The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s guest star this weekend, 25-year-old Italian concert pianist Beatrice Rana, has never played with the orchestra before, but five years ago, a weekend in North Texas changed her life. Rana took home the silver medal in the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, an award that…
… This is a movie where everyone in Johnson’s radius accuses his character of hating humanity, when the actor himself can’t help ingratiating himself to everything …
Brad Anderson’s talky-smartish thriller Beirut, like the first half of Million Dollar Arm, sets Hamm’s sharpie loose in a country — in this case a fractious Lebanon — where the rules aren’t his
Oftentimes artists find themselves in situations in which they have to take matters into their own hands, like when the system fails them in some way. That’s where the women of the Texas chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art found themselves last year when they weren’t getting the support…
For nearly seven decades, the house at 314 W. Eighth St. in Oak Cliff was merely a domicile. Nothing more than a place to keep your stuff dry when it rains and plug in your refrigerator. That was before Javier García del Moral and Paco Vique owned it. Four years…
Consider this your annual Real Housewives of Dallas update. At least three of the Housewives have been spotted filming a new season of the show. Observer reader Nick Hance saw Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken and Kameron Westcott with a film crew at Lark on the Park. Hollman and Locken together?…
When Anthony Anderson went home from school, nobody could help him with his homework because no one in his family could read music. The youngest of seven kids, Anderson was the only one in the house whose homework included sight-reading music sheets and studying German and Italian. Now 19, Anderson…
This weekend, Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center was filled with 60,000 film, comic book and pop culture fans standing shoulder-to-shoulder at Dallas Fan Expo. A main attraction during the expo was Cosplay Alley, where some of the world’s biggest cosplayers, like Jessica Nigri, Leanna Vamp and Karli Woods, met with fans. Local…
Carey Stinson was a 23-year-old Chili’s employee in 1991 when a co-worker first introduced him to Barney, the purple dinosaur. “One of the employees asked me, “Can you work Saturday for me because I have to be Barney?’” recalls Stinson, a Dallas native. “I said, ‘What in the world is…
Wednesday “This newly commissioned performance explores the dark glamour of American life, its history of transformation and reinvention,” says the Dallas Symphony Orchestra about Eyes as Bright as Diamonds. We’re not exactly sure what that means, but it appears to involve rather grim-faced women in military-ish uniforms. With flags. The…
You know the cast of every comic book movie before TMZ does, your bed still has Star Wars sheets (original ones, not the prequels), and you consider dressing up as a White Walker serious business. Unfortunately, you had a work thing this weekend and missed out on the Dallas Fan…
Over the next three days, a select group of aspiring DFW comedians will achieve their dreams of being on Comedy Central. Superstar comedian Kevin Hart will bring his Comedy Central show, Hart of the City, to the DFW area, and he’s looking for stand-up comedians to feature. The Arlington Improv…
Jonny Cruz, an El Paso native who moved to Dallas and studied acting at the University of Texas at Arlington, never really considered voice acting as a viable career until he saw what video games could do with a good actor behind the microphone. Years ago, Cruz was spending time…
Celebrating 25 years of the Dallas band Old 97’s, Jason Janik, a local photographer, will curate a visual history of the group from 6-9 p.m. April 13 at Kettle Art in Deep Ellum. Beneath a Quarter Moon: 25 Years of Old 97’s, will showcase photographs and artwork from past albums…
If your allergies didn’t already give it away, you might have noticed that spring has officially sprung. Which means it is time to start planning those picnic dates and outdoor Instagram posts. We can’t think of a better place to do that than these six local gardens. Pop a couple…
Friday Once a year, Deep Ellum transforms to a neighborhood of the arts — even more so than usual. The three-day Deep Ellum Arts Festival is back and possibly bigger than ever. The festival will feature 200 amazing decorative and visual artists, 100 bands and musicians performing on six stages…
The mode is comic frustration, the story centered on a reasonable man (played by Armie Hammer) frustrated at the eccentricities of a wild-haired genius (Geoffrey Rush, as the painter Alberto Giacometti)
Gemini is a shimmering puzzler that begins with an act of Land Ho!-esque palling around before warping into an unlikely detective story in the Cold Weather vein
Though written by two men, Blockers smartly confronts the gendered double standards that have littered the genre for generations, as well as homophobia and other vehicles for predictable jokes
Curran’s film, often enthralling and upsetting, represents a welcome break in the hagiographic treatment the longtime Lion of the Senate enjoyed in the years leading up to his 2009 death
Fixer Upper aired its last episode Tuesday night on HGTV, and everyone was sad. People love TV shows about couples renovating homes together, and when they are denied the privilege of watching them, they become really sad. But there is no need to be sad. Chip and Joanna Gaines, the…
The latest Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in the Austin-based chain’s Dallas-Fort Worth collection is on John Carpenter Freeway and pays homage to John Carpenter. And with all due respect to the agriculturalist and businessman who once owned the largest dairy farms in North Texas and helped found Big Bend National…
