In theaters this past weekend was the biographical tear-jerker Joe Bell, which tells the true story of a heartbroken father who walked across the nation to raise awareness about bullying and discrimination following the tragic death of his teenage son.
Theatre Arlington is about to undergo a dramatic change.
Mimicking the great live radio plays of the 1930s and ’40s, Pegasus Theatre (521 E. Lawther Drive) uses their own RadioVizion technique of storytelling with era-appropriate microphones and costumes and a foley artist creating live sound effects throughout.
The childhood game of tag is all grown up and Envy Gaming is joining the action with its first professional chase and tag team.
Summertime comes to a close over the next few weeks and Dallasites don’t want to miss the opportunity to kick back and enjoy all the perks of what the city has to offer this special time of year.
The rules for making it to the big show in Hollywood terms have evolved. For a while, getting your likeness drawn in a Mad Magazine parody was one sign of stardom. Getting your drawn likeness on the wall of the Brown Derby restaurant was another sign at one point in time…
Hitting theaters this weekend, The Green Knight adapts one of the iconic tales from Arthurian legend from a mature, thoughtful perspective. However, for filmmaker David Lowery, it brought back childhood memories of a 7-year-old boy sword fighting his brother in cardboard armor. “Here I am now over 30 years later…
Some considered it the most dangerous book in Dallas, a moniker coined by D Magazine years after it was published. The Accommodation: the politics of race in an American City, traces race relations and politics in Dallas from slavery to the early ’80s. It argues slavery was crueler in North Texas…
“I did not hit her. It’s not true! It’s bullshit! I did not hit her. I did not. Oh, hi, Mark.” For nearly 20 years, this iconic monologue has baffled moviegoers. The rooftop conversation is only one of the bonkers conversations that make up Tommy Wiseau’s cult movie masterpiece The…
They say it’s all happening at the zoo, and the Dallas Zoo and Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park (650 S. R.L. Thornton Fwy.) have given us all the adorable animals to gawk at this week as they welcome a baby alpaca, two cheetahs and a baby giraffe.
Pocket Sandwich Theatre, the raucous, popcorn-tossing melodrama theater and late-night entertainment showcase space, will move to its third home just shy of its 40th anniversary. Jeff Vance, director for the theater, said the owners of the block of stores on Mockingbird Lane where it operates decided not to renew Pocket…
Artist Patrick Earl Hammie says the opportunity given to him by the Smithsonian Institute to display his portraits of prominent African American artists Romare Bearden and Khande Wiley wasn’t just a chance to showcase his talent in its new touring exhibit. It’s also an opportunity to show who he is as…
It’s not just the pandemic that makes this year different for the Olympics. New sports that aren’t exactly familiar to ancient Greeks are being included for the first time, including karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding. Is horseshoe pitching next? Maybe we can try to lobby the Olympics committee before…
Virtual reality has become a huge draw for entertainment venues and most focus on putting people in otherworldly situations that impede their chances for survival – like a zombie apocalypse or a perilous jungle adventure.
The days in which merchandise was inspired by movies have been subverted, and there’s long been a trend of movies based on toys.
Although casual hookups and encounters were strongly discouraged during the early stages of the pandemic, there’s never a bad time for sex education, especially as things, er, loosen up.
About a half century ago, a horseshoe pitching club formed at Arlington’s first city park.
Bobbi Navarrete was seven years old when she first started wrestling.
It wasn’t that long ago that women would be institutionalized for being disagreeable among the (obviously sexist) men in their communities.
When the first Dallas VideoFest launched in 1986, it started at a time when film festivals and media conventions weren’t a weekly occurrence or even a massive industry like it is now.
Earlier this month, three new exhibitions opened at the artist-run cooperative 500X Gallery, located in a former tire factory in the Tin District. Featuring abstract, conceptual and textual works by four local artists — including a 24-year-old painter who graduated from the University of North Texas two years ago and…
Dallas writer and director Jerod Couch went from the start of a promising career at ESPN and the Texas Rangers to his lowest point in a short amount of time.
