The sixth and final exhibit of the late John Wilcox’s work to be shown in his studio, The Wilcox Space, is now open. The exhibit will be up for about six months. Wilcox died from AIDS-related complications in 2012. He had been living and painting in the studio that would…
Friday Oaktopia has delivered another stellar lineup, as versatile as it is fresh. From the cold, hardened storytelling of Atlanta rapper 21 Savage to the candied trap of Lil Yachty to the raunchy electronic music of Tobacco, this year’s festival promises a lot. Notable local talents include Blue, the Misfit…
The games that professional eSports athletes compete on aren’t just netting them tired thumbs and a few pixelated coins. The collegiate and professional eSports industry that’s on the rise in Dallas is fueled by games from a multibillion-dollar media industry and it’s starting to rival the revenues of film and…
Cable TV companies had a economic and geographic choke chains around the necks of some parts of the cable TV market in the ’80s and early ’90s. Only people who could afford satellite dishes, big enough to make their backyards look like mini-SETI projects, had a way out. The wider…
What to do with those last few vacation days this year.
Thursday Journalist Dan Rather will be “in conversation with KERA’s Krys Boyd” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16. The Arts and Letters Live program of the Dallas Museum of Art will take place across the street from the DMA at First United Methodist Church, 1928 Ross Ave. Rather, 86, who…
Action scenes start and stop and then start again, then go in different directions, and it was a few moments into The Big Climactic Face-Off before I realized we’d arrived at The Big Climactic Face-Off
These days, conventions organizers can never stop planning their next fan gatherings. That’s because more conventions than ever are competing to get bigger celebrity guests to mingle and take photos with the fans. The next Fan Expo Dallas gathering doesn’t start until April, but it’s already scored a huge and revered pop…
They spent long periods of time tapping away at a keyboard in isolation and were ballsy enough to tell someone, perhaps a less-than-flattering editor somewhere, only to receive a rejection slip in return. Now, they have an audience. The literary series Rejected: Stories Unsold debuted at Wild Detectives bookstore last…
Tony Dagrosa was burnt out and worn thin. It was the ’80s, and he was five years out of college, banging out a living as a restaurant manager in New York City. Looking for a change, Dagrosa sat down to dinner with his father and uncle, twin brothers who owned…
… In Three Billboards, where livid, grieving mother Mildred (Frances McDormand) taunts the local police for not solving her daughter’s rape and murder (by being burned to death) from nine months prior, McDonagh has taken on a situation that demands we take it seriously.
“I wish I could live through something,” the title character laments to her mother in the opening scene of writer/director Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. Played with comical intensity by Saoirse Ronan, 17-year-old Lady Bird — nee Christine — is too young to realize that she is inescapably living through something,…
It can be difficult to get tickets to a show by a top-selling comedian like Jim Jefferies. The Australian comic tours the world annually and sells out venues such as Dallas’ Majestic Theatre, but there are other ways to see Jefferies if you have the right timing and know the…
A group of friends and fans of local emcee Devin Pike — who frequently works at the Alamo Drafthouse, as well as local conventions — gathered Thursday at the Drafthouse’s Cedars location for a special screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The screening was part of a fundraiser to help…
Chi Omega Christmas Market Fair Parks’ Centennial Hall 1001 Washington St. Thursday-Saturday $12-$15 You finally threw away the pumpkin on your porch, and you’ve only begun to dread the point during Thanksgiving dinner when someone makes you say what you’re thankful for. But it’s halfway through November, and Christmas is…
The movie turns on a series of revelations about the characters, whose hushed, intimate narration — split between Laura, Jamie, Ronsel, Hap and Florence — reveals rich inner lives
The Rev. Peter Johnson holds his denim jacket up before a class of about a dozen University of North Texas students. A sticker attached to one side shows that he has voted. “The reason that’s important to me is I have some friends in the graveyard for the right to…
The Trinity River Distillery is about to host a rather spirited art contest. The downtown Fort Worth distillery is calling upon local artists to submit their work for a chance to become the distillery’s official muralist. While creativity is encouraged, each contestant must create and submit a design that will…
This is the first time a Marvel TV show has stunned me: Why in the era of binge-able continued-narrative TV series would the producers kill dead their momentum
For nearly three years, a quaint red house at 208 W. Eighth St. in Oak Cliff has given comic book devotees a place to browse, gather and feel welcome. But Red Pegasus Comics’ lease is up, and its owners have set their sights on relocating the beloved little shop a…
WaterTower Theatre is in the midst of a season of change. This is its first season with artistic director Joanie Schultz at the wheel, and now the theater has added a new managing director, longtime Dallas attorney Nick Even. “When a theater moves beyond the vision of its founders into…
Wednesday was wet, rainy and bitterly cold. Could there be a better setting for a primordial scream on the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s election? A small but loud crowd of five protesters and one surprise counterprotester showed up at the Continental Avenue pedestrian bridge Wednesday night as part…
