Last weekend they found each other. Monsters, honey badger caretakers and chainsaw enthusiasts swarmed the Hyatt Regency for Texas Frightmare Weekend, the area’s annual celebration of all things gore. The eighth installment of TFW featured two Buseys, Danny Trejo and loads of pulseless and soon-to-be pulseless Walking Dead cast members…

He’s served as the DMA’s first Senior Curator of Contemporary Art since moving here in 2009, and now Jeffrey Grove gets a bump via another fancy title. The Dallas Museum of Art announced this morning that Grove is the institution’s new Senior Curator of Special Projects & Research. That’s a…

I just had a party flashback. Remember the sweaty bash House of Plates threw last summer at the F.O.E.? Of course you do. All of Dallas was there doing Jell-o shots, playing beach volleyball against a team of Cold War Rocky-style ringers, and watching as models paraded around in adorable…

I ran into Dead White Zombies’ director/writer/overlord Thomas Riccio a few weeks back while in line at Lakewood Theater. We were waiting to watch a human suspension, but that isn’t why Riccio was excited. Fresh off an educational/spiritual excursion to India, he was vibrating with creative energy. Somewhere en route…

Do not fret, Dallas and surrounding burbs: The Observer used its highly advanced taco doppler technology to conduct predictive Cinco de Mayo party research. Our data shows that there is a 23 percent chance of hangover on Saturday, but that will increase throughout the weekend, culminating into a 90 percent…

There’s a new internet dating study that ranks U.S. cities in order of superficiality. In effort to determine whose rivers flow most shallowly, the site, whatsyourprice.com, weighed the amount of time each area’s singles spend hovering over individual dating profiles before clicking ahead. According to it, Dallas singles are fairly…

Is there a name for that feeling you get when you suspect the boogieman is hiding in your backseat? And if so, is it a cute French word? Answers to this and other questions posed by horror film fanatics can likely be answered at Texas Frightmare Weekend, our annual celebration…

Local flamenca Delilah Buitron isn’t content with dancing by herself. She founded an educational program, teaching the art of flamenco to eager local feet, and an annual Flamenco Festival at the Ochre House Theater (825 Exposition Ave.). Her passion is so infectious, so positively charming, that we caught a secondhand…

Here in the South we do things Yankees just don’t. We’ve got big hearts and big hair, which is why charity marathons simply will not work. Who wants to resurrect an up-do on mile 23? Not us. That’s Yankee business. When we find a cause worthy of support, like the…

Perched atop Bolsa in Oak Cliff is a magical workspace called House of MacGregor, a five-year-old specialty hat store run by local milliner Cassie MacGregor. On a recent afternoon, women shuffle in and out, many with small children clinging to their legs, and then leave clutching massive boxes that seem…

Lumen Light Team from The Lumen on Vimeo.Local husband and wife artgang Brad Holdham and Christy Coltrin have added a new limb to their Traveling Man family tree. The series of metal sculptures was designed for the Lumen’s private collection and features an assembly of hip hotel employees, existing in…

I love a reliable party. And gambling. And white linen, mint juleps, ponies, big hats, the look of relaxation that floats in wealthy people’s eyes, ironed tablecloths and spontaneous hugging. The Kentucky Derby has all of those things, and has consistently showed ’em off since 1875. Bless its heart. Dallas…

The Kessler received the royal treatment on Friday as the Burlesque Hall of Fame Queens Tour dropped its dazzle on the main stage. The show gave glamor a spotlight, providing a look at which gals are currently werkin’ it to the most acclaim. We were voodoo-charmed by reining champ Imogen…

I’ve got a soft spot for illustrators. And love stories. We get both in husband wife team Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson who have been collaborators in life’s eccentric aesthetic since meeting in art school. See Also: Webb Gallery Harbors Spaceships: The Art of Esther Pearl Watson I fell…

Let ’em rework the model. No game show can match the riveting design perfection of The Price is Right. It’s an unapologetic celebration of consumerism, populated with games of chance — I still excited when the yodeling starts on Cliffhanger. I’m not alone on this. We all harbor secret Plinko…

“I’ve never been anywhere where there’s such an attentive audience as there is in North Texas,” says Lily Taylor, the hostess behind Sunday’s Home Theater Festival, an event that invites strangers to meet up at vaguely alluded-to addresses and pal around. You know, in the name of art. “People are…

So … this will be happening in a Waxahachie art gallery on Sunday. But wait, there’s more!!! An adorable Denton couple will open their home for an experimental theater festival, two big-name comedians grab the Majestic’s stage, there’s a course in kink at the Bondage Expo and a celebration of…

Often we view art from the business end, which puts a ticket window between ourselves and community. One day each year that balance flips as artists take performances into the most intimate spaces available: their own residences. Musician/performer/ultimate hostess Lily Taylor understands the open exchange that an address provides, which…

As a landlocked city, Dallas is home to very few sailors. Without their oceanic seasmarts, our collective knowledge of knot tying is held captive in slow-buffering You Tube tutorials. That’s fine, unless you’re attempting to slipknot your lover to an antique headboard, in which case you’ll look like such a…

Few things in art are exactly as they sound, which can prove confusing, especially if you’re a little confused by art already. Saturday, that changes as the all-volunteer led program Slow Art Day creeps, ever so cautiously, through our local museums. Yes, on Slow Art Day you’ll inch along, staring…

We take joy in the analog and find romance in the authentic. And when those orders jell together, like they do in the tintype and ambrotype photographs of Frank Lopez, we get weak in the knees. As a steward of a thinning medium, Lopez’s work is inspirational, which is why…