After following the Perot Museum’s grand construction and getting little peeks inside, we’re full-blown excited about opening weekend. Adding an extra flame to our nerdy fervor is this new video in time lapse by EarthCam. It shows the exterior and interior construction, documented and compressed, complete with dinosaur installations. Have…

The Dallas Observer operates under a strict “work hard/play hard” policy, so when we throw a party, everyone shows up. Our annual Artopia event takes things even further by blending the best of Dallas’ visual, performance, and fashion arts together into one, illuminating showcase. It’s our chance to give back…

As the announcement sunk in, so did comprehension: The Dallas Museum of Art will do away with general admission fees and offer free memberships beginning in January of 2013. But how? The last 10 months of Maxwell Anderson’s stint in the director’s chair have been a barrage of smaller successes…

Get excited, Dallas! You’ve entered the final weekend countdown hours. Soon, you’ll have it all — fancy pants art shows, mustache shaving parties, free concerts at that new Klyde Warren Park, and a bizarre rock musical about a time traveling Marie Antoinnett. Man, life is just that good. Be a…

Fine people of Dallas, pull up a chair. Don’t worry, most of you aren’t in trouble. We need to have a discussion about full transparency during a public Q&A. It isn’t a talk I like having, but after Tuesday night’s unfortunate incident at Texas Theatre, it seems that sliding a…

If you’ve ever dug into your history textbook while huffing mescaline, you might already know the story behind On The Eve, the new locally crafted rock musical written by Michael Federico and Home by Hovercraft’s Seth and Shawn Magill. It’s the almost completely true story of Marie Antoinette, with a…

Technology. Innovation. Dudes with jobs. You’ll find them all at re:THINK, the 2012 installment of TEDxSMU, a day-long symposium happening on Saturday at the new City Performance Hall (2520 Flora St.). Now in its fourth year, the event combines the best varieties of geekly fascinations. There are lectures and panels…

Whether you find yourself in the East Dallas, White Rock Lake or the Design District area Saturday night, there’s a show you’ll need to pop into. Starting at the Bath House Cultural Center, take in a view of Dallas’ most endangered spaces: architecture. The group show Vanishing Dallas brings to…

The Gallery at the Fairmont gets an added collar pop Friday when three local talents present Caviar, a group show that pokes gentle fun at swank living, as told through a throwback rear-view mirror. Filling the walls are works by artists Daniel Perez, Daniel Driensky and Ray Albarez, all of…

The Dallas Museum of Art has just announced that beginning January 21, 2013 the museum will do away with general admission fees and become free to the public. It’s a bold move and it speaks to Eugene McDermott Director Maxwell Anderson’s longstanding platform of public inclusion and making art available…

He’s a former ticket scalper, NPR contributing storyteller, author of two books and longstanding editor of Found Magazine. Also, Davy Rothbart delivers the occasional pizza. He’ll be in Dallas tonight (Tuesday) at the Texas Theatre doing what he was born to do: engage an audience of voyeurs with stories from…

While we at the Observer live awestruck by Dallas’ collective creativity, once each year we’re able to celebrate it through direct funding. That time is now. See also: – Last year’s MasterMind winners – 2010’s winners Nominations have opened for our third annual MasterMind Awards — Holy Grail cash grants…

The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre is a great space for experimentation, and that’s due as much to its design as its creative occupants. Crafted to be fully modular, the area accommodates almost any stage layout one can envision. Like a giant Transformer, it morphs. Removable seating, drop down floors,…

Davy Rothbart is a wanderer, a wonderer and a magnet for eccentricity. He’s united those strengths to build an admirable DIY résumé: He’s the long-time editor of Found Magazine, which has compiled and published discarded curiosities as a popular zine for more than 10 years. He’s become a regular contributor…

NorthPark Center (8687 N. Central Expressway) opens bright and early, but not angry-alarm-clock early, at 9 a.m. Friday, and doesn’t close until 10 p.m. And to kick off the holidays with flair, you’ll want to gather for the parade at 10:30 a.m. Santa will be there, as will The Salvation…

Take a moment and clear your mental cache. Please, we’ll wait. That infinite accumulation of data from complex mathematics to banal daily stimuli has no weight, no volume. Hell, it has zero quantitative properties hemming it in. Meanwhile, in the third dimension, you could examine an object woven in abundant…

Choosing the right Thanksgiving watering hole is clutch. You’ll want a place that’s busy and has the game on. Otherwise it feels like you’re drinking alone on a holiday. Here’s a little list of spots that are open, showing the Cowboys versus Redskins game and loaded with future friends. Bryan…