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Information and State at Large from Wednesday at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue. at DSGADallas.org or email info@ 6-9 p.m. at Sue Ellen’s, DSGADallas.org. 3014 Throckmorton St. APRIL • April 6-8: Deep Ellum Arts Festival • April 7: No Tie Dinner: • April 9: Dallas Six blocks of Main Street in Deep Ellum A Night to Remember Cultural Plan are transformed into an arts festival from Presented by Purple Foundation, and Creative Conversation is an 11 a.m.-11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday benefits AIDS Services Dallas from annual panel launched by and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. on Sunday. 7-11 p.m. at the Frontiers of Flight Mayor Mike Rawlings for Museum, 6911 Lemmon Ave. $75-150. Dallas Arts Month from • April 7: Different Strokes Golf Tickets available online at 6-8 p.m. at Moody Association NoTieDinner.org. Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. Free with OBITUARY • April 7: TWCD Gala ticket at ticketdfw.com/ The Women’s Chorus of Dallas holds whats-on/2018. a gala at 7 p.m. at the Interfaith Peace Drag artist Brandi Amara Skyy is one of the “professors” at Chapel, 5910 Cedar Springs Road. • April 9: Tarrant County Resource Center’s University of Drag on Saturday. See listings Tickets are available at TWCD.org. Stonewall Democrats for details. State Rep. Mary Gonzalez is • April 7-8: Texas Tradition Rodeo the speaker at 7 p.m. at the Women’s Club [email protected]. Texas Gay Rodeo Association hosts its of Fort Worth, 1316 Pennsylvania Ave., 35th annual Texas Tradition Rodeo Fort Worth. • April 12: GLBT Chamber new Saturday and Sunday at the Mesquite member showcase Arena, 1818 Rodeo Drive in Mesquite. • April 10: Resource Center tour Meet the North Texas GLBT Chamber Stay tuned for details. (The rodeo was Resource Center CEO Cece Cox of Commerce’s newest members at the moved from the initially-announced leads a behind-the-scenes tour of new member showcase and business location in Denton.) the center’s community center at connections mixer from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 5750 Cedar Springs Road. RSVP to Hilton Garden Inn Dallas Market Center, • April 7: Scarborough Faire [email protected]. 7325 N. Stemmons Freeway. Timothy Ross Bratcher passed away The annual Renaissance Faire opens peacefully on March 24, 2018, in Dallas. and runs through May 28. • April 10: PFLAG Tyler • April 13: Compassion Tim was born Jan. 15, 1971, in Lubbock, PFLAG meets at Tyler Area Chamber of Fatigue Symposium grew up in Conroe and graduated from Oak • April 7: Grace Project Clothing Drive Commerce, 315 N. Broadway Ave., Ste. Ed-U-Care presents a program for Ridge High School. He attended Texas Tech University and Sam Houston State University Clothing drive from 10 a.m.-noon at 100, Tyler. For information visit caregivers from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at and worked as an IT professional. Legacy Counseling Center, TylerAreaGays.com. Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, He was currently working at UT Southwest- 4054 McKinney Ave. 9200 Inwood Road. ern Medical Center-Dallas in cardiac research. • April 10: North Lake College Pride He was a board member of Gulf Coast Archive • April 7: University of Drag Pride sponsored by the Gay-Straight • April 13: DFW Pride Happy Hour and Museum of GLBT History in Houston. Tim was also a member of the Empire of Learn more about the art of drag Alliance. Information from community From 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Bluffview Growler, the Royal Sovereign and Imperial Court of at 4 p.m. at Resource Center, diverse organizations from 3850 W. Northwest Highway, Ste. 1180. the Single Star–Houston, for which he helped 5950 Cedar Springs Road. 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at North Lake College, raise money for Houston HIV/AIDS and LGBT 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving. • April 14: Family Fun Day at youth. He was an active participant in various • April 8: Turtle Creek Association the Dallas Zoo other civic activities supporting the LGBT community and was on the board of Tucker’s Tour of Homes • April 11: The Power of Empowerment Free admission to the Dallas Zoo for Gift-Dallas, an organization that helps HIV/ The Turtle Creek Association hosts the Prism Health opens its new East Dallas residents of Districts 1, 2, 6, and 14 (The 4 AIDS patients care for their pets. Tour of Homes, featuring five residences Empowerment Center from 6-8p.m. Amigos — Griggs, Medrano, Narvaez and He is survived by his parents, Burt Bratcher, along the Turtle Creek Blvd., from 1-5 p.m. at 3910 Gaston Ave. #125. Kingston) from 9 a.m.-noon at the Dallas Rosalyn Maxwell and stepfather Jimmie Max- Tickets are $54 each for non-association Zoo, 650 S. R.L. Thornton. Parking is $10 well; and his sister, Tara. His very loved dog, Mojo also survives him. members and $45 each for members • April 12: PFLAG Dallas or take the Red Line. In lieu of flowers, donations in Tim’s name through March 31. Prices go up after that PFLAG meets the second Thursday may be made to Tucker’s Gift, Hope Hos- date. Parking will be available at of every month from 7-9 p.m. at • April 14: HRC Federal Club pice New Braunfels, Gulf Coast Archive and 3811 Turtle Creek Blvd. For information Northaven United Methodist Church, spring luncheon Museum of GLBT History in Houston, or Turtle visit TurtleCreekAssociation.org. 11211 Preston Road. 972-849-0383. From 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Creek Chorale in Dallas.

