During a business trip in Dallas, Austin photographer Ian Kasnoff found himself scribbling away on a Belmont Hotel cocktail napkin after a few drinks. He was sketching out plans for an old box trailer he owned. What he drew up on that napkin would send him down a rabbit hole of…
Starting Saturday night at Dallas Comedy House, audiences will get their first chance to see the newest all-female sketch show, Self-Aware? I Hardly Know Her. The show is a high-energy character-study filtered through a comedic lens; a non-stop revolving door of costume changes, original characters, and razor-sharp jokes. “A lot…
Dallas is one of the busiest culinary hubs in all of America. This place is crawling with amateur chefs who dream of having one of their creations sampled and potentially spat out by some of TV’s meanest food judges. If you’re one of those aspiring blue plate special slingers who’s looking…
Last week on The Real Housewives of Dallas, something happened off-camera that we did not get to see, but once the camera turned back on, Housewives Brandi Redmond and Cary Deuber let us in on it. Late at night during the women’s ski trip in Beaver Creek, Colorado, it is said…
Wednesday Maybe it was balls or just fortuitous timing, given the state of race relations in Dallas today, but Shakespeare Dallas presents Othello, the bard’s grim masterpiece about the jealous “Moor” Othello and his evil companion Iago’s plan to break up Othello’s marriage to the lovely (and white) Desdemona. There’s…
Several local artists have joined the mix with films exploring themes ranging from natural hair to forbidden love and unjust justice. Their work will be highlighted during the Frame4Frame festival which runs Sept. 20-23. Dallas filmmaker Reginald Titus Jr. says he made Natural Hair the Movie after his wife, Ashanti,…
Everyone complains. Not only is it easy to complain, it’s also popular. Take a look at the comments section of literally anything on the internet and you’ll see groups of strangers complaining to one another. After they finish arguing over which complaint mattered the most, they log off to tell…
Thinking about going under the knife or simply receiving some pokes with injectables? We sat down with two of Dallas’ busiest plastic surgeons to get the scoop on the latest Dallas trends. Dr. Michael Lee is affiliated with Park Cities Cosmetic Surgery, and you may recognize Dr. Mark Deuber from…
The cameras aren’t even there when the kids officially present their projects, but the filmmakers still wring the big day for all the drama they can, putting off as long as possible the revelation of whether any of their subjects win
Radner narrates, in a way, through her own audio diaries, plus some snippets of interviews and judicious excerpts from the audiobook of her perfectly titled — and just-barely posthumous — memoir, It’s Always Something
Aldo Fritz was getting his master’s degree in real estate in 2012 when he first came to Arlington to attend the University of Texas. Like many other UTA grads, he didn’t stick around once he got his degree, but zipped off for the bigger, brighter lights of Dallas, where for…
It turns out it actually doesn’t take long bouts of cocaine-fueled creativity or brainstorms produced by heavy-duty hallucinogens to come up with some great sketch comedy material — unless of course you count the first writing staff of Saturday Night Live. What it does take is creativity, numerous revisions and hard…
Friday If you love nonstop controlled skids and the smell of smoking rubber — endless clouds of it — and are so much more interested in variables such as angles, lines and style than speed that you don’t mind watching 1,400-horsepower muscle cars driving at speeds that would get them…
White Boy Rick has reams of story to tear through, but at heart it’s a family drama, one more concerned with the Wershes than with crack, the feds or Detroit itself
Cosmatos delivers (as fans say) on the blood and guts, on cathartic slaughter, on the disreputable pleasure of watching a bereaved hero regard a new weapon and envision nasty uses for it
On Tuesday night’s episode of Married At First Sight, we saw the three Dallas couples enter the home stretch and try to really get into the groove of their relationship. Bobby and Danielle still aren’t fighting. Mia and Tristan plan to move to Houston. And Amber and Dave simply cannot…
Celebrities playing tennis in the name of a charity. For its third year, the Dirk Nowitzki Pro Celebrity Tennis Classic will be Sept. 15 at the Southern Methodist University Tennis Complex. The players included in this year’s Classic are Andy Roddick, 2003 U.S. Open champion; Tommy Haas, German ATP Tour…
The film, I suspect, will have some minor historical value, but I fear that watching Stern well up on election night won’t offer much insight to people alive now
This latest entry, directed and co-written by onetime wise-ass action screenplay wunderkind Shane Black (Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys), wears its self-aware humor as a talisman against the predictability of its plot and the gratuitousness of its carnage
Despite taking place three months after most major cities host their Pride celebrations, Dallas’s LGBTQ+ community always comes together every mid-September for a celebration of epic, queer proportions. While thousands crowd Cedar Springs Road and Oak Lawn Avenue every year to watch the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade, a lot…
Wednesday Are you one of those people, aka normal, who isn’t up to the challenge of ordering wine with dinner in a restaurant? Why exactly, does a diner want to sniff a cork? Will it get us high? That first little pour — how long are we expected to fake…
Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility and religious ecstasy, has taken the form of a woman named Diane and returned to save the Earth from itself in the regional premier of Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane. In celebration of Dallas Pride Week, Echo Theatre is presenting the play Thursday through Saturday…
