James Franco’s The Disaster Artist Insists Upon the Deep Americanness of Tommy Wiseau
Franco portrays Wiseau as a haughty but charismatic weirdo, someone who isn’t well-liked but who definitely gets noticed
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Georgia’s My Happy Family, a Great Film About a Woman’s Liberation, Skipped Theaters for Netflix
And one of the great delights of this film is the way it charts the shifting waves of allegiances that can occur in a family that loves and argues with equal ferocity
What You Should Know About the Dallas Marathon This Weekend, Even If You’re Not Running
Thousands of runners will take to the streets of Dallas on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 9-10, to test their wills and bodies in the 2017 BMW Dallas Marathon. Although many of the runners participating in the races are Dallasites, the event draws runners from across the world. Events include a…
Kickstarter Campaign May Enable Stomping Ground to Open a Theater
When the Stomping Ground Comedy Theatre hosted its first official show in October, it did so without a theater it could call its own. A new fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter could change that. Last week, nonprofit theater company Stomping Ground launched its first campaign to raise $30,000 to lease space in…
Jerry Jones Wants in on This Whole eSports Thing, Buys compLexity Gaming
If you’re an old-school football fan who’s never touched a joystick, you probably look at professional gaming with a confused, scrunched-up face. But there’s at least one football fan in Dallas who’s in the know, and he owns the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones and John Goff, the founder of Goff…
Cheap and Free Events in Dallas This Week
Like Water for Chocolate with Chef Pop-up Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 7 p.m. Wednesday $10 Like Water for Chocolate is one of the more intense, ardent films ever conceived, in no small part because its source material employed food as a symbol for all of life’s passions. It’s…
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Nordstrom at NorthPark Is Offering 24-Hour Curbside Pickup the Week of Christmas
If you thought Nordstrom’s customer service couldn’t get any better, think again. From Dec. 16 until the store closes Christmas Eve, Nordstrom at NorthPark Center will offer 24/7 curbside pickup. Curbside pickup is already offered during regular Nordstrom business hours. If you buy something online with the option to pick…
Kinky Friedman Talks New Biography and the Recipe for a Long Life: ‘Be More of an Asshole’
First, he was a child prodigy who talked at 7 months. Later, he did enough cocaine to kill a baby rhinoceros. In a new authorized biography titled Everything’s Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman, author Mary Lou Sullivan digs into the Texas Jewboy. And it turns…
Brad Leland of Friday Night Lights Uses a Football Analogy to Explain His Decision to Play Scrooge
It’s been a while since film and TV actor Brad Leland has performed on a stage, but he decided to take a chance and return to it when Dallas Theater Center director Lee Trull asked him to play Ebenezer Scrooge in his latest production of A Christmas Carol. “He said,…
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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend
Fri 12/1CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are close friends who first met onstage at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York. They had such great chemistry onstage that they decided to turn their witty banter and exchanges into a conversation tour filled with funny tales about their…
7 Dallas Artists to Watch in 2018
Hobbes VincentThe word on the street is that sculptor Hobbes Vincent tells one hell of a tall tale. “You never know whether you’re getting an accurate portrait of reality or one that’s been manipulated,” gallery owner Jen Mauldin says. Translated: He’s a bit of a bullshitter. That’s good news for…
Staged Reading of The Yellow Boat Is a Worthwhile Way to Spend World AIDS Day on Friday
Last Halloween, theater director DR Hanson went as Freddie Mercury, the late lead singer of Queen. He chose to emulate Mercury’s famous outfit from a World AIDS Day performance. Hanson was sure it would be easily recognized. He was shocked — and disappointed — by the outcome. “So many people, gay…
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In Netflix’s Voyeur, Gay Talese Learns That Maybe You Shouldn’t Trust a Peeping Tom
An article, a book and now a film, Talese’s fascination with Foos’ voyeurism still hasn’t resulted in anything like rigorous journalism
WaterTower Tries Something Brave for Its Holiday Show, The Great Distance Home
For many, the holidays are a time of great anticipation and excitement. Much-needed breaks from work are coming, holiday music has been playing for months (but now we can all finally enjoy it) and a joyful buzz is in the air. The holidays can also mean traveling back to our…
21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week
Thu 11/30There’s karaoke night and then there’s Broadway Karaoke Night. At karaoke night, you toss back drinks in a dark hole-in-the-wall until you summon the courage to belt out Lisa Loeb’s greatest hit and then slink back to your seat like nothing happened, which is probably for the best. At…
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Invites Us to Toast a Women-in-Comedy Revolution
… The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel tracks its title hero’s journey from bright-eyed newlywed to disillusioned standup comedian making her way through the coffee houses and nightclubs of New York City circa 1958, propriety be damned
The 10 Weirdest Things for Sale at the New ThinkGeek Retail Store
The Christmas shopping season is officially underway, and if you’ve visited a shopping mall or a megastore recently, you already know that it’s a tough battle. You have the bruises and black eye — from fighting over the newest Nintendo Switch — to prove it. Geeks are some of the…
Andy Cohen Fills Us In on Real Housewives Casting and His Gig with Anderson Cooper
Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper waver between being a likely and an unlikely pair. One is a grey-haired gay man who is famous for his late-night TV show, on which he interviews celebrities about their personal lives. The other is a white-haired gay man famous for being an anchor on…
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Former Housewife Puts Andy Cohen on Blast: ‘We Need Programming That Celebrates Female Unity’
A Facebook post by former Housewife Tiffany Hendra made its way around the internet Monday. In the post, Hendra warns women against going on the show. She also calls out Housewives executive producer Andy Cohen for pitting women against one another and profiting from it. Hendra appeared on The Real…
Brace Yourselves: Rob Lowe and Bill Murray Will Be at the Winspear Opera House in April
Two Hollywood legends will grace the stage of the Winspear Opera House next year. The AT&T Performing Arts Center announced yesterday afternoon that actor and movie star Rob Lowe and film and comedy icon Bill Murray are on the lineup for its next season of #HearHere lectures, along with Neil…
Tom of Finland Gives a Boldly Gay Artist the Too-Polite Movie Treatment
When same-sex marriage became legal in Finland this past March, the government celebrated by releasing an official emjoi — a leather-clad man with a drooping mustache and a police-style cap emblazoned with the word “Tom.” No explanation was necessary, for “Tom” was clearly a nod to Tom of Finland —…
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Cheap and Free Events in Dallas This Week
Broadway Karaoke Night Vetted Well 1005 S. Lamar St. 8:30 p.m. Thursday Free There’s karaoke night and then there’s Broadway Karaoke Night. At karaoke night, you toss back drinks in a dark hole-in-the-wall until you summon the courage to belt out Lisa Loeb’s greatest hit and then slink back to…