Kim Gatlin might have been the last person to learn Good Christian Books is headed back to TV. Good Christian Bitches is a book Gatlin wrote in 2008 about a divorced woman who returns home to a wealthy Dallas suburb after spending years in godless Southern California. In 2012, Darren Star…
While working in the electronics department of a North Texas Walmart, Brandon Lewis used his homemade comedy shows to lure customers. Now, his DVD is selling on Walmart shelves across the nation, and he’s working on a second one. “[My movies] helped me sell TVs,” says the 37-year-old Dallas filmmaker…
There’s no time like now to get a good laugh. Every time you turn on the news, it’s a horror show and your nerves are frayed from giving up smoking, alcohol, gambling and pornography. You need a release, so why not partake in the healing powers of laughter? Lucky for…
Friday Who knew? In the ’50s and ’60s, companies such as General Electric, Ford and Xerox were producing industrial musicals for their clients and employees featuring performers who would become stars — Chita Rivera, Bob Fosse, Florence Henderson. The documentary film, Bathtubs Over Broadway, revealing the history of these productions,…
It’s not uncommon to hear 50 jokes in one night at a stand-up comedy show. What is uncommon is to hear those 50 jokes spread across 50 different stand-up comedians. Stomping Ground Comedy Theater will be doing just that when they host 50 First Jokes on Saturday to ring in…
The Suicide Crisis Center of North Texas has been in operation since 1968, and it offers a 24-hour crisis hotline that receives about 1,500 calls per month, as well as trained counselors to serve in a suicide survivors support group. In 2007, Yvonne Crum met Margie Wright, the executive director…
Cigars have a bad reputation. Just Google “cigars FDA” and you’ll see that they’re being grouped with e-cigarettes in an attempt to stop underage smoking. Ignore the fact that cigars are probably less appealing to minors than even hookah. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy them. A cigar…
Something has haunted Dave Lieber ever since he came to North Texas. And now, he’s written a book about it. “I’d been to four or five newspapers, and I never really experienced a ghost like that,” he says of Amon Carter Sr.’s lasting impression while working for two decades at…
A night at the symphony is known for many things. But laughing until your sides hurt isn’t one of them. The crew at comedy powerhouse Second City aims to change that when they bring their traveling show, The Second City Guide to the Symphony, to the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony…
Now Broadway’s longest-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera is a classic that every theater nerd knows well. Revamped by Cameron Mackintosh, the musical theater-producing legend, this year’s North American tour is a fresh take on Broadway’s classic. The cast and 52-piece orchestra are here thanks to the Dallas Summer…
Friday Take your worried mind off those looming Christmas credit card bills with a little help from the Mesquite Championship Rodeo Winter Classic. After all, how bad could those bills be compared with the challenge faced by bull riders, barrel racers, bronc-busters and bareback riders competing at Mesquite Arena, 1818…
It was a terrible year in so many ways, but onscreen, with shows including Sharp Objects, My Brilliant Friend, Better Call Saul, The Americans and Atlanta, it sparkled
The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter
The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone
Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance
One of the best science classes your tween will actually stay awake for is just one Netflix subscription away. Brainchild, a new Netflix series produced by Pharrell Williams, offers science lessons that vary from debunking the five-second rule to the psychology behind social media. Whether Brainchild is exploring the ocean…
Experiential art exhibits are showing up around Dallas like mushrooms after a spring shower. Sweet Tooth Hotel, Psychedelic Robot, Eye Scream Wasted are all with their own brand of creative twists and interactiveness. Their creativeness is limitless, but their repeatability is almost nonexistent. One admission may only last 45 minutes…
Everyone’s favorite holiday to figure out last-minute plans for is here again: New Year’s Eve. Because you probably already have the “New year, new me” caption saved to your social media drafts, why not watch the ball drop at a new venue this year, too? And you can skip the…
At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination
These cults all had ties to Dallas.
The year is almost over, and now’s the time to start making a list of New Year’s resolutions — not for yourself, of course. You’re perfect. No resolutions for you are needed, and you can’t give people you know resolutions because that’s called an intervention. So what do you do…
Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either
