Last week the Observer’s theater critic, Elaine Liner, dedicated an entire mini review to the limelight-stealing, self-animating powers of Constantine Maroulis’ hair. The locs are currently starring in the Broadway Series musical, Jekyll and Hyde at the AT&T Center, and it seems her words really started something. Now everyone’s chatting…
Fair Park will reinvent itself during our hottest months for a new round of thrills with its just-announced Summer Adventures series. It looks to be geared more towards the little ones than rowdy young adults, but all who show up will get a first look at the newest Fair attraction,…
Early morning flurries left light frost and a gentle dusting around Dallas, but we at Mixmaster are shamelessly holding out for more. Sure, fancy weather scientists say it’s over and that the only thing dropping tonight will be the temperature, but we don’t care. We’re going to manifest a snow…
Whether the matter is one of love or art, giving in fully requires trust. If that union isn’t present, we allow only the brashest, most peripheral pieces of ourselves to mingle, while protecting the endangered ones. Those sparse pockets of emotional greenspace that we hold close are precious — they…
That fad started in the tunnels of New York back in 2001, under the x-ray spec guidance of Improv Forever, an NYC-based “prank collective.” Since then No Pants Subway Ride has gotten huge. More than 50 cities now join in the pranking mission, droppin’ drawers in solidarity. Dallas, refusing to…
Macy’s has announced that many of its stores, including all Dallas area locations, will stay open for the entire 48 hours of the pre-Christmas weekend. It begins at 7 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21 and ends at midnight on Sunday, Dec. 23. This is great news since I often need a…
There’s a moment of realization in the Apatow-produced television series Freaks and Geeks where young, gangly Sam Weir realizes he hates his popular cheerleader girlfriend. They’re sitting in a movie theater, she’s heavily primped and wearing an angora sweater. He’s nervously attempting to find common ground by sharing his favorite…
Remember when flash mobs were vibrant movements staged so that others would see the wonder and magic possible in everyday life? That was short-lived. “Wonder” and “magic” aren’t drunk enough rallying points for most of us, case in point: this flash mob training video, leaked by Santa Rampage…
You can view this week’s list in two ways: holiday event guide, or holiday survival guide. Take your pick. We’ve got well-curated, artist-run shopping parties to help you avoid the soul-shattering mall parking lots; art shows to rejuvenate your energy supply; and even a holiday-themed haunted house to redirect your…
We are pinned between hard angles as 2013 approaches. Holidays. Grid-riddled traffic. The pending apocalypse. They’ll press together to cause an eruption, popping out any spare shards of energy currently left at your disposal. You can recharge through the psychedelic exploration of platonic solids that is Post Future. Happening at…
You’re likely sitting on a half-dozen wedding invitations for the evening, since wedding bliss and numerology go strangely hand-in-hand. Ignore them. Who makes their friends and family attend a Wednesday night ceremony simply so their anniversary is tougher to forget? People on the outskirts of your social circle, that’s who…
He was here, then he wasn’t, and now he is again. Artist Brandon Kennedy’s show Exit for Sale is currently on display at the Reading Room, and is composed of four works ripped from the recesses of his grayest gray matter. Lovingly billed as “flirting with both failure and disruption,”…
Holiday shopping can leave you feeling dead inside, quoting things your parents say that you never thought you’d dare repeat. “The traffic!” “Well someone’s awfully proud of this sweater, just look at that price tag!” I say avoid those unnecessary evils at all cost and look for gifts that have…
When living in Miami, I was surrounded. Every South Beach bodega window displays look the same, outfitted with grotesquely (read: AMAZING) tacky odes to Tony Montana. Rifles, framed “art,” and joint rollers branded with His Image face the streets — a city’s twisted welcome to out-of-towners. Since Scarface is turning…
The Modern turns 10 years old this month. To celebrate Tadao Ando’s glass leisure labyrinth, the museum’s staff has gone all out. It’s been purchasing new acquisitions by contemporary daddy macs like Nauman and Flaven, and has even brought some of these greats in, Bruce Nauman most recently, to give…
We’d heard it was coming, then forgot. Then remembered. Then got bored and chose to forget again. Then ate some Donettes we keep in our emergency snack hutch and wondered why ALF didn’t hold up with syndication and time. BUT THEN, JUST NOW, the official email arrived assuring us that…
The World Affairs Council of Dallas and Fort Worth has announced that former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Henry Kissinger, will speak in Dallas on Friday, March 15. No specifics as have been announced regarding the precise topics the Presidential Medal of Freedom winner will discuss…
Sifting through photos to learn more of who’s involved with Wigwam, the pop-up shopping experience launching on Thursday in Oak Cliff, has tipped us into a dangerous level of excitement. It’s the type of fervor that makes you rethink the phrase “emergency fund” and question who really needs a 401K,…
Tickets just went on sale for Artopia, the Dallas Observer’s experimental mash-up of the Party Arts. Happening on January 26, 2013, the Dallas Contemporary and your friends at the Observer join forces in the name of sensory immersion. (The video above is from last year’s event.) A $30 general admission…
UPDATE: There’s only 40 of these posters, selling at $50 a pop. They’re officially for sale, along with tshirts. Get ’em, right now. There’s a newish artist promotion company in town and it’s repping some of our favorite creative forces. SZOAS was formed by husband/wife powerteam Aryn and Cheri Dalton…
This ornament had a Twinkie inside, ’cause you might get peckish during the pending Hostess apocalypse. Each year the MAC puts on a killer holiday party/fundraiser called Blue Yule. The event’s main draw is the quasi-competitive ornament sale, where guests politely booty check each other to reach the piece they…
With as much control as we exercise over our own existence, its retelling is left to those who follow us. In some instances, like Christopher Columbus, an inordinate amount of fame is lavished. For others, like Marie Antoinnete, the story would water down a different tributary, and its path of…
