Nick Jonas. Sing it with us, Niiiiiiick Jonasssssss. You know him from that boy band of brothers. He’s the youngest one with the diabetes. He’s the one who dated Miss Universe. He’s also on that show Kingdom. Well, put away your silly questions about music and life and love because…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Josie Carignan sits in her bare Rescue Her office in Grapevine. Her desk is seated next to her husband’s in New Life Family Church, where they both co-pastor. Carignan…
Here’s how Digifest works: A bunch of kids (teenagers, mainly), who are social media celebrities, gather to showcase their talents (?). Their fans are typically 13-year-old girls, who are too old for toys but too young for boys. The social media stars that are singers sing. The rappers rap. And…
Yeah, you think you’re a hot shot all right. Someone once in the 11th grade called you funny and just like a bad STD, it stuck with you forever. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kirsten Wiig are so funny and you’re just like them, a drunk guy at a…
In a once-in-a-year event, dancers from Dallas and surrounding cities and states will showcase their talents to an amazed audience at the Dallas City Performance Hall for Dallas DanceFest. Throughout Labor Day weekend, more than 150 dancers will perform a wide array of styles of dance, including ballet, hip-hop, theatrical,…
Here at the Dallas Observer Arts and Culture section, we are proud, sort of, we guess, to announce Another Former Bachelor Contestant Hosts A Thing And You Can Go If You Want. It’s art and culture, baby. For this edition, Dallas guy and a former Bachelor himself Sean Lowe and…
The business model is not, sadly, unique: Come up with a novel idea to sell something, perhaps a rock. Pick an item and sales pitch that a distressing number of people find humorous. Get press (like this story). Pray to the Internet gods that the idea goes viral. Collect cash…
If you make less than $3 million per year, then you are familiar with the rough part of NorthPark Mall. You know, the dark side. The wing where there aren’t gowns you wear to the Academy Awards and the basic white T-shirts don’t run $75. The side without the contraption-pond-thing…
Shania Twain With Gavin DeGraw American Airlines Center, Dallas Monday, August 10, 2015 She’s baaaaaaack. You love her. You karaoke her songs when you’re blackout drunk. She’s the queen of the country-pop crossover and you and Taylor Swift are forever thankful to her for that. She’s Shania Effin’ Twain and…
Please remove your ignorance blinders and wake up for a second because what you witnessed on Sunday night’s second season premiere of Bachelor in Paradise was not real. In a somewhat elaborate ceremony to announce Dallas native Marcus Grodd and his BIP sweetheart Lacy Faddoul in holy freakin’ matrimony was…
Until self-driving cars come along and you can freely brush your teeth, drink orange juice, and choreograph a dance while in the driver’s seat of a car, Uber is a necessary evil. Because, safety. Plus the fact that DWIs and DUIs are a real bummer. Also, being driven around Dallas…
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and musicals go together about as well as milk and stomach problems. Or at least that’s what you might think. Somehow, though, a Dallas Comedy House troupe made it work. And it’s hella funny. On Friday night, Law and Order SVUiscal premiered to a…
Sadie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” and “Dancing with the Stars” fame is here to make everything a little bit brighter. To make the sun shine a little bit more. To direct a little bit more of god’s smile at you and your loved ones. OK, we’re sorry for that, but…
Inside D1 Sports Training, 30 women perform a newly learned dance routine on a small basketball gym floor. One woman, in the back, stops mid-performance to fix her top after realizing it had come undone. None of the other women notice because they are solely focused on their performance. It’s…
Everyone is a little bit curious about what exactly happens in the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend Holly Madison published a tell-all book, Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, about her time living in the Playboy Mansion while dating the world’s most…
For more than 30 seasons combined, men and women seeking mates — or seeking something, anyway — have competed for love on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. You can count on one hand how many relationships spawned on the shows have worked out, but long odds didn’t keep about 200…
When Ser Steak and Spirits’ executive chef was updating the restaurant’s dessert menu, he thought kicking it old school was the best bet. For whatever reason, the Millionaire Pie disappeared from the menu, but after much popular demand, the chef felt it was time to bring it back. “Why come…
Local celebrities are fun. And bartending competitions are super fun because it involves alcohol and tossing of cups and yelling “Get me a double vodka soda” over a loud karaoke rendition of “Uptown Funk You Up.” But the official Celebrity Bartender Throwdown at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Snuffer’s in Addison…
Not sure if you heard the news, but the hipster is dead. Its funeral was, like, last week, according to this Mashable article, and now it’s time to move in a new direction of putting labels on humans. Instead of the somewhat-hated hipster, we now have the Yuccie (pronounced however…
If any ounce of you, maybe your optimistic, glass-half-full side of you, thought The Bachelor had any string of realness, a new Lifetime scripted series confidently puts that to rest. In the 30 combined seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, there has yet to be a TV show, movie,…
There will be days this summer when you want to blow your brains out. The kids are going to whine about being bored every few minutes; the temperature will hover in the low 300-degree range, and the biggest movie of the summer will most likely be Mission Impossible 32 with…
Kenny Chesney With Jason Aldean, Brantley Gilbert, Cole Swindell and Old Dominion AT&T Stadium, Arlington Saturday, May 16, 2015 As Jason Aldean stood on the AT&T Stadium stage Saturday night, he reminded the crowd of his earlier days playing at a much smaller Dallas venue: Gilley’s. “It was great to see…
