In Krys Boyd’s 10-year tenure as host of KERA’s Think, she’s become well known for asking thought-provoking questions of celebrities, scientists, politicians and authors. Her probing opens up a dialogue that oftentimes results in more questions than answers, and Boyd is okay with that. The show is called Think after…
The new year is rife with beginnings, and after a hard-luck end to 2016 for restaurants around town with many shutting down, Deep Ellum will have a new opening to celebrate this week. The owners of the British-themed eatery Independent Bar and Kitchen — as well as Club Dada, Off…
Almost exactly a month after the fast-casual seafood restaurant C’Viche closed up shop on Lower Greenville due to anemic sales, its sister restaurant, Clark Food and Wine, has also closed. The news broke on Monday, the day after Christmas, with plans to close up shop the following night. It’s a…
For Dezman Lehman, who goes by the name Dezi 5, it’s been four solid years of shaking his leather-clad buttocks, shimmying and vogueing with a sweat-drenched brow from stages across North Texas to the forefront of the Dallas music scene. According to Lehman, it’s been a hard-fought battle for recognition from…
Musician Cash Askew was just 22 years old when she died in the Oakland Ghost Ship fire this month. “She was super weird and kind of awkward and had a hard time socializing, but also had this ability to really see people for who they were,” says bandmate Kennedy Ashlyn. “She…
It’s not known exactly how many people went to the ominously named Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland, California, on the night of Dec. 2, but 36 people — artists, musicians, teachers, aspiring visionaries of all kinds — lost their lives there during a fire. It’s assumed they were trapped or lost in…
On the night of Dec. 26, 2015, nine tornadoes ripped through Dallas’ eastern suburbs and leveled houses and schools, overturned vehicles and uprooted half-century old trees. In the hardest hit areas, Garland and Rowlett, parts of communities were destroyed, 13 people were killed and thousands of homes were damaged. This…
Justin Gabrielli does things all the way or he doesn’t do them at all. The musician-producer scrapped more than 30 of his songs under his new indie-trap project DRIP and started from scratch, because he wasn’t sure the feel was right. It’s kind of shocking until you consider the way…
Flickering lines jump and crawl across the faces of a trio of darkwave musicians at RBC as Evan Henry is on deck with his analog video electronics. He manipulates the video art in real time and projects it onto the stage, bathing the band, Troller, in colorful abstract light. An…
Showing up at a local watering hole, sliding onto a bar stool and ordering a martini straight up is something that’s easy to take for granted. Bars are everywhere, liquor is plentiful and most bartenders have the required tools (vermouth, bitters, ice, a shaker) at their fingertips. They strain that…
On the three-year anniversary of his death, Matthew Brinston opened an art show of nearly 50 pieces of his original paintings, drawings and clothing at BREDA Studio, the sleek offices of a watch manufacturing company in Deep Ellum. Brinston was there that night, in the flesh, which would be impossible…
Cuba was a forbidden fruit for nearly 50 years — closed to tourism and trade, the collective American imagination relied on photos of 1960s models Volkswagen beetles and hot rods, and people sitting on porches fanning themselves while puffing on Cuban cigars and listening to old transistor radios. Now people…
“I’m a high school drop out and a two-time art school drop out,” says Aaron Barker, the former guitarist for the Street Arabs. “I think that qualifies me to be in a punk band.” The Street Arabs disbanded this summer after five years together. Barker has now embarked on a new endeavor,…
Adele’s boyfriend hasn’t married her after five years and a baby together. It’s a predicament she casually slipped into conversation in the midst of introducing one of her songs, “Million Years Ago,” during her sold-out concert at American Airlines Center on Tuesday evening. “I’m not married,” she said. “I don’t…
“Smoky and moist, tangy from barbecue sauce … kind of chewy” are words Observer food editor Beth Rankin used to describe the vegan brisket at the newly opened V-Eats in Trinity Groves. Who could guess those words would set off another food firestorm in Dallas, or that so many barbecue…
A Facebook post by community organizer Luz Hernandez calling for a boycott of Corn Connection, an elotes stand in Dallas, spread like wildfire once Hernandez made the post public, and it set off a viral avalanche when Hernandez was verbally attacked on the internet by one of the business’ former workers. Hernandez…
With arms outstretched and one hand clutching a microphone, Dezi 5 mounted himself on a wooden crucifix at The Public Trust, an art gallery in Dallas’ Design District, as a projection bathed him and the makeshift stage in colorful light. Dressed in fishnet T-shirt and black vinyl, Dezi 5 performed…
“I’m over this life,” said a homeless man named Bobby, as he was hanging out in Tent City with Rachel Nash, the resident art therapist for The Human Impact, a homeless services organization. “And I think I’m ready to do something about it,” he continued, after a particular breakthrough. He’d…
M83 With Tennysons House of Blues, Dallas Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 M83, fronted by the French-bred Anthony Gonzalez, played House of Blues on Thursday, but it was a homecoming for one of the band’s members: Kaela Sinclair. The Dentonite is a musical powerhouse in her own right. Sinclair earned best…
Andrew Bird With Sinkane Majestic Theatre, Dallas Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016 Studies have shown a correlation between people’s names and their professions. For example, there’s a preponderance of plumbers with the last name Plummer. It’s called nominative determinism. If those studies are true, it’s no wonder Andrew Bird’s name suits him…
Erykah Badu never seems to slow down. In the past week alone she played a benefit show at the Dallas Children’s Theater and a DJ gig under her Lo Down Loretta Brown moniker at Oaktopia festival in Denton. The week before that, she showed up at American Airlines Center to…
Lately the fire marshal seems to have eased up a bit on arts spaces. The disbanding of art events this summer began with Dean Terry’s art-music-performance event Acoustic Nerves in May, which was shut down even though the event was funded with city money. It touched off a wave of crackdowns citywide…
