Dallas started gearing up for the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination a year ago, and it will be interesting to see how much revision and hand-wringing goes into November’s “festivities.” On a more interesting note, the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) is presenting Hotel Texas:…
I. First, Something About the Badges (Then We’ll Get to the Coens) Someday I’m going to write a song and call it “Ballad of the Blue Badge.” I haven’t figured out a rhyme scheme yet, let alone a melody, so please allow this outline to suffice: At Cannes, the color…
The audience swelled with pride as Alex McDonald took his seat at the grand piano and lifted his long, slender fingers to the keys. Tall, blonde and clean-cut, 30-year old McDonald carries himself like the kind of man your mom wishes you’d marry. And that handsome face is a familiar…
So, you’ve got a Big Idea. Is your patented 3D printing technology destined to create onsite dwellings for impoverished, war-torn regions? Will the planet become more sustainable due to your hybridized food crop? Did you build a robot that can chew bubblegum while umping a baseball game? TEDxSMU wants to…
It’s been three years since composer Jennifer Higdon won both a Grammy and a Pulitzer for her music, but she stills seems a little shocked by the onslaught of attention and fame those awards inevitably garnered her. In fact, she still seems surprised that she ended up composing classical music…
This weekend marks the glorious return of Arrested Development, which means we’ve been drinking heavily and reflecting on the great cultural legacy the Bluth family has left, mostly in the form of chicken dance. We’ve collected them here for your pleasure. See also: An Arrested Development Drinking Game…
He’s the most recognizable pin-up painter in history, and ten of Gil Elvgren’s famous dames in peril are either about to be, or are now, available through Dallas-based Heritage Auction. But remember, Elvgren’s ladies are classy, so there’s no love for cheapskates. The lowest-priced work in the set will cost…
T.N.B. preview from Thomas Riccio on Vimeo. Hellbent on keeping it left-of-center, Dead White Zombies leaked this teaser video for its new show T.N.B., which opens for previews at the end of the month. Housed in a former drug den and billed as a “healing in the hood,” the intimate…
Saturday’s Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Tour was proof that decorative inspiration doesn’t end with throw pillows. Not for ‘Bump artists, anyway. Each home was such a vivid representation of its owner’s aesthetic that their little touches and personal styles carried all the way to their respective thrones. Over the course…
It was a humid evening at this month’s ’til Midnight at the Nasher, but that didn’t stop the crowd from enjoying Air Review’s ethereal tunes or the outdoor screening of Life of Pi. Check out some of the most interesting looks from the night…
Not only are we, like we’re sure you are, genuinely excited about the return of Arrested Development on May 26, we also have absolutely no idea what will happen. The family, those blowhards, could be scattered around the globe, and indeed initial reports suggested that there wouldn’t be a massive…
Do-gooders and art promoters ArtLoveMagic held their annual art party in the basement of South Side on Lamar over the weekend. The heat and an overkill of art-centric activities conspired to kept the crowd modest, and maybe that’s also why the attendees, their plastic cups of wine sloshing, were slow…
*** Update: Park officials recieved a call just after noon from a family in the East Dallas neighborhood of Little Forest Hills. Two parrots were perched in a tree in the back yard. Bird handlers were immediately sent out and have confirmed that these are the missing 13-year old macaws,…
The first time I heard the alert for a lost child in the main convention hall, I was reminded how much Irving Convention Center feels like a suburban mall. From the outside, it looks sort of like an unfinished Rubik’s Cube. Being in that space for my first Dallas Comic…
Dallas Comic-Con is a magical place where Wookiees high-five Cylons while William Shatner lurks behind potted plants. It is a true nerd oasis, and that’s precisely why we love it. Photographer Ed Steele set up camp at the Irving Convention Center to capture the most innovative, weird and flat-out cool…
Last Saturday night, I swept my eyes from left to right, then back again, over photographer Denise Prince’s four pieces at CentralTrak as if I was flipping through pages in a magazine. On another wall, there was a bigger neon display, its bold blues and pinks distracting you from the…
There was nary a nose ring in site at last night’s A Way With Words event at Lakewood Theater. The grammar geeks filed in cheerfully, dressed in springtime pastels and pausing just long enough to order Malbec doubles at the bar. Yes! A Way With Words Comes to Dallas was…
The 10 to 15 artists and musicians who performed at ArtLoveMagic’s first “REACH” event in 2007 wasn’t exactly what co-founder David Rodriguez had in mind. “Since ArtLoveMagic started I had the vision of Underground in my head,” Rodriguez says of the grandiose interactive art experience that returns this weekend. “It…
It’s chicken enchilada night at Ryan Stiles’ house, and he’s manning the stove. Stiles does all the cooking for his family. He is, after all, semi-retired. But he’ll be back on the road again this summer with Whose Live Anyway?, the 90-minute, live version of Whose Line is it Anyway?,…
Denise Prince’s current collection of photographs sprung from four years of psychoanalysis. It was in the final two when the work became strangely experimental, compulsive and packed tight with neurosis. The show, now completed, hangs on CentralTrak’s back gallery wall, as one part of the new group exhibition That Mortal…
This could be you at Strokers on Saturday! William Shatner is back as a special Dallas Comic Con guest — just another excuse for you to dive into three days comic book digging, celebrity appearances and costume one-upmanship. There’s also a fundraiser at a biker bar, a beer pong battle…
Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Amy Schumer at the House of Blues Schumer is the creator, star and writer of Inside Amy Schumer, her Comedy Central TV show that premiered last month. You’ve seen her roast some of…
