Dallas/Fort Worth is getting a third Alamo Drafthouse movie theater to fulfill the needs of the Metroplex’s more hardcore and addicted cinephiles. The theater chain announced earlier today that it plans to open a third location in Las Colinas in the new Music Factory shopping and entertainment complex located at…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Dallas Comedy House performer and writer Noa Gavin started her comedy career by creating the popular…
Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, the comedians who make up the musical comedy powerhouse of Garfunkel and Oates, are living the dream of every guitar-ukulele musical comedy duo. They have three top-selling raunchy comedy duets. They have their own TV show on IFC that Lindhome describes as a “millennial Laverne…
Horses haven’t had the best PR when it comes to maintaining status as an effective mode of transportation. We have so many infinitely better ways of getting from Point A to Point B: cars, bicycles, planes, trains, pogo sticks. Hell, we even have machines that can replace walking. This means…
Most cringe comics who use shock and awe to draw a laugh out of their audience don’t always turn their verbal weapons on themselves. Renowned comic Jim Norton completely ignores that rule. Any fan of the Ope & Anthony Show (now with less Anthony) can tell you that no area…
It wasn’t that long ago that having a beer in a movie theater was a novelty if you didn’t count sneaking your own into the theater. These days, dine-in theaters are popping up almost as frequently as the giant megaplex cinemas that serve real alcohol. This is a wonderful innovation…
If you could jump in your “comedy time machine” (a time machine that can only be used for the purposes of viewing important moments in comedy groups’ histories and therefore can’t be used to go back and…I don’t know… stop Hitler) to view the history of Locked Out Comedy and…
Every cringe comic can spout off a list of midget and dwarf jokes like a high school chemistry student reciting the list of noble gases for a verbal exam. Brad Williams has heard them all. The diminutive comic may be physically small but his bold and animated presence can take…
The sudden and tragic death of movie and comedy legend Robin Williams felt like getting broadsided by a cinder block, as waves of updates were posted across the Internet. He seemed to have such an unrelenting well of positive energy whether he was a guest on a talk show or…
Your grandmother may have been a kind, sweet person with nothing but a need to see their grandchildren happy. But just because she got old and turned into the sweet, pious person you knew, doesn’t mean she couldn’t blow a fuse and let loose on some poor bastard who probably…
It’s the thick of the summer movie season, the best of times and the worst of times for film buffs. What better place to escape the August doldrums than you’re local cineplex? Well, someplace that isn’t filled to the rafter with screaming kids and annoying teens would be nice. And…
Armaggedon Michael Bay cannot be mocked enough. His films deserve to be taken down with an unrelenting spray of scorn and ridicule and not just because they are among some of the worst, highest-grossing movies to come out of Hollywood. They should be the only movies during which it’s OK…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Aaron Aryanpur is more than just one of DFW’s most admired comedians. He’s an admirer of…
Maribeth Monroe is one busy lady. She’s starring in a new dark comedy for HBO called The Brink about a geopolitical whirlwind that could bring about World War III. She’s gearing up to shoot the new season of Workaholics where she plays the perpetually stressed and enraged boss, Alice. Plus,…
A new TV show is trying to bring stand-up comedy back to mainstream television in a way that doesn’t pit eager chuckle monkeys against each other in a battle of meaningless challenges that have nothing to do with comedy. Two names who first took to the mic in Dallas’ burgeoning…
Guardians of the Galaxy is bound to become the movie that you’ll have to see this summer regardless of whether or not you like comic books or you risk becoming the joy-assassin of the season. Director James Gunn, however, may have given a much needed spin on the genre. He…
Fandom is a weird beast. It can make otherwise sane individuals do things that not even a lifetime of drinking will erase from memory. Some extreme fans of Supernatural seem to fit into that category. For those of you who aren’t in the know, it’s a show on The CW…
David Lynch’s most famous attempt at a television show earned a cult TV audience before networks had such a term. His bizarre take on the prime-time murder mystery left audiences staring at their screens as if they were watching an Orson Welles workout video but left them wanting more. Of…
We miss the drive-in theater. Sure the Internet may have made it easier to watch films that cater to our most basic and sleaziest drives, but where’s the sense of community? Where’s the feeling that you aren’t the only sick bastard who enjoys watching torture porn and movies that find…
QuakeCon is one of the most beloved video game conventions in the business, but the last six years must have carried an air of longing among its many, many attendees. Way back in 2008, id Software promised its fans that it was working on a new Doom game. Each QuakeCon…
Games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake transformed the video game universe from a tired collection of happy pixels into a bloody orgy of gaming greatness. The industry wouldn’t have produced modern FPS giants like Borderlands, Far Cry, and Call of Duty without id Software’s legendary vision for blood, beasts…
The horror comedy is a tricky topic to tackle because it has balance both genres in one movie. It’s like watching a plate spinning act. If it goes wrong, it’s still entertaining but for all the wrong reasons. The Spanish movie Witching and Bitching is one of the good ones…
