It’s the final installment of the Edgar Wright directed “Blood and Ice Cream” Trilogy, and won’t see wide release until August 23. But the new Alamo Richardson (now set to open on August 9) refuses to wait, so it’s announced an early screening of The World’s End inside the yet-to-be-opened…
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 . Tina Parker always knows when she’s stayed away from acting on her own stage a mite…
Neil Gaiman and his familiar unruly locks were greeted with a standing ovation Monday night at the Majestic Theater, which he humbly waved off urging the audience to take their seats. “I love you,” he said to his adoring audience. The event was bittersweet for Gaiman’s fans which span multiple…
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 Akwete and Bandele Tyehimba dove into their love affair and opened Pan-African Connection — a shop known…
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 . Here’s where you might have seen Dallas actress Liz Mikel: singing the roof off the Wyly…
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. You know you’ve arrived at Edward Ruiz’s Exposition Park studio when you are greeted by a model…
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. Sally Glass loves meeting new people, being exposed to new things. So it isn’t surprising that she…
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. Matthew Posey lives for live theater. He also lives in his theater, the 40-seat Ochre House in…
The Nasher unveiled the second Xchange public art project on Friday, and it’s positioned to be the most public of them all. We mentioned a while back that Rick Lowe, Houston’s famous artist/activist and the man responsible for rebuilding the area’s Third Ward with his Project Row Houses, would be…
The Asian Film Festival of Dallas will usher in its 12 year of programming with an expansion, moving from its old Magnolia digs to the extra spacious Angelika for 2013. Last year’s showcase pulled in huge titles like Ace Attorney, the latest release by Takashi Miike (Ishi the Killer, Audition),…
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 . Johny Hendricks picked an odd time to decide he would make a career out of fighting:…
Last weekend the Immersed in Ink Tattoo and Arts Convention arrived in Mesquite. Once there it dared to do the unthinkable: squish a small dining buffet, dozens of working tattoo artists, tiny-person extreme entertainment, sideshow spectacle and and a team of human suspension performers into one mid-sized showroom. The most…
Last weekend’s Screw Attack Gaming Convention was a massive celebration of video game culture, but that didn’t stop cosplay and costume die hards from showing off their best work. One man even diligently patrolled the event with an epically large 20-sided die perched on his shoulder, like a D&D-playing Atlas…
Screw Attack Gaming Convention occupied the downtown Dallas Hyatt last weekend, filling multiple floors with big name panel discussions, a showroom for indie game demos and more contests than you can shake an ancient Triforce at. It was a pure celebration of gaming culture, and we sent photographer Stephen Masker…
There’s a couple ways to look at Extreme Midget Wrestling: societal barometer, or ambitiously equal employment for short, ferocious athletes. The EMWF brought its folding chairs and trash can lids to Trees on Saturday night for an all-out slam fest, and by the match’s end, size no longer mattered. These…
The idea of arts and crafts typically conjures images of keeping small children occupied with glue and glitter. But serious crafting can lead to awesome DIY home decor and artistic self-confidence. In no particular order, here are five of Dallas’ best opportunities to get crafty…
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company will show you how to design plans for a tiny functional house, then build the thing, plop it on a trailer hitch, and exist by roaming the land as the unfettered Kerouac gypsy soul your high school self was certain you’d turn out to be. Or…
Sitting on a vast stretch of prairie land in Sanger, Texas — a city whose name elicits involuntary drawl — is a magical space filled with dancing ponies, knights, a three-legged dog and wild-hair locals revving four-by-fours. It’s the Medieval Times Ranch, where an absurd, imagined world is drafted and…
Warning: It’s beautiful out. I repeat: It’s beautiful out. With temperatures slated to stay at mid-nineties and below, you’ll actually enjoy leaving your house this weekend. There’s a SUP paddle boarding party in Grapevine, a free block party in the Arts District and a giant beer festival and concert at…
Things are moving along at the new Richardson branch of Alamo Drafthouse, the Austin-based chain known for simultaneously serving up booze, food and great movies. Construction is in such good shape that the venue says it will open a full week sooner than originally thought, with a new date set…
Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pom-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies, many of whom look like gummy nothings long stuck to the bottom of Pixar’s junk drawer. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-screams from human kids, a premise…
Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you’ve got left and wondering how the hell you’re going to fit them together. In Marc Forster’s World War Z, the world as we know it is destroyed…
