I have a healthy chunk of respect for any show with a 26-year run: that’s more than a quarter century of curating around a theme. Bath House Cultural Center has done exactly that with its annual Dia de los Muertos exhibition, which is currently seeking talent. All media is welcomed,…
See also: City Artists To Hijack The Omni’s Lights, Dallas Gets More Blade Runnery Last year something miraculous happened in Austin. Choreographer Allison Orr’s performance piece “The Trash Project” came to fruition. It felt as though the entire city gathered to watch as municipal waste employees danced with garbage trucks,…
It’s the largest canvas in town, so when Jeff West suggested the idea — that local video artists create their own programming for the Omni’s flashy exterior walls — the project was too alluring for anyone to pass up. September 26 will be one, memorable night many months in the…
#20 Abbey Road It’s happened: We’ve blown another summer. America’s future leaders are piling back to their schools, and we’re honoring them with how-to’s, survival guides and personal stories of failure from Observer staff. That’s right, It’s College Week. In the tiny confines of a dorm room, real estate is…
It started last night: low-flying planes released the first clutch of insecticidal mist. We stayed indoors, ruminating on the state of things. Gas masks are a favorite theme in street art, but due to their apocalyptic nature they’ve also been the muses of classically trained painters, sculptors, video artists, photographers…
What sets H.P. Lovecraft ahead of other horror and science fiction writers is his means of setting up a story. He drops a pin early in The Call of Cthulhu, his 1926 short work with this: “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…
Your work lifeclock is blinking erratically; time to dash into the weekend. Oh yeah, it’s time to break those cubical chains and shake your ass at Ladies Stay Crazy, wear your aviators to a Top Gun themed sketch comedy night or indulge your sci-fi fantasies with screenings of Logan’s Run…
There was a group of heroes in World War II who rarely get credited for their efforts. They couldn’t; they were on a secret mission. Known internally among the Allies as The Ritchie Boys, these roughly 9,000 young men predicted the darkness rolling into their Austrian and German homelands. They…
With today’s grand opening of Pooch Hotel, Dallas’ only hotel exclusively for dogs, we can now say that we have everything. Here, canines are pampered the same way humans choose to treat themselves while on vacation — with facials, “pawdicures” and aromatherapy massage. Dogs are referred to as “guests” and…
It started in Chicago, this act of women disrobing and reading stories. Burlesque performers Michelle L’Amour and Franky Vivid thought it would make an interesting paradox: Women, gussied in only boudoir makeup and hair, politely reading on a stage. As will happen when ladies take their clothes off, tickets sold…
If I had my way, I’d go to bars in the same outfit I wear on “Make Cleaning Fun Day.” On MCFD, I, like many women, suck it up and do my chores, but I wear my favorite pajamas — yes, the pair with snack evidence stains all over the…
The world of Logan’s Run is a decadent place, filled with jumpsuits and miniskirts. There, free love is always in season, you get to live in a dome and, aside from the occasional patrol detail, nobody carries much daily stress in their lower sacrum. Of course, turning 30 blows. Living…
Now in its tenth year, the Dallas Black Film Festival is focused on a major celebration the weekend of August 24 to 26. They’ve just confirmed this year’s guest speaker will be former Public Enemy member and current Illuminati conspiracy theorist, second degree black belt Professor Griff. What Griff will…
This old school Sharon Needles video isn’t safe for work. AT ALL. Pomp drag outsider artist Sharon Needles snatched up the winning title on season four of RuPaul’s Drag Race, shaking up the public perception that all drag is pretty and glamorous. She’ll perform at Queen, the newest addition to…
Ever do a search for “movies opening this weekend” only to find that none of the good ones are actually playing in Dallas? We’re here to save you from that disappointment. Wednesday 8.15 The Odd Life of Timothy Green Peter Hedges (author of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) pens the screenplay…
Sure, I love the Olympics. But you know what I love more? The phrase “great whites breaching.” There is no television programming stretch more glorious than Discovery Channel’s celebration of cartilaginous, chompy fish. Shark Week is a sea geek’s fantasy, filled with stories about electro-magnetic field facial receptors, the hunting…
Dallas VideoFest is approaching a milestone and turning 25 years young. (Awe, don’t worry, DVF. You could still pass for Beta.) They’ve got a lot of experimental projects on the bill for this installment, happening from September 27 to 30, and still all of those documentaries you’ve come to rely…
Dallas’ Public Safety Committee meets today to discuss its current approach to graffiti management, mainly that it’s a plight beyond anyone’s control. So put that can down, step away from the brush and let’s chat a little, shall we? You’ve been getting away with a surprising amount of tagging; roughly…
“I always really like the idea of an alien coming to Earth and not knowing the difference of things,” says Berlin artist Rachel de Joode. We’re sitting in the noisy back room of an East Dallas sandwich shop discussing her Saturday show at Oliver Francis Gallery. Her pieces reflect that…
Yes. It’s true. Next Friday, August 17, a group of Dallas women will sit proud in front of an audience and read passages from their favorite stories, completely in the nude. It’s a literary trend appropriately titled Naked Girls Reading, and now, after a two year hiatus, it’s returned to…
That rascally non-profit Downtown Dallas, Inc. wants to crack some brews with you. It’s launching a weekly pop-up happy hour series and inviting you, and other haggard cubicle workers, to drink craft beer in our city’s parks and plazas. There will be four of the Thursday evening parties, with the…
You’ve bravely battled hot seat belts and steering wheels. Dutifully punched that time clock. Now it’s time to break away from the man and get a little satisfaction. You’re in luck! Hit up the pop-up happy hour after work on Thursday, then roll over to the F.O.E. for a killer…
