In January we announced that none other than Jimmy Eat World will be headlining the Dallas Observer’s annual St. Patrick’s Day party on March 11. Well, guess what? There’s even more fun rock coming your way: Rooney and the Unlikely Candidates are also on the lineup. Rooney was formed in…
Tue 2/7 Whoever said cats can’t learn tricks has never seen the Acro-Cats: a kitty circus with its own band, the Rock Cats. The traveling circus is the result of animal expert and self-proclaimed cat lady Samantha Martin’s love for the feline species. Her troupe of 15 house cats walks…
First Friday at Dallas Farmer’s Market 920 S. Harwood St. 6-9 p.m. Friday Free Look no further for your Friday night plans. The Dallas Farmers Market has it all: local merchants, artisans, brews, bites and live music to boot. The first 50 people to stop by the information booth after…
On April 30, comedian Bill Maher will attempt to kiss and make up with hundreds of fans who had purchased tickets to see him perform stand-up comedy at Music Hall at Fair Park on Sunday Jan. 22, and were informed just a few minutes before the start of the show…
Late Monday night a person was shot twice after getting into their car outside of Cold Beer Company in Deep Ellum. This morning, the victim is being identified as Matthew Posey, playwright and founder of Ochre House Theatre, just a short walk from the bar in Exposition Park. “Famous, amazing…
Tue 1/31What is it about post-war Paris that offers up so much romantic intrigue? Add a love triangle, some song and dance and a starry-eyed artist and it’s near impossible to resist the Broadway adaptation of the 1951 film An American in Paris. The musical follows a soldier who visits…
Less than a year after CentralTrak celebrated its 10th anniversary with a grand party attended by the mayor where it received a gift of $100,000, North Texas’ only long-term artist residency program faces doubts about whether it will continue. The program, which is operated by the University of Texas at…
2017 Dallas Book Festival J. Erik Jonsson Central Library 1515 Young St. Friday through Sunday Free When librarians withdraw old materials from the shelves to make way for new books, movies and music, the process is called “weeding the stacks.” And those weeding sessions — and resulting sales — are…
Tue 1/24We look to the Crow Collection of Asian Art to understand Asian artistic traditions and their place in a larger cultural framework. Often, we walk away with a pretty good idea of how Asian art inspires modern aesthetics — from fine art to design — but the Crow’s current…
Six months ago we learned that Daniel Hart and Rachel Ballard of alternative R&B group Dark Rooms, who are a couple, would be leaving Dallas so Hart could pursue a career in Los Angeles. But unlike a lot of dreamers who decide to seek out the bright lights of Hollywood,…
Distant Relatives South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave. 6 to 9 p.m. Friday Free For a few hundred years, the transatlantic slave trade displaced many Africans throughout several parts of the globe, and new traditions took shape through various cultural differences. Today, Nigerian American photographers Hakeem Adewumi and…
1/17Ah, is there anything more adorable than a curly little carrot-topped girl belting out “Tomorrow,” the iconic anthem from the hit 1977 Broadway musical Annie? Kittens, maybe. Or puppies. Bunny rabbits. Some toddlers. Orangutans. OK, off the top of our head, there are 11,784,937,212 things more adorable than listening to…
Art, Beats & Lyrics Gilley’s Dallas 1135 S. Lamar St. 7 p.m. Friday Free If you find yourself struggling to answer the question “What is art?” you have the chance to bounce around ideas with fellow art and music lovers at Art, Beats & Lyrics from 7 p.m. to midnight…
There’s a lot of bravado in hip-hop. Promoter Callie Dee depends on that to inspire contestants of her American Idol-style competition that crowns the best rapper across Dallas, Denton and Fort Worth. “In hip-hop everybody thinks that they’re the best,” she says. Dee hoped Master of the Mic —…
Tue 1/10Church isn’t somewhere we often think to go when we want to broaden our horizons. It’s a place to discipline your mind, sure, but expand it? Highland Park Methodist Church (3300 Mockingbird Lane) is challenging our preconceived notions with their Authors Live series, which invites acclaimed authors of both…
First Friday at the Dallas Farmers Market 920 S. Harwood St. 6 to 9 p.m. Friday Free Look no further for your Friday night plans. The Dallas Farmers Market has it all: local merchants, artisans, brews, bites and live music to boot. The first 50 people to stop by the…
Every St. Patrick’s Day weekend, we host a concert at the end of the parade route on Greenville Avenue, and in recent years performers from Snoop Dogg to Josh Abbott Band have graced our stage. Those were fun concerts, but last year when we invited Third Eye Blind, we really…
The Walton name is recognized around the world because of Walmart, the department store Sam Walton founded in 1962 in Bentonville, Arkansas, and which has become the largest private employer and largest company by revenue in the world under his children’s leadership. But his daughter and heir Alice Walton is…
Tue 1/3If getting lost in at least one good book is a resolution of yours this new year, it may be easier surrounded by some like-minded individuals in a cozy cafe. The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s book club is hosting a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3,…
If Joshua Kynd had been running just a couple hours early on Monday, he might have caught the burglar in the act. Instead he arrived at his business of seven months, Retroplex Records on Jupiter Road in Garland, after one or multiple thieves had already ransacked the place. The store…
Moonlight Serenade Photographs: Do Not Bend Gallery 154 Glass St., Suite 104 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday Free These are the last few days to check out two thought-provoking solo exhibitions at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery featuring the work of two new-to-the-gallery talents who hail from Japan and…
Emotions run high around the holidays, and that means lots of engagements. Even celebrities are not exempt from this phenomenon. Case in point, Golden native Kacey Musgraves, who hitched her future to boyfriend Ruston Kelly’s on Dec. 24. In an Instagram post Christmas Day, the country singer — who won…