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Every- will also draw in new members who care ready to stage their 35th In the traditional bareback and saddle thing was sponsored — all the buckles, ev- about helping and promoting the LGBT annual Texas Tradition bronc riding competitions, the rider can erything. community. Rodeo this weekend at only use one hand to hold on to the “rig- “It opened our eyes to marketing in a “That’s how we got started back in the the 5,500-seat Resistol ging;” if their free hand touched the horse new and different way,” he continued, say- 1980s, after all,” Smith said. “We were Arena, home of the Mesquite Pro Rodeo. in any way, the rider was disqualified. But ing that the LGBT-focused organization trying to raise money to help people with Tickets are $10 per person per day, avail- “ranch” saddle bronc riding has no such learned a lot about finding support in the AIDS.” able at the gate. restriction. Riders can use both hands to mainstream community. So when TGRA He explained that each of the five TGRA Rodeo weekend began Thursday night hold on and to encourage the horse to big- officials learned this year that the Diamond chapters — Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, with the TGRA Royalty competitions at Sue ger, better bucking. They also often spread T would no longer be available — that it Austin and San Antonio — hold fundrais- Ellen’s, and continues today (Friday, April colored powder over the horse’s rump that had planned to hold the rodeo there again ing events all year to help pay for the state 6) with horse check-in beginning at 8 a.m. will spray into the air as the animal moves this year — they decided to go big. That’s rodeo. Then the state rodeo takes all of its and contestant/volunteer registration from and bucks. how the Texas Traditions Rodeo ended up proceeds and distributes the money back to 5-8 p.m., both at the arena. Barrel racing “It’s an up-and-coming event in all the at one of the most famous rodeo arenas in the local chapters. exhibition rides start at 3 p.m. at the arena, rodeos, including mainstream, that’s been the state. “The idea is to be able to get enough and the Texas Slide Barrel Racing Competi- approved by the [International Gay Rodeo “The Mesquite arena has been great,” sponsorships and to bring in enough mon- tion begins at 7 p.m. Association] for our events. Last year was Smith said, explaining that TGRA gets pro- ey that we can send all the money each The competition gets underway in ear- the first time we had ranch saddle bronc ceeds from ticket sales, concession stand chapter raises back to them, plus some,” nest at 8 a.m. Saturday with calf roping on riding,” Smith said. “It’s just a lot more sales and beer sales this year, and it’s the Smith said. “Then the local chapters dis- foot, followed by steer decorating, mount- showy and a whole lot of fun for the audi- beer sales that help bring in the profit. tribute that money to the beneficiaries they ed roping, team roping and steer riding. ence to watch.” Those attending will have to pay for park- have chosen in their city.” The Grand Entry steps off at noon, and TGRA, like other LGBT-focused rodeo ing, and that money doesn’t go to TGRA, The state rodeo gives other nonprofits a is followed by what Rodeo Director (and organizations as well as mainstream “west- “because they already have a contract with chance to raise money for themselves: Dif- TGRA-Dallas Chapter President) Boogie ern lifestyle” organizations and events, has someone to handle parking,” he explained. ferent organizations staff beer booths and Hood calls “the spectator events:” ranch been struggling to draw in the younger Smith also noted that the IGRA Finals ro- concessions at the rodeo, and while the saddle bronc riding, chute-dogging, pole generation, Smith said. “But,” he added, deo for this year will also be held at Mes- money from the sale of the food and drink bending, goat dressing, barrel racing, flag “we are finding new and better ways to do quite’s Resistol Arena. goes to TGRA, those staffing the booths get racing, the wild drag race — then finishing that.” Smith said that TGRA — like other LGBT to keep their tips for their own organiza- up with the granddaddy of rodeo sports, In 2015, TGRA held its rodeo at the Fair and mainstream “western lifestyle” organi- tions. the bull riding. Saturday night at 7 p.m., Park rodeo arena, because the site original- zations — has struggled in recent years to “Community service has always been a there will be a TGRA fundraising event at ly intended — Texas Horse Park at the Trin- get younger people involved and active. very important part of our mission,” Smith The Hidden Door, and on Sunday night, at ity — wasn’t yet finished. But the next year “We’ve been selling an old product in old continued. “Back in the day we would go the end of competition, awards will be pre- moved to the Horse Park — and the event ways,” he said. “Now we are creating new out in our whites [the white dress shirts em- sented at the arena. lost money. product and marketing it in new ways. It’s broidered with the TGRA logo] to help out Throughout the weekend, there will be a So in 2017, TGRA took a large leap of faith been a big challenge, and we have struggled at events. And we have always been a big wide range of vendors on hand and enter- and headed north, holding last year’s event trying to reach a new and different crowd. part of the Pride celebration in Dallas. We tainment in the 8 Second Club all day both at the Diamond T Arena in Denton, despite But we are doing it.” help out with the parade, and we man the Saturday and Sunday. Prism Health repre- the dire warnings that a gay rodeo wouldn’t TGRA now uses social media more exten- beer booths. That’s always been one of our sentatives will also be on hand to offer free be welcome in that more rural setting. sively to get word out, and “we hold rodeo biggest fundraisers for the rodeo.” HIV testing. Instead, Smith said, TGRA was wel- schools, where the seasoned cowboys and And, Smith and Hood stressed, you don’t Ranch Hand Rescue, an animal rescue comed with open arms. cowgirls teach classes and give hands-on have to be a seasoned cowboy or cowgirl to and rehabilitation organization with its “At first, we didn’t know how it would instruction to newcomers,” he said. be a TGRA member. headquarters in Denton and a facility in Ar- go over. But the locals — oh my god! They He explained that the Red River Rodeo “You don’t even have to know how to gyle, is one of the rodeo beneficiaries, as is were wonderful! The support and the spon- Association — a contestant focused LGBT ride a horse. You can learn at rodeo school, a new safe house for young men who have sorships we got from the community there, rodeo organization in Texas — helps TGRA if you want, but you don’t have to,” Smith been victims of sexual abuse. That facility, the straight community — it was just amaz- in holding the rodeo schools. said. “There’s room for everyone in TGRA.” Smith said, is only the second of it kind in ing,” Smith said. “The Juicy Pig [a barbecue Smith and Hood also said that they hope TGRA annual dues are $25/person. For in- the nation. Ranch Hand Rescue will also restaurant in the middle of town] came to TGRA’s commitment to community service formation on how to join, visit TGRA.org. █

8 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 One Plano Our Plano: No room for bigotry here

TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor with the declaration, [email protected] “New Orleans may be taking his likeness coalition of Plano residents down, but we true on Wednesday submitted southerners will hon- a petition calling on the or him today.” city to hold an election Another one, to recall Place 7 Coun- Tom Harrison shared by Harrison cilman Tom Harri- on Nov. 5, 2016, in- son, in the wake of cludes a photo of African-Americans work- a number of what ing in a cotton field and a photo of African they say are racist and bigoted posts on men with their hands chained behind them Harrison’s Facebook page. and chains around their necks. It reads: Harrison has apologized for any “unin- “In the 19th century all slave owners were tentional hurt” he may have caused, but he Democrats. In the 21st century, all slave has refused calls by other city council mem- owners are Muslim. Their allies are the bers, including Mayor Harry LaRosiliere, Democrats. Democrats: Supporters of black to resign from his seat, despite unanimous slavery then. Supporters of black slavery vote by the other council members to cen- now. That’s a fact.” sure him. Harrison said Wednesday, through a David Smith with One Plano Our Plano, spokesman, that he is “neither a racist nor the organization seeking Harrison’s ouster a bigot,” that he has plenty of supporters from the council, said the group needed to who believe in his brand of conservatism, have 2,791 verified signatures on the petition and that he is confident he would win the to force a recall, and they submitted 4,425. recall election “and win it handily.” City spokesman Steve Stolar explained Also according to the spokesman, Harri- that the Plano City Secretary’s office now son claims that he has never seen some of has five days to validate the signatures and the posts being attributed to him, and that, then report to the City Council. He noted “Anyone that knows me will attest to me that One Plano Our Plano submitted 568 not being ‘anti-‘ anything.” pages full of signatures on the petition. Smith said that One Plano Our Plano was The fifth day from the day the petition able to collect petition signatures quickly was submitted will be next Monday, April and in large numbers because the recall 9, the day of the council’s next scheduled effort is an “all-volunteer, citizen-led” ef- meeting, and he said City Secretary Lisa fort. He said that large numbers of voters Henderson will likely report to the council oppose the kind of bigotry that Harrison’s at that meeting. Facebook posts evince and that Harrison’s If at that time Henderson has validated at views do not reflect the attitude of the city least 2,791 or the 4,000-plus signatures sub- of Plano and the majority of its residents. mitted, Harrison “will have one last chance “Bottom line — open bigotry has no place to resign on his own, and if he doesn’t, the on our city council,” Smith said. city council has no choice but to set the re- Stolar explained that each of Plano’s eight call election,” Smith said. city council members holds a specific place Stolar said that the efforts to oust Harri- on the council — including the mayor, who son began after he shared a meme on his holds the Place 6 seat — but that all eight Facebook page calling for President Trump are elected at large, which means residents to “ban Islam in American schools.” When across the city vote on all eight seats. Only that post was made public, Stoler said, candidates/council members in Places 1, 2, LaRosiliere and other council members 3 and 4 are required to live in the specific called for Harrison to resign immediately. district designated by their Place numbers, When he refused, the council voted to cen- but even they are voted on city-wide. sure him. Plano council members serve four-year Stoler also noted that other posts on Har- terms and are limited to two terms. Stolar said rison’s Facebook page have since surfaced, Harrison was elected in 2015, and that the including one he re-posted May 25, 2017 number of valid signatures required on the — originally dated May 19, 2017, the day petition is based on 30 percent of the number that a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert of votes cast in the 2015 council election. █ E. Lee was removed from public display in Senior Staff Writer David Taffet contributed New Orleans — that shows a photo of Lee to this report.

