From Game of Thrones to The Handmaid’s Tale, narratives of sexual assault have become particularly common in film and TV lately. But rarely do we think about the filmmakers, actors and crew who make on-screen rapes happen. How do they feel? Are they tired of rape scenes? Or could portraying rape could actually be a positive thing?
Comedian Jerry Rocha was working at the Barnes & Noble bookstore across from NorthPark Center in the mid-2000s when he first thought about making that big, scary move to a bigger city to pursue his comedy career. Rocha had started performing comedy in Dallas just out of high school and…
The nerve-racking war thriller Dunkirk is the movie Christopher Nolan’s entire career has been building up to, in ways that even he may not have realized. He’s taken the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 evacuation from France, early in World War II — a moment of heroism-in-defeat that has become an…
“I want my work to completely abandon the notion that I’m working for a specific audience,” Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich says, responding to a probing question concerning the globalized art world contemporary artists are forced to reckon with. Pich was in Dallas to speak at the Crow Collection of Asian…
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim will perform at the Majestic Theatre on Monday, July 31. Legendary comedy partnerships like Tim and Eric’s don’t always have a steady trajectory. They often end just as they start to pick up steam because of creative differences, promises of solo stardom, or abuse of…
Some things just naturally go together, and for more than a century, dogs and fire stations were two of those things. Today, not so much. The tradition goes back to the days of horse-drawn fire engines, according to Lt. David Tyler of the Arlington Fire Department. “The dogs were useful in alerting…
Jay Wilkinson — everyone poops Fort Works Art 2100 Montgomery St., Fort Worth Through July 29 Free Sometimes the things that unite us all aren’t the things we talk about. At least not to anyone besides our doctor, or a really, really good friend. Local artist Jay Wilkinson knows this…
To the Bone premieres July 14 on Netflix About 10 minutes into Marti Noxon’s eating-disorder drama, To the Bone, Ellen (Lily Collins) sneaks away from her overbearing stepmom, Susan (Carrie Preston), to chug warm water from a public-bathroom faucet (a trick to fool the body into thinking it’s full so…
Friday Never has there been a more pure promotional possibility than giving a rock band its own brew. Local rock/blues outfit Dead Flowers has hit the rock-and-roll PR jackpot in its collaboration with BrainDead Brewing, 2625 Main St. The partnership yielded the Dead Flowers Saison, a tart pale ale that’s…
Visitors to the Perot Museum this week are among the first people in the world to lay eyes on a mineral that has a “cult-like following in the mineral collecting community,” according to a press release by the museum of nature and science. On Wednesday, the Perot unveiled Eyes of…
A yearly showcase of small theater companies is making its return to the Bath House Cultural Center at the edge of White Rock Lake. Wingspan Theater Company founded the Festival of Independent Theatres in 1998 to aid local theater companies without permanent performance spaces. The festival begins this week and…
What do Reece Witherspoon’s walls and your go-to pair of summer kicks have in common? They both sport photographer Gray Malin’s work. Hollywood’s favorite photographer, known for his bright, inviting and festive images of everything from glamorous beaches to exotic animals, got his start in the photo lab at the…
Two years after a sign about their wedding plans went viral, Gabriel Mendez and Kenneth Denson continue to have a special connection with shoppers at their Red Pegasus Comics shop in a converted house in the Bishop Arts District of Oak Cliff. Mendez and Denson are both wearing Red Pegasus…
The new tech comedy Loaded (AMC) opens seconds before the finalization of the sale of a game app called Cat Factory for £300 million. Confirmation from his bank that his account balance has gone from several hundred quid in the red to David Cameron’s tax bracket propels lead designer Josh…
Twenty-one things to do in Dallas from Thursday, July 13, through Wednesday, July 19: Thursday In a world filled with music, one man is known for having scored all of your favorite movies. And no, it’s not Danny Elfman. The illustrious Hans Zimmer will stop by Dallas as part of…
Tim Kerr — Everyday PeopleSafe Room at the Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. Opening reception 7-9 p.m. Thursday Artist slash motivational punk rocker Tim Kerr collected his first art award in a fire-prevention poster contest in elementary school, and it’s been full speed since. Everyday People is his latest exhibit…
Chasing Coral premieres July 14 on Netflix. In February of 1995 Charlton Heston called Rush Limbaugh’s radio program to read from Jurassic Park – the book, not the movie. In his best Old Testament boom, Heston declaimed a speech about man’s hubris that Michael Crichton had written for Dr. Ian…
At 1:20 a.m. Saturday, July 8, Allen Wayne Miller drove into a home at 1902 Alexander Ave. in Waco. That home was featured on Season 3, Episode 10 of HGTV’s Fixer Upper. Miller, 31, was charged with a DWI, says Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton, public information officer for the Waco Police…
Dueling images of Catholic nuns portray either holier-than-thou punishers in habits or hippie types with acoustic guitars, like the postulant Maria in The Sound of Music. Both stereotypes obscure the fact that, in real life, a lot of nuns are just … kind of weird. At one of the many…
Be warned: Cry Havoc’s production of Shots Fired opens with gunfire. It’s a jarring beginning to 90 extraordinary minutes of documentary-style theater covering the July 7, 2016, Dallas police shootings by Cry Havoc Theater Company. Cry Havoc’s teen actors convey as much depth, empathy and emotion as any adult actors…
On July 3, Courtney Ann appeared on Instagram Live donning nothing but a Texas Rangers T-shirt. She stood up against the wall in her Fort Worth home, occasionally showing off the side of her butt, and answered questions from her followers. More than 378,000 people, including several athletes such as…
The first time Dutch director Paul Verhoeven read the script for RoboCop, he was enjoying a day at the beach. Verhoeven says he got about 20 pages through it before dismissing it as just another piece of “American nonsense.” Then he went for a swim, and when he returned to…
