There’s a lot of magic to do in Dallas this weekend. If you find your calendar empty and you’re craving a good time, dig in to our list of places to go, thi Thursday, July 9 Filarmónica Joven de Colombia (Colombian Youth Philharmonic) When we think of music as an…
Dallas Gallery Day It’s not often enough that you can be assured nearly every gallery in town will have doors open and art on the walls. That’s exactly what Dallas Gallery Day is for. Previously split into East and West, this year will be the first all-city version. If you’ve…
Texas is a huge state, filled with diverse communities of people and places. Many of the bigger cities are beginning to identify themselves as art outposts. Thanks to the arts and design districts in Dallas, the tree-lined museum district in Houston and the stunning Kimbell, Amon Carter and Modern Museum…
It’s hot. All you want is a pool to swim in. You need to work on your cannonball, or your suntan. And you want options. Well, we’ve got five for you. And a warning of where you’ll get pool-blocked. Now, get wet. Dallas Fraternal Order of Eagles 3108 (Or, The…
Thursday, July 2 Comedy Crawl Every year we round up you cool cats for a comedy crawl through Deep Ellum. We stop at three bars: Three Links, Twilite, DADA; we listen to three comics: Paul Varghese, Aaron Aryanpur, and Dave Little. The laughs are free and the drinks are cheap. Joe…
If you want to start a hullabaloo in the Dallas arts, tell a theater festival it might be time for a curtain call. That’s what our theater critic Elaine Liner wrote last year about the Festival of Independent Theatres, the annual event at the Bath House Cultural Center meant to…
There are few sounds in life more pleasing than the crackle of the night sky on the fourth of July. Apparently this tradition dates back to the very first Independence Day, which was celebrated with fireworks at the request of John Adams (read more in Slate’s History of Fireworks). This…
In a world inundated by images, ideas, and mindless chatter, it seems we’re increasingly drawn to post-apocalyptic, science fiction narratives. At least, that’s the case for Dallas-based artist Dwayne Carter. He says there’s something alluring in the simplicity of a man, a dog and his gun. “We create a leader,…
Favio Moreno is constantly losing his religion. It’s always falling out of his wallet. Well, the catholic prayer cards his mother is always giving him. “My wallet is full of these little cards of religious iconography and credit cards,” he says. “Although I don’t subscribe to religion, I still feel…
Summer is a sexy time. Maybe its the unrelenting heat. Maybe it’s the infectious freedom left over from school-free childhood summers. Maybe it’s because everyone is wearing less clothing. Regardless, it looks like summer is finally here in Dallas. When you’re not lounging by the pool, you’ll want to be…
Phantom Eye There is a phenomenon known as “phantom limb,” which describes the experience of some amputees who continue to sense a missing arm or leg. Scientifically, it’s related to muscle memory, but it’s a poignant illustration of how our minds sometimes cope with loss by imagining the continued existence…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. Erica Felicella’s office is the city, or at least the city’s coffee shops. Frequenters of Mudsmith, Bolsa Mercado or The Wild Detectives will likely recognize…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. ArtPrize transformed Grand Rapids, Michigan. That’s what proponents of the citywide, open-entry art competition will tell you. “But Dallas isn’t Grand Rapids,” was the canned…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. Last spring, a new gallery announced it would open its doors on Dragon Street. Zhulong (pronounced Chew-long — think Me Love Chew Long Time) was…
Podcasts are having a moment. Thanks in no small part to Serial, which of course exists in no small part thanks to This American Life, which reignited oral storytelling in a big way. There is no end to the kinds of podcasts popping up all over the Internet these days. Comedians…
Last week news broke that the Dallas Symphony Foundation sold land at the corner of Pearl Street and Woodall Rodgers Freeway — a half-acre plot of bright green grass underneath a firetruck red Mark di Suvero sculpture. It’s one of the shockingly few examples of public art in the purported…
The theater can be a stuffy place. For that matter, a museum can be too. But across art forms, there is a movement toward something more authentic –something more raw. Certainly this DIY aesthetic isn’t new, but it’s gripping the young artists in Dallas in an unrelenting chokehold. And we’re…
Thursday, June 18Shakespeare in the Park While it is summer and school is out, an adventure through every single Shakespearean play in ninety minutes is the best English lecture you’ll ever have. Shakespeare in the Park is presenting The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged). As soon as one drama ends,…
Two salon style shows and three exhibitions enter final weekends for this week’s five art exhibitions to see in Dallas. Yeah, It’s Salon StyleIf you’ve never been to one of Ro2 Art’s high-energy, art deluge shows, aptly-titled Chaos, it would be hard to explain to you exactly what you’re missing…
We know, we know. We weren’t ready to trade in sunshine for rain either. But it happens, and when it does, we call on our cock-eyed optimism to rearrange our plans. There aren’t sunny happy hours in our future, blame it on tropical but there are these wonderful events, plays,…
A tropical climate rolled into Dallas this weekend, adding an incredible cloud cover over our mid-America urban playground. Look out a window right now and see an array of stratocumulus, nimbostratus, altostratus, and lovely little cumulus clouds. Maybe you’ll even spot a rain cloud blowing in on the horizon. Without…
It’s 11 a.m. Monday morning, and Dustin Orlando is standing inside his new gallery space on Levee Street. It’s a raw, open space that he and his business partner and wife, Gina, are transforming into Circuit 12 Contemporary. For the past three years, their gallery space boasted a Dragon Street…
