Hey Dallas lady, you seem really sweet but you didn’t need Bethenny’s advice about “shaking things up” today to “shake things up.” You just did it. By Skyping your way onto a national talk show, you have guaranteed that everyone who knows you or your boyfriend of ten years are…
Humor is one of the most effective methods of communicating a message, but in the art world it’s often overlooked or dismissed. Occasionally we see someone just nail it, driving home that the two can be attractive and beneficial bedmates, like at the MAC’s recent William Powhida exhibition. Powhida distills…
Dragon Street is a bit like the Diamond District of Dallas Art. By localizing their galleries in one, walkable zone, art dealers are able to share the same client base. This is especially true on those magical nights when most spaces offer new shows, and new shows means new opening…
Welcome to Mixmaster’s newest weekly post, Holy Crap, I Need That! Thursdays, where we bring you the best and strangest adventures in consumerism on any given topic. This week, it’s fashion. Here’s my picks for all-around rad things that you’d be crazy not to want. Hats for cats (above): Oh…
Here’s some quick math to help you get through any given week: If you view the weekend as starting on Thursday, it makes it four days long. By that logic, the work week is only three days long. Totally doable. Let’s toast to math and pour a little weekend whiskey…
Photographs Do Not Bend has a new show opening Saturday. It’s a stunning pictorial titled “Big Bend,” and it documents the region through the mind and lens of photographer Jack Ridley. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, you can explore this gallery prior to the opening melee and spend…
Until now, having lustful feelings for our founding fathers was the stuff of fetishes. Then a little musical came along that made America get all tight in the pants. It’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a rockin’ tour of populism that modernizes our seventh president by stuffing him into a pair…
The Serengeti-style oasis of skin and swim The Fraternal Order of Eagles has a magnetic quality to it — one that lures you in with the smell of tanning oil and charcoal. As if the usual reasons for going aren’t enough — hot single dads, charitable donations, beach blanket bingo,…
Online retailer Jo.Yon wants to show you how to work it. Also, how to conquer your fear of heights. Tonight the upper deck of the Roof Top Trinity Lofts (1403 Slocum St.) will bling and dazzle when Jo.Yon presents “Live from the Rooftop,” a fashion show catering to ladies of…
Last Sunday’s Thrashed Swag warmed my crackled, arid heart. In addition to having one of the raddest posters ever, this hip hop/street art/skateboarding showcase was hosted by Big J. and featured music by Topic, Raw Elementz, Human Resources, JT of Brain Gang, Hyper Uppercuti and N.O.V.A. Most importantly, it’s great…
Lucian Freud is the grandson of Sigmund “the couch whisperer” Freud, but through art he found an identity that was perfectly his own. Known for his cool-toned, realism-based portraits, Lucian developed and defined his style well before passing away in 2011 at the age of 88. Earlier in his career,…
Last night Audra Schroeder, the Observer’s music editor, and I went to Dave Chappelle’s last-minute show at the House of Blues. It had been a decade since we’d last seen the comic — we caught him at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami back in ’02, so we were curious…
Tonight’s surprise 9 p.m. Dave Chappelle performance sold out so quickly that odds looked good for a second, later show. Ticketmaster’s site even flirted with the idea, popping up a short-lived link to an 11 p.m. performance with no option to buy. The tease lasted for the better part of…
House of Blues released word late last night that comedian Dave Chappelle will perform at 9 p.m. tonight, Monday, June 18. He’s been popping up in venues across the south, surprising fans in Memphis and Little Rock last week. Now he’s giving Dallas die-hards a shot at spontaneity with a…
They say the simplest ideas are often the best. When Brian Gibb noticed that Chicago had a day where all of the galleries banded together and threw a party he thought, “We should have one, and call it Gallery Day.” Saturday, June 16, you get to reap the benefits of…
For all its flash and bling, Dallas is a pretty easy city to do on the cheap. Take this weekend: With the Oak Cliff Film Fest in town, cinematic scavengers can feast on five freebie scraps at both outdoor and indoor viewings. Over at Strauss Square, you’re invited to RSVP…
Sooo, Dallas, huh? Yep, that was terrible. Let’s never watch that ever again. In fact, let’s stop trying to resurrect iconic shows entirely. Dallas was all about shoulder pads, wealth and the young power couple JR/Sue Ellen. It doesn’t work in 2012. It got me thinkin’ about other programs I…
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X kicks off this weekend’s Oak Cliff Film Festival/rocks your socks. Like the Supermoon or Venus in transit, the universe is highlighted with tremendous points of confluence. So are weekends. This next stretch in particular is so loaded with amazing options and possibilities that it’s…
Go ahead and turn your phone off, you won’t need it this weekend. Those scamps at Aviation Cinemas have put together the Oak Cliff Film Festival, a four-day immersion in the best indie cinema imaginable. In addition to highlighting work by emerging and established talents, this festival is a wonderful…
If you ask Dad what he wants for Father’s Day, he’s going to tell you to save your cash and build your financial security. That’s because he won’t say what he really wants: falcons. Goddamn, flying creatures of prey that will swoop down during a staged battle and deliver notes…
We’re sitting on a damn goldmine here in Dallas. Our artists are innovative, targeted and open to collaboration, a rare combination for any city. Tonight you’ll experience the best of our most inventive contributors when nine different galleries, all of which cater to pushing through new methods and ideas, participate…
The story of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, isn’t a cheery one. It’s appropriately nerve-wracking for a work by German director F.W. Murnau, who previously painted the haunting celluloid of Nosferatu and Faust. Released in 1927, the black and white film is silent and uses creepy, dastardly images as…