04.13.18 █ dallasvoice 9 Black Tie announces 2018 beneficiaries

on Dragon and underwritten by Eighty in the spring, so the agency had to hire Three Creative Inc. someone just to coordinate the beneficia- The new kid on the beneficiary block ry requirements — table sales, raffle sales, is Trans Kids and Families of Texas. The collecting auction items and providing vol- returning beneficiary is The Women’s unteer hours. Chorus of Dallas, who was a recipient as BTD Co-Chair David Gifford-Robinson recently as 2016, but wasn’t among last explained that AIN was undergoing some year’s grantee organizations. reorganization. DFW Trans Kids and Families was Human Rights Campaign Foundation re- founded by a few families in 2015 to sup- mains the national beneficiary, as it has been port their transgender or gender expansive since the inception of Black Tie Dinner. children of all ages in the DFW area. Its Black Tie Dinner supports a variety nonprofit status is registered as Trans Kids of organizations throughout the Dallas and Families of Texas. LGBT community. Four of the agencies are Trans Kids and Families The organization holds monthly socials HIV-related, four are youth- or family-ori- is newest organization to connect families that support each oth- ented, and four are religious organiza- er and their kids as they transition. They tions. Three are cultural organizations, and on the list of grantees provide peer-to-peer and online support three are legal or legislative organizations. and offer medical, counseling and legal re- Among those 18 agencies, several over- DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer ferrals. They offer help with the expense of lap in services provided — Legal Hospice [email protected] transitioning and other related needs. of Texas is both a legal and HIV services This year, Trans Kids and Families of agency. Among Resource Center programs ne new benefi- Texas began a scholarship program for are those addressing issues related to HIV, ciary is in; one graduating high school students. youth, family and more. old one is back, “Our group has been growing pretty rap- Returning beneficiaries are AIDS Out- and three of last idly over the last three years,” said founder reach Center, AIDS Services of Dallas, Big year’s recipients Melissa Ballard. “We have about 600 mem- Brothers Big Sisters, Cathedral of Hope, are gone from bers. We want to provide ongoing support, Celebration Community Church, Congre- this year’s Black and that’s what Black Tie will help us do.” gation Beth El Binah, Equality Texas Foun- Tie Dinner’s list After a year’s absence from the benefi- dation, Lambda Legal, Legacy Counseling of grantees. ciary list, The Women’s Chorus of Dallas Center, Legal Hospice of Texas, Northaven One national and 18 local non-prof- returns this year. “We are so grateful to UMC, Promise House, Rainbow Roundup, Tony Vellucci it organizations will participate in and Black Tie for assisting us with fulfilling our Resource Center, Turtle Creek Chorale and receive funds from the 37th annual gala mission,” said Ann Rathbun, general man- Uptown Players. 2018 BENEFICIARY that will be held at the Sheraton Dallas ager of The Women’s Chorus of Dallas. The theme of this year’s Black Tie Dinner on Nov. 3. Rathbun said TWCD has a gala on Satur- is “Visible.” ORGANIZATIONS Black Tie also announced its theme for day, April 7 at 7 p.m. at the Interfaith Peace “It is imperative to the progress of the AIDS Outreach Center AIDS Services of Dallas this year’s dinner and introduced its new Chapel as well as its Mother’s Day concert overall equality movement that we each Big Brothers Big Sisters development director at a kick-off event at 2 p.m. on May 13 at the Texas Discov- show up everyday and are Visible in our Cathedral of Hope held Thursday night, April 5, at The Hall ery Gardens. Tickets to both are available workplaces, homes and communities,” Celebration Community Church at TWCD.org. said Gifford-Robinson. Congregation Beth El Binah Three beneficiaries not returning this Black Tie also announced hiring Tony Vel- Equality Texas Foundation Lambda Legal year are AIDS Interfaith Network, now lucci as the new director of development. Legacy Counseling Center known as Access and Information Net- Velucci has held development positions Legal Hospice of Texas work, Suicide and Crisis Center of North with Spooner House that provides shelter Northaven UMC Texas and the Trevor Project. Trevor and services in Shelton Conn., the Central Con- Promise House SCCenter didn’t apply this year. necticut Coast YMCA and the Archdiocese Rainbow Roundup Resource Center Trevor, a national LGBT teen crisis ho- of New York. Most recently, he served as the Turtle Creek Chorale tline, had hired a full-time development assistant director of development for Vo- Trans Kids and Families of Texas director for the region to do fundraising gel Alcove in Dallas. Black Tie beneficiary Uptown Players across an area that generates the largest Congregation Beth El Binah was one of the The Women’s Chorus of Dallas Human Rights Campaign Foundation portion of its hotline calls. He left later founding organizations of Vogel Alcove. █

10 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 04.13.18 █ dallasvoice 11 Couple attacked on Reagan Street

Victim pursues attacker, gets the Ruger. license plate; assailant gets away “My immediate reaction was to get the with nothing gun from being pointed at me,” Cardenas said. He grabbed his arm and pointed his arm DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer away from him. The man shot down into [email protected] the ground. “I shouted, ‘Take it all,’” Cardenas said. couple walking from S4 on After he picked up Wolf’s phone and Cedar Springs Road to wallet, the man ran down Reagan Street to- Grapevine Bar on Maple ward Dickason Avenue and ducked into an Avenue early Saturday alley behind an apartment complex. Carde- morning, March 31, nas asked Wolf if he was OK. Wolf said he were attacked by a was, and Cardenas took off in pursuit. man with a gun. A While chasing the robber, Cardenas similar attack earli- called 911, and the dispatcher told him not er in March may have been committed by to follow the attacker. Cardenas told the op- the same man, police say, but this time one erator that since police weren’t there, some- of the victims ran the attacker down and one had to chase the attacker. got his license “All she kept plate number. telling me was Zohar Wolf not to chase said he and his him,” Cardenas husband were said. holding hands But he con- as they walked tinued down toward Maple the alley and Avenue at about saw the attack- 12:30 a.m. that er jump into a Saturday. Wolf pickup. He got told Cardenas close enough to he didn’t feel read the oper- safe walking ator the license there because of plate number. previous attacks The attacker in the neigh- saw Cardenas borhood. But chasing him and Cardenas told talking on the his husband it phone. He start- would be OK. ed the engine and put the pickup in reverse “All of a sudden, somebody jumped from to run Cardenas over, but Cardenas jumped the left side of us shouting, ‘Fuck you! Fuck behind a telephone pole so the attacker you! Give me your money!’” Wolf said. couldn’t hit him without slamming his car “He grabbed Zohar around the neck and into the pole. The attacker put the pickup in pointed a gun at me,” Cardenas added. drive and sped off down the alley. Cardenas had researched what to do if From his phone, Cardenas put Wolf’s attacked on the street. He said that he had phone into lost mode, and he could tell it read to throw his cell phone under a parked was still in the area. Wolf had been shout- car to make it difficult for the robber to get. ing for help. Someone came out of one of Wolf threw his phone, but it landed on the the apartments and helped them find his sidewalk. The attacker picked it up along wallet and phone down the alley. with his wallet containing credit cards and When the police arrived, they took fin- identification. gerprints off the phone screen and credit Cardenas said he kept his eye focused on cards. the gun, which he said he thinks was an LG The assailant got away with nothing,

