Those with secrets to keep should avoid this performance. Those with a penchant for private thought should not enter. Liars will be exposed. And spoons, well, spoons and other metal objects should just stay home or suffer the consequences. At least, this is what can be surmised from a description…
Shop in the name of love 8/27 Garages are where useless crap goes to die. Board games with missing pieces. Mismatched coffee mugs. Children’s toys that have long since stopped working. So what, we wonder, spends its golden years in a “gayrage”? Old Cher cassettes? Glow sticks that don’t glow?…
Laughs and riffs in remembrance 8/30 Losing a loved one can be a difficult time, and how we choose to remember the deceased is an important part of the mourning process. When birthdays and anniversaries pass that remind us of those who have died, those days can feel especially painful…
Fastest paws around 8/27 The ancient Mayans were mad scientists. “Mad” primarily as in “mad skillz”– corn didn’t just happen, you know. But there may have been a little derangement in there, too. Why else would anyone contrive that unholy union of dog and bat that is the Chihuahua? The…
Chef’s Treasure Island 8/25 Mullets are of two minds. On the one hand, a mullet is a way of life, a state of mind, a mop of hair that is short on the top, front and sides of the head and long in the back, draping down to the middle…
Some art-house programmer would be wise to schedule a double bill of The Aristocrats, Paul Provenza’s talkumentary about the dirtiest joke ever told, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, writer-director Judd Apatow’s near-brilliant movie about a grown-up geek who simply lost interest in trying to get laid. Both offer countless giddy variations…
Red Eye may not seem to be your typical Wes Craven movie. It’s not really horror, there are no marketable monsters, and unlike Cursed, Scream 3 and other recent Craven offerings, it’s actually an enjoyable time at the movies. But heroine Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is very much in the…
Ain’t nothing in this world more tedious than highbrow erotica, which works itself into a lather and then wipes off the sweat before anyone notices how awfully and inappropriately worked-up it got. Asylum, adapted by Closer’s Patrick Marber and Chrysanthy Balis from the novel by Patrick McGrath, is just that…
William Betts: Sliver of Clarity The painter William Betts has reconceived the “hands-on” approach to painting, refining the process of this hoary medium down to a few principles: a couple of pecks at the computer keyboard, a click here and there of the mouse working in Photoshop and a flick…
Little Footsteps Rover Dramawerks stages Ted Tally’s 1986 play about a young Manhattan couple freaking out over impending parenthood. Rick Dalton plays Ben, a snotty TV exec so full of himself there’s no room for a baby in his heart or his apartment. Joslyn Justus is Joanie, the pregnant wife…
To survey Gordon Parks’ lifework in photographs is to move through a landscape of visual extremes. Make way for a collision of conflicting events, attitudes and worldviews. In keeping with such visual discord and crack-up, the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition Gordon Parks, Half Past Autumn: Selections from the Collection…
Among the some 30 films screening at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas this weekend, at both the Magnolia Theater and the Dallas Museum of Art, there are several that merit essential-viewing status: Takashi Miike’s nutty Gozu, which even David Lynch might find a tad confounding; Juh-hwan Jeong’s closing-night Save…
Thursday, August 18 Before they were famous, were they so irritating? Did people notice as much when they suffered a bad bout with bloat? Did they do their own laundry? Did they talk with one another about bad dates? Did anyone care how many girls named Jennifer either of them…
Cartoons have a broad, almost universal, appeal. While Saturday morning programming may be mostly aimed at youngsters (the only ones with the energy and self-esteem to be awake that time of day), teens and adults get their dose of animated mischief the rest of the week. Shows like The Simpsons,…
Cowboys, capuchins and a carnival 8/19 The rodeo–the terminus for country-western thrills–is coming to Denton, and the North Texas State Fair and Rodeo, running from August 19 through August 27, happens to be one of the good ones. It’s no secret that the rodeo is enjoying a return to the…
Festival is up, up and away 8/19 The best action sequence in the storied history of Walker, Texas Ranger was the hot air balloon chase that occurred at the beginning of Episode 102. Entitled “Sons of Thunder (Part One),” this jewel of the fifth season began with a robber balloon-jacking…
Plush’s new home, sweet home 8/20 What a bum deal. One minute evicted and the next forced out by the ominous big city of Dallas. But Plush wouldn’t be a highly acclaimed alternative gallery if it didn’t have a few exciting bumps and bruises here and there. Let’s just say…
From floozy to Miss Firecracker 8/19 There’s something about the title The Miss Firecracker Contest that makes people think about drag queens. OK, so it makes me think about drag queens. Though this play doesn’t have a single drag queen in it, the movie Flawless with Robert De Niro and…
Pity the daily newspaper critic who must review The Aristocrats without using such phrases as “a longshoreman’s arm up a little girl’s ass,” “then my wife goes down on my son while the dog’s licking his balls,” “my grandmother’s covered in my come,” and “is it shit before piss, or…
Once you get past its negligible plot, scant dialogue and almost zero action, Gus Van Sant’s elliptical rendering of the final hours in the troubled life of a grunge musician is rarely boring. That may seem like a backhanded compliment, but given the absence of such customary cinematic conventions as…
How do you make a dead baby float? Two scoops ice cream, two scoops dead baby. Old joke. Terrible joke. But there it is, coming out of the mouth of Ben Marcus, the expectant father at the center of Little Footsteps, now onstage at the Black Box Theatre at the…
Little Footsteps Rover Dramawerks stages Ted Tally’s 1986 play about a young Manhattan couple freaking out over impending parenthood. Rick Dalton plays Ben, a snotty TV exec so full of himself there’s no room for a baby in his heart or his apartment. Joslyn Justus is Joanie, the pregnant wife…
