Five Ways We Might Be Listening To Music In the Future

The human race will remember 2012 as the year that birthed a new kind of hologram, but that technology is just the jumping-off point in this exciting era of interactive music experience. New research allows us to look into technology that might shape the way we listen to music in…

The Ten Best Damn Costumes from Dallas Comic Con. Plus, Stan Lee!

It’s so hard to choose. What displays better showmanship: zombie Spider-Man or Phone Call Juggalo? This is one of the many questions that persisted following Dallas’ fantastic Comic Con, which is presented by the legendary Stan Lee. The Great Lee was on hand along with Summer Glau (from Serenity), the…

Taste Addison 2012: The Food Porn

One of the many events the weekend was Taste Addison. The fest, which celebrated its 20th birthday, served up bites from sixty-plus restaurants in the metroplex. Rhett Miller and his Hair was on hand, but photographer Jay Barker just grabbed a whole beef-truck full of food porn. Enjoy…

Here’s All The Crazy Food of The Box in One Place

The Box, if you haven’t been following along, is the Cheap Bastard’s brainchild, wherein chefs turn a box full o’ crap and turn it into foodstuffs. Between Brian C. Luscher’s weird-ass terrine of spam and quail eggs and the twinkie crowning inside a banana with homemade nutella, we’ve gotten some…

The Lie of IMAX Digital: The Dark Knight Rises Problem

UPDATE 7/16: Turns out, The Dark Knight Rises will be showing in 15/70 format at the Cinemark 17. One caveat: the theater is a digital IMAX retrofit. Which means it’s big and badass, but the Omni theater in Fort Worth is a solid bet for seeing DKR in the optimum…

10 Best Photos from Cinco De Mayo Weekend (NSFW)

In addition to Texas Frightmare Weekend, May the Fourth Be With You Weekend, and Kill a Kodiak Bear Weekend (Okay, made up that one), there was a healthy dose of Cinco De Mayo celebrating in Dallas. Our steady-handed, contributing photographers were in it for the long haul, (sleepless and tireless…

How to Properly Eat Crawfish (Infographic)

Crawfish season, which if you’re not from the South is not when crustaceans fall from the sky, is one of the few documented times when it’s totally OK to suck the hot brains from a tiny crustracean head. Mark Andresen, the illustrator who’s no stranger to Not-Eating-This-Shit Properly, provides this…

The Transformers Fan Convention, BotCon, is Coming to Dallas. Like, Soon.

For a few days at the end of April, the Hyatt Regency will temporarily become Cybertron. This fan convention, which is known throughout the known human multi-verse as BotCon 2012, serves as one big ol’ Transformers gush-a-thon. This year, Hasbro (the awesome toy company that makes awesome Transformers), is also…

The Cheap Bastard Sentence Generator

You may have seen this week’s cover story, which is Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Being a Cheap Bastard in Dallas. If you read it, or are familiar with CB in anyway, you know that she has a black belt in Boobeuphemismskata. In honor of Bastard-y phrases like “your freezer will…

The Five Best Movie Trailers of the Year So Far

Between The Hulk screaming at our faces in 3-D and Batman possibly breaking his spine in IMAX, it’s going to be a fairly epic year in blockbuster cinema. Yet, if you’re scheduling your year of movie patronage based solely on the trailers (and not the incessant Rotten Tomatoes picking), then…

Dear Taco Bell, This is How It’s Done: The Bacon Taco Shell

Down at SXSW this past week, which was pretty well Cool Ranchified with junk-food advertisements, one of the day parties was sponsored by The Bell. They were giving away free Doritos Locos tacos by the crate. Sounds fantastic, right? The problem, of course, is the Doritos Locos taco shells carry…

The Cool Ranchification of SXSW 2012

When Observer web editor Nick Rallo and I shuffled down to South by Southwest last week, we both noticed the same thing: the somewhat icky marketing that seems to have inundated the Austin music festival, to the point where even the fans themselves were part of the brand. Here’s an…

The Calm After the Storm

Stephen Masker, one of our contributing photographers, sent along this stunner of a photo, taken Tuesday following the wicked storms in Dallas. Notable: It was shot with an iPhone 4S…

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, our indefatigable music critic staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we’ve been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you’ll find their submissions…