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• DC9 At Night: Local Music

  5 Reasons To Be Excited About the Old 97's Hitchhike to Rhome Reissue
  10/28/2014 By Kelly Dearmore
  On December 13, The Old 97's will perform at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas. That combination alone is enough to make for a pretty cool night. One of Dallas' most beloved bands in...

• Calendar: Highlights

  So Funny It's Surreal
  09/18/2014 By Danny Gallagher
  One of the joys that rarely happens to today's budding comedy nerds is watching the reaction of their parents when they happen upon one of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Few things can...

• Calendar: Highlights

  No, Really. Some Kids Do Read.
  08/28/2014 By Lauren Smart
  Contrary to popular media narrative, there are still young people in America who read books. Libraries still serve as place for children to be swept away by on trails of adventure or...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Sarah Jaffe at Majestic Theatre, 8/23/14
  08/25/2014 By Amy McCarthy
  Sarah Jaffe With Josh Pearson Majestic Theatre, Dallas Saturday, August 23, 2014 As local artists go, few in the Dallas scene are as widely beloved as Sarah Jaffe. After the 2010 release of...

• DC9 At Night: Previews

  The Best Concerts in Dallas This Weekend, 8/22 - 8/24
  08/22/2014 By Paige Skinner
  It's Friday and that can only mean two things: You survived the week and you deserve to reward yourself. This weekend's concert lineup might have something for everybody in the family....

• DC9 At Night: Busking

  Busking with Sarah Jaffe, Part Two: "I Had a Hard Time Writing"
  08/21/2014 By Jeff Gage
  Back on Monday, we brought you a brand-new video of Sarah Jaffe busking for Globe Trek Productions from inside the Majestic Theatre. (She'll be playing there on Saturday to celebrate the...

• DC9 At Night: Feature Stories

  Sarah Jaffe Found Her Muse Through Collaboration on Don't Disconnect
  08/20/2014 By Jeff Gage
  This time last year, Sarah Jaffe decided to get away from it all. She had released two albums and toured around the world, and she knew that in order to be inspired she needed to get out of...

• DC9 At Night: Busking

  Busking with Sarah Jaffe, Part One: "I've Never Even Seen a Show at the Majestic"
  08/18/2014 By Jeff Gage
  The folks at Globe Trek Productions are back with another installment of the busking series, and they've picked a fine time to come back. This time around they managed to catch Sarah Jaffe...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Jeff Tweedy Showed Off His Songwriting Chops at Majestic Theatre
  06/23/2014 By Eric Grubbs
  Jeff Tweedy With the Handsome Family Majestic Theatre Sunday, June 22, 2014 By the time Jeff Tweedy and his four-piece backing band left the stage Sunday night, it was like he had played...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Cake, Please, and a Side of Eddie
  06/19/2014 By Patrick Williams
  It's impossible to accurately describe an Eddie Izzard show. Intellectually dazzling, multi-lingual stream of consciousness? Well, yeah, it's that, but way, way more fun than that sounds. He...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Late-Night Visitor
  03/27/2014 By Danny Gallagher
  New York and Los Angeles are homes to the some of the biggest and most famous late-night TV franchises in the world. They take them for granted and, to be fair, you would too if you lived...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Rise and Shine and Redeem
  03/06/2014 By Lauren Smart
  No, this isn’t the Kate Chopin novel you struggled through in high school English. The Awakening at The Majestic Theatre is a story of feminism and overcoming pretense. A theatrical...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Laughs from the Abyss
  03/06/2014 By Danny Gallagher
  Comedians like Jim Jefferies always seem to be living a life that’s slowly spiraling toward some dark abyss, much like how he recently described the cast of characters on his FXX show...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Let Peter Pan Give Your Kid Wings
  02/20/2014 By Jennifer Davis-lamm
  There’s a passage in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan that says something about how stars are really only observers, that they have been put in that role as punishment for assorted karmic...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Taste Some Prime Comedy
  02/06/2014 By Lauren Smart
  Named after a slice of meat found on a cow’s hindquarters, The Tenderloins thrive on self-deprecating punch lines. With sketches like “The Comedy Roast of Jesus Christ” and...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Like A Light Bulb!
  12/05/2013 By Jason Yang
  So there’s Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Walt, Fred, Chaz and Rodrigue, plus some other dude, right? Uh, being old stinks. We all need a crash course in childhood if we want to keep the...

• Calendar: Highlights

  So You’re Saying Chicks Can Be Funny?
  10/24/2013 By Luke Darby
  Ron White, whose headshot greatly resembles a bloated Don Johnson, called Kathleen Madigan “easily one of the best comics alive.” Lewis Black agrees, and that asshole...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Get Cooking
  10/03/2013 By Allison Perkins
  Dane Cook is coming to town, and I know what you’re thinking: “Ew, sick.” “That hack?” “He’s a fart bag.” First of all, we’re kind of...

• Calendar: Highlights

  "Can I Get More Spanking in the Monitor?"
  07/04/2013 By Audra Schroeder
  Oh, the strange cultural magnetism of 50 Shades of Grey. The E.L. James trilogy, which tells the story of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey and their kinky relationship, surpassed sales of...

