After kicking off with Expanded Cinema Sunday night, Dallas VideoFest 27enters full swing this week with screenings taking over Alamo Drafthouse through October 19. Thursday’s films include 7 p.m. screenings of An Honest Liar – a documentary about world famous magician James “The Amazing” Randi – and Regarding Susan Sontag,…
Ever get something stuck in your head—something you want to create or write or build? And while you know you have the basic idea there, it just takes forever to come together? It happens to all of us at some time or another, causing us writer’s block or gumming up…
Spoiler alert, y’all: Bonnie and Clyde do not ride off into the sunset, despite the fact that this is a musical. Nothing changes in the general plot: the outlaws still get gunned down in the end after they do a number of really bad things. The difference here is that…
A reflection on city life and our childhood past, photographer Mike Osborne’s exhibition Monopoly, seeks to reconcile the realistic Atlantic City with our memories of coffee table game nights. His interpretations of light and dark, color and void both mesmerize and sadden us. The dreams we had of money and…
The Dallas VideoFest falls just before Halloween. A spooky season worth tapping into, at least for one of the fest’s signature events. “We thought maybe we should go in a Halloween direction,” says Brian Satterwhite, a composer and film aficionado who served as a consultant for this year’s live silent…
Ilana and Abbi, America’s favorite young bitches who’ve puff-puff-passed slacker comedy to females, announced today on the Broad City Facebook page that they’re bringing their jokes to Dallas next month…
The historic Texas Theatre prides itself on being one of the few movie houses in town that can still screen films in their original 35mm and even 16mm formats, but even this historic theater has to change with the times and that means making the jump to digital distribution. Such…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, open this week’s podcast with a brief discussion of Twin Peaks, which comes back to TV via a series on Showtime in 2016, and move onto The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall,…
Another October means movie theaters yet again rolling out the orange carpet for their Halloween themed programming, and since we are the foremost experts of Halloweenocity in the area, we pulled all the best screenings together for you. Weirdly enough no one is showing John Carpenter’s Halloween this year, which…
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. By Michelle Foster Planted in Dallas and blossomed in New York, Lucy Dang is back to…
Where is my Playboy pinball? Where is my Harley Davidson? Where have all the pinball tables gone? Look, I’m asking for a friend. With the recent shuttering of July Alley, he’s found himself despondent. He’s having to literally twiddle his thumbs with the loss of his beloved pinball tables…
By Sarah Wyatt “Once you’re on track that is really and truly YOUR track, you can’t help but make inspired choices in life,” writes Tig Notaro in our email conversation -the Caps Lock hers. Tig Notaro is a good person, a good friend, an honest person, and a very talented…
The brand new, sparkling iPhone 6 just rolled out, and in honor of its appearance, we’ve compiled a list of the top apps your Dallas dwelling just a little bit easier. Between sports teams, arts district and more fairs and festivals than you can count, Dallas is a hell of…
I spent last night at the fabulous Texas Theatre watching 20,000 Days on Earth, the new documentary about legendary Australian songsmith Nick Cave. You need to go and see it there before its extremely limited run closes on Thursday, and here is why. First off, it’s not even really a…
By Michelle Foster You could go as a Legs Avenue Slutty Superman. You could get a banana suit in a bag from Party City. Or you could use your imagination, Dallas. Wow the crowd with something totally unique and out-there and creative. Don’t wait until October 30. Get your pick…
Michael Morris likes film. Understatement of the year. He loves film. He lives and breathes it. Morris is the man when it comes to video. Since moving back to Dallas four years ago, he has carved a niche for himself in the local art scene, bringing the history of avant-garde…
Shakespeare seems to be on the minds of Dallas theatre-makers this month. Last weekend, there was a staged reading of Romeo and Juliet at the Wyly Theatre, Shakespeare in the Bar at Wild Detectives, and of course, Dallas Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Now, Sundown Collaborative Theatre is taking their stab…
Things were simpler when we were kids. Responsibilities consisted mainly of remembering to feed the dog, not touching the rat poison under the sink, and leaving dad alone when he’s drinking his “grown-up” apple juice in the front yard. But the absolute best part about being a kid no competition…
This weekend presents a hodgepodge of activities from a Tim Burton themed burlesque show to some world class musicians…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, talk about one of the big movies of the year, Gone Girl, which opens in about 3,000 U.S. theaters on Friday, but the trio also makes room for lesser-known films like The Blue Room, Men,…
Three years ago, the Dallas VideoFest introduced a new program to their line-up of events that changed the way we view video in this city. “Expanded Cinema” followed Bart Weiss’ interest in non-traditional ways of bringing video to people. For years, Weiss had been dreaming up a plan to pair…
America’s “Horse With No Name” spins on an old fashioned record player and a scented candle burns at the checkout counter. I jab an old, wonky paintbrush into ivory chalk paint and start sweeping the color onto a small, totally white, wooden side table. It should take on a more…
