You often consider how much better the world would be if someone would simply respond to your letter-writing campaign. Your wants are simple and concise: draft a stage production that marries your love of “rival camps on opposite sides of the lake” story lines to Caddyshack (the first one, naturally)…
You spent your whole childhood waiting to grow up: When 16 came, you could date and it would be simple and wonderful. And oh, hurry up 21, because wine coolers are best enjoyed legally. But now you wonder if that rush to adulthood was misguided — the wonder of childhood…
The teenage years are a scary time for both parents and young adults as they fight acne, each other and peer pressure. Apathy is the watchword along with angry, angsty, and annoyed — of everything. This is not true of all teens though, and it’s especially a false description of…
Happy ‘Splosion Day, Y’all! By now, we’ve all agreed to give up on this week, right? Go ahead and straighten the sunglasses on your cubicle manikin and quietly back out of the office. It’s time to get this party started. (Odds that it will run for four days straight? 72:1)…
Animal rights activist, salsa entrepreneur, politician, author, musician, Jewish cowboy, non-Mensa member and proud winner of the National Organization of Women’s 1973 “Male Chauvinist Pig Award,” Kinky Friedman will weirdly keynote American Mensa’s 2013 Annual Gathering today in Fort Worth. The member’s-only partay takes place at the Worthington Renaissance Hotel,…
The audience for A Band Called Death, the new documentary by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett opening tonight at Texas Theatre, is a self-selected batch. That’s because Death, a group that first cut its demo in Detroit back in 1974, went unknown until that same 45 resurfaced at a…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. There were so many amazing looks at the semigloss.Magazine issue release party, that we could have taken…
Arcades, guys. They ain’t what they used to be. Now that every young whippersnapper has one of them newfangled game consoles in their bedroom, why would they ever leave the room and venture into a poorly lit room full of bleeping noises, armed only with every quarter they could find…
Riley Holloway has been waiting for this moment for months. All the late hours in the lower-level studio, alone but for the lyrics motivating him through the speaker box, manifested themselves in a packed gallery space on Friday night in the Fairmont Hotel, where Holloway is the artist in residence…
Sour Grapes has come a long way since Arturo Donjuan, founding member, would wake up hours before junior high to tag around Oak Cliff. Arturo, along with brothers Carlos, Miguel and about 10 other artists, comprise the group, whose portfolio and influence are growing. Whether you know it or not,…
Dallas VideoFest’s founder and Artistic Director Bart Weiss says his artists will tackle the Omni Hotel’s lighting system later this year, programming it to run self-designed works in another public offering. This will be the second time DVF has tackled the 20 story-tall screen, reclaiming it as a display medium…
Aside from a swath of fabric draped across her own masterpiece, The Golden Goddess stands entirely in the buff. The statue pre-dates Deco, but looks like something that could guard Versace’s old South Beach nest. She’s had a peculiar life, this golden girl. And it seems like divine intervention that…
If your idea of an exciting Fourth of July includes a kiddie pool, a six-pack and looking up at the first sign of big sounds in the sky, this isn’t for you. But if you don’t mind leaving your house, we’ve rounded up the best options in the area for…
The combination of leaving the house, avoiding pricey drinks and still getting to sip on your favorite liquid is a recipe for awesomeness. So we rounded up 10 BYOB activities that you and your liver can do together…
The Dallas Opera has announced that to celebrate next season’s opening night it will simulcast the Carmen at Klyde Warren Park. The free First Night screening will have all the perks: footage of attendees walking the Winspear’s red carpet in their opulent gala best; a “Toreador Song Sing-a-long”; beer and…
“I don’t want my clothes to be noticed,” Tracy Popken says, standing in the cluttered but orderly studio inside her Bishop Arts District home. It’s a surprising credo for a designer and tailor, but Popken sells the idea hard, convincing you that she just wants her work to show off…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Angela Scott has always drawn inspiration from men’s fashion, so when she moved to Dallas from her…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Stephen Lapthisophon’s studio is a mess. It’s not disordered, really; the rooms of the converted apartment and…
Last weekend’s Design & Build Workshop from Tumbleweed Tiny House Company was not so much a workshop as a meticulous seminar: tablecloths and pastries in a hotel ballroom with 50 attendees passionate to adopt a truly counterculture lifestyle. The Tiny House movement may be the ultimate fuck you to more-is-more…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. It’s no secret that one of the best character actors in film is Texas. Its performance is…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here Born into the lushly creative coupling of an Academy Award-winning filmmaker father and a theater critic/author mother,…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . Miriam Ortega is posted at the bar of Oak Cliff barbecue staple Lockhart Smokehouse, staring down…