12 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 and, Wolf realized after the attack, he actu- ally had cash in his other pocket. On March 8, there was a similar attack. Police aren’t able to say they’re related yet but are investigating all leads and evidence to see if they are, according to Dallas Police Liaison Amber Roman. According to the police report, at 1:30 a.m. on March 8, the victim and his friend Ruger. were walking back to their car from one of “My immediate reaction was to get the the bars on Cedar Springs Road. The at- gun from being pointed at me,” Cardenas tacker approached him, pointed a gun and said. demanded his property. He grabbed his arm and pointed his arm “The suspect then pointed the weapon at away from him. The man shot down into the ground and fired once,” the victim said the ground. in the police report, identical to what hap- “I shouted, ‘Take it all,’” Cardenas said. pened to Wolf and Cardenas. After he picked up Wolf’s phone and There was a struggle, the victim’s friend wallet, the man ran down Reagan Street to- began to help and the attacker fled. ward Dickason Avenue and ducked into an About 30 minutes earlier, there had been alley behind an apartment complex. Carde- an attack in the 4200 block of Maple Ave- nas asked Wolf if he was OK. Wolf said he nue near the bars Marty’s Live and Liquid was, and Cardenas took off in pursuit. Zoo. While chasing the robber, Cardenas Crimestoppers offered a $5,000 reward called 911, and the dispatcher told him not for information leading to an arrest, but to follow the attacker. Cardenas told the op- those crimes went unsolved. erator that since police weren’t there, some- Roman said police are checking the li- one had to chase the attacker. cense plate and who the car is registered to, “All she kept but that’s not definitive evidence because telling me was the car or the plate could be stolen. not to chase Roman’s advice to the community him,” Cardenas echoed that of the 911 operator: Pursuing said. an armed attacker is not a good idea. But he con- When Cardenas ducked behind the tele- tinued down phone pole, he wasn’t necessarily safe, she the alley and said. The assailant could have reached out saw the attack- of the car or stepped out of the car and shot er jump into a him. pickup. He got “When the aggressor feels like they’re close enough to being attacked, anything can happen,” Ro- read the oper- man said. Chad Nyland, DO | Steven M. Pounders, MD | Cameron Wyatt, FNP ator the license She said even though the attacker shot Chad Crager, FNP | Trew Deckard, PA-C, MHS plate number. toward the ground, any of them could have The attacker been hit by shrapnel or the bullet could saw Cardenas have ricocheted. We are expanding in both our space and staff! chasing him and “The most important thing is, don’t jeop- talking on the ardize your own safety,” she said. A medical practice with more than 25 years experience phone. He start- She also repeated a number of sugges- in the heart of our community ed the engine and put the pickup in reverse tions that circulated around the neighbor- to run Cardenas over, but Cardenas jumped hood two years ago when the LGBT com- behind a telephone pole so the attacker munity felt it was under siege after a series couldn’t hit him without slamming his car of attacks on people walking from the bars into the pole. The attacker put the pickup in on Cedar Springs Road to their cars or Primary Care | HIV Specialists drive and sped off down the alley. walking home. The recent attacks are not Cosmetic Procedures From his phone, Cardenas put Wolf’s related to those, Roman said. phone into lost mode, and he could tell it Roman suggested walking in pairs. “Be was still in the area. Wolf had been shout- cognizant of the area,” she said. Concierge Medicine offered by ing for help. Someone came out of one of She said Cardenas and Wolf were walk- MEDICAL PRACTICE OF the apartments and helped them find his ing from Cedar Springs Road to Maple Steven M. Pounders, MD wallet and phone down the alley. Avenue. During the day, it’s a short walk Dr. Steven M. Pounders When the police arrived, they took fin- through a neighborhood of apartments and gerprints off the phone screen and credit houses. At night, however, when there’s no cards. activity on the street, it’s safer to drive be- Call Today 214.520.8833 The assailant got away with nothing, tween the two areas. █ 3500 Oak Lawn, Ste. 600 | drpounders.com

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But the clear majority (I include cost is a guarantee that you will not be nick- launched on our community. Kevin Thomas Art Director I 119 myself) show our age. If we take an hon- eled and dimed into poverty by a low-class To counter the homophobia, we focused Chuck Miller Graphic Designer I 132 est look in the mirror, we’ll see an ordinary hustler. on our own credibility as family. But in older man, much like our father. That takes 2. Consider becoming involved with the process, we began to mimic the hete- multimedia some serious adjusting. both the leather and bear communities. ro-norm in some unhealthy ways. Stephen Mobley Social Media Manager l 123 Many of us moved through our lives with These men are far more fluid in their atti- We are not heterosexuals. 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We are not our heterosexual relatives founders That, too, is a fact in this youth-focused These men inhabit a much more secure en- and neighbors. We are different. We need Robert Moore | Don Ritz subculture of men. vironment because of their ability to clearly to shed the ridiculous notion that we are Another biting reality is that any atten- acknowledge boundaries. There is much to made in their image. affiliations/memberships tion given to older gay men by, say, men in borrow from this world that could ensure And as we age, we need to be realistic and Associated Press - Associate Member National Gay and Gay Journalists Association their 30s is suspect. Rare is the heart-of-gold one’s safety. safe. We are not statistics. We are not crime- Certified LGBT Business Enterprise daddy chaser. No, the motive is usually 3. Make CraigsList absolutely off limits. It scene outlines. Older gay men do not need darker. 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14 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 04.06.18 █ dallasvoice 15 LIFE+STYLE interview The other ‘otherTyra’

16 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 Tyra Banks launches a new book book, and will be appearing with you in Dallas. What’s your relationship been like? and talks business and beauty We really are close. There’s no such thing as a taboo subject with her — she even embar- ans of RuPaul’s Drag Race will recog- rassed me a lot by bringing up [discussions] nize the phrase “the other Tyra” — a on boys and sex and relationships. Usually F reference to Season 2 champ Tyra a kid doesn’t want to talk about something, Sanchez. And there really are two Tyras … so her being so raw and real helped me not only both have the last name Banks. experiment with sex and other things too The first Tyra is the supermodel — the early. She’s hilarious and at times can curse first African-American woman to grace like a sailor or be the holiest person in the the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit world. On that part she’s always been a very Edition, the host of America’s good friend. But she doesn’t go to the clubs with me and she doesn’t like me Next Top Model who popu- TYRA BANKS to talk back! larized terms like “smizing” Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St. April 11. 7:30 p.m. (smiling with your eyes) and ATTPAC.org. She was also your manager all manner of variations on when you started modeling “tooch” (booty, poochie, juicy), and who at 15…. Yes, she was the one held headshots like Oscar envelopes. The who told me to plan to leave modeling early, because I wasn’t going to be some hot second Tyra is Ms. Banks — the entrepre- supermodel forever. She was my Kris Jenner neur who took a course at the Harvard — she guided me a lot and protected me. Business School for running an empire … which she now does, while teaching her You’ve been a long outspoken ally of the gay own class at Stanford. community. How did that passion devel- So which one am I talking to today? op? Maybe being in the fashion industry Starting when I was very, very young. To Of course, I’m talking to both… and a see so many people disenfranchised and mother, daughter, author (of, among other, abolished from their households or excom- her new book Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things municated while I was holding Thanksgiving My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught dinners for those “orphans.” Me About Beauty, Booty and Be- Then it ballooned into something ing a Boss) speaker and all kinds bigger. Perhaps being a black of other qualities that make woman and understanding the Banks so identifiable and attrac- struggles made me feel a kinship tive to millions of her fans. [with the gay community]. I also A few thousand more will have gotten credit for stuff I took get to experience Banks in from the gay community, like saying “fierce,” which the gay person next week, when she community in New York started! I launches a book tour with a live just [popularized it]. onstage conversation about her life. (Tickets to the appearance You have created a host of include a signed copy of her catchphrases, though, like book.) smize. They do seem tongue in cheek to an extent, but also you We called up Banks — she treat them so seriously … although maybe was eating Chinese food and taking care mock-seriously? A lot of the things I do of her son while we chatted — to get a on America’s Next Top Model I am in on the preview of her event, her book and her life jokes. I say it’s like the Flintstones vitamins as an imperfect businesswoman. █ of my childhood, which taste so good, but — Arnold Wayne Jones there are vitamins in it, so it’s good for you! There’s fun and camp with “smize,” a word I trademarked but introduced it in the most camp way: SuperSmize was a superhero — Dallas Voice: What’s the professional ac- pretty Wakanda thank you very much! —and complishment in life you’re most proud I had a cape and laser beam eyes. I knew it of? Tyra Banks: I’d say it was being “first” was ridiculous but I also knew how to make in so many different things — whether the it stick. Over time, I knew it wouldn’t be as first black woman to have a Victoria’s Secret much of a joke. I overhear people talk about contract, or be on the cover of Sports Illus- smizing in bars now! trated or the female model of any kind to be on the cover of GQ, even [to create] the first Will you be doing another cycle of ANTM? fashion-based reality show. Those “firsts” Any chance men will be coming back? How mean a lot to me, which I didn’t realize until great was that? That was so fun. We have a I went to Harvard Business School [for a new partner with VH1, who wanted it to be three-year program on entrepreneurship] and just girls, but I hope I will be allowed to bring my marketing professor did a case study on men back. ANTM I’m sure will be coming me. Of course, being first means you make back, along with America’s Got Talent, which a lot of mistakes. I’ve been first on things I’m hosting again, starting May 29. And in that didn’t work. Fortunately, people tend to 2019 I have some pretty massive things I forget about those. will be launching. So I may be talking to you again next year! Your mother was the inspiration for your

