Rob Allyn’s Crazy Dream To Make a Movie in Borneo“I think that’s what’s probably what’s so hard about this, is that he was in full life. He wasn’t sick. He was writing another play.”
Rob Allyn’s Crazy Dream To Make a Movie in BorneoIn the 1980s, Dallas was booming, Reagan was president, and Allyn was a young political savant earning a reputation as a master Republican strategist.
Rob Allyn’s Crazy Dream To Make a Movie in BorneoAllyn delivered a six-hour lecture on the history of political advertising. Before he’d finished, Vicente Fox leaned over to his advisor and whispered, “Hire him.”
The Three Most Offensive People in RichardsonI could argue that this movie has dominated Allyn’s life to such an extent that he didn’t leave political consulting to make movies, he left to make Rajah.
Dallas Is Still Dreaming of SelenaTrial by Trolley is a new party card game from the Cyanide & Happiness crew that hits Target stores this month. If you like Cards Against Humanity, then you will dig it. If you don’t, then you won’t.
Dallas Is Still Dreaming of SelenaOn the afternoon of the day of his daughter’s death,
Vanessa Ogle Is the Rock ‘n’ Roll CEOFrom a lowrider car show to music to a lookalike contest, an art show, and even karaoke, the early spring event is held across Oak Cliff, which has become a Dallas hub for honoring Selena.
A Theater Troupe of Teens Is Staging Some of the Boldest Work in Dallas“It’s gotten to the point where we are recognized more for our music than anything. … and I think that’s awesome.”
The Video Game That Makes People Fall in Love“I myself couldn’t get access to these people. I think it is because we’re a teen company. People say yes because they are like, ‘Kids, sure, what harm could they do?’ ”
Jung Young Moon’s Absurd Take on TexasIt isn’t unusual for players to travel between cities in search of Killer Queen scenes.
CentralTrak Is Dead, Long Live CentralTrakSuch deadpan interpretations of reality abound in Moon’s new book, which is among the more singular and peculiar novels about Texas and Dallas you will ever read.
Terri Thoman Is Back to Her One True Love: Paper“There are people with power and they don’t get too close to the unwashed.”
Assessing the Dallas Arts District, 10 Years Later“Coming here actually offered me more of an opportunity to share the studio with others, I collected all of my presses that were on loan to people.”
Assessing the Dallas Arts District, 10 Years LaterAlmost 40 years after it was promised, the Dallas Arts District might finally be edging toward realization.
Remembering Katherine Owens (1957-2019)It has taken 10 years, but leadership in the district is thinking about collaboration in the right way.
“Why chase someone else’s dream in some other city when Dallas offered an opportunity to push the boundaries and set your own rules?”