(NSFW) Stelarc Has an Ear in His Arm. Yes, an Ear in His Arm.

“People will become portals of Internet experience. For example, I might be able to hack into your body and listen to what you’re hearing in Dallas while I’m in Melbourne. While simultaneously I might be seeing with someone’s eyes in London, while someone in Tokyo might be remotely accessing and…

Here’s One, Beautiful Photograph of Cowboys Stadium

We have this stunning picture of Cowboys Stadium thanks to two years of planning by the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. In its Big Shot series, university photographers select interesting points of architecture or landscape, then selectively light them. But they don’t use normal methods…

The MAC, Served Up Four Ways

We love The McKinney Avenue Contemporary because it isn’t afraid to get freaky with its exhibitions, and its newest — a group offering featuring work by Michael Bise, Frank Rodick, Wael Shawky and Shannon Novak — is proof of precisely that, told in four distinct tones. With Bise, a Houston…

Blooming Brilliance

We do everything a little differently in Texas, but there are few areas where we veer even further from the norm than we do with our gardening habits and schedules. Calling it a challenge to attain plant success in the Lone Star State is a generous understatement. Here, tomatoes sprint…

May The Schwartz Be With You

Joan Rivers came to town a couple of weeks back with scads of projects to plug. Amidst her talk of the future, she oddly omitted discussion of the one big Hollywood gig that got her where she is today. Fortunately for you, your friends at the Observer and at Sundown…

Take A Shower, It’s Easter

A holy glow surrounds Sunday brunch. Serving double duty as hungover confessional and communion, we use the meal to fill in life’s little blackouts. But on Easter Sunday, that changes. We withhold the full flow of our gab and break from our posses to dine out with our families. Since…

Don’t Leave Me Hangin’

As far as insular pockets of humans go, perhaps none are more defined by intentional physical alteration than suspension artists. There’s a gritty, otherworldly vibe to the practice of piercing the dermis, and then “relaxing” while being hoisted up by meat hooks. Sure, it looks terrible. Awful. Weirdly German. But…

Dogs Love Malls And Rabbits

Humans are a funny lot. We stage food-chain scenarios for our amusement that should never happen in real life. Take Monday’s Dogs and Cats Meet the Easter Bunny event, happening at the Parks in Arlington (3811 S. Cooper St.). If your boisterous hunter of a hound were able to visit…

A Comedic Rhodes Scholar

His delivery style rivals the late Mitch Hedberg, and his swagger is bold enough to sell cologne door-to-door. Tom Rhodes is a comedian who’s just as funny and comfortable on stage in Fort Worth, where he’ll play Hyena’s for a weekend run, as he is in Vietnam or New Zealand…

A-A-TRE-E-YU!

You were terrified that you’d never again see a luck dragon on the big screen, and worried that The NeverEnding Story would be confined to the dusty recesses of your family’s totally righteous and completely useless Betamax drawer. There it would be forced, sadly, to coexist for eternity sandwiched between…

Humor, Projected

While the Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) has 650 perfectly good seats in its time-trapped interior, you won’t be using any of them on Friday night. Nope. Instead, you’re invited to explore a less visited space. See, the theater has adopted a wonderfully innovative new monthly series that beckons…

Grab Your Methane Rain Coat

Man, you think Texas weather is a bear? Try vacationing on Titan. They’ve got liquid methane rainstorms which National Geographic assures us are just as bad as they sound. In the new IMAX film, Wildest Weather in the Solar System, you’ll soar through a 400 year old hurricane in 3D…

The Art of Playfulness

Bradly Brown is a founding member of Homecoming!Committee, that art collective out of Fort Worth that’s held our attention with their avid puzzle-making, solving and smashing. When he isn’t co-organizing aesthetic cage matches and serving as a local sculpture freedom fighter, Brown is an MFA candidate at TCU. We saw…

Hit Every Ramp

It’s tough being a coin-op addict in 2013. Despite being the nation’s No. 1 resale hub for the things, most of Dallas’ pinball machines are preserved in the caring homes of collectors, rather than in the corners of bars and laundromats. For 51 weekends of each year, that is a…

Gin And Juice And Bailey’s

As a child, it was Christmas morning that sparked your fascination, causing you to stir early, excited about the day’s unlimited potential. As an adult living in Dallas, we have our own special holiday: Super Drunk St. Patrick’s Day Parade Afternoon, Now With Potential Vomiting. It has everything you’ve ever…