“Texas PolaWalk Breakfast”***** There’s always something going on in Dallas, so we thought it’d be fun to live vicariously through your adventures. Each week look for our #Dallas Instagram recap of people, places, events, food, and more. This recent #Dallas photoroll turned up a glittery line of cheerleaders, scenes from…
We live under the assumption that cats defy training. That they are instinctively ambivalent to our desires. But that ain’t true, and should I know, because I’ve seen the mother effin’ Acro-Cats. This traveling crew of renegade rescue felines not only performs tricks, but does them on stage in front…
Alamo founder and reigning sheriff of Movie Town etiquette, Tim League, scolded Madonna on Twitter Sunday, banning her from all Alamo Drafthouse locations. It was a response to a Daily Mail story that said the pop star was texting aggressively during the NYFF screening of Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A…
Outside of Dallas, too many people think there’s no great theater happening inside of Dallas. We know better. Besides the giant venues with the name of a telecommunications giant attached to them, there are a bunch of more interesting, smaller playhouses where local actors, directors and playwrights are putting new…
Over the weekend, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra tried something new. It’s about time. If there is an arts organization in town that is in need of a little revamping in its programming and marketing, it’s the symphony. So kudos to the DSO for launching ReMix, a new concert series that…
Yes, pole dancing evolved from strip clubs. I’ll pause while your inner 14 year-old laughs awkwardly. Go ahead. I’ll wait. [Whistling…] Last weekend national talents converged in Dallas at the Miss Texas Polestar competition. And no, these ladies (and gentleman) didn’t accept any dolla, dolla, bills. What they did do…
Magician/comedian The Amazing Johnathan comes from the magical land Las Vegas, where families’ college funds mysteriously disappear, and those with $10 in their pocket can consume more barbeque ribs than science allows. He got his start performing for spare change on street corners. Later, he joined the comedy clubs ranks…
What are we to do without the nail-biting, stress-inducing, emotional roller coaster of Breaking Bad? Why, tune into the flesh-biting, stress-inducing, emotional rollercoaster of Walking Dead, of course. Walter White meet Rick Grimes. He’s not afraid to cry. And we drink to that. In fact, we drink to everything. We…
Local fans of mainstream comedy headliners have the rare opportunity of having a choice of comedians to see this Friday, unless they have figured out some biological chemical algorithm to achieve transubstantiation, in which case HOLLER. Mr. Show and Sarah Silverman Program star Brian Posehn will be at Hyena’s Comedy…
If you didn’t get enough literary nerdiness at last weekend’s FenCon, never fear. The indie publishing industry descends on Dallas this weekend with vengeance. Indie Vengeance. As in IndieVengeance Day. Get it? No? Either way it goes down Saturday, October 12 at Half-Price Books (5803 East Northwest Highway)…
Pole dancing has been a non-stripper thing for a while now. Well, it’s obviously still a stripper thing, but many non-strippers now turn to it for general fitness and to ensure they could flee upward into a firehouse if the situation calls for it. Even though pole dancing champions have…
The big news is that it’s TX/OU weekend, so I’ve stuck a bunch of great football parties in this week’s list. (You’re welcome.) There’s more. A lot more. Like the 26-year-strong Dallas VideoFest, a vinyl toy party at ATAMA, a Bonnie and Clyde bicycle ride and a screening of the…
The greasy haired, cocktail clutching comedian Neil Hamburger often gets compared to Tony Clifton, the egotistical lounge singer who served as the alter ego of the late Andy Kaufman. But that’s unfair: Hamburger’s a much crueler bastard. The self-proclaimed “King of Komedy” has an ingenious hook that most comedy club…
If you’re in Deep Ellum on Thursday, October 24, and you see a hammered dude stumbling across the street with a barstool and mic, you should know in advance that it’s not Zombie Carlin, as welcome a sight as that would be. It’s the Dallas Observer’s first-ever Comedy Crawl. We…
This weekend when a host of Dragon Street galleries open new shows, here are six galleries where you won’t feel left out.
It does feel weird to applaud after John Wilkes Booth sings about shooting President Lincoln in the opening scene of Assassins, the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical now playing at Theatre Three. But damn, actor Gregory Lush is so matinee-idol handsome as Booth, and his performance of “The Ballad of…
Tom Hanks has built a career out of playing aggressively noble roles, so it’s only natural to want to see him taken down a peg. But it’s no fun to watch him suffer at the hands of Somali pirates in Paul Greengrass’ true-life adventure Captain Phillips. Hanks plays the commander…
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Herman Cain rhapsodized about the fence he’d build on the U.S.-Mexico border: 20 feet tall with barbed wire, electricity and a moat. “And I would put those alligators in that moat!” he cheered. For Machete Kills, Robert Rodriguez built that fence but left…
Something’s seemed different about No. 1 American-born action hero Bruce Willis lately. His action movie output in recent years has mostly been stunt casting in mediocre sequels (The Expendables 2, G.I. Joe: Retaliation), or supporting roles in little-seen B-movies (Setup, Catch .44, Fire with Fire), as if he’s in a…
There are definitely some geeks out there who are worried about Zero Charisma. Does the movie take a lot of cheap shots, or does it for once accurately show what it’s like to be a geek? Zero Charisma is more of a nuanced character study than a broad comedy, and…
For the past few years State of the Arts, a panel series hosted by KERA-FM 90.1’s Jeff Whittington and presented by the same station’s Art & Seek, has been bringing fascinating conversations about art to North Texas. The series has brought together scenic designers, photojournalists, composers and museum directors to…
The things that make a house a home include love, warmth and surroundings that give you comfort. You don’t technically need anything more than a roof over your head — but small touches that make your space cozy and calm can be the difference between a place that’s merely an…
