has theories on why the crowds were so large. One thing...
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Judging from Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crowford's state of downtown speech Friday afternoon, one would think downtown Dallas is an urban residential utopia. Ninety-four new restaurants will open in downtown over the course of 2016 and 7,000 new residential units are under construction. That thing that downtown residents always...
First Friday at the Dallas Farmers Market 920 S. Harwood St. 6 to 9 p.m. Friday Free Look no further for your Friday night plans. The Dallas Farmers Market has it all: local merchants, artisans, brews, bites and live music to boot. The first 50 people to stop by the...
Alice Lowe’s baby Della whacks two knives on the table as Lowe describes for me the nightmare she had before she knew she was pregnant: A horde of shadow selves in ninja gear were trying to kill her, and she had to battle Lowe after Lowe to survive. Lowe looks...
On Friday afternoon, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings withdrew his request for a temporary restraining order barring the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System from making certain payments. Rawlings made it quite clear, however, that he has no plans to end his lawsuit against the system's Deferred Retirement Option Program. When it was open...
Last Friday night, during Foreigner's hit-laden performance at the Verizon Theatre, 26 members of the Arlington Heights High School Treble Choir joined the band for a version of the soft rock staple, "I Want to Know What Love Is." Foreigner has done this song with local choirs for years, and...
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These are politically divisive times. Republicans thinks the Democrats’ former candidate is a Bond villain and Democrats thinks the new Republican president is a racist crybaby. We need the political equivalent of couple’s therapy, and that’s essentially what James Carville and Mary Matalin will offer when they visit the George W...
Thursday These days, it’s a cat’s world, and we just live in it. These tiny mousers were tasked to warn off rodents in order to earn their keep when they first entered our homes hundreds of years ago. Now, you’ll be hard pressed to get Mittens out of his bed...
Joel Ferrell is tackling what might seem like familiar territory at the Dallas Theater Center right now. The DTC artistic associate and actual son of a preacher is directing Lucas Hnath’s The Christians. But he says comparing his dad, a former Methodist pastor in Fort Worth, to Hnath’s world of...
Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe is a true-life tale transformed into an inspirational fable. That’s not novel for the movies, but in this director’s hands, the results are mostly enchanting. The film follows Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga), an impoverished Ugandan girl who became a chess champion at the age of...
Thursday The ongoing TexFest series, presented by the USA Film Festival and the Texas Association of Motion Media Professionals, gives audiences a glimpse of what’s possible for homegrown filmmakers. Why make the move to LA when there are plenty of movies written and filmed in the Lone Star State? Case...
Texas' tourism industry is placing itself on the front lines of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's effort to regulate where people use the restroom. Fearing a similar backlash to those which have happened in Indiana and North Carolina, convention and tourism wranglers from across the state Wednesday joined together at...
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Even Brutal Juice’s frontman has difficulty describing the band. But sitting out back at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton, Craig Welch tries anyway, calling it “an acid-fueled excuse to turn amps to 11 and play with feedback loops.” It’s a fairly close approximation. The band’s post-punk music was known to roar, thrash...
Singer-songwriter Paul Howeth is an unknown. He’s lived in obscurity for most of his adult life — he has no job, and before recently becoming homeless, was surviving off disability payments in a cramped apartment with his longtime companion Diane and their three pets. The musician, who’s probably in his...
Politicians and social media have opened up a new low in the art of political discourse. Late Thursday night and early Friday morning, Dallas Republican state Representative Jason Villalba took to Twitter — something he does often with inconsistent results — to say that he plans to push for an...
Four years ago a trio of musicians came together in the sleepy college town of Denton by happenstance, and decided they wanted to work together. The trio of singer Roy Robertson, bassist Pablo Burrell, and drummer Ramon Muzquiz didn't see a future in the usual trajectory of a local band...
The origin story of Denton darkwave duo Psychic Killers goes all the way back to childhood, when Leigh Violet and Nick Tidmore met and bonded over their similar tastes in music and art. After some years apart, they reunited to find that their tastes haven’t changed much. Violet became interested...
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When HUD Secretary Ben Carson came to town at the end of last week, all of the players in the Dallas affordable housing issue were on pins and needles. Nobody knows yet how real the Trump thing is in terms of changing housing programs. Carson’s agency, HUD, is the mother...
Every six months or so Dallas is shocked, shocked again to find that racial segregation is going on here, but every time we discover it again, Dallas always avoids saying who. Somebody did it. Segregation is an act. People with names have to do things for segregation to persist. It’s...
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday amplified the angst the Dallas Cowboys are feeling following Sunday's loss by refusing to put a timetable on the conclusion of the league's investigation into running back Ezekiel Elliott. Goodell's stance comes despite the fact that the law enforcement agencies investigating Elliott, one in Florida...
Almost all of the homeless camps the city has scraped away for the TV cameras over the past year are back up, rebuilt close to their original locations or maybe half a mile away. If the city’s tent-scraping program was intended to resolve homelessness, promote health and safety or reduce...