Wednesday It’s that time of year when concerts aren’t just concerts, they’re holiday hoedowns – well, at least tonight’s show at Three Links boasts such a yuletide title. The Vandoliers are throwing a “Vandoliers’ Holiday Hoedown” featuring the band’s unique outlaw country-tinged rock ‘n roll as well as Pedigo’s Magic…
Celebration: “the action of marking one’s pleasure at an important event or occasion by engaging in enjoyable, typically social, activity.” That’s what just popped up when we Googled “celebration definition.” Celebration: a time of celebrating. Pleasure: feeling good. Important event: DOMAs. Enjoyable, social activity: drinking and listening to music. Cellllllebraaaate…
Friday Winter in Paris is not the Gallic paradise we typically visit in our Francophile daydreams. It’s a little too soggy, gray and frigid for patio drinking sessions and Instagram-worthy twirls in front of the Eiffel Tower. Oh, we wouldn’t turn down the ticket if it landed in our lap,…
When Leah McElrath tweeted about her calves in relation to Beto O’Rourke’s love-making, it wasn’t about sex. “The idea behind it was an analogy about different candidates’ philosophies about what was necessary in a candidate and a campaign,” McElrath, a freelance writer and activist, tells us over the phone. “I…
Yes, you read that correctly. Eighteen more days until Dec. 4, which is when the DOMAs ceremony is (at Canton Hall) and 15 more days until the showcase Dec. 1 (all throughout Deep Ellum). This is exciting. We are excited. Are you excited? (Say yes.) Because its our 30th DOMAs,…
On an Instagram post Thursday afternoon, comedian Amy Schumer told her followers and fans that she must postpone her Texas shows. In the photo she posted alongside the note, Schumer, who was supposed to perform at Winspear Opera House on Thursday night, is in a hospital bed. In the post…
Friday It’s time to compost your pumpkins and start setting out those Christmas decorations, y’all: the holidays are coming, and along with them, the annual barrage of parties, shopping and traffic. Before things get too stressful, take some time to ease yourself into the holiday spirit at the Dallas Arboretum,…
We are less than a month away from the greatest night of your life. Forty-nine musical acts. Seven stages. One night. It’s the Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase. There is still time to say money on your tickets. General admission tickets are $15 now and they will increase to $25…
On Saturday, Wichita, Kansas, native Josh Hamilton tweeted a photo of him and his wife outside Tuesday Morning with rapper Kanye West. The tweet from @tcolesdad now has more than 150 retweets and nearly a thousand likes. Hamilton, who was in Dallas to celebrate his one-year anniversary with his wife,…
As the cast of Bohemian Rhapsody completes their media tour, Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee and Joseph Mazzello stopped by Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts to speak to more than 500 excited high schoolers about the film and music. Afterward, they made their way to Alamo Drafthouse Denton,…
The Dallas Observer Music Awards are about a month away and we cannot wait. We are planning around the clock, constantly trying to make it the best award show in the history of music. Tonight, the 18 DOMAs judges will vote on the 38 categories. The 18 judges have been…
Friday Long before “meta” became an overused catchphrase, there was Mystery Science Theater 3000, a movie wrapped in a comedy show wrapped into a “science experiment” that left creator Joel Hodgson trapped in orbit with his robot pals, where they were forced to watch bad movies and make hilarious comments…
Wednesday If you still don’t have plans for Halloween, but you have a really awesome costume hanging in your closet — maybe it’s a hot dog costume or you have some Harry Potter glasses or your sexy French maid costume never got bedroom use — then just stop worrying. Head…
Friday Most stand-up comedians who find a career in movies and television just put their stage life behind them. I’m looking right at you, Tim Allen. Comedian Kevin Hart is one of the most recognizable comedy stars on the big screen right now, but he hasn’t turned his back to…
Wednesday No one ever really dies. Just when you think you won’t ever see your favorite rock star in concert again, someone goes and makes a hologram of the singer and suddenly you’re paying $35 to see a hologram sing. Singer Roy Orbison, who died in 1988, is back in…
Last week, all three Dallas couples on Married At First Sight chose to stay married after eight weeks of wedded bliss hell. We can’t seem to get an update on where the couples are now — Lifetime won’t respond to our emails, and the stars of the show have declined…
Friday Everybody’s a fan of something, and that means you’ll find something worthy of your fan love at the annual Dallas Fan Days convention at the Irving Convention Center. The annual, three-day convention celebrates everything that the modern fan loves and can’t get enough of, from television, movies, music, video…
A few years ago, Heather Morgan wrote in her journal that she wanted to write a song that felt like her own story. Morgan, a Richardson native, moved to Nashville at a young age to pursue a career in songwriting. She has written songs for some of today’s top country…
Thursday It’s the spoooooookiest time of the year, and we aren’t talking about the midterm elections. It’s Halloween, and you’re tired of telling your kids you’ll take them to a haunted house. So instead you take them to Fright Fest, 2201 E. Road to Six Flags, Arlington, which is Six…
Last week, we announced the Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees and everyone was really happy and no one complained at all. The DOMAs, the big Dallas Observer-hosted music award show showcasing Dallas musicians, is the greatest party of the year, and we’re back for the Dirty 30 (the 30th year)…
It’s about 40 minutes after 7 p.m. and the Beyond Belief Dance Company dance moms are wondering where owner and director Justin Johnson is. “You know he always has to make an entrance,” one mom says to the other. Johnson is fashionably late to his own party celebrating the opening…
Friday Neil Diamond’s songs have never needed anything to punch them up. If you’ve ever heard a bar full of last-call patrons slurring “Sweet Caroline,” you know this is true. Those tunes stand on their own. That said, putting a little orchestration behind those well-worn, iconic hits adds a good…
