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Arts + Culture
Joe Manganiello, director of ‘LaBare,’ strips down his movie
The big reason why we chose Dallas over shooting instead in Vegas or L.A. was, I wanted real men, dudes, cowboys, or the idea of a cowboy. They pay to be seduced by a cowboy. Guys are the yang — the aggressive. So many women in L.A. complain. “Where are the…
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In brief: ‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’
The first act of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark — playwright Lynn Nottage’s play about the African-American experience in the 1930s, as lived by black women on the fringe of the movie business in Hollywood — is an intriguing and unexpected comedy played with w…
Arts + Entertainment
Ask Howard
How to do what’s wrong right HOWARD LEWIS RUSSELL | Special Contributor [email protected] Dear Howard, I recently visited a former college roommate of mine from UT now living in Denver. After a few six packs and tokes, we got to talking about sex…
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Grand standing
A sit-down with out musician Steve Grand, after a year of stardom When we last sat down with gay singer-songwriter Steve Grand last July he was making national headlines for his music video “All-American Boy,” which soon logged more than a million views on…
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Sam I am
Soulful Brit singer answers the question: What if Adele became Aaron Neville? ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor How’s this for creative viral marketing: Release an album, and just as you do, leak a YouTube video of you singing a cover of a Whitney Hous…
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Bare essentials
Documentary about famed Dallas male strip club LaBare has heart … and other body parts ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor There comes a moment during the new documentary LaBare — it will be different for everyone — when you suddenly realize something:…
Arts + Culture
Film review: ‘Ivory Tower’
Is college a bastion of intellectualism, providing a broad-form liberal arts education to prepare driven young people to go forth in the world, or an over-priced trade school teaching its acolytes to land a good job at 22?
Arts + Entertainment
Best Bets • 06-27-14
Friday 06.27 Del Shores gets more sordid at the Rose Room In his movies, TV shows and plays, Del Shores vigorously skewers religious fanatics, homophobes and hypocrites by having his characters attack them. In his standup, Shores does the same thing, but th…
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Crossword Puzzle • 06-27-14
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Dallas Voice contributor gets hitched in Indiana
Dallas Voice contributor gets hitched in Indiana
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Some advice for Gary Oldman
In your interview with Playboy magazine, you rant about the hypocrisy that allows leftish humorists and celebrities to “get away with” insulting people, and the unfairness that right-wingers can’t do the same thing
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Olivia snags Bonnie Raitt as entertainment for Thanksgiving cruise
Olivia snags Bonnie Raitt as entertainment for Thanksgiving cruise
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