04.06.18 █ dallasvoice 17 L+S music Toni, Toni, Toni

Watch...Watch... Braxton is back, and talking sex, smoking and #MeToo hen you have seven Grammys those famous notes. █ @dallasvoice.com and an iconic voice that can — Chris Azzopardi W drop to ocean depths, it’s your god-given right to also have a no-wings- Dallas Voice: That album cover, Toni. You’re in-my-dressing-room policy. This is Toni on fire. Toni Braxton: Thank you. I feel good Braxton in 2018, still decrying the existence about it. You know, I was hungry while I was of pungent food in her midst before a doing that. That was a little hard. But I love concert. But sex? Cigars? Alkaline water? the album cover. I thought [photographer Unbreak Ms. Braxton’s heart with any of and director] Randee St Nicholas’s choice of the above. lighting was really superb. While talking about her first solo album How would you describe your mood there? in eight years, Sex & Cigarettes, the 50-year- It’s self-explanatory with that title: I’m feeling old R&B diva was in tell-all mode when like sex and cigarettes. I feel sexy, like I need discussing her appreciation for the current a puff afterwards. generation’s outspoken female artists, the You puff? I smoke cigars once or twice a year. Mariah and Janet duets that could’ve been Every year for my birthday I do, and some- (thanks a lot, bankruptcy and babies), and times around the holiday. It’s not my friend her secret — hint: nose job — to hitting to smoke, with lupus and all, but you have to

18 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 have a vice or two. A nice stogie, something I Most of them have chosen not to talk about it of endearment: “That bitch is hot.” And even sometimes they forget. can chew. Something really hardy. because they have kids and they’re like, “It’s now the word “diva” is coming back in style, That doesn’t seem like too much to ask for. behind me, but it happened to me too.” But and it’s OK to be a diva. It’s a great moment You’re known to have a deep voice, so a Not like you’re requesting a specific brand I’m very lucky that I don’t have any stories to be a girl. few puffs can’t hurt. My voice is naturally of water. Well, I’m particular about that too like that. smoky, but when I do the cigars, it’s for my Are you a diva? Oh, all of us are sometimes, sometimes. As long as it’s alkaline high, but birthday and I try not to work on my birthday. Going back to the elusiveness of ’90s artists: absolutely. I think the world is about that water now. But Even if I do, after my show I do a little puff- Did that stop you from being yourself? they know that, so they get it. I don’t really What are you most diva-ish about? I am very, puff. Not a puff-puff-pass. Early on I was allowed to be myself and have this big rider. I don’t have anything like very particular about my stage when I go on express myself through fashion. I always kind that. But I don’t like food in my room. Do not Some of your social commentators aren’t stage. I don’t like having to adjust my mic of pushed the envelope on my sexuality. I have food in my room! I do not want to go on keen on what you’re wearing. One person when I first start performing. I think it’s tacky. think it’s definitely different rules for women stage smelling like food. wrote, “We as older women have to set an Instead of starting off singing, you gotta compared to rules for guys. And we had to example for younger women.” Oh, that’s adjust your mike because they think you’re Some people have food, like wings; they want ride the wave a little bit, the women of our cute. It doesn’t really bother me. I think if 5-foot-6 and I’m 5-1 and three-fourths. You food before they perform because some generation, and if we said anything, we were you look good, you can wear it. Any age. For would think my people would know that but █ being a bitch. Of course now it’s just a term TONI Next Page me, personally, I don’t wear midriffs. I think I’m too old to wear midriffs. Each his own. It’s just me, my body shape, I’m sure. But I work hard on my body, not just because I’m older, just because I like to be in great health. We Make Buying a Jeep And it’s OK for people to have their opinion. I have my opinion too on things that I probably shouldn’t. I would never post it. a Walk in the Park! Can you talk about the pressure on you and other women to dress and look a certain way, and has those industry expectations changed with age? Gosh, you know, I feel forever 25. It’s kind of weird. Parts of me are 25, probably! I feel good about myself. In this industry, I would be disappointed if women said that. I mean, guys don’t know, but wom- en — we should embrace each other. I look at Madonna. She’s still doing it and Madon- na’s almost 60. Who cares. Or look at me, Janet or Halle Berry. We’re all in the same group. So, I think it’s all about how you feel about yourself, but I like that they’re talking and saying that. I like that now people look younger than their age. I think that people really see people and are thinking age less and aren’t thinking numbers. Numbers, to me, just determine how long you’ve been on the Earth. But I’m OK with it. The women’s movement to me is great. I’m excited about that part. Get a REAL OFFER for your car from a Yeah? I’m really excited about that because my generation in the ’90s, when I peaked, REAL PERSON without having to bring it in. when my career was at its highest, we were taught to be a little aloof. You had to be Visit MetroplexCDJR.com to get your trade-in value. mysterious. The younger generation, which I love, they’re my favorite because they speak Great Deals | Great Service | Great Staff | Great Location as loud as they want. They’re like, “We will not be missed.” Rihanna, she’s my favorite. I just love that about the new generation. It’s just nice to live your life out loud.

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artists have different requirements when they in the music business, as your self-titled perform. For me, I never eat before I have debut album was released in 1993. I was a a show. And if I’m hoarse and I have a lot little gay boy when I bought it on cassette of phlegm on my throat, I’m gonna eat an tape. You did not say cassette tape. That’s apple. So, I have fruit in my room. I may want taking me back. an apple to get the phlegm off. If I am hoarse What don’t people know about the making or it’s tight and there’s nothing on my throat, of your debut? Well, it was just before I got I might want some tea with a lot of honey. I my nose job. Might be too much information, don’t want the lemon. but yeah. We didn’t finish the album, so I was About Sex & Cigarettes: I understand a lot singing with a fresh nose job, which is virtu- Final Portrait. In 1964, a gay journal- of people have different takes on the title ally impossible because it hurt so bad — you ist named James Lord (Armie Hammer), of your song “Deadwood,” and are asking can’t really move it. Well, I don’t know how staying in Paris, agrees to sit for the ageing you, “Toni, why is the wood dead?” Why they do nose jobs now. I think they do it from do I have a hunch these people might be the inside – well, that was from the inside artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) your gay friends? [Laughs] Yes, they are. too, but you had to wear this little thing on for a portrait — a sitting, the maestro it and after they took it off, it was so sore. insists, that should take no more than an Tell me more. They were asking me that! But You can’t hardly move under your nose and afternoon. Weeks later, having irritated his it’s just an appropriate title! I know what in between your lips, and I remember it was boyfriend back in America to no end with deadwood is; I lived in Maryland. And being really difficult to sing. one postponement after another, Lord still in the suburbs, as kids, you would see the wood and kick it. “Don’t bring that dead- Did it become easier to hit the high notes hasn’t seen the completed work. How hard wood in the house.” So, for me, it makes or the low notes after the nose job? The can it be? sense and it’s something you just disregard higher notes got easier. I mean, I had rhino Frustration with “the artist” is a recog- and throw away. You didn’t care about it. But surgery, but I also had sinus surgery — I nized subgenre in the category of movie a lot of people were asking me, “Why the mean, everybody says that, but it’s really biopics, whether writers (Julia, Midnight in wood dead?” And I guess they got a point. true. But I had a nose job. Mine was a nose Paris, Before Night Falls), musicians (Shine, job. But I lucked out and my doctor fixed my You told me once that your Bird, Inside Llewyn Davis), sculptors (Ca- sinuses as well. I didn’t go in gay boys make you a mille Claudel) or especially painters (Pollock, there for my sinuses and they better girl. It’s so true. Lust for Life, Basquiat, The Agony and the fixed my nose – no. I went in Sometimes I forget to be Ecstasy), and are usually filled with shop- to get my nose fixed and in a girl. I forget to keep it worn tropes: Mental instability (often fu- the interim they fixed my si- feminine. But my boys re- nuses. So, I’m telling the truth, eled by alcohol or drugs), tragic outcomes, mind me to be a girl, to be truth: I went in for a nose job. fabulous about it. “Why are OK, pumpkin? you standing like that? Why are you standing with your What else? The jeans [on the shoulders down?” The little cover] were really too big for things. They just remind me me and they were pretty much to be a girl. I love it. cabled in the back. That was a true story. So many little The cover of your debut al- tidbits I could tell. bum, with your short hair, denim and that leather jacket, wasn’t exactly your most Why did we get a Whitney and Mariah duet femme moment. That is true. That’s kind of and never a Mariah and Toni duet? You the ’90s when it was still coming off the ’80s. know, Mariah had reached out to me about It was a bit more pookie then. doing a duet, but unfortunately, it was just before I knew the bankruptcy was gonna Do you have a gay posse you have to con- happen [Braxton filed for bankruptcy in 1998 sult before you release new music? It’s and 2010], but no one in the world knew. So more so about my look. My boys usually get when she asked me about doing a song to- my look together for me. And I have height gether, immediately I wanted to say yes, but I envy, and I like a particular type of shoe so couldn’t because what was about to unfold. I can be taller. They’ll go, “We have to find some thing that will give you height because Why aren’t you calling her right now? I’m those platforms are out. Stop wearing those.” gonna have to do that. There was talk about But I wanna be 5-foot-6. I try to keep it taller of me and Janet doing a song together on just to keep me current. But: “You gotta be this particular project, but she was pregnant. ahead of the season, Toni. You can’t do that. But my people had talked about it: “Perhaps We should do this look. OK, we’ll let you do you and Jan should do a song together.” But, that little thing because that’s kind of indica- hey, maybe me and Mariah. We were neigh- tive of who you are as an artist, so we’ll give bors for a second, so I probably should’ve you that one dated thing.” They keep me up reached out to her then, but it’s never too with the times. late. You’re actually gonna spark me to maybe talk to her about doing a remix or What was the last really dated thing you something. That’s actually a really good idea. couldn’t live without? I wear sweatsuits with high-heeled shoes all the time. You’ll What advice would “Sex & Cigarettes” Toni never catch me in a sweatsuit without a high- have for the Toni of 25 years ago? “Sex heeled shoe. I’ll never wear sneakers unless and Cigarettes” Toni would tell the Toni of 25 I’m going to the gym. years ago to have more sex and smoke more cigars and have fun. And don’t be afraid to This year commemorates your 25th year be a bitch.

