Plus, they use more blue language than a drunken longshoreman. Still, it's funny enough to keep our parents watching and even quoting it right along with us. Ricky, Julian and Bubbles (and hopefully Conky) are so popular that they've even come b...
Peter Ligon It would be difficult to dig up someone who doesn't like Peter Ligon's landscapes. Even if you're not keen on landscape painting generally, there's something about Ligon's emotive, messy pieces that don't scream of photo source material. ...
Dallas Theater Center's A Christmas Carol Most of the shows on this list require little to no explanation. You've likely seen A Christmas Carol before, but the holidays return every year and with it, the same shows, the same music, and the same ...
If you're reading this, you're invited to an art party. Artopia 2015 is just around the corner. Tickets for the general public won't be released until Friday, but as a reader of this blog you have access to the pre-sale tickets which arrive today. At...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. When Matt Tolentino was eight years old, and most of his peers were shooting each other with Nerf guns, he was writing a strongly worded letter ...
To My Daughter It's a simple conceit. You can almost hear the artist thinking it to herself: I'll wear my mother's dresses. Entering Cydonia Gallery's new exhibition by Mexican artist Julieta Aguinaco, The Depth of Now, I found myself jealous. A...
Now that cold weather has finally arrived, we're officially moving full-throttle into the holiday season. Thanksgiving is next week, and that can only mean that Christmas will be here well before you're ready to deal with all your weird relatives. St...
BY INKOO KANG Minor spoilers for the second episode of The Comeback's sophomore season. It's no mystery why The Comeback, which returned for its second season this past Sunday after a nine-year hiatus, never became a big hit for HBO. Other mocku...
One of the biggest regrets of this comedy nerd's life was not taking the opportunity to see The Second City during my only two visits to Chicago. The first missed opportunity took place during a Boy Scout trip when landmarks like the Museum of Sci...
In the second act of The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, our protagonist, Annie, realizes that her fairy godmother is a blue-haired prostitute. Studying abroad in her native country, the American-raised Annie doesn't believe in evil eyes, and she d...
Ligeti himself. Wails, bellows, purrs, barks, hisses, laughter, gurgles, screeches, yelps, retching, squeals, gurgles, screams, grunts and groans. No words. Just clusters of prickly, spindly instrumental spattering, and the human voice reduced t...
Bad girls of Dallas: There's a TV show out there for you and now is your time! This show isn't what you think it is. This show is called Bad Girls Club and...what? Why are you rolling your eyes? OK, so yeah, this TV show is basically seven girls liv...
In years past, the Dallas-Fort Worth theater scene was in desperate need of diversity. In response to largely wealthy-and-white theaters, smaller niche companies began filling in the gaps with a varied and diverse slate of works from writers of all r...
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...