Unlike other sports, soccer has a unique power to bring people together, says FC Dallas owner and president Dan Hunt. “When you put different cultures together on a soccer field, they can communicate with each other even if they don’t speak the same language,” Hunt says. “It’s so inclusive.” Some,…
Indie filmmaker Israel Marquez’s first foray into film was a short, silent flick. Now, the 45-year-old Grand Prairie resident has a feature-length film documenting part of the Texas music scene. Paz, Amor y Música The Alex Ruiz Story runs 90 minutes and was shot completely on a cellphone, Marquez says. It’s…
For those who love art but never get invited to a gallery opening, a trip to the local liquor store will now give you a taste of original works of art. Fort Worth-based distillery BlackEyed Distilling Co. is releasing its second limited-edition bottle featuring artwork from Fort Worth painter and…
Sue Sylvester would be horrified at Jane Lynch’s fight for the arts in schools and communities. Or so we think. Lynch, who played Sylvester, the musical-hating cheerleading coach in the hit show Glee, is hosting Dallas Summer Musical’s Best of Broadway Gala. Lynch is joined by none other than Matthew Morrison, who…
Director Joseph Kahn (who cowrote the script with actual battle rapper Alex “Kid Twist” Larsen), a man who directed many a hip-hop video in his time, knows exactly what cliches and tropes need to be mocked
The couple has begun to discover that raw truth that, around 1960, American novelists and filmmakers were only starting to face in their art: that the post-war dream of a little house and a little family just might not be enough to ensure happiness
Friday Long before “meta” became an overused catchphrase, there was Mystery Science Theater 3000, a movie wrapped in a comedy show wrapped into a “science experiment” that left creator Joel Hodgson trapped in orbit with his robot pals, where they were forced to watch bad movies and make hilarious comments…
In roughly six months, moving trucks will be loaded with the tables, costumes and autographed pictures that made up Dallas Comedy House as it moves away from its second location in Deep Ellum. The trucks won’t be driving far however, as they need to go only one street over, to…
Adapted from a British series of the same name by Girls dream team Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, Camping seems destined to spark yet another debate about patently “unlikable” female protagonists
There are some evergreen horror concepts, where the bare bones of the story are strong enough that they can be adapted and made over in multiple generations to express whatever fears and frustrations of the times in which they’re made
It’s one of those biopics where everything significant that happened to a famous person happens all at once, in the couple of seconds of any given year that we see dramatized
Ludwig van Beethoven’s music has a reputation as the Mount Everest of the classical repertoire — lofty, heroic, unknowable. Musicians lob the word “great” around so much when talking about Beethoven that even his name can be intimidating. But there’s a mellower, wittier, less ambitious side of the iconic composer,…
In 2009, Lauren Chism was an accountant who decided to design her own wedding invitations. “I still to this day don’t know why I thought I could do this, but it changed the course of my life,” the Lake Highland resident says. Now an award-winning card designer, Chism does what…
Wednesday If you still don’t have plans for Halloween, but you have a really awesome costume hanging in your closet — maybe it’s a hot dog costume or you have some Harry Potter glasses or your sexy French maid costume never got bedroom use — then just stop worrying. Head…
Acting and filmmaking run in Julian Hilliard’s family. His mother, Arianne Martin, is an accomplished actress with credits on television and film. His father, Justin Hilliard, has produced and directed a number of films and documentaries. Julian not only shows an interest in the family business, but he has his own…
You’ve probably never noticed that the original 1931 Frankenstein film starring horror icon Boris Karloff as Mary Shelley’s infamous shambling corpse has no music or score because so many people were gasping and screaming the first time you saw it. Composer Michael Shapiro said the lack of a soundtrack was done…
Like many others in Dallas and across the nation, Allison Russell found herself glued to the news on the evening of July 7, 2016. Shots were fired during a protest in downtown Dallas, and her husband Dan Russell was among hundreds of cops on the scene where four Dallas Police…
Thanks to a new app the Perot Museum of Nature and Science launched globally this week, armchair explorers can virtually discover ancient bones deep inside a South African cave. The museum went live Tuesday on Facebook to announce the global reach of its virtual reality app created by Groove Jones,…
We live in an age that’s ripe for biting satire fueled by a sea of bottomless negativity. It seems like it would be hard not to just spend an hour on stage yelling into the mic about how much things suck. Comedian Tom Papa makes the art of positivity look…
While children in neighborhoods everywhere might consider their bags of candy a treasure this Halloween, Lyft drivers are coming up the big winners. Last year during Halloween weekend, Lyft drivers made over $10 million in tips. The heftiest tip in the DFW area clocked in at $60, which was clearly…
The first time you have sex will most likely be a memorable one. The anticipation, the awkwardness, the fear, the excitement — all of these emotions make even the slightest details of the night crystallize in your brain. My First Time, a comedy being performed at Theatre Too one night…
Friday Most stand-up comedians who find a career in movies and television just put their stage life behind them. I’m looking right at you, Tim Allen. Comedian Kevin Hart is one of the most recognizable comedy stars on the big screen right now, but he hasn’t turned his back to…