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ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor [email protected] Final Portrait. In 1964, a gay journal- under-appreciation in their lifetimes. But ist named James Lord (Armie Hammer), Final Portrait contains virtually none of staying in Paris, agrees to sit for the ageing those. (It does include a fourth — sexual artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) voraciousness — but ah, well.) Giacometti for a portrait — a sitting, the maestro is quirky and infuriating, often impene- insists, that should take no more than an trably so, but Lord is his willing victim, an afternoon. Weeks later, having irritated his observer oddly intrigued at being the ob- boyfriend back in America to no end with served, whose growing anger is mollified one postponement after another, Lord still by the idea that the process is the art. hasn’t seen the completed work. How hard None of these insights are especially can it be? groundbreaking; Final Portrait is not a Frustration with “the artist” is a recog- groundbreaking movie. It is, though, a nized subgenre in the category of movie firmly entertaining one for what it is. It biopics, whether writers (Julia, Midnight in starts off at the edge of experimentalism: Paris, Before Night Falls), musicians (Shine, For a while, the images are abstractly Bird, Inside Llewyn Davis), sculptors (Ca- composed and edited so that the camera mille Claudel) or especially painters (Pollock, is rarely focused on the person talking. It Lust for Life, Basquiat, The Agony and the conjures a dreamy internal monologue. Ecstasy), and are usually filled with shop- But that eventually gives way to quaint worn tropes: Mental instability (often fu- set-pieces with Lord on the phone to the eled by alcohol or drugs), tragic outcomes, Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush in ‘Final Portrait’ █ ART Next Page

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U.S., changing his travel plans, his eyes darting as he wonders what he got himself into. And Hammer, already pretty to look at, makes for a welcome object of our gaze. But the film largely belongs to Rush. Rush’s film career didn’t begin until he was in his 40s, and has since been a study in unsettling character parts. His face is an amorphous glob, somehow resembling a basket of soiled laundry bewitched with eyes. His nose is bulbous, his jowls pen- dulant. (If you’ve ever seen Giacometti’s more famous works — his rough-hewn, elongated brass figurative sculptures — you’d swear they were all modeled by Rush himself.) Giacometti lives in a world ‘Isle of Dogs’ above; ‘A Quite Place’, opposite. of narcissistic desires projected into the real his real-life wife Emily Blunt — has con- world as a legacy of “art” — selfish, but of work that doesn’t go for big, showy for exploring his craft. In A Quiet Place, he being seen. That’s because the predators structed a tight genre film, though it might also affectless. He’s a spendthrift and a mis- insights but small, intimate ones. Final Por- shows that less can often be much more. who have apparently taken over the earth be more novelty than noteworthy if it only ery, abstruse but empathetic. The film is, at trait is another stave in his cask of creatives We’ve been acclimated to monster are blind and noseless, but their ears? Well, proved to be an exercise is discipline: “Can heart, a comedy, a valentine, not a tragedy. mid-creation. It’s what indie filmmaking movies where weak humans cower in the they have something akin to mother hear- I keep a feature film going with only a hint There’s a loving lightness to it all. was meant for. Now playing at the Angelika shadows because the behemoths possess ing — make a sound, and they descend of dialogue?” Even if that were its raison That tone rests with the writer-director, Mockingbird Station. superior sensory skills, from T. Rexes on you like Mueller on Trump associates. d’etre, it might be enough to recommend it, Stanley Tucci — best known, of course, A Quiet Place. Another writer-director attracted to movement to zombies who And when your enemy is a nine-foot tall but the film addresses existential issues as as an actor, but with a small yet enviable better known as an actor is John Krasins- can smell living flesh from 60 paces to praying mantis with rows of razor teeth, well. How much sound do you make in a catalogue of films behind the camera. Tucci ki — beloved as the goofily romantic Jim aliens who stalk best in total darkness or one peep is all it takes. day? An hour? Heck, in 30 seconds? How is a master of parsing the artistic temper- from The Office, but more serious in the who sense body heat. In A Quiet Place, the That means virtually the entire 90 do you not rattle pills in a bottle or chuckle ament, whether it’s of a chef (Big Night) family comedy-drama The Hollars and the Abbott family members (we only learn minutes of the film are close to wordless; at something amusing or creak a loose or a self-appointed essayist (Joe Gould’s environmental drama Promised Land. Like their names on the closing credits) walk the noisiest things are the shrieks of terror floorboard? How do you tell your spouse Secret) or comedians (The Impostors). His is Jordan Peele, he has apparently found that with flashlights at night and openly during by the audience. And there are lots of and kids you love them when three little an impressively thematically-unified body horror-thrillers are a legitimate avenue the day, undaunted at the prospect of shrieks. Krasinski — who also stars with words could be a death sentence? (The Welcome to Car Buying Made Simple 2 018 COROLLA LE ------$ 16999after rebate

