Last week, we gave you the rundown on Cinestate, a new, Dallas-based entertainment company that is telling stories across multiple mediums: films, books and audio-narratives. The latter will include straightforward audiobooks, yes, but primarily a cutting edge new product it’s calling an “audiostate.” Yesterday, Cinestate released its first such product,…
This year, literary nonprofit Wordspace has hosted everyone from Pulitzer Prize-winner Tyehimba Jess to media pundit/author Dan Savage, and it’s planning to end its season with a bang. Turnout for last summer’s Deep Ellum Lit Hop festival was so good that this June, Wordspace is bringing it back as its…
James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, Into the Woods, opens today at the Winspear Opera House, but it’s not the show you’re used to. This version is a bare-bones, stripped-down story that forces the audience members to use their imaginations and enter the woods themselves. But don’t worry, says music…
Three years in, SOLUNA, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s annual International Music & Arts Festival, is still trying to forge an identity. In contrast to the first year’s big splash under the direction of Anna Sophia Van-Zweden, and last year’s big ticket commissions like Jonah Bokaer, Daniel Arsham and Pharrell William’s…
If nothing else, Alien: Covenant is the most ambitious Alien film ever made. It’s almost as if Ridley Scott, foiled in his recent attempts at biblical epics, metaphysical dramas and thorny psychosexual thrillers, decided to revisit those genres under cover of a prized franchise sequel. That’s not to suggest that…
I Love Dick streams on Amazon starting Friday, May 12 I Love Dick, the epistolary novel, is an obsessive confessional story from a woman — a version of the author Chris Kraus — who, in her letters, lusts for an English art critic named Dick. He barely returns the affection…
Twenty-two-year-old Zac Cooner and 21-year-old Chance Hudson have gone from college students to C-suite founders of a company that has garnered more than $600,000-worth of investment since its inception in August 2016. While the young pair is “working for peanuts” to continue to grow their social platform, “Cosmunity,” their progress…
Tue 05/16Who says you have to be a sports-hating snob to appreciate good art? There’s no rule that says you have to roll your eyes every time you flip past ESPN or Fox Sports as you make your way to the Sundance Channel to be a lover of fine artistic…
Last year, Stage West artistic director Dana Schultes came across a playwright who immediately resonated with her: Annie Baker. She’d read Baker’s 2010 The Aliens, which won an Obie Award that year for best new American play. It takes place in the alley behind a Vermont coffee shop and features…
Your dreams have come true. There is a Real Housewives of Oak Cliff on YouTube. But it’s unclear what’s happening in any of the episodes – there are two seasons, each with seven – so please do us a favor and sit down and watch them and let us know…
White Rock Zine Machine: Flight #4 Deep Vellum Books 3000 Commerce St. 7-9 p.m. Friday Free Friday’s event at Deep Vellum Books is more than just a reading from a zine. It’s a launch, a celebration and a bit of a lottery. White Rock Zine Machine is observing its collaboration…
One of the busiest days of the year for restaurants is Mother’s Day. You’ll be tempted to join the throngs and make the same brunch reservations you do every year, but what about skipping the crowded restaurants and panicked waiters? Choose one of these 10 experiences this Sunday and you…
“I am garbage,” Amy Schumer’s Emily Middleton, on a vacation in Ecuador with her ma, Linda (Goldie Hawn), that’s gone all wrong, chimes in agreement with someone who’s leveled the insult at her — and who’s also holding the two women for ransom — in Snatched. Your enjoyment of this…
King Arthur is neither Guy Ritchie’s worst film nor his best, but it might well be his most frustrating. A compendium of all the things that make the British director so occasionally exciting and so often irritating, this new, hyper-stylized take on the Arthurian legends veers between genius and idiocy…
The true heart of Michael Mann’s Heat is revealed a little more than an hour into the film. No, I’m not talking about the classic coffee conversation between Robert De Niro’s master thief, Neil McCauley, and Al Pacino’s obsessed LAPD cop, Vincent Hanna — that fantastic and immortal face-off comes…
Dan Savage will speak tonight, Thursday, May 11, at The Kessler Theater Longtime sex-columnist and LGTBQ activist Dan Savage is this generation’s Dear Prudence, his sage advice delivered with the confident bluntness of Judge Judy. Through his podcast Savage Love, which is in its 11th year, Savage has literally redefined…
As the Oak Cliff Film Festival enters its sixth year, you see it growing into its future. Filmmaker friends of the festival have become more established, giving the content added weight – along with highly anticipated regional and statewide premieres. Left-of-center visionaries keep a revolving seat at the table for…
MakeShift PhotoRama – Significance ImposedKettle Art 2650 Main St. Opening reception 7-10 p.m. Thursday Twelve Dallas photographers paired up with 12 Dallas writers and took a Texas-soaked road trip. Significance Imposed is the collection of photos, landscapes, characters and words that resulted from the statewide jaunt. Prediction: There will be…
Each week on HBO’s Crashing, budding comic Pete Holmes stays on the couch of a different, established comic as he struggles to build a career in New York City. This story is a familiar one to Della Temple, who also endured homelessness on the path to a career in comedy…
Ahead of her stop at Samuel Lynne Galleries Saturday night for the opening reception of Buddha Goes Punk, Miami-based artist Metis Atash tells us what inspires her to create her pieces, which contain up to 24,000 Swarovski crystals, and weave her love of fashion and pop art from the 1970s…
A committed (and controversial) performance from Elle Fanning as a high school kid born Ramona — but identifying as Ray — is diced up and short-shrifted in this muddled comedy-drama. The title suggests the chief trouble: Director and co-writer Gaby Dellal’s attention is divided among three generations, with Ray’s mother…
America is going to hate this movie. Doug Liman’s The Wall — whose title will forever demand that, when bringing up the film in conversation, you’ll have to say, “No, the other Wall” — is a mean little thriller set in our desert wars, and its only American soldiers are…
