It’s time to get out of music class and into a real-life scenario. Educate yourself on the finer aspects of cadenzas, chord progressions and classical history with Jeffrey Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations Russian Rapture: Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. Siegel, an accomplished American pianist and international soloist, has performed with the London Symphony,…
Did the Super Bowl do you dirty? Are you feeling the punishing aftermath of all-day drinking? Do you feel like an injured athlete, limping off of the field? Don’t worry, player, we have a prescription for your pain: Stretch out that overextended liver and massage it with more booze. Here’s…
Amy Chua, bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, nursed her two daughters in a strict Chinese upbringing. This cost her a few pounces and wrestling matches in her den while demanding success from her rebellious 13-year-old cub. A tigress is responsible for the protection and care of…
Despite his name, Dan Savage is not barbaric or uncivilized. He doesn’t have war paint smeared across his cheeks. (Does he?) Yet, most would agree he is harsh, honest and sometimes aggressive — especially toward social conservatives named Santorum. Savage tells it how it is, which is evident in his…
1996 just called. It misses you, wants to hang out again. It’s been awhile, but why wouldn’t you want to go another round with the year that brought you Dolly, the cloned sheep; the first female secretary of State; Sean Connery in The Rock; and the LORD of all that…
Musical theater tries to bring something extra to pop culture adaptations. Rather than rehashing the same old content fans already know, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark upped the ante with amazing (and dangerous) effects. Wicked further promoted a popular sympathetic version of the The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of…
When Sherwood Schwartz died last year, the creator of Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch ranked a lengthy obit in The New York Times, complete with a quote from a pair of academics who wrote, “Schwartz was pioneering a dramatic matrix built upon the emerging cultural concept of the ‘support…
From the debut of the flapper dress to the Wall Street crash, the United States in the ’20s was a country in flux. But how did that affect Texas? Throw on your cowboy boots and experience Texas in the Twenties through approximately 30 works by Texas artists L.O. Griffith, Mary…
Congratulations Lee Kounas and Zach Kaz! You won free tickets to see Rocky in 35mm at Texas Theatre! It begins showing tonight and plays through the weekend. Check in with Texas Theatre’s website for showtimes. Thanks to Texas Theatre for the tickets and to all of you who entered. Didn’t…
Today we can see the transformation on Fairey’s first wall depicting the side profile of a girl with a flower in her hair. Shepard and crew worked deep into Tuesday night and again today so that they could complete her. New walls have been started with more to come, so…
Underdog champion of snide Daniel Tosh has his ticket booked for a Dallas visit. Made famous by his stonerlicous internet clip mockery show Tosh.O, Ol’ Deep V really got his start on the stand-up circuit, which anyone who’s ever been hungover with access to Comedy Central now knows. (They run…
Former American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis has turned into one of Broadway’s favorite leading men. It was announced in January that he’ll star as both title roles in the New York revival of Frank Wildhorn’s musical Jekyll & Hyde in 2013. Maroulis was a Tony nominee a few years ago…
Today’s street style candidate knows how to work the casual look. Hummus, a spunky dog from Alaska, was spotted outside of Eatzi’s in this re-worked Peanuts cartoon bed sheet with 3/4 sleeves added from cozy blue sweatpants…
GQ writer Chandler Burr couldn’t quite figure out what composes Dallas’ unique olfaction but went ahead and ranked it No. 10 in a world-wide list of good smelling cities yesterday. Burr suggested that our sweet aroma could be a cross-scent of live oaks and hot concrete — well, I don’t…
I love the original Rocky and Rocky II — things get weird around Rocky III and anything beyond that is just an unwatchable collection of montages with robot sidekicks and no Burgess Meredith. But that original film’s focus on the budding love between homely, but kind Adrian and the sweetly…
Fairey and company are still hard at work, posting murals up all over Dallas. Here are a few photographic dispatches from today’s efforts…
Deep Ellum is doing a bit of branding, an understandable chore for a district in flux. The area’s smack-dab in the middle of a growth spurt, and with the seedier element dipping into the background we’re eagerly filing back to the bars, nightclubs and even patios that Deep Ellum kindly…
We can infer a few things about this car’s mystery driver: an appreciation for elegant, if mature, BMWs; the desire to snarf some Chipotle, as evidenced through this sweet ride’s location last night on Lemmon; and an ambition toward counter-cultural paint jobs with a gentle, perhaps unintentional, nod to the…
While studying interior design and architecture, Chihuly took courses in weaving, which led to increased experimentation with joining fiber and glass. Eventually he took it further and began exhaling into the work, breathing growth and life into his objects. Now you can’t begin to consider glass art without thinking of…
Not to get all Alex P. Keaton on you, but there’s something intensely gratifying when an investment pays off. Last December, the Observer put down some seed money for two artists and a non-profit, with an aim to reward the already-incalculable contribution that they had made to our community and…
Shepard Fairey and his crew kicked off their city-wide art project this afternoon at 331 Singleton. This is the first of several large scale murals that Shepard has designed to dress up Dallas’ nekkid walls. Take a first peek, and then read a little more about today’s scene on Unfair…
Were they hoping no one would notice?
