Dallas dentist Michael Fooshée was eager to alleviate the problems associated with maintaining routine dental health, including unhappy bosses and paychecks docked for time. His solution was New Avenue Dentistry, a new mobile dentist office that provides all the same services as traditional dental offices but is more accommodating to the…
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is the most trenchant studio release in years, a slow-building, often hilarious horror thriller built upon a dead-serious idea: that a black man walking alone through white suburbs is in as much danger as any slasher-flick teenager. Peele opens with that image, showing us, in a…
Tue 2/21The Dallas Chamber Symphony presents “UnSilent Film: Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid,” which offers a double bill of music and film at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. First, the ensemble transports listeners to a dreamy fog-filled harbor with Ingram Marshall’s haunting and mesmerizing Fog Tropes before contemplating the oceans with…
It was interesting, and more than a little inspiring, to watch the public outcry against the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education over the past couple of weeks — especially the online campaign in which, in response to DeVos’ ill-informed attacks on America’s supposedly failing public education system,…
Maybe this’ll teach us not to judge a movie by its marketing campaign. Thanks to posters and trailers focused solely on its American star, Matt Damon, Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall has been pilloried as an example of a Chinese myth being given the Hollywood white-savior treatment. In fact, the…
This won’t come as a surprise to most people currently navigating the rough waters of online dating, but whom you voted for in the November election has a big impact on your number of potential mates. According to Match.com’s seventh annual Singles in America survey — which sought responses from…
Troy Maxson is the 53-year-old patriarch in August Wilson’s Fences. He is an authoritarian, gruff, brutal force who famously tells his son, “I ain’t got to like you.” The general public is now learning a lot about August Wilson thanks to Denzel Washington and his commitment to produce 10 of…
Dear Stoner: I always feel so bad for dogs when people blow smoke in their faces. I can tell they don’t like it. Are they getting high, or is it just irritating them? Money Monet Dear Monet: Both — but if I had to pick one, I’d say the dog…
Elle Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 8:30 p.m. Friday, 6:30 p.m. Sunday $10 It seems like writer/director Paul Verhoeven’s entire film career is dedicated to escaping from the long shadow of Showgirls. The psychological thriller Elle may be the movie that finally helps him shake it. The dark story…
A local web series about heartbreak is getting an upgrade. Joshua “Jay Wil” Wilson began filming the second season of Matters of the Heart in December but halted production after the first episode to purchase a high definition camera. The second season is on target to be released next fall. Matters of the…
After completing the first season of Inside Amy Schumer, the show’s head writer wasn’t sure whether a second season would be greenlit. “It’s terrifying. It’s really scary,” Jessi Klein says. “You can kind of get better at handling that anxiety, and I think I have gotten better at it, but…
The movies never get the Midwest right. When, onscreen, have you seen white people at the grocery store mouth that shy, apologetic “oop” noise every time someone walks close enough that they feel they must shift out of the way? Or a father lecturing his children about the greatness of…
Even zombies need sensible snacks. In Sheila Hammond’s case, that means a baggie of severed fingers, which she munches like baby carrots while stalking her next victim in a parking garage, her pink “kill poncho” pulled tightly around her shoulders. In Santa Clarita Diet, the new 10-episode Netflix original series,…
Romantic comedies seem to have soured more than most movie genres. It could be due to their insistence on happy endings, or perhaps it’s the rigid structure that demands easily avoidable conflict followed by the protagonist breathlessly chasing down his or her true love just in time for the end…
In recent months, there have been serious calls for liberal city dwellers to reach beyond their “bubble” to better understand their rural counterparts. What’s rarely brought into the conversation: that large swathes of the so-called liberal elite have roots in rural places. These people, myself included, came of age among…
Dallas Summer Musicals recently announced that it will bring the Broadway smash musical Hamilton, based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, to the Music Hall at Fair Park sometime during its 2018-2019 season. Even without specific dates attached, this promise was enough to whet the appetites of Hamilton’s enthusiastic…
Terrell James – SOTOL VIEW Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., No. 120 6 p.m. Saturday Dallas’ art circles are familiar with Houston-based artist Terrell James, but they’ve not been privy to the two particularly lush, mural-sized paintings in her new show of works at Barry Whistler Gallery before now. The…
Monday night Chris Harrison visited Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show to announce the next leading lady on ABC’s The Bachelorette. Dallas native Rachel Lindsay will pass out roses next season, and be the first black woman to do so. Lindsay told Kimmel that when the producers first approached her about…
Deep Ellum looks much more vibrant than it did a few years ago. This owes partly to a mural project started by real estate developer Scott Rohrmann in the summer of 2015, which invited local artists to create 42 murals on properties in the neighborhood owned by his company, 42…
Don’s Used Photo Equipment stands amidst a hardened strip of industry on Irving Boulevard, near what’s now the heart of the Design District. When Don Puckett opened the store in 1997 he started hearing essentially the same thing every day from customers: “This is expensive, does it work?” “People come in…
Tue 2/14 Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells some pretty corny dad jokes, and it only adds to his charm. But aside from the adorable cosmic neck ties and one-liners, Tyson’s extensive knowledge in astrophysics and understanding of the universe has cemented him as one of the leading heads in…
One of the first thoughts that comedian James Thiep had when he landed in the U.S. came with a ready-made punchline. “I saw the words ‘restrooms’ and in my tribal language, that would mean a mortuary,” says Thiep, who is from Sudan. “So I was thinking, ‘How frequently do people die at…
