On Monday night, America watched Dallas native JoJo Fletcher get dumped by the love of her life, her best friend, the man of her dreams. BUT THAT’S OK BECAUSE NOW SHE’S THE NEW BACHELORETTE. Yes, Dallas’ own sweet JoJo went on The Bachelor to find love and happiness with Perfect…
There’s plenty to do in Dallas this week from talks from famous authors to wine crawls. Authors Live: A.O. Scott 7 p.m. Monday It’s a fallacy that everyone’s a critic. Everyone has an opinion—that much is certain. But criticism implies critical thinking, insight and consideration, all or most of which…
Three things you don’t expect at a Dallas Symphony concert: a free s’mores bar in the lobby, electric guitars, and a concert made up entirely of music written in the past thirty years. Such was the case, however, as the orchestra continued its Remix series—not at the Meyerson, not on…
Turns out that the Walker Stalker Con that hit the Dallas convention center last week was not, in fact, devoted to the city’s favorite TV son, Walker, Texas Ranger. Nope. This con was for the fans of The Walking Dead, who came in whatever the collective noun is for the…
Do This! The Dallas Flea quickly became one of the largest shopping events in the city. It became so big that they’ve expanded, changed locations and even re-branded. This year, Flea Style takes over Fair Park’s 85,000-square foot Automobile Building (1010 First Ave.) with a huge array of vendors selling handmade…
Growing up in Oak Cliff, Lee Escobedo and Patrick Patterson-Carroll didn’t have many opportunities to be aware of cinema. They remember looking for movies at grocery stores and pawnshops. Sometimes they would leave the neighborhood and visit a Half Price Books. But now they are using What is Cinema?, a…
Since 2015’s When Marnie Was There looks to be its final new film for the foreseeable future, it makes sense that Studio Ghibli would circle back around to its beginnings. Isao Takahata’s 1991 Only Yesterday was not Ghibli’s first feature, however; it was preceded by Hayao Miyazaki’s 1986 Castle in…
A legitimate stunner in that word’s truest sense, Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s river-trip Embrace of the Serpent mesmerizes and jacks with you, leaving you not quite certain, at its end, how to go about the rest of your day. The film is beautiful and ferocious, calm and torrential, a plunge…
“Why did you let me film this?” filmmaker Josh Kriegman incredulously asks Anthony Weiner late in Weiner, a documentary about the former New York congressman’s failed 2013 mayoral run. The disgraced candidate doesn’t have a good answer, but the question hangs over this fascinating film, which plays like it started…
In one key way, the kinda-maybe sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane might be the purest example yet of the J.J. Abrams house style. Directed by first-timer Dan Trachtenberg but produced by Abrams (Super 8, Lost, Alias, Cloverfield, etc.) the thriller is yet another of the fannish wunderbrand’s mystery boxes, a genre…
What if Terrence Malick directed an episode of Entourage? Well, we’re about to find out, sort of. In Knight of Cups, the director of Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life turns his roaming camera and ruminating voiceovers toward Los Angeles and the movie business,…
Bryce Dessner is probably best known for his role as guitarist in the baritone-driven indie rock band The National, but he is equally accomplished as a classical composer. “A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I’m in a rock band,” he says, speaking…
Terri Doty is a morose teenager trying to assassinate her teacher. She plays one at work, anyway, where today she’s in the sound booth giving life to Kirara in Assassination Classroom. Her teacher/foe is a smiley face with tentacles who blew up the moon and is on a mission to…
The first scene of All the Way, now playing at Dallas Theater Center, lasts approximately four minutes. President Kennedy has just been shot; Lyndon B. Johnson is on his way to take over. Dramatic music, lights fade, scene change. This Tony Award-winning political drama moves along at TV speed, written…
The issue of parity (parity: the state or condition of being equal) is a hot one these days. As corporate America slowly comes around to the idea of giving women luxuries like equal pay and the privilege to have a room with a chair that’s not a toilet to pump…
That spring in our step this week? It’s buoyed by a long-term forecast of rich, diverse and engaging arts events that appeal to the senses and germinate inspiration. There’s a plush seat to plant in pretty much every single night, thanks to the full roster of theater, dance and music…
When the Dallas Opera continued its season Friday night with Manon, the five-act opera by French composer Jules Massenet, the Winspear Opera House was far from full. Perhaps because, although this opera is performed regularly, it doesn’t have the widespread name recognition of earlier offerings this season like Tosca or…
Didn’t get ticket to last month’s Magic Men show at the Bomb Factory? No worries, the Observer did, and videographer Sarah Passon brought along her camera to boot. Take a look at what you missed — acres of ripped male flesh, mainly…
I knew this would happen for some of you. You’ve been telling yourself that you have plenty of time to see Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots at the Dallas Museum of Art. It’s up through March 20, you said. That’s the distant future, you said. I’ll get around to it, you…
There are houses and then there are motherfucking houses. This is one of the second. Designed from the ground up by local architect, designer and great-taste-haver Eddie Maestri, it’s like an ooh and aah odyssey for your pants. Why pants? Why not? You likely know Maestri from his “coming soon”…
The third season of Broad City (Comedy Central) opens with a toilet-centric montage that already feels like one of the year’s TV highlights. At once exuberant, absurd and all-too-real, a split screen reveals besties Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) living their best lives in their respective bathrooms. They…
Feeling tense? Need to take a load off? Looking to treat yo’self? These are all questions you should be asking your dog. In this stressful, fetch-fetch-fetch world, isn’t it time you give that special four-pawed someone a day of being pampered? Sure, you cook her food to keep her coat…
