The American dream is becoming harder and harder to achieve, but the ABC reality show Shark Tank is doing its small part to keep it alive, one creative idea at a time. Since its debut in August 2009, over 300 entrepreneurs have obtained financing and partners for their companies through…
There’s a reason Zoey Deutch is often “the girl” in comedies. Her face expresses multitudes, and the funny guys need a woman with priceless reactions to sell their punch lines. She’s endured dick jokes for Robert De Niro and Zac Efron in Dirty Grandpa, played oblivious straight woman to the…
It literally takes a village to put on an event like the Scarborough Renaissance Festival. Just before spring every year, hundreds of actors, jugglers, jousters, costume makers, crafters, artists and others dedicate a huge chunk of their time to turning a 35-acre stretch of land in Waxahachie into a 16th…
This weekend, Dallas will become the first city outside of New York to participate in the Public Works project, which taps hundreds of non-actors for productions of Shakespeare. The first play being tackled here is The Tempest. According to Dayron Miles, who moved here to head up Public Works Dallas, the…
Tue 2/28When reality is too tiresome, entertainment becomes our salvation. It serves as an escape from the stressors of the news cycles, of our daily lives — and its effects are pretty magical. Especially in the case of The Illusionists, which brings a production chock full of sleights of hand, disappearing acts…
Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Lure is a cautionary tale of sisterhood, sexuality, and the sometimes self-destructive things people do for love. The film, which won the award for best debut at the Gdynia Film Festival, is also a diabolically wicked Polish-language musical about two beautiful mermaids who climb ashore in Warsaw…
True South PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., Suite 104 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday Free There are many colors to the South, specifically True South, a group exhibition at PDNB Gallery that runs through April 15. The show features diverse works — landscapes and environmental and classic…
Dallas is a city of contradictions: money and poverty, glitz and grime, corruption and piety all coexisting in a growing metroplex. Now imagine the arrival here of a six-foot-tall, Polish, rough-around-the-edges, flame-headed lesbian narcotics investigator. Who’s from Brooklyn. That’s the protagonist Dallas novelist Kathleen Kent created for The Dime, her…
As head of the Aurora-Rhoman Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics, Dallas-based artist Joshua Goode travels the world uncovering evidence of the Aurora-Rhoman Empire. It’s an ancient Texas civilization centered around property in Northeast Texas that’s now owned by Goode’s family. Since the Aurora-Rhomans migrated to Texas from Europe, remnants…
Dear Stoner: How does a percolator work in a bong? Huff Dear Huff: Percolators, vaporizers, blasting hash — they all require scientific processes that most of us don’t want to learn, despite how important they are to cannabis consumption. Percolators use water to filter compounds and mixtures; they were around…
The story of how radio host and executive producer Glynn Washington scored a primetime slot on National Public Radio for his moving and emotional storytelling series Snap Judgment is just the kind he might unweave for his listeners. It’s a story filled with moments of luck, big risk, brutal disappointment…
When Nancy Whitenack moved Conduit Gallery from its original location in Deep Ellum to the Design District in 2002, the showrooms were mainly for those in the trade and few were open to the public. But she says her gallery played an important role in the district’s transition into a…
Between rare books from Sylvester Stallone’s personal collection and sports memorabilia as extraordinary as Evel Knievel’s leather motorcycle jumpsuit, Dallas’ Heritage Auctions is putting every single one of your estate-sale finds to shame. These are the eight most absurd items currently up for bids. Fair warning: They aren’t cheap, but…
Television’s smartest network drama went out last year with a slap. The Good Wife, the hour-long CBS procedural about savvy lawyers and sexy investigators, looked as if it was going to end where it began, with Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) standing by her politician husband Peter (Chris Noth) at a…
Don’t walk, don’t run, effing backflip your way to Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios — Cabinet of Curiosities production. Cirque du Soleil is a fancy Canadian circus and each show has a different theme. Kurios takes place during the Renaissance, and the characters are seen as early fans of science who…
It is hard to blame The Pin Show organizers for wanting to show as much of DFW’s fashion talent as possible. The Pin Show is the highest profile platform that most of these young designers have had so far to show off their skills. But sometimes too much of a…
Cities like Toronto, Atlanta and New Orleans may be seeing a boom in film and television productions thanks to competitive tax breaks and a workforce of experienced crew members. However, Dallas beat them all to the punch in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s thanks to cinematic classics like The Amazing…
Contextual Assembly Kettle Art 2650 Main St. Opening reception 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday From Corey Godfrey’s soft yarn-focused stones, to Hilda LaFleur’s psychedelic imagery, to Roberta Masciarelli’s recycled constructions, to Amy Seymour’s trippy, imaginary world of clay, Kettle Art’s new group exhibit promises plenty of whimsical, dreamlike media. This…
No, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is not a documentary about all the things going through your head right now, but in his directing debut, actor Macon Blair (Blue Ruin, Green Room) certainly captures something of the spirit of the times. As this stylized, deliriously violent,…
After five and a half years, the grand experiment at Valley View Center will be coming to a close at the end of this month — partially at least. Many of the vendors and artists have begun packing or have already moved to new locations; demolition crews have been spotted…
Director George Mendeluk has stated that he wanted to make Bitter Harvest to bring wider attention to the Holodomor, the forced famine imposed by Joseph Stalin that killed between three and seven million ethnic Ukrainians in the early 1930s. That’s certainly a subject worthy of a film, but the question…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2017-18 season promises exciting premieres, heartfelt farewell offerings from departing conductor Jaap van Zweden and more than a few hints as to the identity of his successor. Van Zweden will be leading a series of concerts dedicated to his favorite composers: Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner…
