This year's recipients will be honored at Artopia, the Dallas Observer's annual art overload, happening on Saturday, January 17, 2015. But you don't have all year. The nomination deadline is Friday, November 21. So hop to it. Information on how to s...
This year, the oppressive Texas summer decided to stick around well into November. The temperatures have been high, but this week, we've skipped right from summer to winter. During the six preceding months, it hasn't exactly been easy for Dallasites ...
See a bunch of bad bitches take on Russian folklore. At Undermain Theatre, a new play puts a kickass spin on folklore. In Los Angeles-based playwright Meg Miroshnik's The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls an American woman returns to her home co...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Erica Felicella is endlessly likable. That she would be a driving force behind one of the city's coolest art events comes as little surprise aft...
I find myself pointing to shows at Mountain View College's Cliff Gallery quite a bit recently. I'm not sure if it's just a string of good shows, recently acquired awareness of the space, or if the programming has seen an uptick. Regardless, this week...
Here's a full rundown of this week's podcast. Click on the links to read more about each topic. - The Hobbit movies aren't just movies, they are playdates (3:30) - Foxcatcher (8:10) - Rosewater (21:41) - The story of a group of kids who re-shot Raide...
WCD (Washington Crossing the Delaware) It's not every day you get a press release in your inbox that makes you believe in this "world class city" business people in Dallas are always talking about. But today, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announc...
Put your bidding hat on. Art Conspiracy, the coolest art party in Dallas, started a decade ago as a way to raise money for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The brainchild of two Dallas culture-philes, Jason Roberts and Sarah Jane Semrad, th...
By Amy McCarthy & Jaime-Paul Falcon It's hard out there for the single people in Dallas to find a worthy date. After you've exhausted the pool at OkCupid, done a few speed dating events, and struck out at every bar in Dallas, the handheld meat-market...
The Dallas World Trade Center, unfortunately. We're on an architectural hunt to find the fugliest building in Dallas. The first contender was the AT&T building in East Dallas. I get stuck in Dallas traffic a lot. It could be typical 8 a.m. rush...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. The art of Jeff Gibbons defies definition. His work is anything but straightforward, often subduing any obvious meaning in its layers o...
Wrestling or flying? By Chris McDonald The 2014 version of Fun Fun Fun Fest had Neutral Milk Hotel, Judas Priest, and its beloved taco cannon. And tucked away, there also was spandex, body slams, and a 300 pound man doing a backflip off the top ...
Even though there's football on every day of the week, you should probably peel yourself away from the TV and get a little culture now and then. Unfortunately, tickets to the theatre and opera can be prohibitively expensive. That is, of course, unles...
For fans of the overwhelmingly funny, sometimes depressing, always deranged stick figure world of Cyanide & Happiness, this is the moment we've all been waiting for -- the world premiere of its new show. This first season will feature 11 weekly episo...
The NSFW ode used a teen pop sound to celebrate one of the greatest sci-fi writers (he always called himself a "fantasy" writer) of all time. Thanks to some unique timing to Bradbury's birthday and Bloom's powerful singing and comedic voice, it racke...
The Museum of Geometric and MADI Art began 12 years ago when Bill and Dorothy Masterson were first in us explain: The movement encompasses all branches of art (the plastic and pictorial arts, music, literature, theater, architecture, and dance) and p...
When we think about the "LGBT" community, most of us tend to focus on the "L" or the "G." Nell Gaither, executive director of Dallas' Trans Pride Initiative, has been exclusively focusing on what is likely the most underserved population in the LGBT ...
and a series of stunning stunt movies is currently on a live North American tour and they will make a stop at Toyota Stadium in Frisco on Saturday, May 23, 2015. The collective of high-flying freaks is led by Travis Pastrama, the X-Games gold medal...
Karen Parrish, Max Hartman, Jenny Ledel in The Arsonists. When Kitchen Dog Theater mounts a new play, you put on your theater loafers and show up. This weekend, the well-oiled comedy machine mounts a new translation of Swiss playwright Max Frisc...
It's a shame because it wasn't that long ago when VHS tapes were still around and even the most horrid productions gave us hours of awkward, hilarious entertainment. Thankfully, the folks behind The Found Footage Festival are out there collecting the...