Jump on it — the Arts District just announced that the Dallas Theater Center is offering a Pay-What-You-Can performance of The Second City Does Dallas on August 29. Tickets will fly, so grab yours now. As of this morning, 78 remain. Originating in Chicago, The Second City has cultivated such…
It’s happened: We’ve blown another summer. America’s future leaders are piling back to their schools, and we’re honoring them with how-to’s, survival guides and personal stories of failure from Observer staff. That’s right, It’s College Week. Read more in our college-themed section. First week of college, ladies. You’re going to…
Trapped within a prepackaged cubical at an anonymous office, Irving artist Richard Ross felt his fingers type the beginning of a sentence, the beginning of something: The road to the store. He didn’t know why his fingers chose that path across the keyboard, as though they’d deciphered an ancient dance…
We like our women just a little on the smash-y side, and the Assassination City derby girls know just how to crash, bash and dash their ways into our hearts. If you like your ladies on wheels, ACRD brings you a “throwback event of epic proportions” with Choose Your Weapon…
If you’ve never been to the Underworld Art Gallery, you just take Woodall Rodgers to the River Styx … wait, not that “underworld.” This Dallas gallery is located at 115 S. Beckley Ave., but it is hotter than Hades. On Saturday, Artist DIY — that’s Daniel Isaiah Yanez — presents…
If you were stranded on a desert island, which artworks would you take with you? Easy. Tracy Emin’s My Bed (for sleep and/or bedsheet ropes), Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (doubles as a wagon to carry coconuts) and Man Ray’s Gift (to fight off dingos and shit). Too literal? Artists Michael Corris…
The People’s Last Stand announced yesterday a private event by chef Josh Black, who has been on hand since June 1, following a fleeting stint at Campo. We’ll ignore for a moment that it is a “private” event only inasmuch as anyone who is able and/or willing to shell out…
Okay, okay. We get it. Self-published S&M-lite has an enthusiastic audience and is therefore pop-culturally relevant. And despite our earnest entreaty for something a bit more imaginative than “Fifty Shades of Beige,” this week marked another huge success with a familiar reprise: Gordon Gekko (with a heart of gold and…
“The gaming industry didn’t set out to be an educational tool,” says Meadows School of the Arts Dean José Antonio Bowen, “But we need to be that engaging, interesting and compelling. We need to adopt that energy in order to get students hooked, so that they will want to tackle…
Actually, it’s a lot better than it sounds. A lot. Undermain Theatre just announced its 29th season, full of lusty Greeks, biblical farces and vampires that don’t sparkle. At least we don’t think they do. The experimental playhouse’s “Season of Myth” consists of four plays and three readings at the…
Central Market’s 17th annual Hatch Chile Festival is back in full swing and Dallas is still making a big deal about it. Are they worth the hype? Will they rearrange your culinary universe? That friends, is up to you and your palates. Go sample, enjoy. But if you’re like us…
The most surprising aspect of Ari Richter’s skin art — aside from its unorthodox canvas, of course — is its unexpected beauty. Richter guided me last Thursday through the white drywall maze of CentralTrak to his summer studio, where he was putting the finishing touches on what will open on…
You’d the think title says it all. In fact, its straightforward logic is what got me through the door: “I like this and I like that.” But admittedly, I expected something more reserved and perhaps even boring from Friday night’s Naked Girls Reading. While the premise might sound like a…
We were under the impression that The Hunger Games was something that happened during sorority rush at SMU. Actually, it’s another one of those kids’ books that adults have commandeered as “dystopian literature.” Apparently it was also made into a movie with a hosts of hot young stars and also…
My excuse for never having experienced the Dallas Opera is that Richard Gere has never rolled up in a Lotus, dropped his credit card and then clam-shelled my finger with a jewelry box. But I guess that scenario pretty much necessitates my identifying as a hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold and a penchant for…
Even a heinous, unlovable spinster like Jennifer Aniston can find a man to overlook her obvious flaws and help shape her into a complete human being again. Thus last weekend’s collective sigh of relief at the report of Aniston and beau Justin Theroux’s impending nuptials, which detonated a virtual arms…
Fact: Being called “Yankee Doodle” wasn’t exactly nice in pre-Revolutionary War terms. And “macaroni” once referred to an 18th-century metrosexual. These days, we’ve reclaimed the epithet, learning to belt out one’s “Yankee Doodle Dandiness” as early as kindergarten when macaroni is considered the epitome of all artistic media. Seem confusing?…
Hard times call for hard bodies, especially when those glutes are available for less than 50 cents apiece! The Hardcore 3rd Sundays International Revue boasts “30 Dancers for $30 or Less,” and Sunday presents a rousing round of finely oiled gentlemen in leather chaps and cowboy hats. Celebrating the 2012…
Chances are, if you are an NPR fan, you’ve had breakfast with Diane Rehm on a number of occasions, though it was likely more “granola bar behind the wheel” than five-star cuisine. A staple of the morning commute, Rehm’s daily show illuminates and inspires, bringing civilized but cogent analysis and…
You’re not alone if the term “radiate” evokes images of eggs sizzling on Dallas sidewalks right about now, but come Thursday all you’ll be thinking about is the hot, hot heat of Dallas art. Raw:natural born artists, an international non-profit that “educates, connects and exposes emerging artists in 54 artistic…
There is no amount of money that could make me want to go back to high school. In some ways it was like being in a pimply, angst-ridden foxhole: endless hours of insufferable, hormone-riddled boredom punctuated by brief spells of piss-your-pants terror. But DISD has just upped the ante with…
For awhile, Lynn Michelle considered altering her body. Like so many women, she’s successful — well-educated; a small business owner; an award-winning, peer-recognized career woman — and beautiful, funny and personable. But she believed there was something missing. “There were things I wanted to change,” she says. “I considered a…