• The Mixmaster: Arts & Culture News

  What We Learned from Sci-Fi Author Neil Gaiman's Dallas Visit
  06/26/2013 By Alicia Auping
  Neil Gaiman and his familiar unruly locks were greeted with a standing ovation Monday night at the Majestic Theater, which he humbly waved off urging the audience to take their seats. "I...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Proops And Props
  05/16/2013 By Audra Schroeder
  Most well-rounded humans spent lazy afternoons soundtracked by two things: Mr. Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Originally a BBC Radio program, Whose Line challenged four comedic...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, May 16-19
  05/16/2013 By Jane R. LeBlanc
  Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Amy Schumer at the House of Blues Schumer is the creator, star and...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Come On Down!
  05/09/2013 By Jamie Laughlin
  Let ’em rework the model. No game show can match the riveting design perfection of The Price is Right. It’s an unapologetic celebration of consumerism, populated with games of...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A Secretly Nice Mean Girl
  04/25/2013 By Allison Perkins
  Lisa Lampanelli is coming to town and she’s bringing her big mouth with her. You know Lisa from all the Comedy Central roasts where she carves up the honored guests with her...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Breaking Bad and Cracking Wise
  04/25/2013 By Audra Schroeder
  Boston’s Bill Burr is trying to keep the dignity of the working man’s comic alive. His stand-up sets often focus on the tried-and-true “women are like this, and men are...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, April 25-28
  04/24/2013 By Jane R. LeBlanc
  Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Bill Burr at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas The redheaded,...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, March 21 to 24
  03/21/2013 By Jane R. LeBlanc
  Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Jim Gaffigan at the Majestic Theatre If you have a fetish for...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  Bill Burr is Playing Dallas' Majestic Theatre, and Tickets Go on Sale Today
  01/11/2013 By Gavin Cleaver
  Big comedy news o'clock, everyone, as tickets for Bill Burr's stand-up show at the Majestic go on sale today. If you don't think this will sell out faster than a pop star faced with a check...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Better Guard The Shiva
  10/25/2012 By Jamie Laughlin
  All’s fair in love, war and the quest for the Shiva, or at least that’s the takeaway from the FX’s series The League. The semi-improvised comedy focuses on the...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, October 18-21
  10/18/2012 By Jane R. LeBlanc
  Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Louis CK at the Majestic Theatre When you hear "red hair," "pasty...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Not Quite A Loveline
  09/13/2012 By Brentney Hamilton
  It’s the annual meeting of the He-Man Woman Haters Club! Misogynist-cum-comedian Adam Carolla — whose first book, In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks, was a New York Times...

• The Mixmaster: Music Notes

  Ten Must-Hear Classical Music Shows in Dallas This Fall
  09/11/2012 By Katie Womack
  See also: 11 Must-Do Parties For Fashion's Night Out In Dallas If you're like a lot of people I know, you'd love to go hear a classical music performance now and again. But saying you'd...

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  It's Good to Be King
  03/29/2012 By Carli Baylor
  Dude, it pays to be the king of the boob tube in Queens. It also pays to be a man named Albert, a zany zookeeper and a mad mall cop too. Just ask comedian Kevin James. A standup pro, James...

• Music: Columns

  Andrew Bird Gets By With a Little Help From His Friends
  03/15/2012 By Daniel Hopkins
  You have to hand it to Andrew Bird. Up until now, the Chicago based singer-songwriter-violinist has controlled every aspect of his music, from writing, recording and production to actually...

• Calendar: Highlights

  John Leguizamo: Shape-Shifting Ghetto Klown
  02/16/2012 By Jamie Laughlin
  John Leguizamo, by all scientific standards, is only one man but you suspect otherwise during his stage shows. Is he channeling dark magic? Is he demolishing the laws of physics by existing...

• Calendar: Highlights

  It's Good to Be the King
  01/19/2012 By Jamie Laughlin
  Getting cast in Elvis Lives!, the touring homage to the Big E, is not easy (think Highlander for stage impersonators). The worldwide auditions lured in more than 500,000 would-be...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Birds Can Sing. It Takes Brains to Talk.
  01/12/2012 By Jennifer Davis-lamm
  Long ago, before there was Glee, public school offered five or so broad tracks that defined a student's social circle and extra-curricular activities. (We mean legitimate tracks, stoners and...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Q&A: Puscifer's Maynard Keenan Talks Juggling Three Bands and Losing His Angst
  12/02/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  Maynard James Keenan is one of those guys who is at home in a world all his own. Currently, he fronts three bands: Tool, A Perfect Circle and his most recent project, Puscifer. Puscifer's...

• Calendar: Highlights

  King Tackles a Prez's Redrum
  11/10/2011 By Patrick Williams
  What if it were possible to pass through a portal in time, travel back to November 22, 1963, and prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Would you be willing to face the big...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: Feist & The Happiness Project at the Majestic Theatre
  11/09/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
  Feist, The Happiness ProjectMajestic TheatreNovember 8, 2011Better Than: Seeing this show anywhere else in town. ?Leslie Feist's genius isn't as much her ability to write and perform...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A Square Deal
  10/27/2011 By Alex Copeland
  Have you heard about this, folks? Have you seen this? Apparently, Jay Leno is performing at the 10th Annual A Night to Remember, a benefit show for CitySquare. If you are feeling pangs of...

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  Dance Continent
  10/06/2011 By Stephanie Daniels
  What do bongos, xylophones, wild colors and a few crazy dance moves have in common? No, it's not just another band on the side of the road. Think outside of Dallas, way outside of Dallas....

• The Mixmaster: Arts & Culture News

  Stephen King To Host Sixth Floor Museum Fundraiser at the Majestic
  09/26/2011 By Nick Rallo
  Last month, when it was announced Jonathan Demme (of Silence of the Lambs fame) would helm Stephen King's new novel about a teacher who time-jumps to stop JFK's assassination, we thought:...

• Music: Show Preview

  Diana Ross
  02/24/2011 By Christian Schaeffer
  Diana Ross was the first modern pop diva, a benchmark of haughty elegance that laid the path for Whitney, Mariah and Christina. Her front-and-center attitude could be trying; she constantly...