Welcome to Night Vale: All Hail with special guest Mal Blum: Wednesday, Nov. 29, Majestic Theatre, $25-$30, c3reserved.frontgatetickets.com. We’re living in the golden age of podcasts. Nearly everyone, from top-notch celebrities to your seldom-seen neighbor, hosts a podcast of some sort. It’s become big business and a serious media format…
The garland is hung, the hot cocoa is poured and the tree is trimmed. Let’s not forget the main attraction: the sparkly glow of Christmas lights. Dallas does the holiday season up in a big way, and we’ve gathered 10 of the best holiday light displays in the area. Dallas…
Friday In his six-decade career as an actor, the late Harry Dean Stanton played memorable roles in numerous classic films such as Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Repo Man and Pretty in Pink. This weekend, Texas Theatre hosts a Harry Dean Stanton Series as a tribute to…
Holiday theater productions are a great way to entertain out-of-town guests. If you’re looking for something more than the traditional holiday productions, there are great offerings that venture outside the box. Here’s a roundup of holiday theater in the Dallas area that promises unique, family friendly fun. Irving Berlin’s White…
When Dee Mitchell approached Ludwig Schwarz about doing a retrospective of Schwarz’s drawings, he told Mitchell he hadn’t drawn in years and wasn’t planning to return to it anytime soon. Not to be deterred, the two came up with something else, maybe something better, for the new The Box Company space…
Although it goes beyond a mere stylistic device, the supernatural here often feels like a function of Thelma’s loneliness and inner turmoil
While Sam Moon Group is best known for its handbag and accessory empire, it has now taken on a new venture in the hotel and hospitality industry. The 15-story Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel, which opened in July, brings a mix of Asian art and culture to North…
Alpert checks in again and again with the same three families over 45 years of visits to the island, with sometimes heartbreaking results
Nalluri’s emphasis is on amateur theatrical performances, magic-lantern projections and comically competitive authors.
The Dallas World Aquarium is gaining international interest, this time for good. As part of its documentary series, Earth From Space, BBC is documenting the DWA’s project in which a team of veterinarians, biologists and conservationists have rescued and released five rehabilitated Amazonian manatees back into their natural environment near Iquitos, Peru…
Thursday Look, you don’t need to do the 50th Annual Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot out of some sort of pre-emptive guilt about taking down a massive Thanksgiving feast. We get one day a year when gluttony is socially acceptable, and we should embrace it. Instead, you should do the Turkey…
It’s official. Starbucks unleashed its holiday cups at the start of this month. That means it’s time to start holiday shopping. With Small Business Saturday coming up after Thanksgiving, we’ve gathered a list of local companies and their best-selling products. Shopping local often makes that special someone’s special gift a…
When Dusty Parrish, an Allen-based photographer and educator, stumbled across a Kodak box camera from the 1930s while browsing in an antique store in McKinney, he had no idea how significant the camera in his hand would be in his life, nor did he know how important the purchase would…
While some politicians still — still — debate whether humans are contributing to climate change, Jill Ahrens, a Fort Worth native and executive producer of the highly acclaimed documentary Chasing Coral, says she and a team of filmmakers found the surest evidence lying at the bottom of the ocean. “It was a…
Despite, or probably because of, the density of its plot, Mr. Robot is almost more enjoyable if you don’t really know what’s going on
It starts off as the portrait of a troubled child, but expands to become a film about community
Here’s a kiddo’s quest to define a self, in this case the descent of young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) into a land of the dead inspired by Dia de los Muertos celebrations
In 2014, Money Magazine named a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth the best place to live in the nation. The honor went to McKinney, and the magazine cited its redeveloped historic downtown with cobblestone streets and brick buildings that house “a mix of art galleries, boutiques, and farm-to-table restaurants, as well as…
Annie Baker’s John, now playing at Undermain Theatre, is a must-see, and it’s as simple as that. What’s not simple is the play itself. It opened at New York’s Signature Theatre Company in 2015, and the regional premiere in Dallas is not one to miss. Baker is a master of…
Whether out of a deep respect to Oliver Stone or just a desire to finally see a positive headline when he Googles himself, President Donald Trump declassified documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. More than 30,000 documents have been released (or in some of cases rereleased)…
Believing a virgin birth? That’s easy. Billions of people do. Believing that manmade emissions are contributing to global warming? Bah, humbug. That’s just crazy talk. So let’s throw a few more tons of coal on the power plants and fire up those holiday lights while we chop down a few…
In the ’80s, cartoonist and Far Side comic strip creator Gary Larson drew a comic with the caption “Hopeful parents” that somehow came to fruition. The comic featured a pair of proud parents looking at their buck-toothed kid playing a video game. The thought bubble above their heads showed the “help wanted”…
