Haul out those marigolds, prep your sugar skulls, and don your best face paint—it’s time to honor the dead with some charitable festivities. Los Muertos Bishop celebrates Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, in the naturally walkable fashion of the Bishop Arts District. From 6 to 10…
In its tenth year, Muscle Memory Dance Theatre is ready to try something new. With this show, director Lesley Snelson is turning the reins over to two unknown artists to the Dallas dance scene and letting them run wild with her company. “Wrapped and Uncovered: An Evening of Dance Unraveling…
When the director chooses at Dallas Black Dance Theatre, it seems they tend to stack the deck. The official season opener for the company will be a new series titled, Director’s Choice, which will include works from contemporary choreographers like Alvin Ailey, Gene Hill Sagan, and a new piece from…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling symphonic suite Scheherazade. Inspired by the imagery of The Arabian Night’s stories, Scheherazade is a work alive with fantasy and a raw sense of curiosity, brilliantly capturing the allure and wonder of the mythical East. For this performance, the DSO welcomes back…
Everyone’s got a story to tell, even if they don’t think their life is all that exciting. The story of the Thanksgiving where you left dinner early to bail your boyfriend out of jail is actually a potential legend in the making—something your kids will confide to their kids on…
Look, there’s a lot of sex in the Bible. Chances are, you didn’t talk about any of it in Sunday school. Salome, for example, the seductress who set her sights on the unattainable John the Baptist. When he denied her advances she had her daddy, Herod II behead him. OK…
The SMU Meadows Dance Ensemble’s 2014 Dance Concert includes the premier of “Dancin’ Man,” an homage to Bob Fosse created by Alex Sanchez, as well as works by Visiting Artist-in-Residence Adam Hougland. See the concert at the Owens Art Center (6101 Bishop Blvd) at 8 p.m. Wednesday- Saturday or 2…
Flowers are nature’s beautifiers. We’ve appropriated them as tokens of affection or apology. We cut them from their roots and place them in vases to add color to our otherwise dull lives. Oh, and for centuries, we’ve painted them. Some of the 19th century’s greatest painters, including Cezanne, Manet and…
Stop digging through files, punching numbers into your calculator, and put that Go2Meeting on mute. You’ll want to watch this video from the Dallas Zoo of an adorable baby giraffe. First-time giraffe mommy Chrystal gave birth to a 6-foot-tall baby over the weekend and the zoo released a video of…
Keanu Reeves in John WickOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes)…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. John Pomara exhibited artwork before the Internet. With degrees in studio art, and exhibitions on his resume dating back to the 80’s, it was more than a decade into his practice before he took an…
Most of us would much rather buy something than make it, especially if it’s hand-made by a much more creative and talented person. Fortunately, the rise of Etsy and the DIY trend has made it much easier to find unique goods crafted by individual artists and not sweatshop workers. No…
We’re just passing this information along. Apparently the city of Dallas has a list of whom they’ll commission for public art in Dallas. And apparently this list is currently accepting applicants, even those without any public art experience. And apparently these applications will no longer be accepted after October 30…
Halloween is on a Friday this year. This means your excuses are all worthless and you will have to participate in the festivities. But house parties are so 1998. Get out of the house and do something. Want to go to a haunted house? We’ve got you covered. Want to…
If you’re up on the local comedy scene, which seems to rotate around the nuclear hub of the Dallas Comedy House, you may have found yourself snort-laughing at jokes coming out of youngster, Saffy Herndon. The 9-year-old comedian, who tells jokes about everything from cartoons to her dad’s drinking habits…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. In 2009, Sarah Perry had an idea for a neighborhood market. She was tired of going…
Patricia Reed’s “The Two” greets visitors to Zhulong Gallery’s international group show, Systema. A pair of bright red megaphones frozen in french kiss, any amplified messages lost in the other, in what you can imagine as an echo chamber of yelling instructions. When used appropriately, megaphones can relay instruction to…
The men’s urinals are where you learn the most about an ongoing opera. The unedited state of things–the real nitty-gritty. (In all fairness, I’m sure the women’s room is equally revelatory). Inside, pre-performance, the occupants were academics and critics, dishing on a half dozen lesser-known facts concerning The Marriage of…
Some comics travel for their trade because of their love of the art form or some inner need for attention or the hope of delivering to mankind a new plateau of understanding through the power of laughter. Lavell Crawford has a brutally honest reason for what keeps him going in…
The Alamo Drafthouse is about to launch a massive invasion on the Dallas-Fort Worth area, opening several new theaters, and it starts downtown with a new movie house on South Lamar Street. Developers for the new theater announced plans to break ground on the construction next month but a gathering…
Across Dallas stages, a long ignored genre of theater seems to have taken center stage. Science fiction, with all its robots, aliens, and future societies has been seen in its intellectual (Tomorrow Come Today at Undermain Theatre) and its campy (Rocky Horror Show at Dallas Theater Center). This weekend, Ochre…
Sometimes ink is given to the artists showing at the Nasher Sculpture Center simply due to its reputation. Which is not unexpected: It’s the norm in the art world to approach a venerated institution’s offerings as more noteworthy than less high-profile spaces. Plus, with bigger marketing budgets, the Dallas Museum…
