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. Taylor “Effin” Cleveland (not his real middle name, obviously, but he’s badass enough to call himself…
Saturday is National Dance Day, another day that you can celebrate through clever Facebook status updates, Instagram hashtags, and throwback photos to your drill team days and those terrible costumes your dance teachers used to make you wear. Or, you could actually get off your butt and dance. Novel idea,…
Summer is the perfect time for road trips and staycations, which might be how you’re choosing to spend this weekend. And if you’re looking to do that, we’ve got a few recommendations for both (see Road Tripping, Staycations). But if you’re planning to spend the weekend in Dallas and want…
Project Runway struts its way back onto the television Thursday night for season 13. It’s your classic reality competition show that narrows contestants down with each episode until there is a grand prize winner. It’s a favorite among fashion lovers or aspiring designers, and anyone else who just loves watching…
Fandom is a weird beast. It can make otherwise sane individuals do things that not even a lifetime of drinking will erase from memory. Some extreme fans of Supernatural seem to fit into that category. For those of you who aren’t in the know, it’s a show on The CW…
It used to be that when you wanted to get rid of old junk that inevitably accumulates in the home, you had to host a yard sale. Yard sales are colossal pains in the ass and require setting up a bunch of card tables and sitting in the hot sun…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Amy Nicholson of the L.A. Weekly and Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice interview film critic and author Karina Longworth, who’s just launched a fascinating new podcast on the history of Hollywood called You Must Remember This. Karina talks about the movies and…
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an island of rumpled calm in Anton Corbijn’s urgent A Most Wanted Man, a glum-out-of-principle espionage story based on a John Le Carré novel. The role demands that Hoffman be quiet, steady, occasionally frustrated, and that he hold secrets — often from us, which is a…
Like an old actor no longer able to remember his lines, maybe the Festival of Independent Theatres needs to be led gently out of the spotlight for good. The annual FIT fest, as it’s redundantly known, was conceived 16 years ago to give small companies a chance to produce new…
Uncomfortable-silence auteur Joe Swanberg has made a career of testing how much falseness you can strip out and still have a movie. What if people on-screen talked like people off it, and if their moments of realization — this is the person I love! — worked out about as well…
With his stately drawl, Morgan Freeman has narrated nonfiction documentaries about penguins, slavery, the lemurs of Madagascar, ancient Egyptian pharaohs, and the expansion of the universe. His is a voice of authority tempered by warmth and wisdom, capable of evoking felt human experience and the majesty of creation. In writer-director…
One could be forgiven for being skeptical that a Hercules movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and directed by Brett “Rush Hour Trilogy” Ratner might have a brain in its head, but it actually does. We’re not talking Snowpiercer levels of intelligence, but it’s far less aggressively stupid than, say,…
This month Oak Cliff’s The Wild Detectives hosts Wordspace’s OffWorld Sci Fi Readers Club. We know, we lost you at “sci fi readers club,” but hear us out. Location? The Wild Detectives where they serve coffee, wine, beer, cheese and pie. You love all of those things. Host? Will Evans…
We miss the drive-in theater. Sure the Internet may have made it easier to watch films that cater to our most basic and sleaziest drives, but where’s the sense of community? Where’s the feeling that you aren’t the only sick bastard who enjoys watching torture porn and movies that find…
David Lynch’s most famous attempt at a television show earned a cult TV audience before networks had such a term. His bizarre take on the prime-time murder mystery left audiences staring at their screens as if they were watching an Orson Welles workout video but left them wanting more. Of…
If you like Dallas burlesque, than you probably already know about La Divina Productions’ annual Hotter than Hell show. Before the unseasonably cool months of June and July wander into what’s sure to be a thermometer-breaking month of August, submerge yourself in a different kind of heat. There are only…
With the arrival of Cirque’s celebrated Michael Jackson: The Immortal Tour this Friday and Saturday night at American Airlines Center (2500 Victory Ave.), we’re invited to experience the lighter side of resurrection. In the five years since his passing, we’ve seen the King of Pop exhumed repeatedly — a posthumous…
Joel Ferrell, choreographer and director for the upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Dallas Theatre Center, is looking for eight unpaid extras to take the stage, and to find them, DTC is holding an open casting call at The Rose Room (3911 Cedar Springs Road) from…
There’s something mysterious, admirable, yet heartbreaking about the vagabond character in the American narrative. Who are the tramps? The hobos? Who is Bozo Texino? is the full length film from artist, filmmaker and Richardson High School grad, Bill Daniel that documents the tradition of railworker boxcar graffiti, one of the…
Sunday, WWE Live brings the SummerSlam Heatwave Tour to Dallas’ American Airlines Center (2500 Victory Ave.) thus providing a way to maintain cool adult status this weekend now that you’re almost out of fireworks. There are inevitably people who will feel the need to sniff derisively at this news and…
Nestled among the quirk of Little Forest Hills, in the middle of a church parking lot, thrives a little garden, somewhat improbably, just above the black asphalt pavement. It’s an inspiring slice of green known as the Promise of Peace Community Garden, and the soil there nourishes more than just…
Eat your heart out, Michael Flately, there’s a new gig in town and their feet are on fire! Rhythmic Souls’ new show Legends Never Die: A Revival of American Tap Dance Heroes, is paying tribute to the most beloved and well-known scenes from the movie musicals of the ’30s and…
