The Little Prince isn’t just the story of that baby Michael Jackson had with his nurse. It’s a real live story. Like a book an’ shit. It also happens to be Jeff Swearingen’s favorite story ever. Seriously. We have a picture of his high school notebook and it’s covered in…
“Chic-ag-o with murder and dance and tip tappity tap JAZZ HANDS.” If I’m not mistaken, those are the opening lyrics to the musical Chicago, made famous by the movie that bears the same name. I kid. Chicago was a massive hit long before Queen Latifah ever set foot on the…
Long before it was a show, Fargo was a movie staring Frances McDormand and co-starring her gnarly accent. She plays a pregnant police chief who stumbles on a disturbingly bumbled crime. William H. Macy plays a struggling car salesman with a hot tip on an investment property. The only problem?…
Bo Burnham taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday. Four days after turning 18. That made him the youngest performer to tape a Comedy Central special and therefore public enemy number one to my former high school self. Then I watched his stand-up…
At the age of 7, Ryan Anthony began playing the trumpet and was instantly considered a child prodigy. At the age of 17, he soloed with both the Detroit Symphony and the Cleveland Institute of Music. By 2003, he became one of the most sought after trumpet players in the…
Kinky Boots is a Tony-winning Broadway musical with book by Harvey Fierstein, that raspy-voiced effer whose writing in all gold, baby, gold, and score by Cyndi Lauper, which is like double gold. Top it off with the story of the unlikely friendship between Charlie Price, a struggling shoe factory owner,…
If you’ve ever informed a sibling “they’re what the French call les incompetents,” gone all the way and explained, “Santy Claus doesn’t visit the funeral home little boy” or just let out a grotesque burp and exclaimed, “The shitter’s full,” then the holiday Granada’s Holiday Mockbuster has your name on…
We’re a month out from Halloween and we just blazed through Thanksgiving so you know what that means — it’s time FOR ALL THE CHRISTMAS THINGS. Well, according to KLUV and every retailer ever, it’s been time, but now it’s like REALLY time. And there’s no better way to kick…
Grab your tweedy cape, don a Sherlock hat and get your danderfanny on a bike for the Dallas Tweed Ride, beginning at 2:30 p.m. at the Grassy Knoll. Jason Roberts will lead the pack of time travelers through downtown, inside Dallas Heritage Village and ultimately through Oak Cliff where the…
Years ago Wesley Treat discovered an interest in roadside attractions. As a photographer, he’d found his subject and he started a blog to chronicle his travels. Around the same time two guys up in New Jersey had a blog called “Weird New Jersey” that eventually became a book and then…
If you’re not a Z-list celebrity, you’re probably never going to make it onto Dancing With the Stars and if you’re tone deaf, American Idol is probably out too. Well, at least the “you’re going to Hollywood” part. But if you have at least $36 to spare, you can head…
There’s nothing sexy about comedy, right? Carrot Top is a total boner shrinker and don’t get us started on Louie Anderson… But there’s an exception to every rule, or maybe just an ironic title. Starting at 7 p.m. Thursday and running through the weekend, The Alternative Comedy Theater at Margo…
If you’re looking for an evening filled with Igloo coolers, Toby Keith t-shirts, and more potassium nitrate than you ever thought humanly possible, then you need to get your cutoffs to Kaboomtown in Addison on July 3rd for their annual fireworks bonanza-extravaganza. The Wall Street Journal named it one of…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Marianne Newsom and Sunny Sliger of The Color Condition are as colorful as their installations. They…
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark is showing at Theatre Three. It’s not a new story, but it’s a captivating one. If you want the Cliff Notes of Cliffs Notes, keep reading. “Hollywood, 1930, movies were glitzy, glamorous and all the rage. Everyone wanted to be a starlet, including Vera…
Sally Glass is an artist with a wicked sense of humor. There’s a handmade sign outside her CentralTrak resident dorm that says, “Nevermind, I started my period.” We’ve had a love affair with this chick since she burst onto the scene with her art zine, semigloss. She just graduated with…
When you walk into most tattoo shops, you expect certain things — biker-looking dudes, rat-tails and surliness. They grunt. You point. They tattoo. And you can’t wait ’til it’s over. Rudy Hetzer of Dallas Tattoo & Art is out to change that. He’s got a shop, a clothing line and…
Dollar Store Dropout Good People is a play written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire and it’s loaded with more plot twists than a Maury Show. The story starts with our star and Boston Southie, Margie Walsh, losing her job at a Dollar Store. All time low point? Not so…
There’s no real way to describe how Tony Barsotti enters a room. It’s part Kramer, part swagger, mostly Tony. He’s full of energy and confidence and talent. And holy shit, this man has talent. He was the drummer in Hagfish back in the day — the hard driving, mid-’90s Deep…
A huge mural fills the wall of Company Café on Greenville Avenue. The subjects are familiar faces — Big Tex on Fire, Bob the Nomad Keyboardist, a wisp of a woman hovering above a lake… Wait, a minute. What woman? And what lake? We have so many. Turns out the…
I’m pretty sure we all know the story of the Lion King, but who couldn’t use a refresher, right? Hakuna Matata! The story starts out with Simba, the heir to the Pride Lands throne, disobeying his father, Mufasa, and visiting a graveyard. Mufasa saves Simba from the crapface hyenas that…
Of all the things those deal of the day sites have gotten me into, Neema’s Body Wraps was perhaps the most confining. Quite literally. On Saturday I headed off to Irving, home of Neema’s Body Wraps, a place billed to pull out toxins while melting away inches. Confession — I…
