Tuba Christmas Thanksgiving Square 1627 Pacific Ave. noon Friday Free to attend; $10 to play Tuba Christmas started back in 1974 at New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza Ice Rink when tuba musician Harvey Phillips wanted to honor the memory of his music teacher. So a group of renowned tuba players…
You don’t have to scroll far down your Facebook feed this month to find someone lamenting 2016 as the worst year ever and begging for 2017 to hurry up and put it out of its misery. Even when you narrow your reflection to Dallas alone, there are plenty of our…
If while you were ordering a cappuccino at Drugstore Cowboy on Saturday you remarked to yourself, “Hey, that guy over there looks just like Jack White,” you missed a real opportunity to meet the lead singer and guitarist of the White Stripes. White has been making trips to Dallas over…
tangible/transparent/transport/trace Bath House Cultural Center 521 E. Lawther Drive ongoing through Jan. 28 Most folks don’t look twice at the numerous empty beer cans, Coke cans and other aluminum waste scattered throughout the city’s sidewalks and neighborhoods. But two artists have made it their focus in an exhibit at Bath…
Eighteen children are bouncing around in a stately room, waiting to meet Laura Bush. They’re singing Christmas songs, yelling about their love of spaghetti and meatballs, and generally mugging for the cameras, which are there to capture their interaction with the former first lady. Their behavior is typical of young…
When Woodstock took place in ’69, big music festivals were a rare and special thing. Today, nearly every major city has a generous handful of annual festivals representing a variety of genres. Dallas-Fort Worth has Spillover, 35 Denton, Oaktopia, Lights All Night, Homegrown Fest, Untapped, JMBLYA, and that’s not close…
After Saturday’s Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase brought out hordes of well-heeled music lovers to Deep Ellum for memorable performances by 88 Killa, Mothership, Field Guide, Cygnus, Sealion and more than 40 other Dallas favorites, the awards ceremony at the Bomb Factory Tuesday decided which acts had made the strongest…
Leonard Cohen Tribute Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 6:45 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday $10-$14 Leonard Cohen marked the latest great tragedy in the music industry this year when he died early last month. The singer-songwriter, novelist, painter and poet’s career spanned 60 years and earned him numerous accolades…
H. Schenck: Is That Your Father’s Watch? The Safe Room at Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 7 p.m. Friday Free The first thing you should know about artist H. Schenck, whose exhibit Is That Your Father’s Watch? closes Friday, is that he creates art out of mud. Why mud? It’s…
After school let out Monday, students of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts gathered outside by a Pegasus sculpture to lay flowers and share memories of one of their classmates, 16-year-old junior Grace Loncar, who died by suicide Saturday. An obituary released yesterday on the…
There are a lot of tragedies in the world and humans have short attention spans. The memory of one high-profile crime, natural disaster or mass shooting is quickly replaced by another, and we move on. And yet, even 53 years later, the murder of President John F. Kennedy is still…
When book publisher Will Evans agreed to meet Hollywood film producer Dallas Sonnier at Drugstore Cowboy for coffee, he assumed he’d be the one doing the selling. The meeting had come about because Evans was looking for investors for his bookstore, and Sonnier, who grew up in Highland Park, had…
Fantastic Beasts Roaring ’20s Speakeasy Party Alamo Drafthouse 1005 S. Lamar St. 8 p.m. to midnight Friday Free After all that’s gone down, we are ready for some serious fantasy. We could use a dose of the non-reality. Crazy creatures, even monsters, and of course a handful of wizards out…
Perhaps you’re a vet of the Dallas music scene and you’re looking to show us a thing or two. Or perhaps you saw Almost Famous in high school, and ever since you’ve been waiting to get a break like William Miller, who manages to embed with a rock band and learns…
Lone Star Film Festival AMC Palace 220 E. 3rd St., Fort Worth Thursday through Sunday $10 With 35 feature-length films — and to clarify, that’s before counting shorts or student films — the Lone Star Film Festival in Sundance Square, Fort Worth, is no small creature. Individual movie tickets are…
John Waters is best known for the long list of cult films he’s written and directed, including Pink Flamingos, Hairspray and Cry-Baby, but for the last 11 years he’s been occupied with other creative projects outside of the movie business. Among these are his spoken word performances, which he’s been…
The holidays are generally a busy time for orchestras, but this year’s the exception for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Its musicians have been on strike since Sept. 8, protesting pay cuts that would have placed their salaries $20,000 below the national average, equivalent to what they were paid in…
Eduardo Rabasa from Sexto Piso The Wild Detectives 314 W. 8th St. 7:30 p.m. Friday Free Eduardo Rabasa is the founder and director of Mexico City-based publishing house Sexto Piso, and he’s recently released his own first novel, A Zero Sum Game, which has been translated and published in English…
13th Annual Ghost Tales Bath House Cultural Center 521 E. Lawther Drive 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday $10 The Dallas Storytelling Guild will regale listeners with the most bone-chilling stories they know, and if you have a better memory than us, you’re invited to jump in and share yours too…
In September 1911, a man boarded a plane in Sheepshead Bay, New York. Three months and 70 stops later he landed in Long Beach, California, having completed the world’s first transcontinental flight. If you can’t think of his name, you’re not alone. Neither can 95 percent of pilots, say David…
Just this year, Facebook made live streaming possible, so that we — we being the 1.65 billion people using the social networking site — can watch the concert our friends are attending as it’s happening, or the protest, or even just tune is as they eat a bag of Doritos…
A person looking to make gobs of money is not likely to first think of opening a bookstore, but several new indie stores in Dallas, such as The Wild Detectives and Deep Vellum Books, have been able to attract a healthy customer base. Meanwhile, Lucky Dog Books, a local used…
