For four years, Uptown Players has taken a week to celebrate its existence as the city’s LGBT-centric theater. In every season, the company presents shows that that connect with or describe the gay identity, but during the Pride Performing Arts Festival, the shows are more unabashed. This week, Uptown Players…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we hear from L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson, who’s intrigued by the bizarre universe of Pixar’s Planes movies. We also hear about the film critic’s background and how she became interested in the movies by way of subliminal advertising and photography…
Some Dallas residents don’t even know it exists. The Great Trinity Forest, a lush 6,000+ acre woodland, is a hideout worthy of Robin Hood’s Merry Men that sits just beyond East Dallas. And it’s one of the subjects of the photography exhibition that opens at Sun to Moon Gallery this…
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. Running a gallery is not easy. Sisters Elissa and Erin Stafford knew this when their father…
Expanding your horizons is a pretty popular pastime nowadays, and plenty of folks decided to spend this past Sunday, blazing cultural trails at the Angelika Dallas, for the centerpiece showcase of the 13th annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas. The theater began to fill as showtime neared. Some moviegoers were…
Not everyone knows that Dallas is one of the hub cities that shaped modern video gaming. Pong started in a tavern in the heart of Silicon Valley; Pac-Man was put together by a team of programmers in another country; but here in Dallas, we gave gaming something it didn’t even…
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, better known by first name only, are the radical comedy duo that speaks directly to the sensibilities of an entire generation of fans, while the generation before it struggles to understand just what the hell is so funny. It can be fun to observe parents…
The contemporary art world has arrived in Dallas and it’s landed at Zhulong Gallery. Jeremy Couillard is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work in different media for Viscous Valley transforms this Dragon Street space into a futuristic landscape that is like stepping into an abstracted video game.Toss what you thought you…
Dallas photographer Daniel Driensky caught this image of the “supermoon” rising above Reunion Tower over the weekend. A supermoon, also called a perigee moon, occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit. NASA says the moon may appear somewhat larger 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. Movie buffs can have such an infectious love for film that it feels like it should…
There’s a chance you’ve already forgotten about The Bachelorette’s Marcus Grodd. OK, so there’s also a chance you don’t give shits about The Bachelorette. But, let’s say you do care. In that case, you might remember last week’s hometown date with Marcus that took place almost entirely in Highland Park…
“They don’t really photograph well,” says Lucas Martell, as we walk through Lagoon at Circuit 12 Contemporary, the local artist’s first solo exhibition. “It’s impossible to get the green the right color when it’s being photographed.” The Internet opened up possibilities of experience to us. Today we can see the…
A new Planet of the Apes movie is upon us and even though Rise of the Planets of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes are getting heaped, there have to be some naysayers out there who still insist that all the CGI in the world can’t…
What’s not to love about tens of galleries throwing open their doors, cranking up the A/C, serving cold beer, and inviting you to look at the art on the walls? Design District Gallery Day is a party without a guest list and you’re sure to meet interesting people, discover art…
Standing outside the light brick structure of the Bath House Cultural Center that lies nuzzled against one of the less-trodden sides of White Rock Lake, Shelby-Allison Hibbs happily admits that the artistic hub has been like a second home to her. Hibbs, a theatre director who obtained her MFA from…
Gossip columnists are a strange lot. That there are people whose income is earned by slander, backstabbing, bad behavior and dirty laundry is one of the strangest things about the media industry. But it’s been a reality of newspapers and magazines since their inception. Up in New York, the Post…
It isn’t often that non-profit organizations stand in the way of people who want to do good, but the case of blood banks is particularly unique. In case you weren’t aware, men who have had sex with other men since 1977 are barred from donating blood at most major blood…
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. Is there really an underground art scene in Dallas? Are there artists who deserve recognition that…
We’ve got the most exciting news you’ll hear all day. Have you ever wondered how you were going to channel your love of Rocky Horror into a something worthwhile? Have you ever fancied yourself an undiscovered Broadway star? The Dallas Theater Center is looking for you…
Remember how a portion of Oak Cliff began as a short-lived Utopian society settled by some French who weren’t crazy about Napoleon III in 1855? No? It doesn’t ring a big bell for most, but it probably should since we’ve got a tower and a reborn artists’ community named after…
Who are Soner and Patricia Rodriguez? What does their work entail? Is it just graffiti or is it something more? With Urban Nature, Kirk Hopper Fine Art is opening up its walls for these two artists to redefine and contextualize how we view graffiti, a form of expression and language…
The whining has officially begun. It’s finally hot. The mild summer June introduced us to was stripped away by the rising temps of July and triple digits are on the way. This isn’t your official weather report and to be perfectly honest, from this ice cube of an office I’m…
