There are just a few truly classic works of theater. Plays or musicals that don’t just remain relevant, but the characters continue to introduce new worlds to an audience, the language continues to dance, and the ideas continue to ignite discussions. Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is one such play…
You don’t have to be in love with the old play-with-music Lady in the Dark to appreciate its artful sophistication. It’s an odd one, more psychodrama than full-out musical; there are only 65 minutes of singing spread out over two and a half hours. But because it’s almost never produced…
If you’re cool with letting a stranger touch you for an hour, massage is a great way to relieve stress and generally improve your health. But the real benefits only come with semi-regular visits, and monthly trips to high-end spas like the Crescent, where the most basic massage will set…
Finding a soulmate is difficult, especially in 2015. Marilyn Monroe or Hepburn, or some famous female of the 20th century once said, “I don’t mind approaching guys, just as long as I can be a woman approaching guys.” So true. It’s hard to be single out there. People are way…
The Internet, reliable source that it is, reports that if you live in America your chance of being struck by lightning are 1 in 700,000. It’s likely the chances of capturing a photo quite as magnificent as the one Justin Terveen snapped last night are even smaller…
There are no more excuses for staying home. Tornados won’t stop the fun that’s scheduled for this week. Grab your best friend, slather on some lipstick and leave behind your night of Netflix. You can turn into a homebody next week…
By Jeremy Hallock After struggling as a comedian for over 20 years, Marc Maron finally started hitting his stride in 2009 with his enormously popular “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast and then the IFC TV series, Maron, which debuted in 2013. He easily commanded the large crowd from the huge…
After David Vobora arrived back home in Dallas after a week in the Bermuda Triangle, he consumed 13,000 calories in 24 hours. He had just spent a week filming for a man versus water-type reality show called The Raft for National Geographic. The concept is essentially where he and one…
Imagine if the Rude Mechs had a love child with Taylor Mac (or Daniel Alexander Jones), and then named Young Jean Lee the godmother. You might find him crawling around Dallas theater today introducing himself as Brigham Mosley. Of course, you won’t need to know the cultural lineage of Mosley’s…
There aren’t many people worth traveling more than 1,000 miles for. Maybe the president of the United States, maybe your child you’ve never met, or maybe a resurrected John Lennon. But a former Bachelor contestant?…
The first ever WhoFest kicked off last year at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison on the same weekend as the BBC’s official American premiere of the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor. The episode brought back every single incarnation of the Doctor and turned a flooded conference…
If you’re a huge movie fan, you’ve got at least one filmmaker in mind that you would just love to sit down with just for a few minutes and root around their brain like someone looking for a contact lens in a Hardee’s dumpster. Well, the odds are pretty good…
There are a lot of holidays in the world. Yesterday not only marked Earth Day, but also National Girl Scout’s Day and Administrative Professionals’ Day. But today, April 23, is one for the books. Literally…
Dear Web Readers, It’s been a minute since we wrapped up the 100 Creatives list, but this week the list of awesome Dallas people, with a few selected full interviews, runs in print. So, step away from your computer and grab one from the Dallas Observer boxes around the city…
UnfriendedOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we marvel at teen horror film Unfriended, and while it is “85 minutes of watching someone else use a computer,” the filmmaker’s adept at turning a screen into a natural storytelling platform: “Director Levan Gabriadze summons up exquisite unease just by the way…
Call me a psychic. When I was leaving All My Sons on Monday night, I said to my companion, “I really want to see a good production of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” No joke. What should arrive in my inbox this morning, but an announcement from one of…
The weekend. It’s always just around the corner. As life pushes ever onward, and the good things come and they go, it’s nice to know that the weekend always arrives on time. Unless you have a job that requires you to work on the weekend. In that case, we’re really…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I wish I could photograph people’s faces when I tell them that I cancelled the…
No one likes the idea of growing older, and anyone who claims as much is lying, either to you or to herself. The anxiety of aging actors is particularly acute, not necessarily because they feel the passage of time intensely, but because, having the privilege of watching their faces change…
It’s nearly impossible to persuade the average American citizen, especially if he’s a straight man, that haute couture has a reason to exist. The phrase isn’t just a catch-all for “really expensive clothes,” as it’s commonly misunderstood, but a specific term for clothes made entirely by hand, for a specific…
Did you know that there’s a new family-audience feature film that implies God nuked Japan because one plucky American moppet dared to dream? That’s no exaggeration. In the summer of 1945, the kid stands on a California dock, points his fingers magician-style out at the Pacific horizon, and screams a…
April is National Poetry Month, a celebration of the literary art form that — for many of us — filled our notebooks in high school, but has largely been absent from our everyday lives since. It’s not that we don’t like poetry, it’s that we’re mostly pretty terrible at it…
