a+c @ DIFF 2013: The Union Man
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 Shot in black and white, the Texas premiere of “The Union Man” is a film short that documents the story of a former football player named Earl Thompson as he works as a janitor at night in a job that many folks take for granted. Arts [...]
Read Morea+c @ DIFF 2013: Lord Montagu
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 Appropriate for the Dallas International Film Festival, “Lord Montagu” director Luke Korem was born in Dallas and developed a passion for filmmaking early on while in high school. Premiering his film at the festival, this feature documentary is Korem’s directorial debut telling the story of well-known [...]
Read Morea+c @ DIFF 2013: Tomlinson Hill
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 When “Tomlinson Hill” director Lisa Kaselak, an independent media artist from Austin, Texas and an Assistant Professor of film and new media at Southern Methodist University and producer/reporter Chris Tomlinson decided to join together to take a look at a mid-1800s slave plantation, Tomlinson Hill, sitting [...]
Read Morea+c @ DIFF 2013: Chasing Shakespeare
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 The most poignant line in “Chasing Shakespeare” is easily “Love is the electricity that flows in all of us.” A love story with a metaphysical spin and a lot of electricity since it just so happens that Danny Glover’s character [...]
Read MoreOne Night Stand
“Pizzicato Porno,” a free one-night-only performance by artist/dancer Danielle Georgiou and actor/musician Justin Locklear will be presented this Sunday, April 7, by Ro2. This original work will feature video, live music, and dance. The 7:00pm performance will be followed by a reception at Ro2 Art’s Downtown Projects gallery [...]
Read MoreFRESH FRIDAY ART: Whimsical Use of the Line
Holly Johnson Gallery is the site for Sharon Louden: Simple Strokes, an exhibition of recent painting, sculpture and animation by the celebrated New York artist. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 6, from 6:00-8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through June 22. For nearly twenty years, the common denominator and backbone of Louden’s [...]
Read MorePuttin’ on the Jazz
“Dallas doesn’t have a jazz scene.” Oh, bite me. Jazz lovers can enjoy a vigorous jam hosted by Shelly Carroll every Monday at the Amsterdam Bar. They can take in a wide array of jazz acts at Tuesday Nite Jazz in the acoustically sumptuous St. Paul Methodist Church. First Wednesday is Sammons Jazz and Sammons [...]
Read MoreMr. Jazz Man
There are jazz trumpeters, jazz guitarists, jazz pianists and so on, and jazz arrangers, composers and teachers. Then there is the Jazz Man or Woman who does it all. Roger Boykin is the Jazz Man. A soft-spoken, dapper African-American gentleman with salt-and-pepper hair, the 73-year-old Boykin is even the alpha-omega Jazz Man. He was there [...]
Read MoreA Titanic Career
Film executive honored by Dallas International Film Festival It has been about 15 years since Sherry Lansing, the first woman to ever helm a major film studio in Hollywood, first impressed me with her grace and charm. I met her back when I was on the board of Women in Film Chicago, and the Hollywood [...]
Read MoreUrban Explosion
The colors, grit, and spirit of San Francisco provide the foundation for its native Barry McGee’s extraordinary artistic arsenal. With the freedom of the moniker Twist, McGee celebrated the disestablishmentarian mentality of the Mission District. “Tagging is a way of letting a lot of people know you exist, similar to how corporations do massive ad [...]
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