Sunlight shines through stained glass windows as a diverse group of artists trickles into the dusty sanctuary of the former Winnetka Congregational Church building on a Saturday morning. Teaching artist and actress Anastasia Munoz greets each person as he or she arrives. “I’m so delighted you’re in my home today!” she says, shortly...
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As cinematic year 2015 reaches its end, the FOMO specter threatens to haunt us all. If you pored over the results of our film poll and felt aghast at how many apparently great movies you’ve yet to see, here at last is a chance to catch up without braving traffic. About...
The first thing multimedia artist K. Yoland brings up over coffee in her second floor apartment in the M Streets is the Ku Klux Klan. For the British-born artist, who now divides time between Dallas and Marfa, the strong historical presence of the white-hooded terrorist group in Texas was quite...
Matthew Medlock, owner of Legacy Music Group, began shocked but is now exhausted. But he is, ultimately, unfazed. Wednesday morning, just before 6:00 A.M., one of his clients, a producer, was shot at his recording studio in Deep Ellum. Medlock has no idea who the shooter was or what his...
2016 has been a year of blockbuster shows in Dallas. More than any time in recent memory, the past six months have seen North Texas arenas host a seemingly endless series of bucket list shows — artists like AC/DC, the Cure and Duran Duran among them. But the great music...
Incoming Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphee posted on Facebook that he’d beat the hell out of a transgender man if he tried to piss in a bathroom where Murphree’s daughter was peeing. “This whole bathroom thing is craziness I have never seen,” Murphree wrote in an April 22 Facebook post...
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J. Kenji López-Alt’s blog, The Food Lab, has been a cult favorite for years among the small community of food lovers who are also science geeks. His long-awaited first cookbook, also The Food Lab, is a 958-page, 6.2-pound monument to culinary nerdery. And it could change the way you cook...
Comics are a cynical breed. Their goal is to make an audience laugh and one common way to do that is by pointing out holes in our beliefs and behavior. Ryan Singer uses a different technique to get guffaws from the crowd. He thinks a sense of humor is necessary to...
Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump’s microbudget black-and-white English Civil War mushroom-trip movie A Field in England (2013) squeezed a tense and bizarre story from just a few dudes wandering around in a field. The married couple and filmmaking team — Wheatley as director and Jump as writer — previously made...
Eight figures wearing hooded terra cotta-colored robes could be made out through a thick fog on the stage as patrons trickled into a nearly sold-out Winspear Opera House Tuesday night for the kick-off event to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's second Soluna Festival. They were clearly the dancers who would be...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is happy that U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater refused to force the city of Dallas to schedule Exxxotica's 2016 sex expo at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. We know because he said so. "I am pleased with U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater’s ruling that...
Last night, a heartbreaking fire ripped through the Humane Society of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, killing 67 dogs and sparing only 11. The puppy room was the hardest hit by the fire. Outspoken dog advocate Jay Jerrier, the owner of Cane Rosso and Zoli's, announced that on Monday, March 21...
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What do good comedy and good cuisine have in common? They each take a familiar framework and start to break things, drawing new connections as they go. But the key, of course, is that things have to be broken carefully. Too heavy a hand threatens the audience’s sensibilities; too light...
Bucks Burnett isn't a journalist. He's a namedropper. He may not have met every one of his music idols, but he's met 90 percent of them. And he's here to tell you all about it, however he sees fit. I love it when people say I have good stories about...
Sturgill Simpson The Bomb Factory, Dallas Saturday, May 7, 2016 It’s been a long road for Sturgill Simpson. A year and a half ago, in November 2014, Simpson packed Club Dada to capacity twice on the same cold, rainy night. At the time, he had come virtually out of nowhere...
Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t...
It's noon on a Sunday and all seems well at Top Knot. A man sits at one of the marble tables on the patio; his date appears to be a newspaper, a bowl of fresh fruit and a cocktail. Girlfriends catch up over glasses of freshly squeezed juice and plates...
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get...
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There’s a scene during the first half of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse that is so emotionally resonant, so well-put-together and so quiet that you might briefly forget you’re watching a superhero film. It involves a raid by some Polish officers in the remote forest where Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto (Michael...
A movie like Hello Gangster shouldn't have turned out well. If you ask director Richard Krause, who co-wrote and helmed the local indie comedy, he seems a little incredulous that he and his team were actually able to finish it. "It's kind of an impossible film that shouldn't exist, but...
Do This! Houston resident Justin Cronin is the author of the mega-succesful trilogy The Passage. Stephen King is a fan, and you will be too once you read the story about a post-apocalyptic world where humans are forced to battle other vampire-like superhumans. The final installment, City of Mirrors, came...
Debora Hunter is standing in front of the windows of Neiman Marcus peering in. It's an overcast Wednesday morning just days before the Dallas Art Fair where Hunter, a longtime Dallas-based photographer, is the 2016 honoree. With that title comes an opportunity to give a talk at a pre-party for...