The first Friday of every month brings Viva Dallas burlesque to the Lakewood Theater, and this past Friday included an extra helping of sauce: a Mardi Gras theme. Hosted by Violet O’Hara, the show included performances by Iris Le Mour, Ruby Joule, Jolie Goodnight, Honey Cocoa Bordeaux and Pearl Lux,…
Last week we mentioned that actor Christian Bale had made the day of an 8-year-old Dallas boy named Zach Guillot, who is battling leukemia, by calling him in his hospital room. It’s sweet. You can watch it below. Earlier today, Zach got another surprise: a robust Batman care package that…
Last week we introduced our 2013 Masterminds, local artists to whom we awarded $1,000 each for their work making Dallas a stranger, more interesting place to live. And on Saturday night, we honored them at our annual Artopia culture jam, featuring art, fashion, food, music, and some seriously shiny low-riders,…
Zach Guillot is 8, and he loves Batman. He has a Batman costume (it’s “pretty much real”) and a Batmobile made of cardboard that he drove around his Dallas neighborhood at Halloween, little LEDs lighting the path to chocolate justice. He even has a sidekick: His little brother, who loves…
The above photo was snapped at last night’s Dallas Stars game by Twitter user @EdCahill before making its way to Deadspin. Together with the Stars’ recent handling of an exceedingly dickish Cowboys’ Tweet, we’re getting the impression the AAC’s hockey residents don’t give all that many shits. Kudos to them…
Photo by Julius Pickenpack at the Nasher. Via Twitter…
A Redditor spotted this on Google and shared it with the world. And thank the Molecules he did…
Yesterday we welcomed to Observer HQ Kiernan Maletsky, our new music editor. Kiernan is the former music editor at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis and has contributed to Denver’s Westword and other publications. He plays the drums and is slightly too tall for my tastes. I asked him a…
The Associated Press is reporting that Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice player who died in a drunk-driving accident last month, was sober at the time of the crash. Brown’s teammate, Josh Brent, had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when the car he was driving crashed. The two had…
Alex Bentley over at CultureMap Dallas liked This is 40 less than I did, which is totally fine. He makes some solid points, including some that I touched on when I babbled in Apatow’s general direction a couple weeks back. But this strikes me as somewhat insane:…
I read something in Esquire the other day that caught me off-guard. It was about how, despite the near-constant bemoaning of our culture’s waning attention span and the media industry’s cratering business model, we’re actually in a Golden Age for writers. The article, by Stephen Marche, makes a pretty good…
Late yesterday we told you about a bizarre event that popped up on Dallas’ nightlife calendar: a party at the nightclub Zouk, hosted by LeBron James and apparently designed to honor Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice-squadder who died in a drunk-driving accident. The event drew all sorts of red flags…
A couple weeks back we told you that comedy rainmaker Judd Apatow was in Dallas to promote his fourth directorial effort, This is 40, a sort-of spin-off of 2007’s Knocked Up. As part of that press tour, Apatow — who also directed 40-Year-Old Virgin and Funny People — spent one…
There wasn’t a single reference to the Connecticut shootings on this weekend’s holiday edition of Saturday Night Live, but there didn’t need to be. The show’s cold open — usually reserved for luke-warm political sketches — said it all. Watch it above, and see a few of the other sketches…
We were, for reasons obvious to readers of this blog, a bit depressed when music editor Audra Schroeder announced recently that she would retire as a music journalist and pursue writing about Things That Aren’t Music. Today, though, a little shot of human-resources Prozac: We have a new music editor…
Gawker is actually ranking fruits. How pointless is that? Let’s break down their rankings and rank the fruits of the world ourselves. 27. Fig 26. Date 25. Honeydew 24. Papaya 23. Cantaloupe 22. Blackberry 21. Pear…
Confirmed: #Cowboys’ receiver Dez Bryant has torn ligaments in his finger and will have season-ending surgery, be placed on IR.— Richie Whitt (@richiewhitt) December 10, 2012 Our old pal Richie Whitt is among those reporting that the Cowboys’ star receiver is out for the season, which would be “devastating” news…
Here’s a video making the rounds. TexasExes.org has the backstory: UT freshman Jacob “Gator” Weaver has a talent for staring that has turned into a YouTube sensation. “Stare of the Gator,” filmed by UT junior Craig Murphy, shows Weaver approaching unsuspecting people on the UT campus only to stare at…
The full Dallas city council just got its first chance to learn a little more about the proposed golf course that the city and AT&T want to build in southern Dallas. There’s still a lot for the city to work out before it agrees to clean up and lease the…
It’s the movie that inspired a thousand lazy dick jokes and provided pop-culture context for the mounds of cocaine on many an American dresser: Scarface, Brian DePalma’s classic about a Cuban refugee who makes it big in America. It was released on December 9, 1983, and in honor of its…
With the exception of Mike Hashimoto, the Morning News’ editorial team has been dutifully lining up behind the idea that a (semi?) private golf course can be “the tipping point” — their words, not mine or anyone else’s — southern Dallas needs. “A game changer,” the paper says. Next up:…
Sometimes we get voicemails that are too good not to share. This is one of those times. To quote our new favorite human: Un. Freakin. Believable…
