Contractors who’ll soon be hired to renovate the 112-year-old Ambassador Hotel are strongly advised to brace themselves before they open the closets. They might find charred human remains or a foot-long prosthetic penis. For three weeks beginning mid-March, the hotel’s carpeted hallways were showered with blood from cannons being fired…
While cattle ranches remain a staple across Texas, shaping its character and fueling its economy, other ranches use their land in more unusual ways. The ones on this list are home to everything from body farms to vintage vehicles and bordellos, proving that Texas ranches are as diverse as the…
It’s not easy to wrap one’s head around the work of theater troupe Dead White Zombies (DWZ), but why would it be? It’s the brainchild of Thomas Riccio, a University of Texas at Dallas drama professor, world traveler and metaphysical hobbyist who’s all about bucking convention. DWZ always engage the…
Tue 5/9 Your grandfather is a legendary storyteller. When he spins a yarn about going fishing on the bayou and getting chased out by an alligator, everyone in your family gathers round, and listens transfixed. But even your grandfather is no match for Garrison Keillor, best known for his 42-year…
Serial Mom is available in a new Blu-ray edition from Shout Factory. John Waters’ response to boxes — the kind in which we tend to place others and ourselves — is to vomit on them. And then sell them, his pencil-thin mustache twisting in a good-humored smirk. Throughout his career…
The call came at 8:30 last Saturday morning. It was Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League phoning to let Kevin Moriarty know that the Dallas Theater Center had won the regional Tony Award. Within the next four hours, Moriarty would see nearly 200 members of the Dallas theater…
Sugarland native Allison Tolman didn’t plan on turning Dallas into her first professional home as an actress. “It kind of became the plan,” Tolman says with a laugh. The 2004 Baylor University graduate had just gone on a national tour with a children’s theater company as her first job out…
The former mayor of Colleyville is now a sexpert. Well, kind of. In 2007, after several years of marriage, Donna Arp Weitzman and her husband divorced. No longer the mayor of Colleyville and looking to start over, Weitzman moved to a high-rise in Dallas and began dating. She was 55…
It’s April 1992, and ABC commentator Judith Miller’s voice has an exasperated tinge as she reports to her audience that not one of the officers who beat Rodney King on that infamous videotape has been found guilty of any charges. Soon, riots break out in Los Angeles. Thousands of stores…
“How much do you know?” the teacher asks. We’ve arrived five minutes late to a Thursday evening meeting of people who think they’re psychic. It’s held biweekly in a nondescript building in East Dallas. “How much have you studied?” the teacher asks. Mark Twain said, “When in doubt, tell the…
Steve Borden doesn’t fit the mold of the typical Waxachie resident. Unless when you think of Waxahachie, you think of a pro-wrestler who frequently travels to Dubai and Qatar for appearances. Borden, better known by the name of his wrestling alter ego, “Sting,” was the face of World Championship Wrestling…
Cinco de Mayo ’17 Taqueria La Ventana 1611 McKinney Ave. 2-11 p.m. Friday Free Every Tom, Dick and Enrique seems to have a Cinco de Mayo special, but only Taqueria la Ventana is holding cocktail tastings by el Jimador Tequila & Chambord, cerveza tastings by Corona and Modelo, and Mexican…
Steve Coogan is at a fancy dinner, but he’s not doing any Michael Caine impressions. Instead, he’s brooding with resentment of his workaholic congressman brother, Stan (Richard Gere), and grappling with the realization that his son might be a psychopath. It’s all supposed to be harrowing, and the British comedian…
Dear White People streams on Netflix For the past half-century, college campuses have served as a primary theater of the culture wars. So it’s fitting that one of the year’s most provocative, timely, searching, intellectually prickly, and ultimately satisfying series takes place at a university. Netflix’s Dear White People, which…
The internet doesn’t just love failure. It craves it. It needs it. Failure is the internet’s opioid. Melinda and Larry Gardner found themselves pinned to the internet’s dartboard following their recent appearance on the long-running, wheel-spinning, phrase-guessing game show Wheel of Fortune. Overall, the couple’s game show performance was good,…
The celebrity appearance roster for this year’s Texas Frightmare Weekend reads like a list of patron saints for the Church of Horror Fan Worship. However, three notable names have excommunicated themselves from the list. Three of the child actors from Netflix’s runaway horror series hit Stranger Things, including Gaten Matarazzo,…
Arts Mission Oak Cliff, a new multi-use arts venue built inside of the old Winnetka Heights Church, has opened its first production. Cara Mia Theatre Co.’s De Troya is a world premiere by Obie Award winning playwright Caridad Svich. It is the story of Mara, who rescues a mysteriously wounded…
Allison Proulx – Choosing Heroes Ro2 at the Magnolia Theater 1501 S. Ervay St. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday Staten Island native Allison Proulx’s works feel like hazy dreams within dreams, or scenes from Lost in Translation. Her background working as a Disney animator shines through in each of her…
After The Fate of the Furious premiered, talk of that franchise’s ever slicker, more over-the-top future turned to the promise (and hope) of F&F jumping the shark right into space. But what if … it was already there? And it was named, instead, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? In…
“Big Red” is a 6-foot-7 Irishman wearing a floppy hat and a spaghetti-strap dress. “Lewie” is a Texas-born DISD school teacher with a mullet. He’s sporting his wife’s striped maternity dress. Also in attendance: a one-armed fitness guru called “Teapot”; a correctional officer at a local jail; a former naval…
It’s May, and we’re all still standing! Thank you, television! I was gonna add that May is looking up, but then I noticed there’s a three-hour long Carpool Karaoke special, so instead I’ll just say that May has some growing up to do, and leave it at that. Let us…
When Macklemore and Ryan Lewis put out “Thrift Shop” in 2013, it was hard not to laugh at how over the top it was. But they were on the money. Getting the look you want can easily cost under 20 bucks at a thrift store, and Dallas has some of…
