Inside a room on the upper level of the Plano Sports Authority building, taekwondo practitioners of varying skill levels prepared to test for their next belts. They hopped in circles around the blue and red matted floors of the studio. One individual, however, was readying for more than a test. Corbin…
In this always-on-the-go world, it’s hard to take a moment to smell a rose, call your parents or find out where your parents live. Lately it feels like you’re working more hours and getting paid less, and the stress is reaching a breaking point. You’re probably reading this in a…
Like a Beatles tune asking where all the lonely people come from, a black-and-white photography exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art revisits the question. Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath, which runs through Sept. 16, features a collection of 150 works by the artist, mainly images…
Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Erica Wilkins wants to get paid. Wilkins is suing the Cowboys, according to the lawsuit, because she was not paid for all the hours she worked. This includes practices, training, rehearsals and filming for the CMT show Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. Wilkins also claims…
A group of longtime friends gathers around the dinner table at Ben Stegmair’s two-story house, which sits on cul-de-sac in Carrollton. With laptops and notes in front of them, they rehearse lines in preparation to take the stage for their upcoming inaugural production of Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Stegmair,…
Anyika McMillan-Herod will celebrate her 10th year cancer free by directing The Monarch, a play she wrote during her battle against Stage 3 breast cancer. “May 24 marked my 10th ‘Monarch Day’ — this is the name my husband gave to the anniversary of my remission,” she says. The Monarch…
The main character, this time named Frank (Nick Offerman), like (High) Fidelity‘s Rob, owns a record store and lectures women about music as if they don’t have opinions — or ears — of their own
Right from the opening scene, where Priest shakes down/humiliates a drug-dealing rapper and his crew, SuperFly establishes that no one can ever be as cunning and crafty as him
… Young soldiers Bartle (Ehrenreich) and Murphy (Tye Sheridan) face the unceremonious cruelties of deployment; through flashbacks and time shifts, we know that only Bartle returns and that he may be somehow responsible for Murphy being classified MIA
Summer vacation from school is one long party with you and all your friends jumping from adventure to adventure in the lake house you rented together. At least that’s how it works in the movies. In real life, you get a summer job that barely covers the gas to go…
Yes, that Steve Martin. Although best known to many as a comedian, Martin is a talented musician. Martin’s musical talent has won him Grammys, including one for best American roots album, Love Has Come For You, a collaboration with musician and songwriter Edie Brickell. The pair wrote a musical that…
Friday The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is once again teaming up with conductor Jeff Tyzik to bring epic cinema scores to life. Expect the grandiose and the moving as the orchestra explores the most enduring works of Korngold, John Williams, John Barry, Mancini and more. Classics such as Indiana Jones, Pink…
Several grown men have been playing the same game of tag for the last three decades, spending one month each year doing everything they can to avoid one another, while also doing everything they can to secretly find and touch one another
From the very first scene, Pose boasts a purposefully slick veneer of artificiality — it’s a little too art-directed, a romanticized version of poverty straight from the set of Rent
While the Texas Civil War Museum might not be the final resting place for Dallas’ Gen. Robert E. Lee statue, the museum’s director says the Southern-style structure may house a ghost. The museum contains a private Civil War memorabilia collection featuring Union and Confederate artifacts and more than 200 Victorian…
The visual most people have of a comic book is of a brightly colored superhero flying over the city, fist-fighting an equally brightly colored supervillain. A fan of the medium is already aware of the amount of personal, story-driven works present in modern comics, but a large part of the…
The DTalks podcast, based in North Texas, focuses on telling stories about being a father and growing up with (or without) a father. Co-hosts Joe Shaw and Galan Aldaco are fathers, and fellow co-host John Laird is not. The three of them share perspectives on fatherhood to give people a…
Jitin Higorani, founder and director of the DFW South Asian Film Festival, has been tracking the shifting demographics of visitors to his 4-year-old festival. This year’s event, expanded to four days, was the biggest to date, and Hiograni says nearly a quarter of visitors came from outside of Dallas’ South…
Playing board games may seem quaint in this modern age of high-definition first-person shooters and virtual-reality headsets that can make you feel like Spider-Man, but the industry is experiencing a lucrative renaissance and attracting a fearsome, fervent fanbase. “We look at hundreds of games, and it’s always more and more,”…
Now, a slick young billionaire (voiced by Bob Odenkirk) has a plan to make superheroes popular (and legal) again by televising their exploits, and chooses Elastigirl over Mr. Incredible as the face of this new campaign …
Like 2004’s The Raspberry Reich, a satire of what LaBruce has called “terrorist chic,” The Misandrists soaks audiences in the doings (and I do mean doings) of a radical cell of sexual dissenters
The 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament kicks off Thursday. In a span of one month, 32 international soccer teams will compete to determine a world champion. The United States won’t be one of them. The U.S. men’s national soccer team failed to qualify for the first time since 1986. The…
