True to their word, Joanna and Chip Gaines are leaving their hit home renovating show behind to focus on family. In a series of Twitter and Instagram posts yesterday, the couple revealed that Joanna is pregnant with their fifth child. The couple’s other children, Drake, Ella, Duke and Emmie Kay,…
Thu 1/4Director Tim Burton is probably better known among moviegoers for Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands, but his big screen adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish is one of his most breathtaking works. A dying father known for telling larger-than-life stories prompts his son to find out…
Thursday Director Tim Burton is probably better known among moviegoers for Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands, but his big screen adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish is one of his most breathtaking works. A dying father known for telling larger-than-life stories prompts his son to find out…
It’s the date heard round the world. On Dec. 23, 29-year-old Dallas court reporter Lindy Lou Layman became an international celebrity after her rendezvous with 49-year-old Houston trial attorney Anthony Buzbee ended with her being arrested for vandalizing art in Buzbee’s $14 million mansion. According to allegations in the lawsuit Buzbee…
As a child growing up in Garland, Arturo Torres was surrounded by conflict. His father was abusive, his neighborhood was populated with feuding gangs and eventually his family moved into the Genesis Women’s Shelter. But through all of the hardships, Torres’ love of art gave him a sense of inner…
Sure, it felt like 50 centuries, and we all look like Medusa, but we’re still (kinda) standing, so holy hell. I think that calls for some TV!
Many teens spend their free time at malls and movie theaters. But not Autumn Cragle. The 16-year-old aspiring teacher is the youngest female Cub Scout den leader in history. Her 10-year-old brother, who was begging to be a Webelos Scout, gave her the idea to start volunteering her time to…
When you think of animated movies, family features like Walt Disney’s groundbreaking classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarves or Pixar’s computerized Toy Story may come to mind. But lately, animation means more than a colorful movie that will keep your kid in a seat for 90 minutes. Brian and…
Fri 12/29Let’s see: It’s not in the Cotton Bowl anymore, but at the Cowboys’ stadium in Arlington; the Southwest Conference is long dead; the game is not a semifinal in the bowl championship series this year; and it’s not even played New Year’s Day. “Classic” must be one of those…
First, these are my favorite movies of the year, not a claim to rank the definitive best, so don’t write to tell me that your favorite should have made it
I won’t waste your time attempting to sum up the totality of this year’s output, because I can’t, and any critic who claims to have seen enough of the more than 500 scripted series that aired in 2017 to do so is lying
Some of them gave me hope for America, others invited me into foreign-to-me cultures and one even made me delightfully nauseous
The first few months of the year are notorious for being a period of drought at the movies, but the January–March 2018 release calendar offers a surprising deluge of highly anticipated films
Sad news came down Friday that Teddy Davey, singer, actor and owner of the Balcony Club, had died. He was 54. Davey’s widow, Lorena, posted an obit Sunday morning on her Facebook page and his: “Theodore Joseph Davey was born May 11, 1963, and was peacefully ushered from time into…
Thu 12/28 We all have friends who say they’re going to write a book someday. But former Observer staffer Paul Kix really meant it. Kix, who’s now deputy editor at ESPN The Magazine and has contributed to The New Yorker, recently published his first book through HarperCollins. The Saboteur is…
The Saboteur Reading The Wild Detectives 314 W. 8th St. 7:30 p.m. Thursday Free We all have friends who say they’re going to write a book someday. But former Observer staffer Paul Kix really meant it. Kix, who’s now deputy editor at ESPN The Magazine and has contributed to The…
It takes all kinds, and if we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that Dallas has them. The Observer published a lot of profiles in 2017, and in them you’ll meet everyone from mermaids to sheriffs to movie producers. Here are 10 of the most interesting people we talked to. The Cowboys…
Over the course of the film, we go from seeing the elder Getty as a figure of great power to one of no power at all, and that is perhaps the most fascinating part of the movie …
The reckless teenager is a common figure in comedic films, like Superbad and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but most of them depict rich kids. How else would teenagers get away with crimes like smuggling beer out of a private residence in detergent bottles or hacking into a school district’s computer system…
Fri 12/22If you want a traditional Christmas music experience, you can sing some carols with your family, Mom on piano and Dad on eggnog-spiking duty. Or go to church and try to stay awake during verse four of “Joy to the World.” But if orchestral prog-rock majesty with about a…
Guadagnino adeptly captures not just physicality of a burning love but also the emotional and intellectual components, and the film is all the more salient for that careful, realistic interpretation
The title character of S. Craig Zahler’s novel Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child is a child with deformities. His teeth are all sharp fangs. One of his legs is smaller, and the other is curved and can barely hold the weight of his body. His spine is serrated…
