On Sunday, Miss Belize will compete in the Philippines against 85 other women from across the world for the title of Miss Universe. Her evening gown, however, is from a Carrollton dress shop. Shimmer Boutique is owned and operated by Larissa Maner, who has been in the pageant and prom…
Mary Tyler Moore, who died Wednesday at 80, was a reluctant feminist. She wouldn’t even call herself one at all. In 1970, when Moore embodied the character of flighty, 30-year-old single TV news producer Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, there was no other such woman portrayed on…
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, artistic directors of Bridgman Packer Dance, have collaborated as performers and choreographers since 1978. Their innovative work developing a video partnering — the integration of live performance and video technology — has been acclaimed for its highly visual and visceral alchemy of the live and…
At DFW Nail Bar in Denton, partying and pampering go hand in hand. Unlike other nail salons, this one offers complimentary cocktails and karaoke with its spa services. “We traveled the world and visited many resorts and spas and came up with the nail bar concept,” owner Jennifer Tran says…
2017 Dallas Book Festival J. Erik Jonsson Central Library 1515 Young St. Friday through Sunday Free When librarians withdraw old materials from the shelves to make way for new books, movies and music, the process is called “weeding the stacks.” And those weeding sessions — and resulting sales — are…
Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you’ve seen her in lately, whether it beTrue Detective or Patriots Day, and confirms once again that she should be in the lead far more often than Hollywood would have you believe. The positives don’t…
One of the most powerful documentaries of 2016, Keith Maitland’s Tower immerses the viewer in the 1966 massacre at the University of Texas, during which Charles Whitman fired from a clock-tower in Austin, shooting 49 people and killing 16. The film takes a somewhat surprising and stylized approach to re-creating…
The film drags when Haneke pulls focus to the other, duller characters, perhaps inevitably, as it seems his intention for those people to lack interiority or thoughtfulness
These are politically divisive times. Republicans thinks the Democrats’ former candidate is a Bond villain and Democrats thinks the new Republican president is a racist crybaby. We need the political equivalent of couple’s therapy, and that’s essentially what James Carville and Mary Matalin will offer when they visit the George W…
Christopher Blay: KWTXRUNT on the Square 109 N. Elm St., Denton Opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday The Denton Black Film Festival and UNT on the Square have teamed up to bring you KWTXR, an exhibition of drawings, photographs and video by Fort Worth artist Christopher Blay. The collection…
Sedrick Huckaby is a busy man. The next few months will see him installing a two-person show with his wife, artist Letitia Huckaby, at Tarrant County College South; opening a solo show in New York; doing a residency at a hospital in Philadelphia; and applying for the BP portrait competition…
For more than a year, Jeremy Ellis says he’s been turning over what a Dallas bookstore could and should be. While working as a general manager at Houston-based Brazos Bookstore he made attempts to return to Dallas with a new branch of that iconic bookstore, but was never able to…
A Dog’s Purpose, based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, combines the philosophical belief that living beings are reborn into a different physical body after biological death with the voiceover narrative technique of Look Who’s Talking. The main character, Dog, dies in multiple wrenching scenes and is subsequently reborn;…
Quick, name an Archie Andrews personality trait. Yes, he’s red-headed and red-blooded, a horndog naïf with hashtag sideburns who is forever battled over by beauties he can’t be bothered to get anywhere with. But beyond that — who is he? Sometimes he’s in a sugar-sweet pop combo. Sometimes he tools…
I’m still trying to decide if Sundance’s decision to kick off its 2017 festival with An Inconvenient Sequel, Al Gore’s follow-up to his influential (and terrifying) climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, is an act of political confrontation or a sign of helplessness. (Or both?) What kind of message does…
Delving into microeconomics and macroaggressions, Toni Erdmann, the dynamite, superbly acted third feature by writer/director Maren Ade, is social studies at its finest. This quicksilver, emotionally astute comedy operates on many different registers and moods: Whoopee cushions and gag teeth are part of the fun, but so too is a…
Walking out of Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson last May at Cannes, I felt like it was the closest the director had come to making an artistic manifesto. Having seen it again, I’m even more convinced. Jarmusch first arrived in New York back in the 1970s with dreams of becoming a poet,…
Will Heron, aka “Wheron,” would prefer if you didn’t put him in a box labeled “just a commercial artist who makes T-shirts.” You’ve seen the high school art teacher’s work in the form of murals, prints and growlers at tap houses, coffee shops and businesses all over town, including Local Press +…
Gold’s value lies chiefly in the hearts and minds of those who seek it. The noble metal has driven humans to perpetrate ignoble acts on their quests to unearth it since at least 5000 B.C.E., when slaves divined for golden veins to lavish their Pharaohs with jewelry. The Incas even…
Asa Butterfield was at the Joule Hotel on Jan. 20 to promote his new film. The Space Between Us is ambitious. The film, starring Asa Butterfield from Hugo and Ender’s Game, is one part sci-fi, one part romance and one part road trip, with a little bit of action mixed…
When these performers get the chance to exchange dialogue, to react to each other rather than declaim the movie’s themes, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool rouses to life
Danielle Georgiou could be persuaded to join a cult. There is something very appealing to the director of the theater/dance mashup Danielle Georgiou Dance Group about choosing your own truth. There’s something even more intriguing, almost beautiful, about cultish repetitive movement and actions. It’s very closely related to the animalistic…
