Most ladies nights aren’t lady-centric. They don’t promote bonding, betterment or an inner glow that stems from learning new things. Instead, they’re man magnets, designed to alert fellas that drunk chicks will soon pass out at a bar near them. That changes on Friday at Show Me How You Burlesque,…

Considering the cost of a specialty craft cocktail hovers somewhere in the $8 to $12 range, you’ll get absolutely plastered during Cocktail Evening at The Modern (3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth), because reservations cost $60 and you’re no fool. Gargle beautiful drinks featuring Reyka Vodka, Hendrick’s Gin, Milagro Tequila, Solerno…

Growing up in Texas’ dust bowl throws a distinct filter on adolescence. As the good, God-fearing, Lions Club-sponsoring businesses shut down each evening, the day simply ends. Well, unless you mash-up your own fun, like watching a league of traveling amateur wrestlers set up at the rodeo grounds. That’s an…

RO2’s Downtown space could barely house the last public offering of “Pizzicato Porno,” a new piece of dance and performance by Justin Locklear and Danielle Georgiou. It wasn’t the gallery’s fault; only so many giant weather balloons, video art projections, pieces of DJ gear, sweaty convulsing bodies and eager audience…

You’ve been a mess since missing San Diego Comic-Con. Even that kind-hearted robot you built won’t listen to any more of your blubbering. This is what’s meant by “rock bottom.” Your local a-hole alt weekly didn’t help either. The Observer ran ran story after story after story about the California…

You understood that an underground community of arm wrestlers exists, because you’re savvy. It’s just that until today, you’d based your knowledge of said subculture entirely on the 1987 documentary film Over the Top, Hollywood’s definitive instructional manual to the sport and its key players. Pick up where Stallone’s primer…

Dallas teen Sam Horowitz had his professionally choreographed Bar Mitzvah last summer, but this amazing video footage was just picked up by a Jewish website, which brought it to our attention. Now it’s spreading, and it is, unarguably, the craziest entrance to a religious celebration and ceremony we’ve ever seen…

Hello! We’d like to share the most amazing story with you! The national touring production of Book of Mormon will not hide its light under a well-financed bushel, instead they’ve announced a limited number of tickets will be released for $25 a seat before each performance. That’s great news for…

What started as an experiment, a refined water cabaret for high-end parties and marketing affairs, has become a phenomenon. Synchronized swimming troupe The Aqualillies are now engrained in pop culture thanks to Glee cameos, performances in Justin Bieber videos and roles as hired glam for major brand celebrations across the…

Thursday 8.8 Performance art Double-up at the DMA — It’s a great night to immerse yourself in performance art when two events happen simultaneously at the DMA. In one wing, PerformanceSW and Apophenia Underground bring a panel/performance combo. In another, local body mover/shaker Danielle Georgiou rips through I hate it…

The scene set for Kiss of the Spider Woman is web-like: a Latin American prison where escape is impossible and being released is unlikely. In this pit prisoners are poisoned, tortured and berated. When that happens, lead character Molina mentally transports himself elsewhere: to the cabaret-styled films he watched as…

The Guardian called Post Tenebras Lux “an opaque, unforthcoming, exasperating work.” Salon author Andrew O’Hehir countered, saying Carlos Reygadas’ newest is “a mesmerizing combination of opaque art-house cinema, personal reflection and class-based rural thriller.” (He then went on to slam Terrence Malick.) These reviews are indicative of the erotic, heady…

When you’ve finished swimming in the Dumpster pool over at the Dallas Contemporary, wring yourself out, then drip over to the Design District and Oak Cliff for Saturday night’s art opening events. You’ll start off on Dragon Street, where the summer’s heat has cleared the way for experimentation. At Photographs…

It’s an exciting time for emerging arts across Dallas and Fort Worth, a point that’s proven well at DallasSites: Available Space, the let’s-do-this collaborative show currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art’s main gallery. An interesting element of the all-local exhibition is the amount of room being given…

Dumpster pools. Performance art. Local designers. Gallery openings. This weekend we celebrate local artists. The people who don’t fly off to summer homes and instead stay put, baking in Dallas’ concrete heat with the grackles. They’re performing at the DMA, selling their goods at the Dallas Contemporary and covering the…

A lot of us get nostalgic when we hear the words “Good/Bad Art Collective.” Back in Denton in the nineties (Yeah, I just said that.), it seemed there was always an Art vs. Rock, a fundraiser, a pop-up event before anyone said “pop-up”, or some weird interactive experiment at The…

Art is transformative. It can shift our perceptions of an area’s livability, remind us of a neighborhood’s history and even rebuild communities. None of that is lost on buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, the nonprofit dedicated to restoring the energy, joy and beauty of fallen neighborhoods through good design. The group has announced its…

The commissioned public art project at Love Field, which contributing Observer arts writer Betsy Lewis has pointed out isn’t really public at all, has been the inspiration for much backslapping and many sweaty, congratulatory handshakes. Good for it. Some artists got paid and their names were circulated. Baby steps, people…

Get amped, Dallas! There’s about 20 ways to cool down this weekend — from weird sound art and throw-back movies, to a Revenge of the Nerds costume party, drag theater and a massive video game marathon. (Something in here is worth braving your blistering steering wheel for, I swear.) Share…

Nature and a good book: If you’ve got those, you’ve got everything. Such fundamentals are the basis of Talley Dunn’s newest, Natasha Bowdoin: In the Garden, which opens from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Bowdoin has two new projects to flaunt: Book of Nature, which interprets Emerson’s writings through cut…