Dallas Video Fest

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,…

The Two-Character Play

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…

Bonnie & Clyde

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…

Of Park Place and Boardwalk

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…

100 Dallas Creatives: No. 52 Flowering Fashioner Lucy Dang

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…

Top 10 Apps for Dallasites

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…

Dallas’ Scariest Haunted Houses 2014

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…

Podcast: Gone Girl Explores Marriage, the Media, and Missouri

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,…

10 Things You Need to Know About Expanded Cinema’s Big Night

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…