The summer is coming to an end, marking a beginning for the art season , which typically flourishes Fall through Spring. Of course, Kettle Art Gallery isn’t afraid of a little heat. The Deep Ellum space keeps artists on the walls year round and this upcoming exhibition might be titled…
The Chinese zodiac may indicate that 2014 is the Year of the Horse, but at the Wyly Theatre it’s opening night for Year of the Rooster. Upstart Production’s performance of this play about cockfighting kicks off a six-part series dubbed the Elevator Project. The project invites small, local companies to…
What is it about fantasy football that inspires such manic fanaticism? Each year, when it’s time for our fantasy football draft we drop everything, gather in front of our computers, often in groups, naturally, and enter into the fantasy world of fantasy football. Right. Welcome to the future, where we…
There’s a good chance you’ve found yourself humming along to the hit “Counting Stars” in your car in recent months. That’s because OneRepublic has been pretty much dominating the pop airwaves with that song and their most recent single, “Love Runs Out.” But this band didn’t come from nowhere. If…
There can’t be much to see in Garland, right? Wrong. Apparently. For years, a Web site called “Garland Eyes” has been documenting the unknown beauty of Dallas suburb. Photographers for the site have turned their lenses on nature, architecture, and the “Garlandites,” defying the stereotype that the best thing about…
It wasn’t that long ago that having a beer in a movie theater was a novelty if you didn’t count sneaking your own into the theater. These days, dine-in theaters are popping up almost as frequently as the giant megaplex cinemas that serve real alcohol. This is a wonderful innovation…
When we last saw Joe MacMillan, the mercurial Dallas salesmen at the center of the AMC computer drama Halt and Catch Fire, he was wandering into the Texas wilderness, seemingly without purpose, or direction, or even snacks. Considering the show’s meager ratings and uneven critical reception, it wasn’t hard to…
Celebrating its 27th year, the Dallas VideoFest (DVF) and the Video Association of Dallas (VAD)–an organization committed to the exhibition of independent, alternative, and non-commercial media–are ready to try something new. Since 1986, when they presented the inaugural program, Video As A Creative Medium, at the Dallas Museum of Art,…
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. Dallas isn’t exactly known as a haven for grassroots movements. Farmer’s markets face constant obstacles despite…
Christopher Blay’s work functions on borderlines. If life is a Venn diagram, he’s creating art in the overlaps. He wants to ask questions, start conversations, and challenge the viewer to see things “outside of their bubble.” As it happens, earlier this year he built himself into a bubble for Deep…
When OKCupid announced they’d been tricking users into believing they were compatible, thousands of angry couples reexamined their relationships from the dirty socks lining the bottom of the sheets to the “beard” on their boyfriend’s chin that looks more like overgrown pubic hairs. Probably. Probably that’s what happened. I’m just…
Tongue, meet cheek. It’s not that the story of Back on Badstreet won’t be true. The documentary from Fort Worth native Keith Alcorn (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) really will chronicle the story of the first theme song of professional wrestling. It’s just that it won’t take it too seriously. The…
It’s a sunny day in May, and I see Michael Urie’s toothy smile before I’ve even opened the glass door to the City Performance Hall. He’s home from New York City for the weekend, quietly hosting press conferences before heading to Austin for a wedding. The tour of his hit…
It’s the end of our night. I’ve had about as much performance art as I could stomach and now I’m in a little tiny room with a very large man, attempting to wrestle him for a chance at a handful of what I am promised is $500. Dollar bills are…
Nearly every art critic in Dallas has weighed in on the subject of performance art in the past 72 hours thanks to inside)(outside, a performance art project curated by Dallas-based PerformanceSW. inside)(outside is an online exhibition exploring gender roles through performance but Saturday night the online project manifested itself in…
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. As Paige Chenault opens the door to the Birthday Party Project’s new office in Addison, she…
Savvy shoppers are always on the hunt for a good deal. Trust fund babies and lottery winners aside, stylish thrifters know to head to vintage shops when they’re looking for champagne flutes on a beer glass budget. Still, as the “vintage” trend continues to explode, there are a number of…
If you could jump in your “comedy time machine” (a time machine that can only be used for the purposes of viewing important moments in comedy groups’ histories and therefore can’t be used to go back and…I don’t know… stop Hitler) to view the history of Locked Out Comedy and…
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. One doesn’t quickly forget their first visit to WAAS Gallery – or the first time meeting…
The Dallas Theater Center’s version of Les Miserables has turned quite a few heads for its contemporary take on the classic tale of the French Revolution. Director Liesl Tommy’s politically charged update has earned comparisons to Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring. The musical when placed in a modern…
Traffic is lighter on the roads, the sun is hotter, and the words “back to school” are popping up on advertisements throughout the city. It must be August. An easier way to learn this might’ve been looking at a calendar, which would also point out that the weekend is arriving…
Williams in Moscow on the HudsonOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of L.A. Weekly remember Robin Williams, who died on Monday. He was 63. They also recommend We Are Mari Pepa, a slight movie about growing up…
