It takes more than superhero outfits to make people superheroes. It’s what they do when they wear them. For the last two years, Dallas On-Air founder and On-Air Media founding partner Jantzen Ray and his girlfriend, Catherine Chensky, have turned their Christmas Day celebration into a chance to play Santa…
Those expecting camp or catfights won’t find them in Gillespie’s movie, which instead offers thoughtful and somewhat objective critiques …
After years of fire marshal crackdowns on Dallas arts spaces that effectively limited what artists could do inside their galleries and studios, Ash Studios clapped back by contesting its citation in court. The artists’ collaborative run by Fred Villanueva and Darryl Ratcliff was fined $700 in March for hosting a…
Fri 12/15My fellow anti-Christmas warriors, the drag queen holiday event isn’t the only battle plan we’ve drawn up for this week. Nearly Naked Nutcracker is a ballet-inspired burlesque performance sure to tempt otherwise upstanding Christian dads and their sexually repressed adult sons while stirring the unacknowledged same-sex lusts of the…
Any thinking person watching Downsizing is 10 steps ahead of Damon’s blinkered schlub, and watching him piece together the bare facts about how this future America works — and how our America works today — makes for a frustrating sit
In Latin American and especially Mexican culture, posadas (meaning “inn” in English) are an annual holiday celebration re-enacting Mary and Joseph’s journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, where they sought refuge to give birth to Jesus. Usually at homes or churches, posadas traditionally occur during the nine days leading up to…
Joe Bob Briggs, the B-movie buff who celebrated blood, breasts and beasts with his Dallas newspaper column, is planning a trip back to the town that made him the sage of the drive-in movie theater. The outlaw drive-in movie critic from Grapevine with a massive collection of bolo ties will…
The name Lee Trull, the director of new play development at Dallas Theater Center fired last week over allegations of sexual misconduct, wasn’t spoken at a meeting of local theater groups about sexual conduct within Dallas’ stage companies. But he was clearly on the audience’s mind. In fact, he unwittingly…
Thu 12/14It’s the night before Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the anticipation is brutal. Who is the titular Jedi? What words of wisdom will Luke impart? What misdeeds is the villainous dark side crew up to? You’ll get those answers and more in just a few hours. In the…
Texas native and Arlington ISD graduate Todrick Hall got his start in entertainment on American Idol, where he made the semifinals, and went on to become a successful YouTube star. His videos have gotten the attention of Beyonce and Taylor Swift. (He is one of Swift’s backup dancers in her…
Cinestate’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 premiered in an interesting setting for a gritty, grindhouse-style action flick starring Vince Vaughn. The arthouse moviegoing crowds of the Venice Film Festival became the first public audience to see director S. Craig Zahler’s prison action thriller. “We premiered it at the Venice Film Festival,…
Growing up in Fort Worth, Matthew Viragh had no idea he’d own a movie theater one day. But on a crisp November night in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he drank Brooklyn Brewery’s Sorachi Ace at a table in the restaurant of his Nitehawk Cinema. “I’m all in on the theatrical experience,” he…
Writer-director Rian Johnson has certainly made the busiest Star Wars film of them all, but he keeps it from becoming a slog by infusing it with humor, verve and visual charm
Crafts with the Clauses Women’s Building at Fair Park 1300 Robert B. Cullum Blvd. 9:30 a.m.-noon Tuesday Free The elves at the North Pole craft toys for good girls and boys, but what about Santa? Is he more of a safety scissors and crayons kind of guy? We’d guess that’s…
With each new day, it seems another sexual predator is brought to light. What started with several women accusing movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment has led to dozens of other famous or notable men being outed for sexual misconduct. Social media campaigns such as #metoo have raised awareness…
You have to take the good with the bad. Getting the ratios right is the tricky part. How did Dallas’ cultural scene fare in 2017? Hey, we just report. You decide. Institutions that received fantastic news early this year, like the Dallas Theater Center (which won a Tony award) and…
Morris’ film dramatizes Olson’s last days between interviews with Olson’s son Eric and journalists and lawyers who have taken the case as a cause
For some, bitcoins, snorkeling, drones and pub crawling are more than just hobbies. Call it passion, or whatever, but likeminded enthusiasts are banding together on Meetup.com to discuss and pursue what drives them. To do our part in the social universe, we’ve mined the extensive list of local meetups to…
Maybe it’s the green fur around his face, or maybe it’s playwright and lyricist Timothy Mason’s interpretation of the character as a sassy attention hog, but the Grinch cuts a Beetlejuice-like figure in the musical adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic Christmas tale, which runs through Sunday at the Winspear Opera…
Dallas Police and Major League Gaming tournament officials confirmed that a bomb threat prompted the evacuation of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on Friday evening. The Dallas Police Department released a statement confirming that emergency dispatchers received “a call about a bomb threat” just after 4 p.m. on Friday…
Online theater publication TheaterJones had been investigating sexual harassment allegations against local actor and director Lee Trull for more than a year when Dallas Theater Center made the move Monday to fire Trull, its director of new play development, for “inappropriate behavior.” Mark Lowry, who co-founded TheaterJones in 2009, was…
Fri 12/8Video games are a multibillion-dollar business, and it’s not just the games that make the money. People get paid absurd amounts of money to play and (more important) win them in top-dollar eSports tournaments. Major League Gaming will host a key leg of its Call of Duty World League…