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22 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 thrills aren’t cheaply achieved. Now playing The imagery in Isle of Dogs is charm- in wide release. ingly wacky, from the cotton-ball dustups Isle of Dogs. Since the 1990s, three direc- occasioned by dogfights to the stare-di- tors — Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linkla- rectly-into-the-camera perspectives to ter and Wes Anderson — have basically the Rube Goldbergian fascination with defined Texas indie filmmaking, but of the contraptions. But the humor arises from a triumvirate, Anderson has always seemed heartfelt love of how flawed we all are, and the most idiosyncratic and least Texas-y. acceptance of those flaws (one of the dogs He’s a world-builder, inventing fanciful is an inveterate gossip; one a dyed-in-the- locales within a recognizable universe with wool anarchist, etc.). Their flat affect makes an unabashedly cinematic whimsy, wheth- the jokes feel organic, the emotions fairly er it’s a gloriously pristine upper-crust evoked. NYC (The Royal Tenenbaums), a baroquely Some critics have clucked their tongues unlikely Eastern European resort (The at Isle of Dogs (which won the Headliners Grand Budapest Hotel), a surprisingly com- Award at last month’s SXSW) for “cultural fortable train traversing India (The Darjeel- appropriation,” which of course turns a ing Limited) or impossibly prim runaways blind eye (and deaf ear) to Anderson’s sto- his real-life wife Emily Blunt — has con- logistics remind me of how the novel Mem- in New England (Moonrise Kingdom). ried archness — almost always lacking in structed a tight genre film, though it might oirs of an Invisible Man explored the annoy- For his latest feature — like his Fantastic real-world textures, but instead forcing his be more novelty than noteworthy if it only ing mechanics of actually being invisible in Mr. Fox, a stop-motion animation targeting stylized sensibilities on all his characters. proved to be an exercise is discipline: “Can the modern world.) There’s more shushing adults, not Disney Channel kids — Ander- Like Whit Stillman, characters in a Wes I keep a feature film going with only a hint here than at a librarian convention. son heads to Japan 20 years in the future, Anderson film — whether dogs, oceanog- of dialogue?” Even if that were its raison Krasinski’s sad-eyed puppyness makes where the cat-loving mayor of the metrop- raphers or concierges — traffic in dialogue d’etre, it might be enough to recommend it, him a perfect conduit for worldless expres- olis Megasaki banishes all domesticated ca- that feels crafted by hand and baked in a but the film addresses existential issues as sion, and no one needs to be told Blunt is nines to a garbage island, left to die so that kiln, preserved, but delicate and precious. well. How much sound do you make in a a resourceful actress, but it’s their kids — his nefarious plans can be implemented. It’s not that he’s dissing Japanese culture, day? An hour? Heck, in 30 seconds? How Noah Jupe (Suburbicon, Wonder) and Milli- The mayor’s ward, a boy named Atari, sets it’s that he imposes his worldview on every do you not rattle pills in a bottle or chuckle cent Simmonds (Wonderstruck) who turn in off to rescue his beloved guardian, Spots culture. It’s Wes Anderson’s universe, we at something amusing or creak a loose some potent performances as tweens with (Live Schreiber), and enlists a pack of dogs merely live in it. And living in a universe floorboard? How do you tell your spouse all their adolescent issues forced to grow (voiced by Bryan Cranston, Edward Nor- with Isle of Dogs is a very positive thing. and kids you love them when three little up without foot-stomping or door slam- ton and others in the Andersonian orbit) to Good boy. Now playing at the Angelika words could be a death sentence? (The ming. A Quiet Place is terrifying, but the help him in his search. Mockingbird Station. █

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Friday 04.13 — Sunday 04.29 Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ closes out Dallas Opera’s season

George Bernard Shaw considered Mozart’s Don Giovanni among the greatest of all operas, though “Mozart” and “greatest” usually go hand-in-glove. And stage director Robert Falls’ colorful production of it is among the most acclaimed in recent memory. So adding a cast that includes Mariusz Kwiecien, Laura Claycomb, David Portillo and music direction by Emmanuel Villaume makes this the ideal production to close out the Dallas Opera’s season.

DEETS: Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. DallasOpera.org. Saturday 04.07 — Monday 05.28 Welcome (back) to the Renaissance

This weekend trigger the 38th season when North Texas reverts to an era of autocratic rulers and wandering minstrels, betighted vagabonds and turkey-leg eating wenches. It’s Scarborough Renaissance Festival, the cosplay-and-fantasy camp where kids, adults and kiddy-adults explore Saturday 04.07 a Medieval village, saying “verily” and “milady.” Each weekend now through No Tie Dinner and Dessert Party benefits ASD Memorial Day is different (each has its own theme and special guests). You can even It’s the 13th year that AIDS Services of Dallas has given a wink to fundraisers like the Black Tie Dinner see a joust and saucy lads and lasses by hosting its No Tie Dinner — actually a series of home-hosted dinners raising money for the service getting knighted! Cheerio! organization. But wherever you have your entrees, the big event culminates at the Frontiers of Flight Museum for a fabulous Dessert Party, this year featuring an ’80s prom theme, a live auction (with a DEETS: Scarborough Faire Grounds, standard poodle puppy on the block!) and live entertainment. It’s a sweet time all around. FM 66 in Waxahachie off I-35E, Exit 399B. SRFestival.com. DEETS: Frontiers of Flight Museum, 6911 Lemmon Ave. NoTieDinner.org. IMMIGRATION Truly Same-sex couples and Individuals Trusted Green Cards ❖ Fiancé Visas ❖ Citizenship Dental Care Waivers ❖ Appeals ❖ Deportation Defense Cosmetic Olinger Law, pllc and General Dentistry Lynn S. Olinger Board Certified Immigration Law Specialist

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04.06.18 █ dallasvoice 25 calendar highlights ARTSWEEK TUESDAY 04.10 THEATER FILM Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Drag queen Dixie All the President’s Men. Before there was Longate hosts an actual Tupperware party with The Post, there was this true story of the comic sass. McDavid Studio, 501 E. Fifth St., investigation into the Watergate break-in that Fort Worth. April 6–8. (Followed next week by topped the Nixon Administration. It couldn’t Dixie’s Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a be more timely. Screens as part of the Tuesday Mechanical Bull and 16 Other Things I Learned Big Movie New Classic Series at Landmark’s While I was Drinking Last Thursday.) Magnolia Theatre in the West Village, 3699 BassHall.com. McKinney Ave. Screens at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Empathitrax. The local premiere of a comedy about relationships, mental health and the drug society. Presented by Second Thought Theatre. Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphreys campus, WEDNESDAY 04.11 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Through April 28. 2TT.co. THEATER Dixie’s Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. Jubilee Theatre Mechanical Bull and 16 Other Things I Learned in Fort Worth presents its local premiere of the While I was Drinking Last Thursday. Drag jukebox musical celebrating African chant, Delta queen Dixie Longate’s solo show. McDavid Studio, spirituals and urban honkytonk. Jubilee Theatre, 501 E. Fifth St., Fort Worth. April 11–15. 506 Main St., Fort Worth. Through April 15. BassHall.com. JubileeTheatre.org.

FINE ART First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone. An exhibit of found and modified objects from THURSDAY 04.12 the Paleolithic era of human enterprise. Nasher CABARET Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St. Through April 28. Glitterbomb Denton. Weekly queer variety show NasherScultureCenter.org. with a new lineup every Thursday, now at a new locale and new time. Andy’s Bar, 122 N. Locust Memory Mind Matter: The Sculpture of St., Denton. 8 p.m. Eduardo Chillida. The work of 20th century Spanish sculptor and artist. Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. Through June 3. MeadowsMuseumDallas.org. this week’s solution

FRIDAY 04.06 COMMUNITY Panoptikon. The weekly retro disco dance party, presented by Lord Byron. Red Light, 2911 Main St. Doors 9 p.m.

SATURDAY 04.07 COMMUNITY FrontRunners. Gay jogging/walking group meets weekly at 9 a.m. in Oak Lawn Park at Hall Street and Turtle Creek Boulevard for a run along the Dixie Longate hosts her Tupperware Party Friday–Sunday, then returns Wednesday with her solo show Katy Trail. ‘Never Wear a Tube Top…,’ both at McDavid Studio in Fort Worth.

FUNDRAISER FUNDRAISER 13th Annual No Tie Dessert Party. The “main FRIDAY 04.13 FashionCITED. 12th annual runway show event” for the annual fundraiser benefiting AIDS █ █ OPERA benefiting Legal Hospice of Texas. Old Red Services of Dallas. Frontiers of Flight Museum, browse submit Don Giovanni. Mozart’s dark classic about the Courthouse Museum, 100 S. Houston St. 6911 Lemmon Ave. 7–11 p.m. $75–$150. For a more complete Community To submit an item for inclusion in lothario and his sinful lifestyle. Winspear Opera 6:30–9:30 p.m. $60. LegalHospice.org. NoTieDinner.org. Calendar online, visit the Community Calendar, visit House, 2403 Flora St. April 13–22. Tinyurl.com/dvevents. Tinyurl.com/dvevents. DallasOpera.org.

