Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are professional data sifters. You could also say they watch crap for a living. In fact, let’s say that instead. The pair harvests and compiles snippets from salvaged VHS tapes for their Found Footage Festival, then screens the stuff publicly. It results in analog peculiarity…
The giant neon cowboy peeking over Stemmons Highway and Walnut Hill Lane has gestured folks into Centennial Fine Wine and Spirits since it was welded in 1958. The Big Tex-inspired sign, standing 50 feet tall, exists as a vestige of a past era and a symbol of the resilient Texas…
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. It was a great night for people watching and spotting some eclectic looks at the latest House…
A high school principal flashing his junk in front of his students would be a debacle for Dallas ISD. But for School Class, it’s just third period. Nestled at 1222 W. Davis, in a little storefront next door to The Kessler Theater, School Class is a new experiment (and experience)…
Last weekend they found each other. Monsters, honey badger caretakers and chainsaw enthusiasts swarmed the Hyatt Regency for Texas Frightmare Weekend, the area’s annual celebration of all things gore. The eighth installment of TFW featured two Buseys, Danny Trejo and loads of pulseless and soon-to-be pulseless Walking Dead cast members…
Sometimes things are only “underground” out of ignorance. The poetry scene in Dallas is an established one, home to both talent and venues, each with its own style. To develop this guide, I spoke with some of the city’s most prolific and involved poets, to find which venues had the…
The Summer Adventure Series in Fair Park launches this weekend, and begins with tonight’s pyrotechnic celebration and the unveiling of the Top O’ Texas Tower, an observation ride that lifts passengers 500 feet in the air. After the explosions disintegrate, the lagoon-themed playland opens weekends during May, and then daily…
He’s served as the DMA’s first Senior Curator of Contemporary Art since moving here in 2009, and now Jeffrey Grove gets a bump via another fancy title. The Dallas Museum of Art announced this morning that Grove is the institution’s new Senior Curator of Special Projects & Research. That’s a…
I just had a party flashback. Remember the sweaty bash House of Plates threw last summer at the F.O.E.? Of course you do. All of Dallas was there doing Jell-o shots, playing beach volleyball against a team of Cold War Rocky-style ringers, and watching as models paraded around in adorable…
The art collective In Cooperation With Muscle Nation thought of a great idea: Combine the identities of each individual member to create a single work of art. Their approach was to gather 20 objects from each member, photograph each of those objects individually, then cover Oak Cliff’s Davis Foundry Gallery…
I ran into Dead White Zombies’ director/writer/overlord Thomas Riccio a few weeks back while in line at Lakewood Theater. We were waiting to watch a human suspension, but that isn’t why Riccio was excited. Fresh off an educational/spiritual excursion to India, he was vibrating with creative energy. Somewhere en route…
Over at film website Twitch, the first bumper for the second annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was released today. Texas Theatre’s Jason Reimer directed the nearly three-minute video, which features a time-traveling Confederate solider planting an OCFF flag by the Trinity River, which naturally leads into a paintball fight. (You…
Do not fret, Dallas and surrounding burbs: The Observer used its highly advanced taco doppler technology to conduct predictive Cinco de Mayo party research. Our data shows that there is a 23 percent chance of hangover on Saturday, but that will increase throughout the weekend, culminating into a 90 percent…
Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Eddie Griffin at the Addison Improv Eddie Griffin thinks white churches are scary, especially Catholic ones. Priests float out in white robes with crosses around their necks and the choir sounds like something…
Horror fans, this is your weekend to check out Texas Frightmare Weekend, which has been dubbed “the Southwest’s premier horror convention.” And with the kind of lineup they have this year, even non-horror fans might find something worth braving. Here are our picks for the panels and films you won’t…
There’s a new internet dating study that ranks U.S. cities in order of superficiality. In effort to determine whose rivers flow most shallowly, the site, whatsyourprice.com, weighed the amount of time each area’s singles spend hovering over individual dating profiles before clicking ahead. According to it, Dallas singles are fairly…
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There’s no doubt he’s the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. And yet he’s absent, detached in a Zen-like way from the whole affair. The nakedness that defines his best performances — in any role, up…
Rampaging through the otherwise arid desert-scape of contemporary Italian cinema, Matteo Garrone doesn’t want for ambition or walnuts — he may be the premier chronicler of Berlusconi-era Italian culture, and its most muscular satirist. (That is, when Italian society isn’t busy outpacing satire altogether.) His follow-up to 2008’s Gomorrah, Reality…
If only college life were ever as naive and boisterous as it was in the 1939 musical Too Many Girls, now getting a sis-boom-beautiful revival at Irving’s Lyric Stage. Out at New Mexico’s fictional Pottawotamie U, the football team has started winning, thanks to four Ivy League transfers who know…
New Mexico is where you’ll find the six characters in search of an exit line in Angels Fall, a dreary play Lanford Wilson was always sorry he’d written. (It was a commission project he churned out and hated, or so he said in The New York Times.) Contemporary Theatre of…
Stephanie Zacharek is the new chief film critic at the Village Voice. Alan Scherstuhl is the Voice’s film editor. Sometimes they gab about how the review-sausage gets made. To: Stephanie Zacharek From: Alan Scherstuhl Hi, Stephanie, welcome again to the Voice! Like you, I found myself worn out by Iron…
Leslye Headland’s hit Broadway play Bachelorette was recently turned into a movie, starring Kirsten Dunst, Rebel Wilson, Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan as a group of high school friends falling down a rabbit hole the night before a friend’s wedding. It was funny, touching and real, unlike many of the…
