Don’t head into Cirque Italia’s Water Circus with Cirque du Soleil in mind
And don’t expect to see a lot of water or lion tamers in a pool, either.
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Dianna de la Garza, Demi Lovato’s Mom, Discusses Memoir About Family’s Mental Illness and Addiction
Writing a memoir about your family that holds nothing back sounds like a perfect way to make every Thanksgiving awkward for the rest of your life. But Dianna de la Garza, the mother Demi Lovato, says the pop singer, as well as her other daughters, Dallas Lovato and Madison de…
Wes Anderson Considers the Nature of Evil — in a Puppet Puppy Movie
A splendid jewel box of a movie about rather grisly matters, the filmmaker’s latest represents another example of the clash between his playfully self-aware aesthetic and his growing obsession with our inhumanity
Laura Owens’ Exhibit at Dallas Museum of Art Checks All the Boxes
Through her chosen medium of painting — which wasn’t exactly a safe bet for a young artist in the 1990s, when Laura Owens’ career began — the contemporary artist checks most boxes: Her art references art history; it’s highly personal; it’s collaborative; and despite its undeniable painterliness, Owens incorporates a…
Dallas Comedy Festival Has Grown Into a 5-Day Showcase of Comedy From Around the Country
In 2010, a small building in Deep Ellum known as Dallas Comedy House hosted the first Dallas Comedy Festival. This week, DCH, now one of the neighborhoods’ longest-running establishments, is welcoming performers from all over the country for its ninth year of the festival, which is expanding to two locations…
A.P. Bio and the Limits of Crossbreeding Cable Edge With Sitcom Schmaltz
If you’ve ever wondered what it might look like to crossbreed an edgy cable comedy with a jovial network sitcom, A.P. Bio, created by former SNL writer Mike O’Brien, suggests just that sort of Frankenfood
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SNL‘s Sasheer Zamata Will Perform Her Variety Show at Dallas Comedy Festival
Sasheer Zamata is a woman of many talents. While she gained prominence as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, she is also an accomplished writer, actress and stand-up comedian. On March 30-31, she will perform both her stand-up and her variety show, Sasheer Zamata’s Party Time, at the Dallas Comedy…
Terrance M. Johnson Dance Project Is More Than Just Dancing
Terrance M. Johnson describes the seven men and seven women who make up his eponymous dance company as ambassadors. Dancers don’t audition for the Terrance M. Johnson Dance Project but are invited, and they must serve the community with their talent and be willing to help him on his mission…
First Texas WE Day Brings Ann Curry and Emmitt Smith to Encourage and Inspire Kids
The WE Day gathering in Garland may have looked like a raucous kids’ concert filled with famous faces and loud DJ music, but this gathering aspired to a higher purpose than selling tickets. In fact, kids didn’t have to pay to get into the festivities at the WE Day celebration,…
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Dallas Fashion Bloggers Are Taking Over Instagram — Here’s Who You Need To Know
A Google search for “Dallas fashion bloggers” pulls up 1.3 million results. Walk through Nordstrom during the summer #NSale or attend a weekend SoulCycle class, and you’ll likely spot a handful. Fashion bloggers are ubiquitous. They’re becoming international fashion icons, sitting at the front row of runway shows, debuting their…
She Kills Monsters Feels Like Your High School Reunion
After the Gamergate controversy in 2014, the harsh realities of being a female nerd became the topic of endless think pieces. The harassment campaigns targeting women made it easy to spot issues of misogyny in video game culture, but what about more subtle, everyday name-calling or exclusion? Even in the age…
Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend
Friday Turtle Creek Chorale has chosen anthems of past and present “to help bring peace and harmony to our chaotic humanity” in its program at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. “We Shall Overcome” and the premiere of a new…
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Mental Ward Thriller Unsane Is So Tense, Our Critic Wanted to Flee Theater
The film tells the story of a terrorized woman in a mental hospital who’s trying to convince the staff and patients that she shouldn’t be there and is being held against her will
Zoey Deutch Runs Brazenly Amok as Flower’s Troubled Teen
Think of Flower as a little like Sofia Coppola’s teen-thief satire The Bling Ring with the realism and consequences to bad behavior of Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen
6 Dallas Comedians Tell Us About Their Worst Sets — From a Gig at Applebee’s to a Kid Rock Heckler
A bad day at work is never fun. At a typical 9-to-5, a bad day could involve being forced to stay late, getting into a fight with a co-worker or visiting to HR after they looked at your browser history. For a stand-up comedian, a bad day at work is…
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New Bookstore Free Range Pumpkins Encompasses Geek Culture
It all began with the idea to sell organic 1-pound pumpkins. Although Free Range Pumpkins, Arlington’s newest geek culture warehouse, never sold pumpkins, owners Herb and Amy Kaplan sold lots of other stuff through Amazon. Now they’ve opened their first brick-and-mortar store. A decade ago, it might have been the…
Israel’s Foxtrot Is a Searing Study of Grief
Even as Maoz seems to be addressing his themes head on, he’s cleverly setting up the conditions for tragedy, and when it hits, it’s somehow both shocking and inevitable
The 6 Best Places to Play Pinball (Until Free Play Opens Its Pinball Bar)
Last month, Free Play Arcade announced what pinball fans have been waiting to hear since the day the video game arcade almost died. The local arcade’s fourth franchise location, in Oak Cliff, will be a pinball bar that will cater to the whims of the most hardcore silver ball slingers…
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A Garden Behind The MAC’s Warehouse Will Help Artists Create Natural Dyes for Their Work
It was a celebration of all things green as a group of about 25 people gathered at the MAC POP Garden launch in the Cedars neighborhood. A few kids tried out their painting skills in a project using natural dye, and visitors weaved yarn through slats on a large wooden…
Atlanta Is the Only TV Show That’s Honest About Strip Clubs
Making it rain has long been mainstream, but the FX show presents a more novel sight: average Atlanta residents, reckoning with what often gets treated as a national rite of passage
Netflix’s Roxanne Roxanne Honors Forgotten Hip-Hop Great
The film chronicles Roxanne’s teenage years — her brief time in the limelight — when she became one of the greatest in the game
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Yes, This Is a Review of Pacific Rim Uprising
“The robots were the good guys, because humans drove them. So maybe they weren’t technically robots. Well, some of them were.”