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26 dallasvoice.com █ 04.06.18 04.06.18 █ dallasvoice 27 L+S scoop twisted bedroom “agendas” you pervy little powder. No doubt, you’d then consider figging acolytes make me research, isn’t so much a delightful alternative, indeed. And just why, Ask Howard that dear Howard’s computer has now all but you ask, is it called “figging” anyhow? Ah, yes, How to do the wrong thing right entered into a near-permanent state of blinking well, for all you suckling piglets born yesterday, pop-ups forebodingly warning me, “YOUR the winking world of S-&-M wallows of mirthful Proudly self-confessed social media hermit SEARCHES ARE BEING RECORDED.” No, misnomers: Git figgy wid it. that I am, I unashamedly don’t text and won’t the actual wonder is why my unholy hard- read texts sent me, to say nothing of replying drive hasn’t yet spontaneously combusted Dear Howard: Against my sane judgment, I to them. “Delete” is the only teensy button I altogether. Fortunately, my spouse has now recently befriended a fervent, “all-in” Christian. deign to obsessively punch. I shun Twitter, gone yawningly un-shockable to whatever What started out as just cordially banal gym Facebook, Instagram, cameras of every sort — archetypal Ask Howard errands he’s assigned, banter — his workout routine is the same time all pods, pads, apps and smartphones; Scruff, such as me blasély chirping, “Oh, and while every day as mine — gradually mutated into Tinder and Grindr (all three of the little pigs) go you’re out, find us an Asian market somewhere grabbing a bite together here and there. Then spuriously disavowed. I’m the J.D. Salinger of that sells whole entire ‘hands’ of fresh ginger honestly, I don’t know what possessed me, but sex advice columnists. Thus, I could just kiss all root — not just those chopped-off fingers the last Friday I invited him by my place for just you fellas for the tsunami of questions you’ve regular grocery stores sell. And pick us up a some leftovers of my “world famous” lasagna since submitted regarding a column I wrote in new paring knife, too. A sharp one — we’re and (assuming he didn’t get all sanctimoniously February pertaining to what I presumed was setting the bed ablaze tonight!” (“Yes, Lamby,” augury about it) maybe enjoy a toke or two but a trivial topic: gay slang acronyms and he hollowly responds, numbed and inured beforehand. abbreviations. Astoundingly, I have received a to whatever lunatic instructions I hurl him. My sexual interest in Deacon Pass-The- sizeable series of follow-up questions that even That’s his adorably sweet nickname for me Plate was a limp zilch; like, within my britches’ I — cloistered sex-Dumpster-diving researcher — Lamby… you know, because I’m such a bulge-ranking, His Zealotry Holiness scored a that I am — had never myself previously heard. manger-born, bleating innocent.) Here, all you miraculously flaccid zero. Hell, his sex appeal of five” which (banish thee, Lucifer, now!) states So, let’s everybody stand up, spin dizzily virginally fresher-than-springtime deplorables, barely qualified even as existent. You know that “all things occur in fives,” as indisputably around 23 times in a circle, and just get figgily is the super-easy, three-step recipe for figging: exactly the type I mean; everybody does: Not proven by the numbers 2 and 3 added together breadcrumbing right to it. 1. Peel a “hand” of ginger root into the shape of good-looking by any stretch, although not quite equaling 5; hence, look in places you’re not a small butt plug (the fig). 2. Insert into anus. 3. pitchfork ungodly; neither fat nor fit; not dreary, supposed to, and you’ll discover demons you’re Dear Howard: Sir, have you heard of anybody Scream. but not dreamy; neither petite, nor passably tall; never supposed to see: Burroughs mockingly who’s ever done “figging” before? My weekend So, remanding your reward/punishment not humorless or in any way humorful. In short, howled all the way to the bank. Master, I just noticed, has added “figging” to his query, Lamb Chops, I think we may safely he not one iota fuckably appealing nor fuck-a- The sole intrinsic significance, Kasey, and Saturday’s playlist agenda on me, but I can’t eliminate any “reward” factoring into your duck appalling. (In the now-vanquished World the only unique quality of 23, is that number 22 tell if it’s meant to be my reward or punishment. weekend’s writhing-in-misery playlist. Just Book Encyclopedia era, circa 1972 edition, precedes it and number 24 follows it. And that’s With Master, the pleasure/pain pendulum can be grateful Master isn’t ordering you whip up his mug would be the correspondingly bereft all the “enigma” amounts to — just a boringly always swing either direction. — Bjorn Tobey that BDSM home-suppository favorite: four of photo accompaniment pictured in the “C” ordinary, grotesquely insignificant, demon-free Dear Bjorn To Obey: Sweet mother of ounces of melted glycerin soap mixed with volume adjacent to: “Christian, Born-Again.”) numeral. For more sleazy elucidation than Mephistopheles, you boys are absolutely two tablespoons hot chili powder and hot curry Stunningly, he actually accepted my lasagna Howard’s here, Kid Kinkubus with a K, you’ll killing me here: The wonder, considering such leftovers’ invitation — that is, until I told need contact Beelzebub himself. him my apartment was on the ground floor, number 23: I’m telling you, Howard, I’ve never Dear Howard: I’m getting no tenderness or THE PLEASURE IS ALL YOURS seen the color drain out of anyone’s face so passion anymore from my supposed boyfriend. quickly — like, holy fuck, man, it’s not like I Not a shred. We’ve been dating five months told him come up to my 13th floor devil’s lair, now — the last three exclusive — and he says apartment number 666! So what damnable he loves me, but he only comes over for a enigma happened here, for this my Jesus freak grind-and-grunt quickie, followed by a “good friend to suddenly go off, slinging rude ’tude boy” pat on my head while he “permits” me to my way, his parting snark being that rich old lick everything clean until his heartrate returns sanctimonious gem: “Have you been saved?” normal. Prison twinks receive more dignity. Pirouetting on his pious heels, he fled so fast I “I’ll call you this weekend,” he soothes. “We’ll didn’t even get the chance to holler back, “Soon go out to a nice dinner.” Then he’ll peck me a as you’re gone, I sure as hell will be!” — Kasey sweet, heart-melting emollient in his escape, with a K smiling over his shoulder, “You know, I just Dear Suckubus with a K: OK, so here’s love you so much.” And so there, with his the locoweed-lowdown on numeral 23: In a far, semen-scented breath I’ll stand, abandoned as far and away too ludicrously occult-obsessed a smacked-out Cedar Springs street hustler, land of lurid enchantment called Gayville, shaking my head, going, WTF just happened 23 has unfathomably come to symbolize here? — H.N.E. “riding the horned beast.” Now, whether one Dear Honey: Girl, what happened is you just is actually required (please forgive my crude been breadcrumbed — this year’s deviously parlance here) to fuck himself via riding said newer, more psychopathically-improved succubi’s literal horns, or whether the beast (i.e., less morally cumbersome) extension of The World’s First GuybratorTM is purely a horny fucker in general (salivating last year’s “ghosting” phenom, in which one with patented PulsePlate TechnologyTM to filthily destroy just any anus) is a trifle guillotines all contact with whomever they’re murky; regardless, in what passes online for “dating” just for the sociopathic fun of it. They’ll Xbiz Awards mythological “truthiness” in nowadays’ jizzy feign to continue lusting you on Instagram jargon, the number 23 translates into a fetish just barely enough to amorally ensure you for riding the “horns” of beastly tops. In gay- keep chasing their trail of sex-baiting crumbs WINNER speak clarification: “How much hornier than hysterically down a path of unrequited Xbiz Awards Product of the Year the devil’s dick is a thankless size queen?” amorousness, leading absolutely nowhere ... Numeral 23 — the very dumbest urban legend and, still, you all bewilderedly ask Howard, in ever spawned — amounts to nothing more than tones beatific of contempt, “But, why do you a fictional fantasy creation of author William refuse participating in social media?” S. Burroughs in his farcically demonic sendup — Howard Lewis Russell of “numerology science” and the ridiculous Do you have a question — about etiquette, convolutions created by “numerologists” love, life or work — that needs a special 1720 W. Mockingbird Ln. to achieve their desired results. Burroughs spin from Howard? Send your problem to Pulse III Dallas, TX 75235 • 214-630-7071 intended his laughably hokum “23 enigma” to [email protected] and he may (enter in rear behind New Fine Arts) be an idiocy-personified articulation of the “laws answer it.

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Friends out for fun at S4

Readers Voice Award drawing winner Susan Carson took friend and fellow musician Marcy along for the fun when she used her tickets to Dallas Summer Musicals production of Get On Your Feet.

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