Harry Houdini

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Look back in anger

From an arena that never was to a judge in a jam, ordinary folks took a beating in 1995

Events for the week

From an arena that never was to a judge in a jam, ordinary folks took a beating in 1995

Should Paul Fielding go to jail?

He's violated the public trust and betrayed his own ethical standards. But is Dallas' perpetually annoying councilman guilty of fraud, perjury, and extortion?

Too much magic

FairyTale is charming, sometimes inspiring--and almost entirely fraudulent

Holiday Highlights

FairyTale is charming, sometimes inspiring--and almost entirely fraudulent

Real McCoy or decoy?

Dallas hip-hop 1997

Retouching Evil

Using Detailed instructions left by Orson Welles, top film editor Walter Murch has remade "The Best b-Movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

Sofa kingdom

The Contemporary British Painters exhibit soothes the critic's savage breast

That Gothic thing

11th Street Theatre Project paints two very different family portraits in Southern Rituals

Flavor Pulls a Disappearing Act at the Second Floor

11th Street Theatre Project paints two very different family portraits in Southern Rituals

The Brothers Unconnected (of Sun City Girls)

Thursday, July 3, at Granada Theater

Bjork to the Future

Matthew Barney's girlfriend inspires his most coherent film yet

Unfit to Print

A vicious fight between John Wiley Price and a small black-owned newspaper reopens ancient wounds in southern Dallas

Fascinatin' Rhythms

Death Trail keeps vaudeville alive at Frank's Place; Ragtime hits the big notes at Lyric Stage in Irving

Tricksters

An air of Mysterium

Anthony Hamilton

July 3

Life is a Cabaret

BurlesqueFest busts out at the Gypsy Tea Room

Hating Players

The Delgados explore the other side of peace, love and understanding

Fear Itself

A journey of army-navy stores

Still Wannabe

The DMA falls for its own hype, and that of another self-promoter named Joseph Beuys

High Spoons

Bare breasts, a bowl of red, and bad blood among the chili brethren in the Big Bend. Texas doesn't get any better.

The Man of Ink

Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

The Apostle

The preacher who launched this century's longest-running revival, transplanted Texan Stephen Hill, spreads the word: Sinners wanted here

At The Majestic Theater, Dusting Off Old Favorites With the Spectacular Senior Follies

Patrick MichelsBill Kennedy onstage at The Majestic Friday night​Ned Startzel was 3 years old when the new Majestic Theatre opened on Elm Street in downtown Dallas in 1921. Startzel began writing shows, performed in Vaudeville acts and fought in World War II, while Dallas's theater row rose and fe ... More >>

Really, We Have to Wait a Whole Year Till Modern Family Cast Comes to Brinker Forum?

Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet will be at the Winspear in April​Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season's TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season's Brinker Inte ... More >>

Dear Corps of Engineers: Save the Fancy Talk and Just Tell Us If We Should Build an Ark

​All right, class, today our lesson is: "Logical Wormholes and Semantic Corkscrews: Translating the Language of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Into More or Less Plain English, or, You Know, Spanish. Whatever. Language How People Talk." But first an ironclad guarantee. This is not a homework ... More >>