AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire to Premiere June 1

It’s official, AMC announced the premiere date for its new series Halt and Catch Fire,the drama set during the PC boom in Dallas. The show will debut Sunday, June 1 at 9 p.m. CST. The show takes place in the early 1980’s and tells the story of the race to…

Powerful Bachelor Seeks New Queen to Live in the Past

Handsome king seeks beautiful young lass for lifetime of revelry as King and Queen of Scarborough Renaissance Festival. Ladies, don your finest wig, tighten your corset and wiggle into silk knickers. The medieval revelry returns to the sweeping plains of Waxahachie April 5, and this time the monarch is available…

DTOX Davies Hosts Graffiti Tours in Deep Ellum

The Mavs championship mural in Deep Ellum, dog portraits in the Bark Park, the mammoth geisha in Chino Chinatown, the patio wall at Bryan Street Tavern: His work surrounds you and you might not even notice. Jerod DTOX Davies is one of three brothers whose artistic endeavors are visible on…

There’s a Crazy Dance Show in Fair Park. You Should Go.

Nobody likes dance shows. It’s an arts statistic we don’t like to talk about. People will wander through free museum exhibits; they’ll show up with their bottles of wine for Shakespeare in Park; they’ll even sell out operas like Carmen and Turandot. But nobody sits through dance anymore, except reluctant…

Our 10 Favorite Photos From Mardi Gras Celebrations

Sunday may have been a bust, with all that terrifying thunder sleet and what not. But the Mardi Gras parties on Friday and Saturday went off without a hitch, thanks to the stunning springtime weather. In Denton on Friday, Walnut Street was filled with revelers wearing masks, covered in body…

Artist Joshua Goode Talks About Latest Discovery: a Unicorn T-Rex

“Last summer I was on a dig in Germany and I discovered artifacts that point toward the existence of an ancient Texas civilization,” artist Joshua Goode says. “It was pretty amazing to find the remains of a Unicorn T-Rex that I determined by the saddle was domesticated and ridden.” We’re…

Whet Your Appetite with Photos

Admit it, you’ve caught yourself salivating over a picture of a juicy burger in the pages of Bon Appetite. If it seems as though no matter how many filters you apply your Instagram photos can’t quite match the pages of a menu, you’re right. There’s a magic to food photography…

The Mixmaster is Looking for Freelance Writers

It’s been a minute since we here at the Observer put out a notice for local freelance writers for this little arts and culture blog, The Mixmaster. But here we are, looking you straight in the eye with the simple question, are you the one we want? It’s a question…

Mighty Morphin’ David Yost Visits Dallas This Weekend

Playing the Blue Power Ranger was the breakthrough moment in David Yost’s career. Billy Cranston, one of the original “teenagers with attitude,” was the brains of the group, inventing gadgets like the wrist communicators. Yost, along with Walter Jones, the first Black Power Ranger from the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers…

Real Estate in Dallas You Will (Probably) Never Own

Becoming a millionaire is a short-lived fantasy for a journalist.But that doesn’t mean I can’t drool over fancy MLS listings. It would probably take multiple winning lottery tickets to move me and my 29-inch television into one of these houses, but that won’t squelch my fantasy.

Don’t Miss Bone Ties at The Reading Room

Dallas, meet Performance Southwest. Even if you’re not a performance art fan the name might sound familiar from fits and starts around town, but their mission is much larger than this city. It’s an educational group with constituents all over the country dedicated to educating audiences on the exciting, yet…

Art Rock

What’s the saying? A picture says a thousand words, but granite says it better? OK, it may not have caught on just yet, but in its latest exhibition Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery breaks its tradition of photo-based work to feature large-scale granite sculpture by Jesús Moroles. A native Texan…

Wedded to Art

The couple who paints together, stays together. Well, that’s what we are to believe about Santa Fe artists Blair Vaughn-Gruler and her husband Ernst Gruler, who claim to paint side-by-side everyday. Mary Tomas Gallery, which happens to be owned by happily married artist types, displays the newest work of the…

Dirty Dancing with Danielle

If you attended Artopia, you’ve already peered into the crazy mind of Danielle Georgiou. But the women in blue lipstick and graceful, contorted bodies were just the beginning. Her newest show, Dirty Filthy Diamonds, takes over the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park at 8 p.m. Wednesday with a perversely…

The Bulletproof, Mustached Samurai at the Kimbell Art Museum

Let me first admit, my experience with samurai is limited. When I learned Dallas had a samurai museum, the first thing three things that came to mind were Tom Cruise, Mulan (wrong country), and 47 Ronin. That there could be an entire exhibition — much less a museum — dedicated to…